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 66 COMPLETE PEERAGE ailesbury Haseley. " He d. s.p., lo Apr. 1894, aged 30, at the house of his estate agent (Mr. Feltham), 121 Leander Road, Brixton, and was bur. from Savernake. (*) His widow ?«., 28 Mar. 1901, David Waddle Webster, of Arbroath, J. P. co. Forfar. MARQUESSATE. EARLDOM. IX. 5 and 6. Henry Augustus, (Brude- nell-Bruce), Marquess of Ailesbury V. I „ [1821], Earl of Cardigan [1661], Earl ' "^' of Ailesbury [1776], Earl Bruce of Whorlton [1821], Viscount Savernake [1821], Baron Brudenell of Stonton [1628], and Baron Bruce of Tottenham [1746], also a Baronet [1611], uncle and h., being 3rd s. C") of the 3rd Marquess. He was b. 11 Apr. 1842, in Curzon Str., Mayfair ; was sometime Capt. 9th Reg. of Foot ^styled Lord Henry Bruce, 1878-94 ; was M.P. for Wilts (Chippenham div.), 1886-92 ; Chairman of the well-known firm of " Meux £?■ Co., " Brewers. He m., 10 Nov. 1870, Georgiana Sophia Maria, 2nd da. of George Henry Pinckney, of Tawstock Court, Devon. She d., suddenly, 23 June 1902, at 35 Albemarle Str. [George William James ChandosBrudenell-Bruce,j/)'/^^ since 1894, Earl of Cardigan, only s. and h. ap. ;i^. 21 May 1873 ; sometime an officer in the 3rd batt. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Major in the Wilts Imperial Yeomanry. Served in the S. African War 1 899-1900. (°) Hem., 21 Mar. 1903, in Midlent, at St. Mark's, North Audley Str., Caroline Sydney Anne, only da. of John Madden of Hilton Park, co. no occupation. " Witnesses " Arthur Thompson, " and " Mary Jane Haseley. " Each of the three Marquesses having left a widow, all of whom were alive in 1886, this lady was the junior of no less than 4 living Marchionesses of Ailesbury, and (having been generally known as Doll Tester) was spoken of in The lVorld[Oct. 1886) as " The Marchioness Dorothy, n^e Tester, late of the refreshment department of the Theatre Royal, Brighton, and more recently, of the chorus at The Empire and elsewhere. " As (besides these ladies) the mother of the 4th Marquess was also alive in 1886, " The Marchioness Dorothy " in the ordinary course of nature would have been the yf/?/i (living) Marchioness. See note j«i^ Charles, Earl of Peterborough [1697], as to the marriages of Peers with actresses, singers, and dancers. (") A young man of low tastes, bad character and brutal manners, of whom a recent Prime Minister remarked that ' his mind was a dunghill, of which his tongue was the cock. ' On 30 Sep. 1887 he was expelled for life from the Jockey Club, for fraud in connection with the running of his horse ' Everitt. ' On 4 Mar. 1892 his total liabilities were stated in the Bankruptcy Court to be ;^345,462, of which /244,2ii was unsecured. It has been said that his death was only mourned by the Radical Party, who thus lost, for their speeches, a most eligible example of hereditary legislators. It is said that he was kind to animals, and doubtless he had other good qualities, though obscured by ill training and worse associates. V.G. C") His next elder br., James Ernest Brudenell-Bruce, Barrister, h. 29 June 1840, d. unm. and v.p., 21 June 1876, two years before his father sue. to the peerage. (") For a list of peers and heirs ap. of peers, serving in this war, see vol. iii, Appendix B.