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 124 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. COVENTRY, EARL OF. (COVENTRY.) GEORGE WILLIAM COVENTRY, 9th Earl, son of George William, Viscount Deer- hurst (who was eldest son of the 8th Earl) by Harriet, daughter of Sir Charles Rushout, 2nd Bart. Born May 9th, 1838 ; succeeded his grandfather in 1843; was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford; is a Dep. Lieut, of Worcester- shire : married (1865) Blanche, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Craven, and has issue, living, Sons, George William, Viscount Deerhurst, b. 1865. Charles John, *. 1867. Henry Thomas, b. 1868 Reginald William, b. 1869. Another, b. 1875. -Dorothy, b. 1872. Anne Blanche Alice, b. 1874. Candidly and steadily. Daughters, Barbara Elizabeth, *. 1870. Sister living, Maria Emma Catherine, m. 1858, CPonsonby). Patron of six livings, Croome d'Abitot, R. Flyford Grafton, R. Stoke Severn, R. Powick, R. Worcestershire. Oxenton,V. Woolstone, R. Gloucestershire. Creations, Viscount Deerhurst and Earl of Coventry, in the peerage of England, 1697. arma Sable : a fesse, ermine, between three crescents, or. Crest, A cock, gules, comb, wattles, and legs, or, standing on a garb, fesswise, or. Supporters, Two eagles wings expanded and inverted, argent, beaked and membered, or. Seat, Croome-court, Severnstoke, Worcestershire. Clubs, Carlton, White's. COVENTRY, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his grandfather, George William, th Earl of Coventry. He was b. Oct. 16, 1784, and succeeded his fa- ther, March 26, 183'1 ; was Lord Lieut, of Worcestershire: m. 1st, Jan. 1808, Lady Emma Susannah, daughter of the 1st Earl Beanchamp, (she d. 1810) having had an only son, who d. 1838 ; 2ndly, Nov. 6, 1811, l.ady Mary, daughter of the 6th Duke of St. Alban's ; and d. May 15, 1843, having had issue from second marriage, two sons and a daughter. Her ladyship survived him two years. Cowal, Earl, title borne by the Duke of Argyll. COWLEY, EARL. (WELLESLEY.) HENRY RICHARD CHARLES WELLESLEY, K.G. G.C.B. P.C. D.C.L. 1st Earl. Born July 17th, 1804; succeeded his father, as 2nd Baron Cowley, 1847; appointed At- tache to the Embassy at Vienna, 1824, Paid Attache at the Hague, 1829 ; Secretary of Legation at Stuttgardt, 1832; Secretary of Embassy at Constantinople, 1838; Minister Plenipotentiary adinferim, 1845; Minister Plenipotentiary in Switzerland, 1848, and to Frankfort on a Special Mission the same year ; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Frankfort, 1849, and to the Germanic Confederation, 1851 ; was Ambassador Ex- traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, 185267, retired the latter year on a pension ; made an Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford, 1870: married (1833) the Hon. Olivia Cecilia Fitzgerald, daughter of Charlotte, Baroness De Ros, and has issue, living, Moreover, one thing is necessary.