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 STOURTON. 257 and in 1 7S5 alienated the manor of Bonham, in Stonrton, to the family of Hoare, the then possessors of the Stonrton estate. He m. 12 July 1775, at Holme, co. Vork, Mary. Zrl surv. da. and coheir of Marinaduke (La.ngdalr), 5th and last I5.U10N" Lanudalb OP HOLME, by Constantia, da. of Sir John Smythk, 3d Bart., of Acton Burnett. He tf. suddnly at AUerton Park. 29 April, and was bur. 6 May 1816, at Allertou Mauleverer, co. York, aged 63, but was removed in 1862 to the chapel ill Allertou Park. Will pr. Jan. 1817. His widow d. 12 April 1841, at Hazlewood Hall, co, York, aged S u, and was bur. in the chapel aboveuamed. Will pr. June 1811. XVIII. 1S1G. IS. William (Stockton), Baron Stourton, 1st s. and h.,^) b. 6 June 1776, and bap. the same day as "William Joseph" at the Roman Catholic church at Witham, co. Essex; me. to Ike peerage, 29 April 1816, taking his seat, 1 May lS2y.( b ) He m. 1 Oct. 1800 (spec, lie), Catharine Winifred, 2d da. of Thomas Weld, of Lulworth Castle, co. Dorset, by Mary, da. of Juhn StaNi.ky-Massey, id Puddington, co. Chester. He d. 4 Dec. 1846, at Aller- tou Park afsd., and was bur. in the chapel there, aged 70. Will pr. April 1S47. His widow aron Ahundell of Wardodr. She, who was b. 22 Nov. 1799, d. 30 Sep. 1872, aged 72, at Stourton Towers, otherwise AUerton i'ark, near Knaresboro', co, York, and was bin: 5 Oct. in the chapel there. He d. (three months later), 23 Dec. 1872, aged 70, at the same place, and was bur. 31st in the said chapel. XX. 1872. SO. Alfred Josepo (Stourton), Baron Stourton, 3rd but 1st snrv. s. and h. ;( c ) 6. and bap. 28 Feb. 1829, at Holme H;ill afid. : sue. to the peerage 23 Dec. 1872, taking his seat 15 July 1873. By writ of summons, 3 J an. 1878, he became LOUD MOWBRAY, and by letters patent on 18th of the same month he became LOUD SEGRAVE, the abeyance of those Baronies (of which, thro' his descent from his great great grandmother, Winifred, Baroness Stour- ton aboveuamed, he was the senior coheir) being thus terminated in his favour. He, accordingly, took his seat, as Lord Mowbray( a ; on 17 Jan. 1878. He m. 13 Sep. _(") Two of his younger brothers changed their surnames on inheriting estates devised with that injunction, viz. (1) Edward Marmaduke, who took by Royal lie, 27 Feb. 1926, the name of Vavasour, and was cr. a Bart, 14 Feb. 1823, and (2) Charles, who took by Royal lie, 24 Dec. 1814, the name of Langdnle. ( b ) See p. 256 note " a." ( c ) Of his two elder brothers (1) William Joseph, 6. and bap. 1 Oct. 1S26 at Holme Hall nfad., rf. v.p. 23 March 1S3S, at Biddlestone, co. Northumberland ; (2) Joseph Charles, b. 26 Dec. 1827, also at Holme Hall d. v.p. at Stonyhurst College, in Aighton, co. Lancaster, 24 Feb. 1S38. l d ) See vol. v, p. 416, note "c," sub " Mowbray," as to his claim to be the senior Baron of England. In spite of that proud position (to which Mowbray appears to huve a better right than the anomalous Baronies of Abergavenny, De Ros and Bespencer, according to the now received doctrine as to the creation of such dignities), one cannot but regret that so ancient a Barony as that of Stourton, conferred by one of the Plantagenet Kings in 1448, and enjoyed ever since in uninterrupted succession in tUmak Hue for four and a half centuries [!], should be obscured by the Barony of Mowbray, which, tho' undoubtedly more ancient, has practically never been heard of for five hundred years (when, in 1 307, its possessor was cr. Dukeof Norfolk) and which is also in a class of Baronies that (since the House of Lords in the 17th ceutm-y found out, for the first time, their undying nature as regards the descendants, male or female, of the person first sum. to Pari.) have been " revived " (after centuries of "wise and an entire dispersion uf the caput Barouiic and all other estates thereto S