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 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGK. 251 HOME, EARL OF. (HOME.) Sits as BARON DOUGLAS. COSPATRICK ALEXANDER HOME, llth Earl. Born Oct. 27th, 1799; succeeded his father in 1841 ; was Attache at St. Petersburg 18223 ; Precis Writer in the Foreign Office 1824 7 ; Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs 182830, and Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, from Feb. till August 1852 ; is Major-General in the Royal Archers (the Queen's Body Guard of Scotland), and a Dep. Lieut, of Ber- wickshire and Lanarkshire : married (1832) the Hon. Lucy Elizabeth Montagu, eldest daughter of Henry James, last Baron Montagu, and has issue, living, Sow*, Charles Alexander, Lord Dunglass, b. 1834; educated at Eton, and at Cam- bridge University ; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Lanarkshire ; was appointed Lieut. -Col. Commandant Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry, 1866 ; unsuccessfully contested Berwickshire, June 18/3 : m. 1870, Maria, daughter of the late Capt. Charles Conrad Grey, R.N., and has, with other issue, Charles Cospatrick Archibald, b. 1873. Residences, same as the Earl of Home. C7w6s, Carlton, Travellers', White's. James Archibald, b. 1837. William Sholto, b. 1842. Cospatrick. b. 1848. George Douglas, b. 1853. Daughters, Elizabeth Eleanora, b. 1844. Ada, b. 1846. Charlotte Lucy, b. 1850. Creations, Baron Home, 1473, Earl of Home and Baron Dunglass, in the peerage of Scotland, 1604, Baron Douglas of Douglas, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1875. Srms, Quarterly: 1 st and 4th, vert, a lion rampant, argent, Home: 2nd, or, an orle, argent ; 3rd, argent, three popinjays, vert, Pepdie, of Dunglass. iCrest, On a chapeau, gules, turned up ermine, a lion's head erased, of the first. Supporters, Two lions, argent. Seats, The Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwickshire; Bothwell- castle, Hamilton, N.B.; Douglas-castle, Lanarkshire. Town Residence, 6, Grosvenor-square, W. Clubs, C&rlton, Travellers'. HOME, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Alexander, Oth Earl of Home. He was b. Nov. 11, 1769, and succeeded his father Oct. 8, 1786: w.Nov. 9, 1798, Lady Elizabeth Scott, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, K.G. K.T. (she d. 1837) ; and d. Oct. 21, 1841, having had issue three sons. Hoo, Baron, title borne by the Earl of Jersey. HOOD, VISCOUNT. (Hooo.) FRANCIS WHELER HOOD, 4th Viscount, and a Baronet. Born July 4th, 1838 ; suc- ceeded his father in 1846 ; was appointed Ensign and Lieut, in the Grenadier Guards, 1854, served in the Crimea and has received the medal and clasp ; became a Lieut, and Capt. 1857, and retired as Capt. and Lieut.-Col. 1863; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Warwickshire : married (1865) Edith, daughter of Arthur W. Ward, Esq. and has issue, living, Sons, Grosvenor Arthur Alexander, b. 1868. Horace Lambert Alexander, b. 1870. Another. b. 1872. Another, 6. 18/5. With favourable winds. Daughter, Mabel Edith, b. 1866.