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 440 TWEEDDALE. .Tamos J«ffl*ph Huie-Veue, of Crnigie Hull. He d. s.|>. after five days' illness, of bnmrhitis, iS Dec 1>78 at Chisleburot, Aged 62, His widow, who was b. 21 June 1846, vi. - J4 .Inn. 1SS7 at the Chape] Royal, Savoy, the lit. Hon. Sir John Hose, 1st Bart., G C M.G., mho d. 24 Aug. 1SSS, aged 87. 'She «., thirdly, 3 Feb. 1692 at St. Saviour's, Walton street, William Kvans GORDON, Capt. Gordon Highlanders, and was living lS9ti. 1878. Marquessate [S.] X. Earldom [S.] XI. Barony [U.K.] I. 1881. 10, 11, ami 1. William Montagu (Hat), Marquess ok Twceddau [1694], Earl of Twkkdhalk [lUlb'J, EaM, of Giekuiu [1694], Viscount Walden [1694] and Lotto Hay or YesTEII [1488], all in the peerage of Scotland, next In-, ami h : b 27 Jan. 1826 ; ed. at llaileybury ; was in the Bengal Civil Service, 1 S4 5-62 ; Dep. ComruUsr. of Simla; was M.l'. for Taunton, 1865-68 and for Haddington district. A«l([. to Dec. 1S78 ; sue. to the pea aye [S.] US Dec. 1.S78 ; was n. a peer of the United Kingdom 6 Oct. 1SS1 as BARON TWEBDDALK OK V ESTER, eo. Haddington. L. II. Commissi-, to the Church of Scotland, lS90-92.("; lie m. 13 May 1878, at St. Augustine's church, Candida Louisa, .'id da. of Vineeri/.o BaBTOLCCOI, of Cantiano, in Italy and of Greenville park, Co. Kilkenny, by his lirst wife Clementina, da. of Lieut. Col. Thomas Dvndas, of Canon Hall, co. Stirling. [William-Gkokoe-Moxtagu Hat, styled Earl of Giffoud, 1st s, and h. ap. ; b. 4 Nov. 1SS4.] ( a ) Lord Tweeddale figures in The Directory of Directors as guiding the destinies of no less than nineteen public companies, and thus easily heading the list of trailing peers in the multiplicity of bis engagements. The Limited Liability Act. whatever its other merits, has furnished an excellent employment and provision for some of the nobility. The title on one side and the fees on the other, would seem to form a quid pro quo which satisfies the common shareholder and noble director alike, so long as aflnira go on well and dividends are regularly paid. The following list (compiled by a partner of a well known house in the City) shows each Peer, or courtesy Deer (the latter being marked with an asterisk), who was, ill 1S96. one of the directors of a public company. Thirty-four were directors of 4 or more such companies, viz. Tweedilale, who directed 19 [ !] ; Donoughniore, 11 ; Gill'ord, 10 ; Colville, 7 ; Castletown, Ebury, Playfair, Kathmore, Ribblesdale, Rothschild, and Stratheden, 0 each ; Breadalbane, Clanmorris, Cottesloe, *Duucannon, Kilmorey, Kinnaird, Kingsale, Lawrence, Loch, and Wbarnclifle. f> each ; Ailesbury, Aldenham, De Lisle, Elgin, *Kmlyn, Harris, Hillingrlon, [ddesleigh, Lichfield, Mountmorres, Stalbridge. Sutherland and Wantage, 4 each. Ouc hundred and thirty- three Peers were directors of one, two or three such companies, viz. Abercorn, Aberdeen. Addingtou, Ailsa, Ardilatin, Armstrong. Ashburuham, Atholl, *Balcarres, Balfour of Burleigh, Battersea, Belhaveu, Helper, Bessborough, Brownlow, Buccleuch, *Burgliley, Burton, Bute, Caledon, Castlerossc, Chelmsford, "Chelsea, Chesterfield, C'heylesmore, Cloncurry, Coleridge, Cork, Crawford, Cross, *Dalkeitb, Davey, *De Grey, De Kawsey, Denbigh, De. Vesci, Devonshire, Dillon, Downe, *Dungarvau, Dunleath, Dunniore, Dutiravuii, Durham, "Ebrington, Egevton, Kglington, Egmont, Enniskillen, Essex, Exeter, Exmouth, Ferrer, Fife, Kingall, Forbes, Galloway, Gort, 'Gvanby, Greville, Grey, Haddington, Halsbury, Hamilton of Dalzell, Hampden, Harlech, Hatherton, Hawke, Herries, Herschell, Hindlip, Hobhouse, Hopetouu, Hotlitield Jersey, Kelvin, Kintore, Knntsford, Lathoui, Lauderdale, Leigh, Leven, Lothian, Mar and Kellie, Monteagle, Mount-Eilgcumbe, 'Newark, Newcastle, Newton, Norbury, *Norreys, Northesk, Onslow, Portsmouth, Radnor, lleudel, Richmond, Rosse, Row-ton, Saiut Levan, Salisbury, Saltoun, Say and Sele, Scarbrough, Selborue, Shand, Shrewsbury, Sondes, Stair, Stanhope, Stanmore, Stradbroke, Strathmore, Sufiield, Suffolk, Templetown, Tredegar, Tweedmouth, Verulam, Water park, Wenlock, Westminster, Winohilsea, Windsor, and Wolverton. This, in all, makes 167, shewing the disposition of the nineteenth-century Peers to trade, and it includes both those who very properly direct companies about whose affaire they have special knowledge or interest, and those who lend their names to "all sorts " of uudertakings, and who are not inaptly characterised aB " Guinea pigs."
 * March, Marlborough, *Medway, Melville, Midleton, Moncreiff, Monok, Monk-Brettou