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 204 MALPAS — MALTRAVERS. 12 April 1842; sue. to the peerage, 17 May 18S0; was sometime Bon. Lieut, Col. of the Royal Irish Rifles. He hi., 10 Nov. 1S70, Sylvia Georgians, da. of Alexander Stewart, of Ballyedmoud, co. Down, by Elizabeth, da. of James D uuilas. [James Edward Harris stifled (since 1889) Viscount Eitz Harris, 1st s. and b.. ap., b. IS Dec. 1872.] Family Estates. — These, in 1S83, cousisted of 4,1 55 acres in Hants ; 1,079 in Wilts, and 212 in Dorset. Tula! 5,140 acres worth £6,304 a year. Principal Residence Heron Court, near Christchurch, Hants. MALPAS. i.e., "Malpas, co. Chaster,'' Viscountcy {ChohiumJeb y), cr. 170G with the Earldom ok Cholmo.ndeley, which sec. MALTON. i.e., "Maltox, co. York," Barony, en 1728; also " Maltox, co. York," Earldom, cr. 173S; {Watson-Kentuvrtli, afterwards Wentxeorth) see "Rocklnu- Haji," Marquessate, cr. 174(3; ex. 1782. MALTRAVEES. Barony by 1. Sir John Maltravers, junior, oldest son of Sir W r it- John Maltrayers,( :1 ) of Lytchett Maltravers, Dorset, was, with his t I ooq father, sum. to attend the King, cum ci/uis it armis" at Newcastle- . ' upon-Tyne, 5 April (1828), 1 Ed. III.^) He(«) was sum. to Pari, as . Jg. a Baron (LORD MALTRAVERS) by writ, 25 Jan. (1329/30), 4 Ed. III. looi. directed "Johauni Mautravers, Juniori, as also by writ, 5 June following, where the word, "juniori" is omitted. In that Pari, he was found guilty of the death() of Edmund, Earl of Kent, and sentenced to be hung. He fled abroad, but having surrendered himself tu the King at Flanders, received from him a safe convoy to England, 5 Aug. (1845), 19 Ed. III., aud was again sum. to Pari. 18 Nov. (1351), 25 Ed. III., but never afterwards, tho' he was fully restored by Parl.(°) He was at the battle of Cressy (134b") and Poitiers (1350), having under him 20 archers on horseback, 19 Esquires, ice. ; was Gov. of tho Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, &c. He m. firstly, Eva, 1st d.i. of Maurice (Beiikelkv), Loud Berkeley, by his first wife, Eva, da. of Eudo La Zoucue. He m. secondly, about 1330, Agues, widow of Sir John DK NgEFOBD (who d. 1329), relict formerly of Sir John de A rgentine (who<i. 1318), da. of William Berei-urd. He d. lb' Feb. (1363/4), 38 Ed. III. s.p.m.s., when the Barony fell into abeyance. He was bur. at Lytchett Maltravers. Esch., 38 Ed. III. The will of his widow is dat. 18 Feb. 1374/5.(0 ( a ) A, "carefully considered" pedigree of .Maltravers by " G.S.S." [Mr. G. S. Steininan] is in " Cull. Top. et Gen." iii, pp. 77-79 ; who states that " the genealogical information " given in " Dugdale" is "very imperfect and erroneous." ( b ) The elder John is said by Mr. Towuseud (whose account-has been followed in the text) to have been sum. to the great Council in (1330), 4 Ed. III., aud to have been alive in (1335), 9 Ed, III., but dead in (1345), 19 Ed. III. [" Coll. Top. et (Jen." V, 150 — 154J, where the " confusion aud error " in the text of Dugdale, is corrected ; but in Mr. Steinman's account (see note " a " next above), he, who is stated to have been aged 30 in 1290, is said to have died (1310-17), 9 Ed. II. (<•') Either he or (more probably) his father was the custodian of King Edward II. at the time (21 Sep. 1327) of that king's murder. ( d ) "Inasmuch as he, well knowing that King Edward II. was really dead, falsely and wickedly induced the said Earl to believe that he was alive aud so eventually was the cause of the Earl's death'" See Towusend's account as in noto " b " next abuve, (°) He was, however, sum, 15 March (1300/1), 35 Ed. III. " de coucilio quoruudam Maguatum teneudo apud Westru.," but " that writ " says Nicolas " was evidently not a summons to Pari." (') Her son, Sir John Maltravers (living Feb. 1374/5) was of Hooke, co. Dorset and