Excerpt from Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. 8 of 9: Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical; Greatly Augmented, and Continued to the Present Time On April lgth, 1768, b he was made one of the Masters Of his Majesty's Household, which he resigned in December 1770, on being appointed one Of the joint Post Masters-general, which be retained till June 23d, 1789, and was advanced to the Peerage by patent, dated January 29th, 1784, creating him baron carti Ra'r, of Hawnes, in the county of Bedford, and to the heirs-male of his body lawfully begotten, with remainders to the Honourable George Thynne, second son, the Honourable John Thynne, third son, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and every other son and sons, severally and successively, of the right Honourable Thomas, Lord Viscount Weymouth (late Marquis Of Bath), and the respec tive heirs male Of their bodies, lawfully begotten. His Lordship is unmarried. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.