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 BRIDPORT— BRISTOL. 25 1. Alexander Nelson (Hood), Baron Bridport in. 1868. [I.],lstandonly surv.s. andb.,fc.2.'lDec. 1814 atMnrylebonc. Joined , r - „„+_,,. tlio iiiiiiv, Scuts Fusilier Foot Guards, 1831 ; Cnpt. 1836 ; Lieut-Col. viscounty, jj^y. C(ll ;„ t)le Anny> lf! .- 4 . ji ; ,j or Gelli 1S(i 2, Lieut. Gen. I. 1SG8. 1871 ; Gwerai, 1S77 ; one of the Grooms in waiting, 1S41-58 ; Clerk Marshal to H.R.H. the Prince Consort, 1853 ; Equerry to the Queen, 1858. On 6 July 1868 (six mouths after his succession to the Irish Peerage he was cr. VISCOUNT BRIDPORT OF CRICKET ST. THOMAS, co. Somerset, AND OF BRONTE in the Kingdom of Italy. On 29 Jan. 1873 he sac. liis mother as Duke of Iiroutc in Sicily. He m. 2 Aug. 1838, at St. Geo. Han. So,., Mary Penelope, 2nd da. of Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull (Hilt,), 3rd MaKQUESS ok Devonshire [I.] by Maria, da. of Other Hickman (Windsor), 5th Haul ok Plymouth. She, who was 6. 3 Sep. 1817, d. in Wimpole street (No. 12) 15 July 1884. Family Estates. — These, in 1S83, consisted of 3103 acres in Somerset, 2356 in Dorset, and 53 in Devon. Total, 5512 acres, worth £S098 a-year. Principal Residence.— Cricket St. Thomas, near Chard, Somerset, and Castello di Maniace, Bronte, Sicily. y.Ii.— The property in Sicily is in addition to the above. BRIEN (see, also, under "Bryan") i.e. " VISCOUNT BRIEN " and Marquess of Lotuian, &c. [S.] ; See " Lothian " Marquessato of [S.], cr. 1701, BRIDLINGTON, see Burlington. BRISTOL (City and County). [Tliis title was in early times, used indiscriminately for that of UuiVCESTER ; thus, William, Earl of Bristol [better known as Earl of Gloucester], is a witness to a charter to Shrewsbury Abbey, 29 Sep. 1155. See Salop Cartulary, No. 43, quoted in "Itinerary of Henry II," p. 12; so also " Comes Brtjestoiccnsis" occurs in the Cuntinuator of " Florence of Worcester." Ex inform, i. Horace Round ] Earldom, jf, John (Digby), Baron Digby of Sherborne, was on t l (500 1j Sep. 1622, cr. EARL OF BRISTOL.(a) He was 4th and yst. a. of Sir George Digby of Colshill, co. Warwick, by Abigail, da. of Sir Arthur Hevkningham, of Ketteringham, Norfolk, and was b. Feb. 1586, is said to have been ed. at Mag. Coll., Oxford, of which Univ. he was cr. M.A., 30 Aug. 1605. In 1605 he was Gent of the Privy Chamber, and soon afterwards Carver to the King. Knighted at Whitehall 14 May 1606. M.P. for Hedon, 1610. In April 1610 and again from Sep. 1614 to March 1616 he was Ambassador, and from April 1617 to April 1618 he was Ambassador Extraordinary to Spain. Gent, of the Bedchamber to Charles, Prince of Wales ; Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, 1616-25 ; P.O. 1616-25. On 25 Nov. 1618 he was cr. BARON DIGBY OF SHER- BORNE, co. Dorset (an estate which had been granted to him by the King), on his return from Spain, where he had been treating as to an alliance between the Prince of Wales and the Injanta Maria. In Jan. 1619 he was on an embassy to Holland; in Jan. 1621 to Brussels and, in Nov. 1621 to Vienna. From March 1622 to May 1624 he was, for the 4th time, Ambassador to Spain, with instructions to conclude the treaty for the said marriage. In Sep. 1622 he was cr. Earl of Bristol as above. On 6 Feb. 1626 he was committed to the Tower, having impeached the Duke of Buckingham, (then high in Court favour), and, tho' soon released, continued many years in retire- ment. In 1640 was one of the Commission to treat with the Scots ; on 19 Feb. 1641 was P.C., and in 1642 Gent, of the Bedchamber. In the civil war he first sided with the Pari, and afterwards with the King, whom he attended at Edgehill and at Oxford. He m, before 1610, Beatrice, widow of Sir John Dive of Bromharu, Beds., ( !l ) He is tstylcd, in this patent of creation, " John Viyhj, Kniyht, Baron Digby of