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 THE PEERAGE, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. LSSUE. Only those living are referred to herein. YOUNGER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. Information respecting these will be found in the second section. Abbot, family name of Baron Colchester, Abbott, ,, Baron Tenterden. ABERCORN, DUKE OF* (HAMILTON.) Sits as MARQUESS. JAMES HAMILTON, K.G. P.C. D.C.L. LL.D., 1st Duke, 2nd Marquess, 10th Earl, and a Baronet; son of James, Viscount Hamilton, who died 1814, and grandson of the 1st Marquess, whom he succeeded 1818. Born Jan. 21st, 1811; educated at Christ Church, Oxford; created Hon. LL.D. of Cambridge, 1847, D.C.L. ot Oxford, 1856, and LL.D. of Dublin, 1868; was Groom of the Stole to the late Prince Consort, 184659, and Lord Lieut, of Ireland, 1866 8, to which office he was reappointed 1874; is Lord Lieut, of Donegal, Grand Master of the Masonic Order in Ireland, a Major-Gen, of the Royal Archers (the Queen's Body Guard of Scotland), Capt. London Scottish Rifle Volunteers, and a Governor of Harrow School : married (18oL5) Lady Louisa Jane Russell, 2nd daughter of the Gth Duke of Bedford, K.G., and has issue, living, Sons-, James, Marquess of Hamilton, M.P., b. 1838; educated at Harrow, and at Christ Church, Oxford, (B.A. I860, M.A. 1865); has been Hon. Col. of the Prince of Wales's Own Donegal Militia since I860; appointed a Lord of the Bedchamber to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 1866; assisted to invest (as bearer of a portion of the Insignia) King Christian IX. of Denmark, with the Order of the Garter, accompanied H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to Rnssia, 1866; is a magistrate for co. Donegal; has sat as M.P. for that co. (C.) since I860: has the Danish order of the Dannebrog, the Russian order of Chatelherault in France, created 1548, but which Napoleon III. assigned to the 12th Duke of Hamilton. Virtue is the only nobility.
 * The Duke is chief of the house of Hamilton, and as such claimed the Dukedom of