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 34 ABINGER ABOYNE. formerly L. S. Witts, of Jayea, in Wotton, co. Surrey, by Sarah, da. of Robert Harrison, of London. He was struck with paralysis, after having sat, through the whole day, in Court, at Bury St. Edmunds, and <l. there (five days afterwards), 7 April 1844; bur. at Abinger. Will pr. April 1844. His widow living at Brighton, 18S4. II. 1844. & Robert Campbell (Scarlett), Baron Adixger, s. and h. by first wife, b. 5 Sep. 1 ~S»4. M.P. for Norwich 18S6-38, for Horsham 1S41-44. Barrister-at-Law. Sometime British Minister at Florence. He in., 19 July 1S24, Sarah, 2nd da. of George Smith. Chief Justice of the Mauritius. He d. 24 June 1861. His widow d, 3 June 1S78, in her seventy -sixth year, at Queen's ( late Terrace, South Kensington. III. 1861. 3i 'William Frederick (Scarlett), Baros Abixoek, s. and h., b. 30 Aug. lS2ti at Abingor Hall, Surrey, Ed. at Eton and at Trill. Coll., Cambridge. Entered the army 1840; Capt. and Lieut.-Col. Scots Fusilier Guards 1S55, Major liSOS, Lieut-Col. 1S74, Major-Gen. 1877, Lieut-Gen. 1882. Served in the Eastern campaign, 1854-66 ; was at Alma. lnkcrmann, Bataklava, &c. Retired on half-pay Sep. 1877. C.B. 2 June, 1877, 6th-clasa Medjidie. He settled in Scotland at Inverloehy Castle, eo. Inverness. He m. 23 Dec. 1S63, at Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal, Helen [Ella, or Seelen), 2nd da. of George Allan MaGRUDBR, Commodore in the navy of the United States of America. Note. — The family estates in 1S83 consisted of about 40,000 acres in Inveinesshiie, and about 3,000 in Surrey. The former being worth about £4,300, and the latter about £700, making a total of about £5,000 a year. See Batemon's " Great Land- owners." Principal Jlesidcuce, tnverlochie Castle, near Kingussie, co. Inverness. ABITOT. Baron by J. Vhso D'Abitot, Constable of Worcester Castle and tenure. Hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire, according to " Dugdale," was, as I "Will I such, styled sometimes " Urso Vicccomcs f "{- x I and sometimes " Urso tic Wirccrstrc." Hence he is sometimes (though erroneously) said to have been cr. Eaiil ok Worcester in 1076. He sat in the great council of 10S2 and 1085, "Dugdale" i, 462. Kmmeliiie, his da., m. Walter de BeaucHami 1, who obtained from Hen. 1. all the lands of Roger de Worcester and the Sheriffalty of Worcestershire to hold as freely as any of his ancestors had done.( b ) ABOYNE. i.e. " LORD ABOYNE " [S.]. Src " MELGUM," Viscount [S.]. a: 1627, e.r. 1630. [N.S. — The above title was conferred on the 2nd s. of the 1st Marquess of Huntly [S.1 viz. Lord John Gordon, whose eldest br., George (afterwards 2nd Marquess), obtained the VISCOUNTCY OE ABOYNE [S.], wifli a spec, rem., as mentioned below.] Viscounts. [S.J i. George Gordon, tshfled Lord Gordon, ami") |J I 163'' sometimes Earl ok Enzik, s. and h. ap. of George, 6th Earl and 1st Marquess ok Hu.nti.y [S.], and elder br. of John Gojii)(»" who had been cr. Lord Auoynb and Viscount Mki.odm [S] in 1627 (as above mentioned) was, soon after the death of his said death (which ever should first happen), to his second s. James Gordon and the heirs male of his body. This rem. took effect on the death of the Marquess (his father), 13 June 1636, when, he, the said George Gordon, became 2nd Marquess ok Huntly [S.j, and his yr. s. sure, (as below) to the Viscountey. J £ fa ( a ) Roger, s. and h. of Urso, had incurred the heavy displeasure of Hen. I., one of whose servants he had murdered. — See " William of Malmesbury." ( b ) From this Urso is derived the ancient cognizance of the Beauehamp family, (Earls of Warwick), i.e. the Bear with the ragged staff.