--Our advices from
London by the
Africa, inform us that Lord Monck is about to succeed
Sir Edmund Head as
Governor General of
Canada, and that the
English Government is to dispatch an army reinforcement of twenty-two thousand five hundred men to that province during the present month.
Charles Stanley Monck,
Viscount and
Baron Monck, of Ballytramon,
Wexford, in the peerage of
Ireland, is the eldest son of the fourth Lord Monck, and was born on the 10th of October, 1819. He is now, consequently, forty-two years of age. Lord Monck succeeded to the estates of his father and the peerage on the 20th of April, 1849. On the 22d of July, 1844, he was married to his cousin,
Lady Elizabeth Louise Mary, the fourth daughter of the
Earl of Rathdowne, who has borne him three children, named, respectively, Henry Power
Charles Stanley,
Frances Mary and
Elizabeth Louise Mary Monck.
Lord Monck is descended from a very ancient family, some of the members of which stand forth prominently in the history of
England.
The founder of the house was
Wm. Le Moyne, who was
Lord of the Manor of Petheridge,
in Devon, England, in the year 1066, and from whom came, in the reign of Edward the Sixth,
John Le Moyne, the ancestor of
General George Monck--the restorer of the monarchy in
England — who was created
Duke of
Albemarle by Charles the Second, and rewarded with large grants of land both in
England and
Ireland.
The
Monck family are related by marriage to the Earls of Rathdowne,
Beauchamp, Clancarty, the
Marquis of
Waterford, and other peers of the United Kingdom.
The family seat in
Ireland is at
Charleville, in the county of
Wicklow.
