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 STRATFORD - STRATH ALLAN. 279 Petersburgh, Nov. 1821, and to Constantinople ( his second mission there), 1825-29, during the momentous time of the battle (1S27) of Navarino. He was M.P. fur OKI Sarum, lS^S-30 : for Stwjkbridge, 1831-32 ; and f..r King's Lynn, 1835-42; G.C.B., 7 Dec. lS'JIi, being Ambassador (spec, mission) to Constantinople, Oct. 1831, and to Madrid (spec, mission!, Dec. 1832. Finally, after 12 years cessation from any permanent diplomatic post, he returned as Ambassador to Constantinople 184I'53,(*i exercising an all powerful and most beneficial influence over the Sultan, Ab del Mejid.C') who, under his guidance, rejected tlie Russian demand f .ir Suzerainty over his :SQ million Christian subjects, a refusal which indirectly lead to the Crimea war. During the progress of that war his labours were unremitting, and, in 1855, he twice, visited the Crimea. Re was raited to tit'! jwentoe, 21 April 18">2. as aforesaid ; w;.s D.C.L of Oxford, 16 June 1858 ; LL.D of Cambridge, -J Miy 1861 ; K.G.. 11 Dee. 1869. Ha m firstly, 3 Aug 1816, Harriet, 3d and y-t. da. of Thomas Raikks, of Grosvenor square, merchant of London, by Charlotte, da. of the Hon. Henry Finch. Sim d. s p. 17 June 1817, at the Chateau de la Challiere, Lausanne, and was /,:<;•. in the Cathedral there. M.I. He in. secondly "3 Sep. 1325, at St. Marylebone, Eliza Charlotte, 1st da. of James Ai.f.xaNDKH, of Somerhill, eo. Kent, only child of his lirst wife, Eliza, da. of Capt. Dundas, of Manour, CO. Stirling. He (I. s.p.tn.s.( c ) after more than twenty years retirement from office, 14 Aug. 1880, in his 94th year, at bis residence, Frant Court, near Tuubridge Wells, and was bur. at Frant, co. Sussex, wheu the peerage became extinct. His widow d. there 25 Nov. 1SS2, and was bur. with him. STKATFORD-UPON-SLAINEY. Sen " Henniker OF STnATFonD-ui'os-SLAi.NEY, co. Wexford," Baiony [I.] (HcnniJccr), cr. 1S0O. STRATH ALLAN. Viscountcy [S.] /, TffE Hon. W iu.ia.m DituMMoxn, of Cn>nilix, 5th I. 1G8G yst. s.( d ) °f JoHM (Dui'M.moxd), 2d Lonn Madkktv [S.], by Helen, da. of Patrick 'Leslie), 1st LORD Linddhks [S.], was b. 1617-18 ; ed. at the Univ. uf St. Andrews ; served in Ireland, 1641-46 : at the battle of Stirling in 1648 ; being among those who hoped to rescue Charles I, ; serving (again) in Ireland for the Royal cause, anil being taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester; he subsequently served with the Royalists in the High- lands till 1654, after which date he entered the service of the Czar of Muscovy, becoming Cov. of Smolensko, and a Lieut. Gen. ; returning home in lo'tiO, he was Major Oeu. of the forces in Scotland in ItiliG; M.P. [S.] for Perthshire, ltit>9-74, 1078, 1681-82, and 16S5-S6 ; was imprisoned (on an unfounded suspicion of being in league ( a ) He acted as Tlenipo. at the investiture of the Sultan as K.G. at Constantinople, 1 Nov. 1350. See list of such spec, missions in vol. ii, p. 192, note " b," sub " Cath- cart" (") He was popularly known as " the Great Elchi " [i.e., Ambassador], and no one apparently has ever more deserved that name. He appears to have been, even wheu of great age, a very handsome man. The Marchioness of Waterford writes of him 18 Nov. 1S78, " Lord Stratford looked beautiful, and I think a perfect picture could be made of him in his scarlet satin dressing-gown, the lamplight falling on his clear- cut profile." r) The Hon. George Canning, his only s., 6. 15 May 1832, d. uum. and v.p., after an illness of many years, 14 Feb. 1878, at 20 Bryanston street. See tabular pedigree in vol. vi, p. 240, note " b," sub "Perth," where, however, the Hues denoting the issue uf three of the sons of William, the 4th Viscount, are inaccurately drawn. To the 1st son (James), two sous, viz., James, as also Andrew Johu should be assigned, so also should be assigned to the second son (William) a fi en, James Andrew, the restored Viscount (in lieu of the said Andrew John) while to the third son (Robert) there should be (only) placed a mark of issue.