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 ii8 COMPLETE PEERAGE alvanley in fee. In 1589 he was named as Envoy to Denmark, but excused himself on account of his age. He m. Elizabeth, da. and h. of Robert LuNDiE, of Benholm, co. Kincardine. He d. s.p.m., between i July and 26 Sep. 1592, aged 63. (") 1!. 1592. 2. George (Keith), Earl Marischal, Lord Keith, and Lord Altrie [S.], nephew and h. male ; h. to this title according to the terms of the charter. He was s. and h. of William Keith, styled L.o^d Keith (ist br. of Lord Altrie [S.] abovenamed), who was s. and h. ap. of William, 4th Earl Marischal [S.] also abovenamed. In the Earldom of Marischal the Barony of Altrie [S.] continued merged, and with it was attainted in 17 16. See " Marischal, " Earldom of [S.]. ALVANLEY BARONY. I. Richard Pepper Arden, ('') was 2nd s. of John I. 1 80 1. Arden (or Ardern), of Harden (or Hawarden) in Bred- bury township, in the parish of Stockport, co. Chester, by Mary, sister and h. of Preston Pepper, of Pepper Hall in South Cawton, CO. York, and da. of Cuthbert P., of the same. He was b. at Bredbury, 20 May, and bap. at Stockport, 20 June 1744 ; ed. at the Grammar School at Manchester, 1752-63, and, in Oct. 1763, admitted a Fellow Commoner of Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; B.A. and 7th Wrangler, 1766; M.A. and Fellow, 1769; Barrister (Middle Temple), 1769 ; King's Counsel, 1780; Solicitor Gen., 1782-83, and again 1783-84; Attorney Ge.n. and Chief Justice of Chester, 1784-88. He was M.P. for Newtown, Isle of Wight, 1783-84 ; for Aldborough, co. York, 1784-90 ; for Hastings, 1790-94, and for Bath, 1 794-1 801. On 4 June 1788, he was made Master of the Rolls, and Knighted on the i8th. In May 1801, he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and was, on 22 May 1 801, cr. BARON ALVANLEY, (') of Alvanley, (^) co. Chester. (") The Editor has unfortunately not preserved his authority for this statement, which probably is to be found in Hist. MSS. Com. The Scots Peerage states that he was living 13 July I594> and gives no authority, but this {ex inform. Sir J.B. Paul) must be that in a charter in the Reg. of the Great Seal, 15 July 1594, (by which the King grants to Robert Keith, Lord A.'s nephew, lands which that Lord had resigned) he is not designated as quondam. V.G. C") This is one of the 12 families (Arden, Ashburiiham, Brure, Cecil, Compton Drummond, Dunbar, Dundas, Harley, Hume, Nevill, and Perceval) treated of in that magnificently illustrated, but carelessly compiled work, Drummond's Histories of Nohle British Families, 2 vols, large folio, 1846. (') Lord Alvanley bore arms of Gules with three crosslets fitchy and a chief gold. These arms are a differenced version of a coat of Arden or Arderne in whose earliest form the crosslets were six in number, {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V. G. C) Alvanley was a manor, in the parish of Frodsham, Cheshire, which had been in the possession of the family since the time of Hen. III. See Foss's Judges of England.