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 342 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Mount-Earl, Viscount, title borne by the Earl of Dunraven. MOUNT EDGCUMBE, EARL OF. (EDGCUMBE.) WILLIAM HENRY EDGCUMBE, 4th Earl. Born Nov. 5th, 1832 ; succeeded his father in 1861 ; educated at Harrow, and at Christ Church, Oxford, (B A. 1856); sat as M.P. for Plymouth, 1859 61; is an extra Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales; Lieut.-Col. of the 2nd A dm in strati ve Battalion Devon Rifle Volunteers, a Special Deputy Warden of the Stannaries, and a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Ccrnwnll ; was formerly At the disposal of God. Capt. in the Duke of Cornwall's Militia Rangers: married (1858) Lady Kataerine Elizabeth Hamilton, who died 1874, 4th daughter of the 1st Duke of Abercorn, K.G., and has issue, living, Son, Piers Alexander Hamilton, Viscount Valletort, b. 1865. Dung liters, Victoria Frederica Caroline, 6. 185Q. Albertha Louisa Florence, b. 186l. Edith Hilaria, b. 1862. Brother living, Charles Ernest, b. 1838. Sister living, Ernestine Emma Horatia, 6. 1843. Patron of five livings, Dittisham, R. Beer Ferrers, R. Devonshire. Landrake, V. Rame, R. Millbrook, V. Cornwall. Creations,^Baron Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe, in the county of Devon, 1742, Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort, 1/sl, Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, i^y, all in the peerage of Great Britain. arms, Gules : on a bend ermines, cottised, or, three boars' heads, argent. (Treat, A boar, statant, argent, gorged with a wreath of oak, vert, fructed, or. Satppovtrrs, Two greyhounds, argent, gutte de poix, and gorged with a collar, dove-tailed, gules. Seats, Mount Edgcumbe, Devonport ; Cothele, Calstock, Tavistock. C/6.y,Carlton, Travellers', White's, Marlborough. MOUNT EDGCUMBE, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Ernest Augustus, D.C.L. F.R.S. 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. He was b. March 23, 1797, and succeeded his father, Sept. 26, 1839; was Col. of the Cornwall Militia, and Aide-cle-Camp to the Queen: TO. Dec. 6, 1831, Caroline Augusta, daughter of the late Rear Admiral Charles Feilding; and d. Sept. 3, 18t5l, having had issue two sons and two daughters. MOUNT EDGCUMBE, Dowager Countess of, CAROLINE, daughter of Rear-Admiral Charles Feilding, b. 1808; is an Extra Lady of the Bed- chamber to the Queen: m. 1831, the 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, whorf. 1861. Residence, Cothele-house, Calstock, Tavistock. Mountflorence, Baron, title borne by the Earl of Enniskillen.