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 DEBRETT S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 149 Patron of two livings, Created Baron of Knapton, 1"50, Viscount de Vesci of Abbey Leix, in the peerage of Ireland, 1//6. A Baronet, 1698. STrms, Or: on a eross sable, a patriarchal cross of the field. (Trrst, A dexter hand in armour, holding a laurel branch, proper. Supporters, Two figures of Hercules, each clad in a lion's skin, and holding a club over the exterior shoulder, proper. Seat, Abbey I.eix, Queen's County, Ireland. Town Residence, 4, Carlton-house- terrace, S.W. 0/w&s,Carlton, -Travellers', White's. DE VESCI, Viscount, His lordship's predecessor was his father, John, 2nd Viscount De Vesci, who was b. Feb. 15, 1771; succeeded his father, Oct. 13, 1804, m. Aug. 25, 1800, Frances Letitia, daughter of the Right Hon. William Brownlow, of Lurgar, (she d. 1840) ; and d. Oct. 19, 1855, having issue, two sons and a daughter. What is true, is safe. DEVON, EARL OF. (COURTENAT.) WILLIAM REGINALD COURTENAY, P.C. D.C.L. llth Karl and a Baronet Born April 14th, 1807 ; succeeded his father in 1859 ; was educated at Westminster, and at Christ Church, Oxford, (B.A. 1828, B.C.L. 1831; Hon. D.C.L. 1838) ; was a Fellow of All Souls' College, 182830 ; sat as M.P. for South Devon, 18428 ; was a Poor Law Inspector, 1848 50, Secretary of the Poor Law Board, 18509, Chan- cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1866 7, and President of the Poor Law Board, 18678; is Lieut. -Col. of the 1st Royal Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, and a Governor of the Charterhouse: married (1830) Lady Elizabeth Fortescue, 7th daughter of the 1st Earl Fortescue, K.G. (this lady died, 1867), and has issue, living, S>n t Edward Baldwin, Lord Courtenay, 6.1836; was educated at Westminster, and at Christ Church, Oxford; formerly Captain 1st Royal Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, resigned 1871 ; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate tor Devonshire : was M.P. for Exeter, 1864 8, and for East Devonshire (C.) 186870. C/w6s, Carlton, White's, Travellers', Boodle's, Arlington. Daughter, Agnes Elizabeth, b. 1838; m. 1869, the Hon. Charles Lindley Wood, eldest son of the 1st Viscount Halifax, G.C.B. Brothers living, The Rev. Henry Hugh, b. 1811, m. 1835. The Rev. Charles Leslie, 6. 1816, m. 1849. Patron of seven livings, North Bovey, R. Honiton, R. Salcombe, V. Moreton-Hamp- stead, R. Powderham, R. Woolborough, D. Cofton, V. Devonshire. Creation, Earl of Devon, in the peerage of England, 1553. A Baronet, 1651. arms, Quarterly : 1st and 4th, or, three torteaux, with a label of three points, Cour- ti'inii -2}( and 3rd, or, a lion rampant azure, Redvers, earl of Devon. iCrrst, 1st, out of a ducal coronet or, a plume of seven ostrich feathers, four and three argent ; 2nd, a dolphin embowed, proper. Supporters, Two boars argent, bristled, armed, and unguled or. Srnts, Powderham Castle, near Exeter, and Molt Kingsbridge, Devonshire; the Castle, Newcastle, (co.) Limerick, Ireland. Town Residence, 32, Lowndes-square, S.W. Clubs. Athenaeum, Carlton.