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 AMHERST. 79 Barons. He Acquired great military fame by the following achievements in •. .„„ North America, nr., the taking of Louisbourg, 26 July 1758 ; of Fort L U SO. (i„ (Juesne. 24 Nov. 1758 ; of Niagara. 25 July 1759 ; of Ticonderoga, 2G July 1759 ; of Crown Point, 4 Aug. 1759; of Quebec, 18 Sept. 1759 ; of Fort Levi, 25 Aug. 1760 ; of Isle an Noix, 28 Aug. 1760 ; of Montreal and (with it) all Canada, 8 Sep. 1760; and of St. John's, Newfoundland (retaken), IS Sep. 1762. On 11 April 1761, he was num. K.B. In 1770 he was made Governor of Guernsey, &c. Lieut.-Gen. of H. M's Ordnance, 1772-82. P.O., 1772 ; and, four years afterwards (1776) was cr. a Pker, as above. Gen. in the army and Commander-in-Chief, 1788. Field Marshal, 30 July 1796. Having no children to inherit his Peerage, he was, on 6 Sep. 178S, cr. BARON AMHERST OF MONTREAL, (") co. Kent, with a spec, rem., failing the heir? male of his body, to his nephew, William Pitt Amherst. He m. firstly, 20 May 1753, at Gray's Inn Chapel, Midx., Jane, only surv. da. of Thouias DalisON of Mauton, co. Lincoln, and of Hamptons, Kent, by Jane, da. of Capt. Richard Etiierixiiton. She wits b. 14 Feb. 1722, and d. s.p., 7 Jan. 1765, aged 41, and was bur. at Plaxtole, Kent. He m. secondly, 26 March 1767, in Clifford Street, St. James Westin., Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. George Cauy (br. of Lucius Charles, 6th Viscount Falkland |S.]), by Isabella, da. of Arthur Ingram of Barraby, co. York. He d. s.p., 3 Aug. 1797,( b ) at his seat of Montreal, in parish of Kiverhead afsd., and was bur. the 10th, at Sevenoaks, when the BARON V OF AMHERST OF HOLMESDALE (cr. 1776) became ex. Will pr. Aug. 1797. His widow d. 22 May 1S30, and was also bur. at Seveuoaks. Her will pr. July 1830. II. 1797. 2. William-Pitt (Amiierst), Baron Amherst of Moxt- j< a ,.i s real, nephew and h., me. to the peerage under the spec, rem., being s. and h. of William A., Lieut Governor of Newfoundland (br. of the I. 1S26. 1st Lord), by Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Patersos. He was b. 14 Jan. 1773 at Both, Somerset. Ed. at Uh. Ch., Oxford ; B.A., 1793; M.A., 1797. Lord of the Bedchamber to Geo. Ill, Geo. IV and William IV ; Envoy to the Court of Naples, 1S09-11 ; Ambassador to China, 20 Jan. 1816, where, however, he was refused admission ; subsequently Governor Gen. ok India, 1822-28 ; after which he was nam. Governor ok Canada, but never went there. P.C. G.C.H. 1834. On 19 Dec. 1826 he was cr. VISCOUNT HOLMESDALE, co. Kent, and (") Although in this case the patent refers to Montreal in Kent (which had been so named, a few years previously, in celebration of the grantee's victory at Montreal in Canada), it may, not improperly, be reckoned among the instances of the name o? a Peerage being taken from a place abroad to commemorate the gain of some great battle by the grantee, or other his achievement connected therewith. The first, such title is believed to be the Viscountcy of BaRPLKUR, conferred (together with the Earldom of Orfordl on Admiral Russell, 7 May 1697, after his naval victory at that place. This was followed, in 1717, by Stanhope of Mahon in Minorca; then, aftera long interval, in 1762, by Clive of Plassey [I. ]. After another pause came, in quick succession, Heathfield of Gibraltar, 1787 ; Amherst of Montreal, 1788; St. Vincent, 1797 and 1S01 ; Duncan of Camperdown, 1797 [Earldom, 1834]; Nelson, "Baron of the Nile," 1798 and 1801, Earl Nelson of Trafalgar, 1805; Abercromby of Aboukir, 1S00; Lake of Delhi and Laswahy, 1804 and 1807; Welleslev, "Baron Douho and Viscount W ellesley of Talavhra," 1S09, Marquess of Douro, 1812 ; Hill of Almaraz, 1814 and 1816; Amherst of Arracan, 1S26; Hardinge of LAHORE, 1S46; Strathuairn of Jhansi, lb66 ; Napier of Magdala, 1868 ; Laurence of THE Punjaub, 1869 ; and Wolseley of Cairo, 1882. JIr ' i? y 5° n ' in 1153 Domesi,M y °f Dorset (p. 77), observes, of " Alured Hispaniensis," s • u are not at suro t,lat sobriquet Hispaniensis necessarily indicates Spanish blood, One of the great Norman house of De Conchis was surnamed " De Hispania," i n that he had distinguished himself in a crusade against the Moors of Spain, some 30 years before the conquest. Thus, such titles as Nelson of the Nile, » ellington of Talavera, Napier of Magdala, are but peroetuative of a Norman and antecedently Roman custom." ( b ) According to the " Black Book," in 1S03 (sic) a pension of £3000 a year was granted to Jeffrey (sic), Lord Amherst and his heirs for ever. H 2