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 388 COURTOWN — COVENTRY. [James Walter Milles Stopfohd, styled Viscount Stopford, 1st s. and h. up., b. 3 March 1S53, in Cavendish Sq., Mnrylebone ; ed. at Eton and at Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; Sheriff of co. Wexford, 1877 ; Capt. 3rd Royal Irish Reg. Militia. He in. firstly, 27 April 1S76, at St. Geo. Han. Sq., Catherine Elizabeth, 1st da. and coheir of Richard Cornwallis (Neville), 4th Baiion Bhaybuooke, by Charlotte Sarah, da. of Hector John (Toleh), 2nd Earl ok Norbury fIJ. She, who was b. 8 Aug. 1SS5, d. 12 Aug. 18SS4, aged 29, at 6, Queen's Gardens, Windsor, and was hur. 15th in the cemetery there. He m. secondly, 25 April 18S6, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Gertrude, 1st da. of Lieut. Gen. Charles James Conway Mills, of Cardingtou, Beds, by Gertrude, da. of Samuel Whitehead, of Southill Park, Beds.] Family estates.— These, in 18S5, consisted of 14.426 acres in co. Wexford, 7,305 in co. Carlow, besides 1,493 (worth only £731 a year) in Cheshire. Total— 23,314 acres, worth i'l 2,092 a year. Principal Residence— Courtown House, near Gorey, co. Wexford. COUSLAND. i.e. '' Oxenfoord of Cousland, co Edinburgh," B. {Dalrymple), cr. 1841 ; see "Stair" Earldom [S.], cr. 1703, under the 8th Earl. COUTTS. See " Burdett-Coutts," Barony (Burdett-Coutts), cr. 1871. COVENTRY. Earldom. l. " George [Villiers], Marquess of Bucking-") Ham, Baron Whaddon of Whaddon, Viscount Villiers and L 1623. Earl of Buckingham, High Admiral of England." was, on 18 May 1623, cr. " EARL OF COVENTRY and DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM."( a ) He d. (by assassination) 23 Aug 1628, aged 36,( b ) II. 1628, 2. George (Villiers), Duke of Buckingham, to Marquess ok Buckingham, Earl ok Coventry, &c, b. and 1687. b. He d. s.p. legit. 16 April 1687, when the Earldom of Coventry, together with the other peerages conferred on his Father, became extinct. P.. x HI. 1697. 1. Thomas (Coventry), Baron Coventry of Ayles- bohouoh, co. Warwick, waB, on 26 April 1697, cr. VISCOUNT DEERHURST, of the hundred of Deerhurst, co. Glouc, and EARL OF COVEN- TRy,( c ) with a spec, rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to Francis Coventry, of Mortlake, Co Surrey (yr. s. of Thomas, 1st Baron Coventry of Aylesborough), and the heirs male of his body, rem. to William Coventry, Thomas Coventry, and Henry Coventry, and the heirs male of their bodies respectively, children iif Walter Coventry, late of London, merchant, s. and h. of Walter C, a yr. br. of the said 1st Baron.( d ) He was 2nd and yst. s. of Thomas (Coventry), 2nd Bauon Coventry of Aylks- borough, by Mary, da. of Sir William Craven ; was M.P. for Droitwich, 1660-70, and for Warwick, 1681-87 ; was of Snitterfield, co. Warwick, and aged 45 when he entered his pedigree at the Her. Visit, in 1682, and, succeeding his nephew, 25 July 1687, as 5th Baron Coventry of Aylesborouqh, was advanced to a Via- (») See "Creations, 1483-1646," in ap. 47th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records. ( b ) Charles Villiers, his 1st s. and h. ap., 6. 17 Nov. 1625, and bur. 17 March 1626/7, at Westm. Abbey, is ttyled in the register of his burial "Marquess of Buckingham and Earl of Coventry." ( c ) See p. 102, note " a," circa tinem. ( d ) A very extraordinarily extended limitation of an Earldom comprising an uncle and three second cousins, granted by William III to a person whose merits, if great, were certainly not extraordinary.