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 IXEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Sister living, Montagu, b. 1835, m. 1856, the 6th Earl of Glasgow. Creation, 1801, in favour of Mary Anne, widow of General Sir Ralph Abercromby Baroness Abercromby of Aboukir and Tullibody. &nns, Argent : a fesse embattled, gules, between, in base, the ancient family arms of Abercromby, being a chevron indented, gules, between three boars' heads erased, azure, anil in chief, issuing out of the embattlements of the fesse a dexter arm embowed in armour, proper, garnished or, the cubit part of the arm encircled by a wreath of laurel, and the hand grasping a French republican military flag in bend sinister. Crest, A bee erect, pro , per. Supporters, Two greyhounds, per fesse, argent and or, each plain collared with line reflexed over the back, gules, and charged on the shoulder with a thistle, proper. Seats, Airthrie-castle, Stirling; Fern-tower, Crieff, Perthshire, Tullibody, Clack - mannansh ire. ABERCROMBY, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was George Ralph, 3rd Baron Abercromby. He was b. May 30, 1SOO, and succeeded his father, Feb. 14, 1843 ; was a Col. in the Army, M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross, 1824 31, and for the county of Stirling, 1838 41, and Lord Lieut., Custos-Rotulorum, and Sheriff Principal of Clackmannanshire : m. April 3, 1832, Louisa Penuel, daughter of the Hon. J. Hay Forbes, a Lord of Session in Scotland, (by courtesy Lord Medwyn), and d, in 1852, having had issue three sons and two daughters. ABERCROMBY, Dowager Baroness, LOUISA PENUEL, 3rd daughter of the Hon. John Hay Forbes (Lord Medwyn) : m. 1832, the 3rd Baron Abercromby, who d. 1852. Residence, 2l,ChapeUstreet, Belgrave-square, S.W. Abercromby, surname of the late Baron Dunfermline. ABERDARE, BARON. (BRUCE.) HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE, P.C., 1st Baron, 2nd son of the late John Bruce Pryce, Esq., of Duffryn, St. Nicholas, Glamorgan- shire, who assumed in 1837 the name of Pryce in addition to Bruce, which in 1805 he had assumed in lieu of his patronymic Knight by Sarah, 2nd daughter of the late Rev. Hugh W. Austin, Rector of St. Peter's, Barbadoes. Born April 16th, 1815. Called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn 1837, but withdrew from practice 1843; was Police Magistrate of Merthyr Tydvil 1 847- 52; Under Secretary for the Home Department 18624 ; Vice President of the Education Board of the Privy Council 1864 6; 2nd Church States Commissioner 18656; and Secretary of State for the Home Department 1868 73, when he became Lord President of the Council. Is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for co. Glamorgan,. Sat as M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil (L ) 185268, when he was an unsuccessful candidate, and for Renfrewshire 186973. Married 1st (1846), Anabella who died 1852, only daughter of the late Richard Beadon, Esq., of Clifton, and has issue, living, Son, Henry Campbell, b. 1851. Daughters, Margaret Cecilia, m. 13, Douglas Close Richmond, Esq. Rachel Mary. ?/;, 1872, Augustus Vernon Harcouit, Esq.^Jessie Frances.