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 98 COMPLETE PEERAGE aldborough 1 880-83 y ■" command at the destruction of the forts of Alexandria, 1 8 8 2 ; C.B., 16 July 1861 ; K.C.B., 2 June 1877 ; G.C.B., 24 May 1881 ; had Royal lie, on 16 Nov. 1882, to accept the First class of the Order of Osmanieh ; and, finally, on 24 Nov. i 882, was, as a reward for his distinguished services, cr. BARON ALCESTER (") of Alcester, co. Warwick. He was introduced into the House on 12 Apr. 1883 by Lord Harlech and by (his companion in the Egyptian campaign) Lord Wolseley. Shortly afterwards he received the freedom of the City of London, and the sum of ;/,2 5,ooo by vote of Pari, in lieu of the usual annual grant. D.C.L. Oxford 1885. He ur. 3 Apr. 1895, at Woking Cemetery, when the title became extinct. ALDBOROUGH (co. Suffolk.) "ALDBOROUGH co. Suffolk" Barony (yon der Schulenberg), cr. 1722 with the Earldom of Walsingham, which see ; extinct 1778. ALDBOROUGH (Ireland.) VISCOUNTCY [L] i. John (Stratford), Baron Baltinglass [L], J /- was b. 1698, at Ormond, co. Tipperary ; ent. Trin. '' ■ Coll. Dublin, 8 May 1715, aged 17. He was FART DOM n "1 3rds. of Edward Stratford, of Baltinglass, CO. Wick- '- ■-' low, and of Belan, co. Kildare (who is said to have L 1777. refused a Peerage from Will. Ill) by his ist wife, Elizabeth, da. of Euseby Baisley of Ricketstown, co. Carlow; was Sheriff of Kildare 1727, of Wicklow 1736, and of Wexford 1739; M.P. for Baltinglass, 1721-63 ; and on 21 May 1763, was cr. BARON OF BALTINGLASS, co. Wicklow [I.], and on 22 July 1776 C) was cr. VISCOUNT ALDBOROUGH of Belan, co. Kildare [I]. On 9 Feb. 1777, he was cr. " VISCOUNT AMIENS and EARL OF ALDBOROUGH of the Palatinate of Upper Ormond " [I.J. (') He m. Martha, da. and (") For his arms see suh Hertford Marquessate. C') He was a capable naval officer, and being a smart, dressy, genial man, was known among his friends as " the swell of the ocean. " V.G. C^) For a list of the profuse creations and promotions in the Irish Peerage in 1776, see vol. iii, Appendix H. C) This creation has been compared with the enrolment in Chancery [I.]. The choice of the name of Amiens for a Peerage title is accounted for by referring to a fulsome account of the ancestry of the family of Stratford (which, in Lodge begins only in 1660) given in Owen, Davis, and Debrett's Peerage, 1790, vol. iii, p. I 56. Here it is stated that the ancestor of the Stratford race, one "Gualtera [i/c] de Lupella, vulgarly called Lovel or Tonci, " came " from Amiens the capital of Picardy in France, to England with William the Conqueror, fjc. " It may interest the reader to know (on the same unquestionable authority) that " the arms of the noble peer [Earl of Aldborough] are the same as those of Alexander the Great, ^c, iffc. "