Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [Another], Volume 2

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Page 644 - Benyon lawfully to be begotten, severally, successively, and respectively, one after another, in order and course as they shall be in priority of birth and seniority of age; and the several and respective heirs male of the...
Page 593 - Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of a "great man" is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced.
Page 680 - Gladstone, he was created a peer of the United Kingdom by the title of Baron Acton of Aldenham.
Page 479 - Aug. 1445, in consideration, as the charter states, of a claim of right which he and his heirs had to the lordship of Niddesdale. He was afterwards styled earl of Orkney and Caithness; but, in 1471, having surrendered "to James III.
Page 806 - Being very handsome in his person, and of a tall stature, his lordship one day attended king William's court, and being admitted into the presence-chamber, asserted the privilege of being covered before his majesty, by walking to and fro with his hat on his head.
Page 48 - The new badge for the military classes of the Order is a gold Maltese cross, of eight points, enamelled argent, in the four angles, a lion passant guardant, or; in the centre, the rose, thistle, and shamrock, issuant from a sceptre between three imperial crowns, or, within a circle gules; thereon the motto of the Order, surrounded by two branches of laurel proper, issuing from an escrol azure...
Page 510 - August, 1791, he was created a peer of Great Britain by the title of baron Douglas of Lochleven, county of Kinross.
Page 635 - ... shall be countersigned by the president of the board of commissioners for the affairs of India, and by no other person.
Page 48 - Sovereign of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, is desirous of commemorating the auspicious termination of the long and arduous contests in which this empire has been engaged, and of marking in an especial manner his gracious sense of the valour, perseverance, and devotion, manifested by the officers of his Majesty's forces by sea and land...
Page 874 - ... to trustees, for the purpose of accumulation during the lives of his three sons, and of all their sons who should be living at the time of his death, or be born in due time afterwards, and during the life of the survivors of them.

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