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 29G EVEES — EXETElt. EVERS or EVEE, sec EURE. EVERSLEY OF IIECKFIKLD. Viscountcy. The Rt. Hon Charles Siiaw-T.kfevre, laic Spealser of I -)<.■;- the Hnnso of Commons, was cr. 11 April 1857, VISCOUNT nud h. of Charles Sh.wy-Lefkvkf., formerly Shaw, by Helena, only da. and h. of John Lefbvrb, of Heckfield Place, co. Southampton; was b. 22 Feb. 1794, in Bedford square; ed. at Winchester and at Trin Coll., Cambridge ; B.A., 1S15 ; M.A., 1819 ; Barrister (Line. Inn), 1819 : M.P. for Downton, 1S30-31 ; for Hants, 1S31-32, and for North Hampshire, 1832-57; P.C., 1S39 ; KrEAKKti OF the House of Commons, 1S39-57, being, on his retirement, raised to the Peerage, as above stated, with a life pension of £1,000 a year. Go*, of the Isle of Wight, 31 Oct. 1S57 ; D.C.L., Oxford, 16 June 1S5S; LL.D., Cambridge, 3 June 1SG4 ; Yeomanry aide de camp to the Queen ; Hon. Lieut. Col. of the Hants Yeomanry, &C. He in. 21 June 1S17, Emma Laura, 2d da. of Samuel WniTBREAD, of Southill, Beds, by Elizabeth, 1st da. of Charles (Giiey), 1st Karl Ghkv. She 4. 20 June 1857 (two months after her husband's elevation to the Peerage) aged 59 at Eaton Place, Midx. He d. s.p.m.s. at Heckfield Place afsd. 28 Dec. 1888, in his 95th year (being at that time the "father" of the House of Lords) when the Viscounty became extinct. He was bur. (from 111 Eaton square) in Kensal Green Cemetery with his wife. Will pr. 1SS9 at £107,894. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 2,3SS acres in Hants (at and near Heckfield) worth £3,00S a year. EYRE or EVERS, see EURE. EVESHAM. Sec " SoMMERS op Evesham, co. Worcester,'' Barony (Summer.*), cr. 1697 ; Ex. 1716. Sec "Lecumere of Evesham, co. "Worcester," Barony (Lechmcre), cr. 1721; Ex. 1727. Sec " Sommers of EvEsnAir,co. Worcester " (Gocto), Barony, a: 11 Si. EWE, sec EU. EWELM. i.e., " Parker op Ewelm, co. Oxford," Viscountcy (Parlrr), cr. 1721, with the Earldom of Macclesfield, which see. EXETER. [Memorandum. The Earls of Devon, of the family of do Bakers [1100 to 1202] were, not unfiequently styled Earls of Exeter. Bee p. 100, note "A."] Dukedom. j 0 n N IIolaxd, 3d s. of Thomas, 1st, Eaul of Kent, by I. 1397 Joft,] (" ,l,e /<"'»■ makl "/ Kent," afterwards Princess of Wales, t0 and mother of King Bichard II.) da. of Edmund (Flaktac.kket), 1400 Karl of Kest (yr. b. of King Edward I.), was b. about 1355, ami befog brother (ex parte nuitcrna) to King Richard II, was made Chief Justice of Chester (1381-85) and KG., in 13S1. In 1385, having murdered Ralph Stafford (1st s. of tho Earl of Stafford) he had hard matter to obtain pardon, hut was, notwithstanding, after having served Spain (at the request of Pari.), cr. 2 Juue 1387, EARL OF HUNTINGDON, with rem. to the heirs male of
 * £ EVERSLEY OF HECKFIELD, co. Southampton. Ho was 1st ».