 | John Debrett - 1825 - 672 pages
...Penshurst Place, oo. Kent, esq., but was rejected by the house of lords, who, 17 June, 1782, resolved, " That Robert Sydney, commonly called Viscount Lisle,...acquired no new barony, but being the eldest son of his father, the earl of Leicester, was summoned into his father's barony in tail male ; therefore the... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - Great Britain - 1893 - 458 pages
..."That Kobert Sydney, commonly called Viscount L'Isle, the Petitioner's grandfather, under whom the derives her claim, acquired no new Barony, but being the eldest son of hia father, the Earl of Leicester, was summoned into hia father's Barony iu tail malo — therefore... | |
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... Esq., and daughter and eventually sole heir of Thomas Sydney, next elder brother of Josceline, last Earl of Leicester and Baron Sydney, under the presumption that Robert Sydney (the Petitioner's grandfather), the s. and h. apparent of Philip, 3rd... 