Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2

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Page 369 - Creations — Lord Glamis, in the county of Forfar, and Kinghorn, in the county of Fife, by Robert II. ; and Earl of Kingborn, and Lord Lyon, July 10, 1606. The title of Strathmore, in Angus, was granted soon after the restoration of Charles II.— —Arm
Page 498 - For a crosse bow and an arrow When I sal come to hunt on Yarrow. And in token that this thing is sooth, I bit the whyt wax with my tooth, Before Meg, Mawd, and Margery, And my thurd sonne, Henry.
Page 493 - III., 1401, granted considerable lands, and the barony of Muldavit, which continued to be one of the chief titles of the family, until alienated in the beginning of the reign of Charles I. WILLIAM DUFF, of Dipple and Braco, 1727, represented co.
Page 370 - About a week after the king's death, he was elected knight of the moft noble order of the garter, and...
Page 338 - Feb. 18, 1755, fucceeded his father, Jan. 17, 1758, and fucceeded to the titles of Marquis of Douglas, and Earl of...
Page 410 - Milfmgton, married Bridget, daughter of John Noel, of Walcot, in the county of Northampton, Efq. third fon of Baptift Noel, the fecond Vifcount Campden, by his fourth wife, by whom he had feveral children ; but he and all his children dying before the Earl, (2dEarl.) CHARLEs, his brother, fucceeded his father, and was the late Earl of Portmore.
Page 567 - Viscount GRANDISON, in Ireland ; also Earl of Jersey, Viscount Villiers, of Dartford, and Baron of Hoo, in England. See Earl of JERSEY, in the Peerage of Knglaud.
Page 342 - George, the eldest, succeeded his father, who died in November 1728. His grace, in 1741, married Catharine Gordon, daughter of William, earl of Aberdeen, by •whom, who died in 1779, he had three sons and three daughters : Alexander, the present duke.
Page 405 - Lordlhip affigned his title, which he thought he had a right to do by his patent, to John, fon of his brother George ; but the fame being...
Page 346 - Argyll, •who, at twenty-four years of age, was created a peer of Scotland, by the titles of lord Ornfay, Dunoon and Aros, alfo vifcount and earl of Ilia, on Oct.

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