Their eldest son, Edwin became an Admiral and married a daughter of the prominent statesman Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby.
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In 1805 he was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under his intimate friend William Pitt; in the latter year he was sent on a special and important mission to the emperors of Austria and Russia and the king of Prussia.
It was created in 1809 for the prominent politician and former Foreign Secretary, Dudley Ryder, 2nd Baron Harrowby.