Note 274c — JOURNAL TO STELLA (continued 6)

William Henry Hyde, Earl of Danby, grandson of the first Duke of Leeds (see p. 60), and eldest son of Peregrine Osborne, Baron Osborne and Viscount Dunblane, who succeeded to the dukedom in 1712. Owing to this young man’s death (at the age of twenty-one), his brother, Peregrine Hyde, Marquis of Caermarthen, who married Harley’s daughter Elizabeth, afterwards became third Duke of Leeds.