 She also had financial investments in hand worth £300,000 (£28,000,000 in 2016) and had been sought in marriage by the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV.See Earl of Mornington for further history of this title.In 1820 King George IV appointed Charles Longe Knight of the Order of the Bath and on his retirement from political life in 1826 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Farnborough, of Bromley-Hill-Place, in the county of Kent.