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 I30 COMPLETE PEERAGE ancaster EARLDOM. I. Gilbert Henry (Heathcote-Drummond-Wil- y „ LouGHBy), Lord Willoughby de Eresby [1313], Baron ' * AvELAND[i856],anda Baronet[i732/3], only s. of Gilbert John (Heathcote), ist Baron Aveland, by Clementina Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, was b. i Oct. 1830, in Portman Sq., Marylebone ; ed. at Harrow, and at Trinity Coll. Cambridge ; M.P. for Boston 1852-56, and for Rutland 1856-67, when he sue. his father as Baron Aveland and a Baronet. He was appointed, 24 Jan. 1871, Deputy to his mother and her sister (the Dowager Baroness Carrington) in the office of Lord Great Chamberlain, (") which position he held till 22 Jan. 1 90 1 (the end of the reign of the sovereign who conferred it), having himself meanwhile become a coh. of that High Office, by the death, 13 Nov. 1888, of his mother. On 4 May 1872, he took by royal lie. (as did also his mother) the name of Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby in lieu of his patronymic Heathcote. P.C. 1880. Being through his said mother (who was da. of Peter Robert (Burrell), Lord Willoughby de Eresby and Baron Gwydyr, and grand-daughter of Peter (Burrell), Baron Gwydyr (so cr. 16 June 1796), by Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, elder of the two daughters of Peregrine (Bertie), 3rd Duke of Ancaster) a descendant and a represent- ative of the Duk.Es of Ancaster [a title extinct 8 Feb. 1809, as above], was himself «■. EARL OF ANCASTER, 22 Aug. 1892. Hew., 14 July 1863, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Evelyn Elizabeth, 2nd da. of Charles (Gordon), loth Marquess of Huntley [S.], by his 2nd wife, Mary Antoinetta, da. of the Rev. William Pegus. She was b. 22 Mar. 1846. [Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, styled Lord Wil- loughby de Eresby, ist s. and h. ap. ; ^. at 23 Wilton Crescent, Midx., 20 July, and bap. 10 Oct. 1867, at Normanton; was ed. at Eton, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge; B.A. 1889 ; M.A. 1893 ; M.P. for the Horncastle div. of co. Lincoln 1 894-1906. He »?., 6 Dec. 1905, at St. Margaret's, Westm., Eloise, ist da. of W.L. Breese, of New York State, by ( — ) da. of H.V. Higgins.] Family Estates. — The Heathcote estates, belonging to Lord Aveland in 1883, consisted of 17,637 acres in co. Lincoln ; 13,633 in Rutland, and 5 in cos. Derby and Huntingdon. Total, 31,275 acres, worth ;^46,894 a year. Those at that date belonging to the Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, which, since 1888, have become united with the above, were 24,696 acres in CO. Lincoln (derived from the family of Willoughby) ; 30,391 in co. Carnarvon, and 296 in co. Denbigh (both derived from the family of Wynn (*") and estimated at ^^8,521 a year), besides 76,837 in co. Perth (derived from the family of Drummond, and estimated at ^28,965 a year). Total, 132,230 acres, worth ^^74,006 year. The two totals together making 163,505 acres, worth ;^ 120,900 a year. Principal Seats. — Grimsthorpe Castle, near Bourn, co. Lincoln ; Normanton Park, Rutland ; Gwydyr, (") near Llanwryst, co. Carnarvon, and Drummond Castle, near CriefF, co. Perth. (*) As to this high office, see Appendix D at the end of vol. ii. C") By the marriage of the ist Duke of Ancaster with the heiress of the family of