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 74 WAMRPARK— WATSON. lY. 1863. 4. Henry Anson (Gavindish), Baron Waterpark [I. 1792] and a Baronet [1755] only a. and h., b. U April 1889, at Doveridge Hall, 00. Derby; ed. at Harrow ; clerk in the Foreign Office, 1860 ; tuc, to tkepeeraffo [I.], 81 March 1868. He m., in 1873, Emily, da. of John Stknmimo. FamUy IMaiei.— These, in 1888, couaisted of 6,587 acres in 00. Tip|ierary (worth £8,705 a year), besides 1,618 acrea in Derbyshire and 91 in Staffordshire, Total 9^291 acres, worth £8,819 a year. IMneipal teat, Doveridge Hall,(*) 00. Derby. WATERVILLE or WATEVYLL. i. Silt Robert de Watevyll. wIioho parentage in Baronv by unknowu(^) waa sum. to Par), as a Baron (LORD WATKVYLL) from writ. 3 Dec. (1826) 20 Ed. H, to 25 Jan. (1829/80) 4 Kd. Ill, since which I IS'' 6 ^*^ nothing further is known of him. He presumably ia the same /* ' person who liiul charter for free warren at Orton-Waterville, co., ^f. Huntingdon (130804) 82 Ed. 1 ; was one of the tilters at the Stepney 1«^^^- tournament (1808-09) 2 Ed. II.(«) ; waa concerned in the seising of Piers Qaveston, being afterwards in the insurrection of the Earl of Lancaster ; was taken prisoner at Borough bridge, but pardoned in 1822. WATFORD. i.e., '* NoRTHiKOTON OF Watford, CO. Northampton," Barony (Henley) er, 1885 ; aee ** Hbnlit ov CHABDSitMK,*' Barony [L], er. 1799 ; under the 3d Baron. WATH. f.«., "Wath, 00. York" Barony {WatsonrWentworth), cr. 1734, with the Earldom or Malton ; see ** Rookinqhau," Marquessate, cr. 1746 ; esc therewith, 1782. WATSON OF THANK ERTON. Barony for i. The Rt. Hon. William Wai'bon, one of Her Majesty's life. Counsel, Advocate for Scotland, was, 28 April 1880, appointed a I 1880. ^^^ ^^ Appial in Ordinary (under '* The Appellate JurUdictUm Act, 1876**), being granted the dignity of a Baron for life,(^) by the style or Utle of BARON WATSON OF THANKKUTON, 00. Lsnark. He was s. of Rev. Thomas Watson, of Covington, co. TiimHrk, by Eleanora, dM. of David Maohakkik; wm 6. 1828; utl. at the uuivs. uf Kdiubui^h and Qlaagow ; Advocate at Scotch Bar, 1851 ; Sulicitor Oen. for Scotland, 1874-76 ; Dean of Faculty of Advocates, 1876-76 ; LL.D. of Edinburgh, 1876 ; M.P. for Glasgow and Aberdeen univa., 1876-80 ; Lord Advocate for Scotland, 1876-80 ; P.O., 1878, and was, in 1880, made a Peer for life, and a Lord of Appeal, as aboveatated. He m,, 1868, Margaret, yat. da. of Dugald John Bannattns. lUiidence, — OiUesbie, near Lockerbie. (») In 1890 the Doveridge estate, of about 2,000 acres, valued at about £6,700 a year (including the house, noil t in 1763, and 120 acres of park) was put up to auction but withdrawn at £170,000. (^) " Alice formerly wife of Sir John de Watevylle, Knt," was living about 1810 (Gal. of charters in the Bodleian). Possibly these may have been his parents. (^) In that contest there were no less than three persons of that surname, vis. (1) Sir Robert, whoae arms were arg,, 3 chevronels, gu. ; a bordure indented, §a, {2) Sir Roger, whose arma were arg., 8 chevronels, gu. ; in canton a martlet, m. (8) Sir QeoflOrey, whose arms were la., semee of cross croslets, a lion rampant, org,, lanffued, gu, a^) See YoL i, p. 257, note ** a," tub ** Blackburn," as to the nature and extent of these creations.