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The 2nd Earl (Lord Lovelace) was succeeded in the titles other than the Wentworth one by his half-brother.

He had no sons and was succeeded in the barony of Wentworth by his only child, Ada King-Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth. In 1861, this still untitled son had assumed by Royal licence the surname of Milbanke in lieu of Noel. Lord Lovelace was therefore succeeded by his second surviving son who was thus already Lord Wentworth. However, he predeceased his father, unmarried two years later. His eldest son Byron (King) Noel, Viscount Ockham, briefly succeeded his maternal grandmother to become twelfth Baron Wentworth according to its special remainder in 1860. The mausoleum, which has recently been restored, contains his tomb and that of his second wife. He planned for his death 20 years before he died when began work on his mausoleum in another corner of the churchyard. He also rebuilt the wall of the churchyard which included a number of architectural features such as the gazebo and its family crest-engraved walls. Lord Lovelace acquired Horsley Towers (now a hotel) in East Horsley and was patron of the parish church funding the rebuilding of the chancel and the nave in 1869. In 1865 he remarried, to Jane Crawford Jenkins and had one child, who would go on eventually to inherit the earldom. In 1860, he assumed for himself the additional surname and arms of Noel, those of Wentworth. Ada died in 1852, leaving her husband, in his forties, a widower. He was appointed the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey from 1840 to 1893. In 1838 he was created Viscount Ockham (territorial designation the same, to be the family's first courtesy title), and Earl of Lovelace in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. (Augusta) Ada Byron, the only daughter of the poet, Lord Byron, and his wife, 11th Baroness Wentworth who was a descendant of the extinct Barons Lovelace. In 1835, Lord King married as his first wife the Hon. On his 1833 death the title passed to his eldest son, the eighth Baron. His son, the seventh Baron, was a Whig politician and writer. The last was succeeded by his son, the sixth Baron. His three younger brothers: Peter, William and Thomas all succeeded in the barony. He represented Launceston and Exeter in the House of Commons but died aged 34. He was succeeded by his eldest son (the second Baron). The estate he bought was chosen as his territorial designation. This son was Sir Peter King, a prominent lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1714 to 1725 and as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1725 to 1733 as such in 1725 he was created Baron King of Ockham in the County of Surrey, in the Peerage of Great Britain (verbally and less formally Lord King). The King or Locke King family stems from the elevation of the son of Jerome King, a grocer, of Exeter, and his wife Anne, great-niece of the philosopher John Locke.