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 488 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. WEMYSS AND MARCH, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was bis father, Francis, /th Earl of Wemyss. He was b. April 15, 1/72, and succeeded his grand father in the Earldom of Wemyss, Aug. 2, 1808, and his nearest kinsman, the 4th Duke of Queensberry, in the Earldom of March, and Barony of Niedpath, 1810, and was advanced to the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1821 ; was Lord Lieut, of Peebles- shire- m May si 1794, Margaret, daughter of W. Campbell, Esq. of Shawfield, (she d. 1850) ; and d. June 28* 1853, having had issue two sons and nine daughters. WENLOCK, BARON. (LAWLEY.) BEILBY RICHARD LAWLEY, 2nd Baron, and a Baronet, Lord Lieut, and Gustos Rotulorum of the East Riding of York- shire. Born April 21st, 1818; suc- ceeded his father in 1852 ; educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge ; was appointed Hon. Col. of the 1st Admi- nistrative Batt. of the East Riding Rifle Volunteers, 1866; is Lieut. -Col. of the Yorkshire Hussars, and President of the York Chamber of Agriculture; sat as M.P. for Pontefract, 18512. Married I wish for fair war. ( 1846 ) La( j y Elizabeth Grosvenor, 3rd daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Westminster, K.G., and has issue, living, Sons, Beilby, b. 1849; was educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge; ap- pointed Cornet in the Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry, 1869, became Lieut. 18/2, and Capt. 1474 ; is a Magistrate for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : m. 1872, Lady Constance Lascelles, daughter of the 4th Earl of Harewood. Clubs, Brooks's, Marlborough. Richard Thompson, b. 1856. Algernon George, b. 1857. Arthur, b. I860. Robert, b. 1863. Daughters, Caroline Elizabeth, b. 1848, m. 1870 ^Molyneux). Alethea Jane, *. 1851. Constance Mary, b. 1854. Katherine, b. 1859. Brothers living, Robert Neville, b. 1819, m. 1852. The Rev. Stephen Willoughby, b. 1823. Francis Charles, b. 1825. Sister living, Jane, b. 1820, m. 1846, (Wortley). Patron of four livings, Monk Hopton, V. Shropshire. Kexby, V. Escrick, R. Long Marston, R. Yorkshire. Creation, Baron Wenlock of Wenlock, in the county of Salop, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1839. A Baronet, 1641. Shrnts, Quarterly : 1st and 4th, per fesse, argent and sable, a fesse embattled, between three falcons, belled, all counterchanged, a canton, gules, Thompson ; 2nd and 3rd, argent, a crdss formee, extended to the sides of the shield, cheeky, sable and or, Lawley. ffirfSts,-^- 1st, an arm, embowed, quarterly, or and azure, gauntleted proper, grasping the truncheon of a tilting spear, or, Thompson; 2nd, a wolf statant, sable, Lmvley. 5>uppartrrs, On either side a wolf, sable, gorgel with a plain collar, or, pendent therefrom an escutcheon, argent, charged with a chevron of the first, between three Moors' heads aflrontee, proper. Seats, Escrick-park, York ; and Bourton-cottage, Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Town Residence, 29, Berkeley-square, W. Clubs,' White' s, Brooks's, Travellers'. WENLOCK, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Paul Beilby Lawley Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock. He was b. July 1, 1784, and succeeded his brother, Jan. 30, 1851, as 8th Bart, having been previously, in 1839, raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom: m. May 10, 1817, the Hon. Caroline Neville, daughter of the 2nd Baron Braybrooke; and d. May 9, 1852, having had issue four sons and a daughter. Her ladyship d. 1868.