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Hereditary Genius
narrowly escaped extinction, threatened continually by its numerous errors of
alliance. The 1st Earl married a co-heiress, and had only one son and one
daughter. The son married a co-heiress, and had two sons; of these, the second
married a co-heiress, and had no issue at all. The eldest son (grandson of the
1st Earl) was therefore the only male that remained in the race. He had two
sons and one daughter. Now of these two, the only male heirs in the third
generation, one married a co-heiress, and had only one daughter. The remaining
one fortunately married twice, for by the first marriage he had only daughters.
A son by the second marriage is the present peer, and is the father, by two
marriages—in neither case with an heiress—of eleven sons and four daughters.
Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden (1786). This family affords a similar instance to the last
one, of impending destruction to the race. The 1st Earl married an heiress, and
had only one son and four daughters. The son married an heiress, and had only
one son and three daughters. This son married a co-heiress, but fortunately had
three sons and eight daughters.
Raymond, 1st Lord (1731). He had one son, who married a co-heiress, and left no
issue at all, so the title became extinct
Scott, Lord Stowell. See further on, under my list of STATESMEN.
Talbot, 1st Lord (1733). This family narrowly escaped extinction. The 1st Lord
married an heiress, and had three sons. The eldest son married an heiress, and
had only one daughter. The second son married a co-heiress, and had no issue
by her. However, she died, and he married again, and left four sons. The third
son of the first Earl had male issue.
Trevor, 1st Lord (1711). Married first a co-heiress, and had two sons and three
daughters. Both of the sons married, but they had only one daughter each. Lord
Trevor married again, and had three sons, of whom one died young, and the
other two, though they married, left no issue at all.
Wedderburn, 1st Lord Loughborough and Earl of Rosslyn (1801). Married an
heiress for his first wife, and had no issue at all. He married again, somewhat
late in life, and had no issue. So the direct male line is extinct.
Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1754). Is numerously represented, though two of his
lines of descent have failed, in one of which there was a marriage with a co-
heiress.
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