Biography of George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham 1753-1813

On 16th May 1749 [his father] George Granville [aged 36] and [his mother] Elizabeth Wyndham [aged 30] were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Richard Granville.

On 17th June 1753 George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham was born to [his father] George Granville [aged 40] and [his mother] Elizabeth Wyndham [aged 34].

On 5th December 1769 [his mother] Elizabeth Wyndham [aged 50] died.

On 13th November 1770 [his father] George Granville [aged 58] died.

In 1775 George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 21] and Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 66] and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 55].

On 20th March 1776 [his son] Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos was born to George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 22] and [his wife] Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham [aged 18]. He married April 1796 his sixth cousin Anne Elizabeth Brydges Duchess Buckingham and Chandos, daughter of James Brydges 3rd Duke Chandos and Anne Eliza Gamon Duchess Chandos, and had issue.

On 12th September 1779 [his uncle] Richard Grenville-Temple 2nd Earl Temple [aged 67] died in a carriage accident without surviving issue. His nephew George [aged 26] succeeded 3rd Earl Temple, 4th Viscount Cobham.

On 10th May 1782 [his brother-in-law] Hugh Fortescue 1st Earl Fortescue [aged 29] and [his sister] Hester Granville Countess Fortescue [aged 16] were married.

In December 1784 George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 31] was created 1st Marquess Buckingham.

Before 2nd August 1788 Thomas Gainsborough [aged 61]. Portrait of George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 35].

On 13th October 1788 [his father-in-law] Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 79] died. George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Earl Nugent. Viscount Clare, Baron Nugent extinct.

On 31st December 1788 [his son] George Nugent-Grenville 2nd Baron Nugent was born to George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 35] and [his wife] Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham [aged 30]. He married 6th September 1813 Anne Lucy Poulet.

On 13th October 1791 Charles Alexander Hohenzollern Margrave Brandenburg-Ansbach [aged 55] and [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg-Ansbach [aged 40] were married at Lisbon [Map]. She by marriage Margravine Brandenburg-Ansbach. She the daughter of Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley and [his mother-in-law] Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 71]. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

In April 1796 Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos [aged 20] and Anne Elizabeth Brydges Duchess Buckingham and Chandos [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of James Brydges 3rd Duke Chandos and Anne Eliza Gamon Duchess Chandos [aged 59]. He the son of George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 42] and Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham [aged 38]. They were sixth cousins.

In 1800 [his wife] Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham [aged 42] was created 1st Baroness Nugent with a special remainder to her second son George Nugent-Grenville 2nd Baron Nugent [aged 11].

In 1810 [his brother-in-law] Frederick Augustus Berkeley 5th Earl Berkeley [aged 65] died. His eldest son Colonel William Berkeley 1st Earl Fitzhardinge [aged 23] claimed the Earl Berkeley unsuccessfully.

Thomas Moreton FitzHardinge Berkeley 6th Earl of Berkeley [aged 13] de jure 6th Earl Berkeley, 6th Viscount Dursley, 14th Baron Berkeley. He never claimed or established his right to either title.

In 1811 [his son-in-law] James Everard Arundell 10th Baron Arundel [aged 25] and Mary Anne Nugent Temple Granville Baroness Arundel Wardour were married. She by marriage Baroness Arundel of Wardour in Wiltshire. She the daughter of George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 57] and Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham [aged 53].

On 11th February 1813 George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 59] died. His son Richard [aged 36] succeeded 2nd Marquess Buckingham, 4th Earl Temple, 3rd Earl Nugent, 5th Viscount Cobham. Anne Elizabeth Brydges Duchess Buckingham and Chandos [aged 34] by marriage Marchioness Buckingham.

On 6th March 1813 [his former wife] Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham [aged 55] died. Her son George [aged 24] succeeded 2nd Baron Nugent.

[his daughter] Mary Anne Nugent Temple Granville Baroness Arundel Wardour was born to George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham and Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham. She married 1811 James Everard Arundell 10th Baron Arundel, son of James Everard Arundell 9th Baron Arundel and Mary Christina Arundell Baroness Arundel Wardour.