HEYTESBURY

William A’Court , 1 Baron ( eld. son of Sir William Pierce Ashe A’Court, 1 Baronet 1747–1817 ). b. Salisbury 11 July 1779; ed. at Eton; sec. of legation at Naples 31 July 1801; sec. to special mi ion at Vienna 20 April 1807; first commi ioner of affairs, Malta 1812; envoy extraord. to Barbary states 5 Jany. 1813, to Naples 5 July 1814 and to Spain 5 April 1822; amba ador to Portugal 22 Sep. 1824 and to Ru ia 5 April 1828, pensioned 18 Aug. 1832; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 July 1817; P.C. 30 Dec. 1817; G.C.B. 20 Sep. 1819; cr. baron Heytesbury of Heytesbury, Wilts. 23 Jany. 1828; nominated governor general of India 28 Jany. 1835 but the ministry resigned and he never took office; lord lieut. of Ireland 26 July 1844 to 11 July 1846; governor of the Isle of Wight to 1857. d. Heytesbury 31 May 1860. F. O. List (1860) 145; I.L.N. v , 60 (1844), portrait ; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 346–8; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 386–90.