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 52 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 8rms, Quarterly. 1st and 4th, ermine, on a fesse, sable, a castle with two towers, argent, on a canton, gules, a martlet, or, Hill ; 2nd, or, frette, gules, a canton, ermine, Noel ; 3rd, or, a chevron, between three stags' heads, cabossed, gules, Harwood. Crest, 1st, a stag statant, argent, Hill; 2nd, on the battlements of a tower, proper, a hind statant, argent, collared and chained, or, Noel ; 3rd, a stag's head, caboshed, sable, in the mouth a sprig of oak, proper, Harwood. Supporters, Dexter, a pegasus, argent, gorged with a plain collar, sable, thereon a martlet, or ; sinister, a stag, argent, attired, or, gorged with a plain collar, sable, thereon a leopard's face, or, and a chain reflexed over the back gold. Seat, Attingham-hall, near Shrewsbury. CVwis, Carlton, United Service. BERWICK, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his brother, Richard Noel, 5th Baron Berwick ; b. Nov. 21, 1800; succeed d his father, Sept. 21, 1848, and d. unmarried, April 12, 186l. BESSBOROUGH, EARL OF. (PONSONBY.) Sits as BARON PONSONBY OF SYSONBY. JOHN GEORGE BRABAZON PONSONBY, P.C. 5th Earl, Lord Lieut, of Carlow. Born Oct. 4th, 1809; succeeded his father 1847; pat as M.P. for Bletchingley and Higham Ferrers, 1831, and for Derby, 183447; was Attache to the British Embassy at St. Petersburg, 1832, Precis Writer to the late Viscount Palmerston (when Foreign Secretary), 18334, Master of the Buck- hounds, 184852, 18528, and 185965, and Lord Steward of Her Majesty's For the king, the law, and the people. Household, 1865 6, and 186874: married 1st (1835), Lady Frances Char- lotte Lambton, daughter of the 1st Earl of Durham, (this lady died, 1835) ; 2ndly (1849), Lady Caroline Amelia Gordon- Lennox, eldest daughter of the 5th Duke of Richmond, K.G. Brothers living, Frederick George Brabazon, heir presumptive, b. 1815; educated at Harrow, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. 1837) ; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1840. Residence, 3, Mount-street, Grosvenor- square, W. The Rev. Walter William Brabazon, b. 1821, m. 1850. Spencer Cecil Brabazon PONSONBY-FANE, C.B., b. 1824, m. 1847. Gerald Henry Brabazon, b. 1829, m. 1858. Sisters living, Augusta Lavinia Priscilla, b. 1814, Countess of Kerry, see that title. Emily Charlotte Mary, b. 1817. Maria Jane Elizabeth, b. 1819, m. 1838, the 2nd Baron de Mauley. Harriet Frederica Anne, b. 1825. Creations, Baron Bessborough, 1721, Viscount Duncannon, 1/23, Earl of Bess- borough, 1739, all in the peerage of Ireland. Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby, 1749, Baron Duncannon, 1834, both in the peerage of Great Britain. &rms, Gules, a chevron between three combs, argent. (Crest, Out of a ducal coronet, three arrows, points downwards, one in pale and two in saltire, entwined at the intersection by a snake, proper. Supporters, Two lions reguardant, proper. Seats, Bessborough-house, Piltown, (co.) Kilkenny, and Garry Hill, (co.) Carlow, Ireland. Town Residence, 40, Charles- street, Berkeley- square, W. Clubs, Travellers', Brooks's. BESSBOROTTGH, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, John William, 4th Earl of Bessborough. He was b. Aug. 31, 1781, and succeeded his father, Feb. 3, 1844, having been previously created Baron Duncannon; was Lord Lieut, of Ireland: m. Nov. 16, 1805, Lady Maria Fane, daughter of the 10th Earl of Westmorland, 'she d. 1834) 5 and d. May 16, 1847, having had issue eight sons and six daughters.