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 ALiTH COMPLETE PEERAGE 109 Essex, when the Irish Peerage, i.e. the Barony of Alington of Killard [I.], cr. 1642, became (also) extinct. Will. dat. i July 1685, pr. 3 Apr. 1723. ALINGTON OF CRICHEL BARONY. I. Henry Gerard Sturt, of Crichel, Dorset, s. and h. I. 1876. of Henry Charles S., of the same (sometime M.P. for that CO.), by Charlotte Penelope, 2nd da. of Robert (Brudenell), 6th Earl of Cardigan, and sister and coh. of John Thomas, the 7th Earl. He was !?. 16 May 1825, at Crichel. Ed. at Eton and at Ch. Ch., Oxford. Sue. his father 14 Apr. 1 866. Was M.P. for Dorchester, 1847-56; and for Dorset, 1856-76. On 15 Jan. 1876 (") he was cr. BARON ALINGTON OF CRICHEL, (') Dorset. (') Hem., istly, 10 Sep. 1853, his 1st cousin, Augusta, ist da. of George Charles (Bingham), 3rd Earl of Lucan [I.], by Anne, 6th and yst. da. of Robert (Brudenell), 6th Earl of Cardigan abovenamed. She, who was L 7 Feb. 1832, d. 3 July 1888, at Alington House. He m., 2ndly, 10 Feb. 1892, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Evelyn Henrietta, da. of Henry Blundell Leigh, 2nd s. of John Shaw Leigh, of Luton Hoo, Beds. He d. at Crichel 17, and was i>ur. there 22 Feb. 1904. Will pr. above ;(^43,ooo, leaving a set of waistcoat buttons to the King, and £100 to the Queen. He was well known in the sporting world. He was sue. by his son, who is outside the scope of this work. Family estates. — These, besides some small property (under 100 acres in each county) in Hants, Herts, Oxon, and co. Cambridge, consisted, in 1883, of about 15,000 acres in Dorset, and about 2,500 in Devon. Total about 17,500 acres, of the yearly value of about ^^24,000. The extremely valuable estate at Hoxton, Midx., derived by descent from the family of Pitfield, is not included. Principal Residence. — Crichel, near Wimborne, Dorset. ALITH i.e. " Ogilvy of Alith and Lintrathen, co. Forfar " Barony [S.] (Ogilvy), cr. 1639 with the Earldom of Airlie [S.], which see. (') As to the 8 creations in 1876, see note sub Gerard of Bryn. C") Lord Alington of Crichel bears arms of Vert a fesse gold between three running colts silver, with three roses gules on the fesse, arms which were granted in 1 69 1 to his ancestor, Anthony Sturt of London, whom Peter le Neve describes as "a meal man first, after a commissioner of excise. " {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. f^) He was a descendant and co-representative of the former Lords Alington, through Catherine, 3rd da. (and eventually coh.) of William, 3rd Lord [I.] and 1st Lord [E.]. She m., 28 Aug. 1694, Sir Nathaniel Napier, of More Crichel, Dorset, 3rd Bart., and their da. Diana (who became, in her issue, their sole h.), m. Humphrey Sturt, of Horton, Dorset, great-great-grandfather of the said H.G. Sturt, cr. Lord Alington, in 1876,35 above.