DURAS, Louis Durfort de (c. 1640-1709)

Family and Education

b. c.1640, Le Neve, Monumenta Anglicana 1700-15, pp. 165-66; Westminster Abbey Reg. 355. 6th but 3rd surv. s. of Guy-Aldonce Durfort de Duras, mq. de Duras and comte de Rauzan [France] (d. 8 Jan. 1665) and Elizabeth (d. 1 Dec. 1685), da. of Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, duc de Bouillon [France]. m. c. 9 Mar. 1676 Mary (d. 31 Dec. 1676), HMC Rutland, ii. 35. da. of George Sondes, (later earl of Feversham), s.p. KG 30 July 1685. d. 8 Apr. 1709; Luttrell, Brief Relation, vi. 428; An Elegy on the much lamented death of the … Lord Feversham (1709). will 18 July 1701–6 Apr. 1709, pr. 3 May 1709. TNA, PROB 11/506.

Offices Held

Kpr. of privy purse to James Stuart, duke of York, 1667 – 1970; amb. extraordinary, France 20 Oct. – 2 Dec. 1677, 10 Aug. – 15 Sept. 1682; master of horse to Catherine of Braganza, Dec. 1679 – Sept. 1680; ld. chamberlain, Catherine of Braganza, Sept. 1680–1705; Luttrell, Brief Relation, i. 30, 54; Bodl. Carte 39, f. 198. extra gent. of the bedchamber 1682 – May 1685; gent. of bedchamber May 1685 – Feb. 1689.

Master forester, honour of Grafton, Northants., c.1682–d.; VCH Northants, v. 303. ld. lt. Kent Oct. 1688 – May 1689.

Capt. coy. in duke of York’s Life Gds, 1665 – 67; col. duke of York’s Life Gds June 1667–85; 1st tp., R. Life Gds, 1685 – 89; R. regt. of drags., 1678 – 83; lt.-gen., English forces in Netherlands, 1678 – 79; R. Army, 1685 – Dec. 1688.

Master, St Katherine’s Hospital, London, 1698–d. Luttrell, Brief Relation, iv. 444.

Parlimentarian

DURAS, Louis Durfort de (c. 1640-1709)

Associated with: St James’ Square 1676–96;Survey of London, xxix. 189; HMC Ormonde, n.s. vi. 337-40. , Somerset House 1685–d.;London Top. Rec. xxix, 56; E. Hatton, A New View of London. ii. 626.; Holdenby, Northants.

Likenesses

mezzotint by I. Beckett aft. J. Riley, 1681-88, NPG D11658.

Author

Littleton, Charles

Handley, Stuart

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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