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 442 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Spencer, Baron, title borne by the Duke of Marlhorough. Spencer, family name of Baron Churchill. Spencer-Churchill, family name of the Duke of Marlborough. Spring-Rice, family name of Baron Monteagle. Virtue is the basis of life. STAFFORD, BARON. (JERNINGHAM.) HENRY VALENTINE STAFFORD JERNINO- HAM, 9th Baron, and a Baronet. Born Jan. 2nd, 1802; succeeded his father in 1851; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate of Norfolk: married 1st (1829), Julia, 2nd daughter of Edward Charles Howard, Esq. (this lady died 1856) ; 2ndly (1859), Emma Eliza, 2nd daughter of Frederick Sewallis Gerard, Esq. of Aspull-house, Lancashire. Heir presumptive, His nephew, Augustus Frede- rick Fitz-Herbert, b. 1830, son of the Hon. Edward Jerningham, brother of the 7th Baron, who d. 1849, having 1 m. 1828, Marianne, daugh- ter of the late John Smythe, Esq. who d. 1359. Brother living, Charles William, 6.1807. Sisters living Charlotte Georgiana, 6. 1800, m. 1823, the 14th Baron Lovat Laura Maria, b. 1811, m. 182Q, (Petre). Creation, Baron Stafford, in the peerage of England, 1640. A Baronet, 1621. arms Quarterly : 1st and 4th, argent, three lozenge-shaped buckles, two and one, gules, Jerningham ; 2nd and 3rd, or, a chevron, gules, Stafford. Crests, Out of a ducal coronet, or, a demi-falcon rising, wings elevated and displayed, proper, Jerningham ; 2nd, out of a ducal coronet, per pale, gules and sable, a demi-swan rising, wings elevated and displayed, argent, beaked, gules, Stafford. Supporters, Dexter, a lion, argent ; sinister, a swan, wings inverted, argent, gorged with a ducal coronet, per pale, gules and sable. Seats, Costessy-park, Norwich, and Shiffnall, Shropshire. Club, Athenaeum. STAFFORD, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Sir George William Jerningham, 7th Bart, and 8th Baron Stafford, b. April 27, 1771 ; succeeded his father in the Baronetcy, Aug. 14, 1809 ; in 1825, by a decision of the House of Lords, he obtained the Barony of Stafford; in 1326, he assumed the additional surname and arms of Stafford; m. 1st, Dec. 26, 1799, Frances Henrietta, daughter of E. Sulyarde, Esq. 01 Wetherden, (she d. 1832), having issue; six sons and six daughters ; his lordship m. 2ndly, May 26, 1836, filizabeth, daughter of R. Caton, Esq. of Maryland; and d. Oct. 4, 185J, without issue from last marriage. Her ladyship d. in 1862. Stafford, Marquess of, M.P., Sutherland.) son of the Duke of Sutherland, (see