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 10 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. His lordship married 2ndly (1854), Xorah, youngest daughter of the late Gen Sir William Xapier, K.C.B., and has issue, living, Sons, William Napier, b. 1858. Charles GranviT.e, b. 1866k Daughters, Caroline Louisa, b. 18. Sarah Napier, b. 18. Nora Creina Blanche, b. 18 .Isabel Ellen, b. 18 .Elizabeth Fox, b. 18 .Pamela Georgina, b. 18 .Alice Moore, b. 18. Brothers living, Rev. William, b. 1816, educated at Oriel College, Oxford (M.A. 1841; ; is a Magistrate for Glamorganshire. Robert, b. 1821, is a Major-Gen, in the Army. Lewis Knight, b. 1828. Sisters living, Mary Sinclair. Maria Elinor, Gertrude. Creation, Baron Aberdare of Duffryn, in the county of Glamorgan, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1873. firms, Or, a saltire gules, on a chief of the last a martlet of the field. Crest, An arm in armour in bend proper, the hand holding a sceptre in bend sin : ster or. Supporters, Dexter, a lion argent, col.ared or, pendent therefrom an escutcheon of the arms of Knight, viz., paly of six argent and azure, on a canton of the last a spur rowel downwards leathered or ; sinister, a lion azure collared or, pendent therefrom an escutcheon of the arms of Bruce. Seat,- Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire. Town Residence, I, Queen's Gate, W. Club, Athenaeum. ABERDEEN, EARL OF. (HAMILTON-GORDON.) Sits as Vis. GORDON 7-_ _ JOHN CAMPBELL HAMILTON-GORDON, 1847; succeeded his brother 1870; ap- pointed Major 18th Aberdeen shire Rifle Volunteers 1874; educated at University College, Oxford (B.A. 1871). Heir presumptive, His uncle, Lieut. -Gen. tlie Hon. Sir Alexander Hamilton -Gordon, K.C.B., son of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen. Born 1817 ; entered the Grenadier Guards 1834, became Lieiit. and Capt. 1840, Capt. and Lieut.-Col. 1849, Col. 1854, Major- Gen. 1863, and Lieut.-Gen. 1872; served Let fortune follow. as Assistant-Adjutant-General and Assistant- Quartermaster - General on the staff in the Crimea 1854 5, and was present at the Alma, Balaclava and Inkermann, and at the siege of Sebastopol. Was Precis Writer hi the Foreign Office 1843 5, Equerry to the Prince Consort 1846 54, extra Equerry 1854 6l, Dep. -Quartermaster- Gen. of the Army 185560, and in command of the Camp at Colchester 18601, of the Brigade at the Curragh 1861 6, and of a Division of the Bombay Army 1867 70, and of the Eastern District 1872 ; has the Crimean Medal and Clasps and the Turkish War medal ; is a Knight of the Legion of Honour and of the Medjidie, a Commissioner of the Royal Military College and of the Royal Military Asylum; made a C.B. 1855, and a K.C.B. 1873; has been since 1862 an Hon. Equerry to the Queen: married 1852, Caroline, eldest daughter of Sir J. F. W. Herschel, K.H., 1st Bart., and has with other issue, Alexander, b. July 6th, 1859. Residence, 50, Queen's-gate-gardens, S.W. Clubs, United Service, Travellers'. Sisters living, Mary, b. 1R44, m. 1863 the 6th Baron Polwarth, Harriet, b. 1849, m. 1870- ( Lindsay), Katherine, b. 1852. Creations, Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Formartine, Baron Haddo, Methlic, Tarves, and Kellie, 1682, in the peerage of Scotland; Viscount Gordon, in that of the United Kingdom, 1814; a Baronet, 1642. arms, Quarterly : 1st and 4th, azure, three boars' heads couped within a doubrle tres sure adorned with roses and thistles alternately, Gordon ; 2nd and 3rd, quarterly, within a bordure sable, 1st and 4th gules, three cinquefoils pierced ermine, Hamilton; 2nd and 3rd, argent, a lymphad sable, Arran. Crest, 1st, two arms from the shoulder naked, holding a bent bow and in the act of letting fly an arrow proper, Gordon; 2nd out of a ducal coronet or, an oak tree, the stem cut transversely by a frame saw, the blade inscribed with the word "Through," all proper; the body of the tree charged with an escutcheon argent,
 * && 7th Earl, and a Baronet. Born Aug. 3rd,