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 DEBRETT S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Eliot, family name of the Earl of St. Germans, Steadfast religion and morality of spirit. ELLENBOROUGH, BARON. CHARLES EDMUND TOWRT-LAW, 3rd Baron, son of the Hon. Charles Ewan Law, Q.C., M.P. Born Nov. 17th, 1820 ; succeeded his uncle, Dec. 1871; educated at Winchester ; entered the Army as Cor- net 1844, became Lieut. 1846, Capt. 1851, Lieut.-Col. 66th Foot 1855, and Col. 1858, has since retired ; served with the 9th Lancers in tke Stitlej campaign of 1846, and was at the battle of Sobraon, for which he has a medal: married 1st (1840) Lady Eleanor Cecil Howard, who died 1852, daughter of 4th Earl of Wicklow ; 2ndly (1855), Anna Elizabeth, who died I860, daughter of the Rev. John Fitzgerald- Day, of Beaufort-house, Killarney, and has issue, living, Son, Charles Towry Hamilton, b. 1856. His lordship married 3rdly (1863), Isabella, who died 1874, only child of Alexander Ogilby, Esq., of Pelipar, co. Londonderry, and has issue, living, Daughters, Gertrude Edith, Emily Julia. His lordship married 4thly (1874), Beatrice, daughter of Sir Norton Joseph. Knatchbull, 10th Bart. Sisters living, Mary, m. 1839, the 3rd Baron Kilmaine. Elizabeth Sophia, a mm. Superior of the Franciscan Order, of Gorey, co. Wexford. Frederica, m. 1st. 1848, her cousin, Edmund Law, Esq. ; 2ndly, a foreign officer. Creation, Baron Eflenborough, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1802. Srms, Ermine : on a bend engrailed, between two cocks, gules, three mullets pierced t or. (Crest, A cock, gules, charged on the breast with a mitre pendent from a chain round the neck, or. SruppovtfrB, Two eagles, wings inverted, gulos, ear-h gorged with a chain, or, and pendent therefrom on the breast of the dexter supporter a mitre, and on the sinister a covered cup, gold. Residence, Holly Spring, Bracknell, Berkshire., United Service, Army and Navy, Royal Thames Yacht, ELLENBOROTJGrH, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his uncle, Edward, tt,C.B., P.C., 2ml Baron ami 1st Earl Ellenborough. He was A. Sept. 8, 1/90 -. succeeded his fattier as 2nd Baron 1818, and was created Viscount Southam and Earl 01 Ellenborough 1844. Educated at Eton and at St. John's College, Cambridge. Was Chief Clerk of the Court of Queen's Bench until the abolition of that office : Lord Privy Seal 1828 9, President of the Board of Control 1Q28 30, ]834 5, and 1841, Governor-Gen. of India 1841 4, First Lord of the Admiralty 1846, and President of the Board of Control 1858. Received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament for his administration in India: m. 1st 1813, Lady Katherine Octavia Stewart, who d. 1819, 8th daughter ot Robert, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, and niece to the 1st Marquess Camden ; Sndly, 1820, Jane Elizabeth, only daughter of Admiral Sir Henry Digby, G.C.B., which marriage was dissolved by Act of Parliament 1830. He d. Dec. 1871, without surviving issue, "when his Viscountcy and Earldom became extinct. ELLENBOROUGH, EARLDOM OF, see Peerages Extinct."