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 i62 COMPLETE PEERAGE annaly i.e. " Angus " Earldom [S.] (Douglas), cr. 1643 with the Marquessate OF Douglas [S.], which see. i.e. "Angus and Abernethy, " Marquessate [S.] (Douglas), cr. 1703 with the Dukedom of Douglas [S.], which see ; extinct 1761. ANNALY OF ANNALY AND RATHCLINE BARONY. I. Henry White, of Woodlands (formerly Luttrells- j r.r town), CO. Dublin, and subsequently of Rathcline, co. ^' Longford, 4th, but only surv. s. of Luke W., bookseller, of Woodlands (*) afsd., (who d. 25 Feb. 1824) by his ist wife, Elizabeth, da. of Andrew de laC') Maziere, was b. 1791. He served in the 14th Light Dragoons; in the Peninsular War, was M.P. (°) for co. Dublin 1823-32, for CO. Longford 1837-47, and 1857-61. Lord Lieut, of co. Longford 1841-73, and, having sue. to the Longford estates on the death of his next elder br., Luke W., in Aug. 1854, was, on 19 Aug. 1863, cr. BARON ANNALY OF ANNALY AND RATHCLINE, C^) co. Longford. (') He m., 3 Oct. 1828, Ellen, da. of William Soper Dempster, by Hannah, only da. and h. of John Hamilton Dempster, of Skibo Castle, Sutherland. Shed'. 12 May 1868. He d. 3 Sep. 1873, ^^ Sunbury Park, Midx., aged 84. IL 1873. ^- Luke (White), Baron Annaly, s. and h., b. 26 Sep. 1 829. Ed. at Eton. Capt. 1 3th Light Dragoons, 1 847-53 : This is stated to have been confirmed by charter signed by Queen Anne, 10, and ratified by Pari. 26, Mar. 1707. See Robertson, p. 309. The whole matter was referred to the Lords' Committee for Privileges, but no further steps appear to have been taken, and the Earldom (under the regrant of 1547) passed to the h. malt. By decision of the House of Lords, 27 Feb. 1769, the petitioner was found h. gtn., and was cr. a Peer. See " Douglas, " Barony, cr. 1790, extinct 1857. (') The estate of Luttrellstown was purchased by this Luke White from the Earl of Carhampton [I.], in whose family (Luttrell) it had been since the time of Hen. VI. G.E.C. He was M.P. (Whig) for co. Leitrim, 1812-24, *"<! was the "celebrated Luke White, bookseller and lottery office keeper in Dublin, who is said to have realised the largest fortune ever made by trade in Ireland." ^cc Annual Reg. (or 1854, p. 330. In Hare's Story of two noble Lives, 1893, vol. i, pp. 13-17, is a curious account of his career, which mentions " his keeping a stall for books, on Essex bridge, near the Castle. " V.G. ('') Andrew de la Maziere, of Fleet Str., Dublin, m., in 1738, Mary, da. of Mark White, of Pill Lane, grocer, and had, with other issue, a da. Elizabeth, most probably the lady in question. (°) In Pari, he gave steady support to the Whig-Liberal party. V.G. (*) Rathcline, an old castle of the O'Ferrals, is in Annaly. (') White, Lord Annaly, bears arms of Silver a cheveron engrailed between three roses gules, with a crosslet gold on the cheveron. The crosslet in this shield granted to the first Lord Annaly is its only difference from that of the ancient family of White of Leixlip, from whom no descent has otherwise been suggested, [ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G.