Marquess of Ripon

Marquessate of Ripon
Marquessate of Ripon
	Extinct
Extinction date	23 September 1923
Former seat(s)	Newby Hall; Wrest Park; Studley Royal Park

F. J. Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Marquess of Ripon, in the County of York, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1871 for the Liberal politician George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon.^[1]

History

The Robinson family descended from William Robinson (d. 1616), a wealthy

Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy

. This line of the family failed on the death of his younger son, the fifth Baronet, in 1792.

The late Baronet was succeeded by his first cousin once removed,

Foreign Secretary. Lord Grantham married Lady Mary Jemima, daughter of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, and Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Grey and 4th Baroness Lucas, granddaughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent

.

He was succeeded by his elder son Thomas, the aforementioned third Baron Grantham. In 1803 Thomas assumed the surname of Weddell in lieu of his patronymic. In 1833 he succeeded his maternal aunt as 2nd Earl de Grey and 6th Baron Lucas. His aunt Lady Amabel (or Annabella) Yorke had succeeded her mother the Marchioness Grey (on whose death the marquessate became extinct) in the barony of Lucas in 1797 and in 1816 she was created Countess de Grey, of Wrest in the County of Bedford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, with remainder to her sister Lady Mary Jemima and the heirs male of her body. Lady de Grey was the childless widow of Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth, son of Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont. Thomas, the second Earl de Grey, also inherited the Grey family seat of Wrest Park, near Silsoe in Bedfordshire. The same year he succeeded to the earldom, he assumed by Royal licence the surname of de Grey in lieu of Weddell.

Lord de Grey had no sons and was succeeded in the barony of Lucas (which could be passed on through female lines) by his daughter, Anne (see

F. J. Robinson, second son of the second Baron Grantham. F. J. Robinson was Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1823 and 1827, and he served briefly as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between August 1827 and January 1828. In 1827 he was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Viscount Goderich, of Nocton in the County of Lincoln. This was a revival of the viscountcy of Goderich created for his great-great-grandfather the Duke of Kent in 1706. In 1833 Robinson was further honoured when he was made Earl of Ripon, in the County of Kent in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. On his death in 1859 he was succeeded by his only son, the aforementioned second Earl of Ripon. The latter also succeeded his uncle in the earldom of de Grey later in 1859, whereby he became known by the style of "Earl de Grey and Ripon". He was a distinguished Liberal statesman and held office in every Liberal administration from 1861 until his death in 1908. In 1871 he was created Marquess of Ripon, in the County of York in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by his only son and only surviving child, the second Marquess. He represented Ripon

in Parliament between 1874 and 1880. He was childless, therefore all the titles became extinct upon his death in 1923. The second Marquess was regarded as the finest shot of his generation.

The family seats were Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, and Newby Hall and Studley Royal Park in Yorkshire

Robinson Baronets, of Newby (1690)

Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet (1655–1736)
Sir Metcalfe Robinson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1683–1736)
Sir Tancred Robinson, 3rd Baronet (c. 1685–1754)
Sir William Robinson, 4th Baronet (1713–1770)
Sir Norton Robinson, 5th Baronet (c. 1715–1792)
Thomas Philip Robinson, 3rd Baron Grantham
(1781–1859)

Barons Grantham (1761)

Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham (c. 1695–1770)
Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham (1738–1786)
Thomas Philip Robinson, 3rd Baron Grantham (1781–1859) (succeeded as 2nd Earl de Grey
in 1833)

Earls de Grey (1816)

Amabel Yorke, 1st Countess de Grey (1751–1833)

Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey

(1781–1859)

George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 3rd Earl de Grey, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827–1909)

Viscount Goderich (1827)

Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
; created Earl of Ripon in 1833 (1782–1859)

Earls of Ripon (1833)

Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon
(1782–1859)
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon (1827–1909) (succeeded as 4th Baron Grantham and 3rd Earl de Grey in 1859; created Marquess of Ripon in 1871)

Marquesses of Ripon (1871)

George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827–1909)
Frederick Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon (1852–1923)

References

^ "No. 23748". The London Gazette. 20 June 1871. p. 2847.

Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[better source needed]}

[1] "No. 23748". The London Gazette. 20 June 1871. p. 2847.

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