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 WILLOUGHBY, 149 duelared to be BARONESS WILLOUQHBY DE(») ERBSBY, the abeyance of that Ban>ny betug thus termiuated in her favour. Her late huflband was a. and h. of Sir Gilbert Hsatrcotb, 4th Bert, (a dignity cr. 17 Jan. 1732/3), of Normanton Park, co. Rutland, by his first wife, Katharine Sophia, da. of John Manmbrs, by Louisa, 9uo jure CouNTMS op Dtbart [S]. He was h. 16 Jan. 1795 ; was M.P. (in the Whig intereet) for Boston, 1820-30 ; for South Lincolnshire, 1882-41 and for Rutland, 1841-66 ; sue. at $th BaronH on the death of his father, 26 March 1861 ; was Hon. Col. of the South Line. Militia ; L. Lieut of oo. Lincoln ; and was er. 26 Feb. 1866 BARON AVELAND of Aveland, co. Lincoln. He d* in Belgrave square 6 and was 6iir. 18 Sep. 1867 at Normanton afsd., aged 72. Will pr. 6 Oct. 1867 under £400,000, His widow, who became, 13 Not. 1871, 9uo jure Baroness Willoughby de Bresby, as aboTcstated, took by royal He, 4 May 1872, for herself and her issue the name of HtaJUicoU'Drummond- WiUougkbgf in lieu of that of IfeaiheoU, She cf. at Grimsthorpe Castle afsd. 13 Not. 1888, aged 70 and was Mir. (with her husband) at Normanton. XXIII. 1888. 23. GiLBBRT Hbnry (Hbathootb-Drumuond-Wil- LoooBDT formerljf Hiathootb), Lord Willouobbt db Erbbbt [1313] and Baron Avkland [1856] also a JBanmel [1733], only s. and h. ; 6. 1 Oct. 1830 in London ; ed. at Harrow, and at Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; was M.P. for Boston, 1862-56 and for Rutland, 1856-67 ; «tie. to the peerage as Baron Avdand on his father's death, 6 Sep. 1867 ; was ap|)ointed Depniy Oreai Chamberlain to his mother and her sister (Biuroness Carrington), 24 Jan. 1871. By royal lie, 4 May 1872, he (jointly with his mother) took the name of HeathctU'Drummond' WiUoughbg in lieu of thai of Beatkcute ; P.C 1880. By the death of his mother, 13 Nov. 1888, he became Lord WiUoughby de Eretbif and joint hereditary Great Chamberlain. He was er. 22 Aug. 1892, EARL OF ANCASTER.(b) He m. 14 July 1868, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Evelyn Elizabeth, 2d daughter of Charles (Gordon), 10th UiitQaBSS OF HuNTLT [S.], by his second wife, Mary Antoinette, da. of the Rev, WilUam PiODB. She was 6. 22 March 1846. [GiiiBBRT Hsathgotb-Drumuond-Willoughbt, Styled Lord Wil- LOUGHBT Di Erbsbt. 1st 8. and h. ap. ; 6. 20 July 1867 ; ed. at Eton, and at Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; M.P. for the Horncastie div. of Linoolnshure, 1894.] FamUy BilaUs. — The Heathcote estates, belonging to Lord Avetand in 1888, consisted of 17,637 acres in Lincolnshire ; 18,633 in Rutland, and 6 in Derbyshire and Huntingdonshire. Total, 81,276 acres, worth £46,894 a year. Those at that date belonging to the Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, which, since 1888, have become united with the above, were 24,696 acres in linoolnshire (derived from the family of Willoughby) ; 80,391 in Carnarvonshire, and 296 in Denbighshire (both derived from Uie family of Wynn(e] and estimated at £8,621 a year), besides 76,837 hi Perthshire (derived from the family of Drummond and estimated at £28,966 a year). Total., 132,230 acres, worth £74,006 a year. The two totals together making 163,605 aci<es) worth £120,900 a year. Principal Seate, Grimsthorpe Castle, near Bourn, 00. Lincoln ; Normanton Park, oo. Rutland ; Gwydyr,(«) near Llanwiyst, co. (Car- narvon, and Drummond Castle, near Crieff, co. Perth. The Earl of Ancaster is one of the few noblemen who possess above 100,000 acres in the United Kingdom. See vol. ii, p. 51, note " a,*' for a list of such who eiisted in 1883, at which date the lands then belonging to his mother. Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, but inherited by him in 1888, were considerably over that amount, vi&, above 132,000, to which should be added above 31,000 mherited by him in 1867, from his father. (s) See p. 147, note " c." (*>) The Dukedom of Ancaste»1iad been enjoyed by his lineal anoestors, the Lords Willonghbyde Eresby, from 17i6 to 1779 and had beoome extinct 80 years later. («) Tlie Wynn estates, however (see p. 147, note "a"), were sold, in or about 1895, to Earl Carrington, whose mother was sister and, in 1870, coheir to Alberio, Lord Willoughby of Eresby, after which acquisition he, by Royal lie, 24 April 1896, took the narae of Wynn baore that of Carrington.