Earl of Enniskillen is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. Subsidiary titles held by the Earl include: Viscount Enniskillen (created 1776), Baron Mountflorence (1760) and Baron Grinstead (1815).
Having forsaken Old Sarum, he had represented Helston from November 1806 to June 1812; and after being member for East Grinstead for a few weeks, was returned for Harwich in October 1812.
Vansittart became chancellor of the exchequer the country was burdened with heavy taxation and an enormous debt.
Accepting this offer in February 1823, he was created Baron Bexley in March, and granted a pension of 3000 a year.
East Grinstead, which is the largest parish in the county, containing upwards of 15,000 acres, is a market-town situated in the rape of Pevensey, near the borders of Ashdowne Forest, on the high road from London to Lewes, at a distance of 28 miles from London.
East Grinstead is a borough by prescription, and returned two members to parliament from 1st Edward II till the passing of the act 2 William IV, c.45, when it found its place in schedule A. The old right was in the owners of the burgage tenements, of which there were thirty-six.
In this parish is Kidbrooke, built for William, forty-second baron of Abergavenny, by Mylne, the architect of Blackfriars-bridge : it was sold in 1805 to the Hon.
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