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 312 CORRIGENDA, BTO.| TO VOL. I. Sarldom [I.] ' VII. 7 and 8, Wai/ter William Brabason (Pon- 80MUT), Earl op Bissbobodgh, &o. [I]., also Baroh > 1895 PONSONBT OP Stsonbt, &o., next br. and h. ; 6. 18 Aug. Barony [I.] | 1821, nt lioehampton, Surrey; ed. at Trin. Coll., ITxwT I OaubridKe ; B.A., 1840 ; M.A. 1848 ; took Holy Orders, ^^^^* J 1845; Hector of Canford Magna, WilU, 1846-69; of Beer Ferris, Devoo, 1869-75; of Marston Bigot, Somerset, 1876-80, and of StitttoD, Sufiolk, 1880-94 ; fvc. to Me peerage, 11 March 1895. He m. 15 Jan. 1850, at St. James' Westm., Louisa Susan Cornwallis, only da. of Edward GranviUe (Kliot), 8d Earl of St. Qbrmanb, by Jemima, 8d da. and ooheir of Charles (Cornwallis), 2d Marqubsb Cornwalus. She was h, 17 Dec. 1825. [Edward Ponsonby, Uyled, since 1895, Visooukt Dunoankok, let 8. and h. ap., 6. 1 Mnrcli 1851 in Dower street ; sometime Lieut. ICN., but retired 1874. Barrister (Line. Inn), 1879 ; Pari. Sec. to the Treasury, 1380 ; Sec. to the Speaker, 1884-95 ; O.D., 1895. He m. 22 April 1875, Bliuiohe Vere, sister of the lat Baron Wimbornb, 5t]i and yst. da. of Sir Josiah John QuBBT, Bart, (so cr' 1888), by his second wife, Charlotte Elisabeth, da. of Albemarle (Bbbtib), 9th Earl op LiNDBBT. She was 6. 26 Aug. 1847." udd a$ note ** (^) He was well known for his motive interest in the game of orioket" p. 854 ; line 9. for •' 1740," read •* 1774 "; line 18, for " following." read " 1812 "; dele lines 26 and 27, and intert '^ This apparently was only a Scotch territorial Lordship, held by the father of James Hay, er. in 1606 Baron Hay. See 'Carliblb' Earldom, er. 1622 ; ex. 1660"; line 29, e^fter ** Bengal,*' add **d. Jan. 1771)." p. 355 9 between lines 8 and 9, ituert oi under — BILLING. Tho Marqubsbats op Billing, co. Northampton, was conferred by privy Seal, 8 May 1645, on Barnabas (o'Bhibn), 5th Earl op Thomomu [L], but, no patent having ever passed, the dignity was not assumed by him or the heirs male of his body, which heirs became extinct in 1741. line 12, /«r "ttyled Lord Howard dk," read *' (improperly) etjfled Lord"; between Unes 20 and 21 imert a$ under — BINGHAM. The style of " Lord Binohak " is used by the family of Bingham^ Earls of Lucan [I.] (so cr. 1795), as the courtesy title of the h. ap. of that Earldom. p. 856 ; iD margin, for " 1871," read " 1871 to 1889 "; for " 1876, read 1876 to 1896 "; line 88, after " Auokland," add " He d. s.p. at Blachford park, 21 Nov. 1889,(<l) aged 78, and was bur, at Comwood, Devon, when the Peerayehectkme extinet,{*) His widow was living 1897 "; add ae noU d, "(<l) * He was the most gifted, the most talented and of the most wonderful grasp of mind of any of his onntemporaries ' [George H. Newman]. He was, also, a thoroughly earnest Churchman, of the type of his two friends, Gladstone, the Prime Minister, and Dr. Church (Dean of St. Paul's), and was one of the promoters of The Guardian newspsper "; add a$ note '^(*) The Baronetcy (cr. 21 Feb. 1698/9) devolved on his next br., John Charles, who d. unm. 25 March 1894, aged 76, when it passed to Edward, the only surv. br., who d 9 March 1895, aged 75, on whose death it became extinct" p. 857 ; line S, afUr « named," add " He resigned office in Dec. 1886, ceasing thareby for some years to be a member of the House of Lords, till by a subsequent act he and oU&er Lords of appeal were granted that privilege for life. He d, unm. at his residence, Doonhofm, near AUoway, co. Ayr, 8 Jan. 1896, in his 88d year,(>>) when his life peerage became extincL Will dat. 4 July 1875, pr. Jan. 1896 at Edinbuigh at £189,965 personalty "; between lines 9 and 10 ineert ae under—