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 SUTHERLAND. 347 I'EF.n [S.] 1763-66. Ho n. 14 April 1761, at Edinburgh, Mary, 1st da ami coheir^) of William Maxwell, of Praaton, c>. Kirkcudbright, % Elizabeth, (*') da. of William Hairstanes. of t 'rings in that county. They both died at Hath in the s.une month, June 1768, she on the lit, in bar 2tfth year (from over exertion in nutting him), and hes.p.tn. on the 16th, from putrid fever, aged 81. Both were bur. 9 Aug. 1766 iu the Abbey church of HulyruodhoUtie. Adtnoil. -0 Nov. 1767. XIX. 1706. 19 (Hill 1. ElJ/CAIiETU, Kiln jili'i', CofNTESS OF .SuTHER- Dukedomri' K 1 ' - N1J ' S -'' 2d " ad ys '" ' Jl,t " u]y M1,v ,k - al "> M«! ; 24 May 1 ' J 176.1, at Leven Lodge, near Edinburgh, and kmc. to the pcerm/e [S] J. 1 ^.'i.'). as above, next year, 16 June 1 766, her right thereto being confirmed by the House of Lords, 21 March 1771. ('■) She, in 1779, and again in 1 793, raised a regiment called the Sutherland fencioles, which in 1793 was employed in quelling the Irish rebellion. She m, 4 Sep. 1785 (spec, lie.) in L Ion, George Granville Levkson-Goweu, then sttilcd Viscoukt Trestham, but shortly afterwards. 1 786-1803, styled Earl GOWER, who sue. his father, '.'6 Oct. 1 803, as 2d MARQOBSa Stafford, and who was e>: 28 Jan. 1B33, Dl'KE OK SUTHER- LAND, as more fully stated below. The 8tti> jure Countess ('* Ihirb ess- Countess " as she was generally called) d., his widow, at Hamilton place, Hyde park, 29 Jan. and was bur. 20 Fab. 1S39, with great state, at Dornoch.; 11 ; aged 73. Will pr. Aug. 1839. George ( Jraxvii.i.k Leveson-Gower, gtfflttl Viseotrsr Trentham, 1758-Sfl and Karl GowkR, 1786 — 1303; 2d but 1st «ur*. s. and h. of Granville (Lkvkson-O iWerI, i;d Karl Goweii. afterwards (1788) let Mahqiess of Stafford, being his only s. by his second wife, Louisa, da. (whose issue, in 1803, became coheir) to Scrope (Euerton). 1st Di ke of BrIDOKWaTBR, waa b. 9 Jau and Inf. IS Feb. 1758, iu Arlington street. St. Geo., Han. sq. ; ed. at Westm (1768-74) and at Ch. Ch., Oxford; 11. A. 31 Oct. 1777. Me was M.P. for Newcastle-nnder-Lync, 177S-S4, and for co. Stafford, 1787-99. Having tn. 4 Sep. 1735, as abovestated, Klizabeth, suo jure CoOHTKSS of St'THEt(LAM) [S.J. he became in her right Sherili" of Sutherlandshire. His taller having been, shortly afterwards, cr. a Marquees, 1 March 1786, he from that date to 1803, wntttylfd Eakl GuWer. KG, 1790. In May 1790, he was Ambassador (■') The 2d and yst. da. was Willielma, wife of John Campbell, styled Lord Gleuoi-chy. ('') This Lady became the second wife of Charles Erskine, a Lord of Session, under the designation of Lord Alva. She hail the charge of her infant grand-daughter, the sun jure Countess of Sutherland anil d. iu London (being generally designated as " Lady Alva ") 24 Oct 1806 ill her 90th year. ( c Catharine, her elder sister, b. iu London 24 May and hap. 11 June 1764 at St. Miirvlebone ; d. at Dunrobin Castle 3 Jau. 1766, six months before her parents. C) It was opposed (1} by Sir Robert Gordon, Bart. [8.], heir male of the body of Adam Gordon, Karl of Sutherland, by his wife the sun jure Countess [see p. 344, note "h"], and (2) by George Sutherland of Forse, as heir male of the./irsf Earl. The Lords resolved (1) That Elizabeth, wife of Adam Gordon had a right thereto on the death of her brother iu 1 f> 1 4 " as heir of the body of William, who was Karl of Sutherland in 1275," and that the said Earldom "was assumed by her husband in her right," and that it remained in her descendants dowu to 1766 " without any objection on the part <>f the male line of the said William." (2) "That none of the charters produced affect the title, honour and dignity of the Earl of Sutherland, but operate as conveyances of the estat e only." (3) " That the claimant, Elizabeth Sutherland, has a right to the title, honour anil dignity of the Earldom of Sutherland [note, that uoinen- tiou is made herein of the fabulous Barony of Strathnaver] as heir of the body of William who was Earl of Sutherland in 1°75." The ease of the Countess's claim (1770) by Sir David Dalrymple (a Lord of Session, under the designation of Lord Hailes), is a master- piece of research iu Scotch I'eerage law. The date of 1275 having been thus acknow- ledged as belonging to the Karldom, the Duke of Sutherland, 3 May 1S47, presented a petition to the House of Lords that his precedency in the Roll of Peers [S.] should he amended according to such date, but no further steps appear to have been taken. (°) " A very liberal patron of the fine arts, herself no mean proficient with the pencil aud the brush." She drew and etched a series of views iu Orkuey and ou the S.E. coast [1805-07], illustrating an account of Orkney, for private distribution. [Ann. foy. 1839.]