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 ASHBURTON COMPLETE PEERAGE 275 EARLDOM. V. BARONY VII. 5 and 7. Bertram (Ashburnham), Earl of ASHBURNHAM (1730), ViSCOUNT St. AsAPH o o (1730) AND Baron Ashburnham (1689), s. and ^^"^ h., b. 28 Oct. 1840, (") at Ashburnham Place, Sussex. Ed. at Westm. school. D.L. for CO. Brecon. He became a Roman Catholic in 1872. (") In politics he was a Conservative until 1888, when he became a Liberal. He w;., 25 Feb. 1888, at the Reg. Office, St. Geo., Han. Sq., (marriage not announced in The Times until Mar. 1893) Emily, da. of" Richard Chaplin, Gent.," then deceased, the residence of both parties being 30 Montpelicr Sq., Brompton. She d. of pleurisy, 12, and was bur. 16 Feb. 1900, at Ashburnham. Will pr. over ;^5,900. [Bertram Richard Ashburnham, styled Yiscovht St. Asaph, s. and h. ap., b. (a few days after his parents' marriage) 2, and d. 4 Mar. 1888.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of about, 14,000 acres in Sussex, 3,400 in SufFolk, 5,700 in Carmarthen, and 1,400 in co. Brecon. Total about 24,500 acres, worth about ;^24,ooo a year. Principal Resi- dences. — Ashburnham Place, near Battle, Sussex ; and Barking Hall, near Ipswich, Suffolk. ASHBURTON BARONY. I. John Dunning, 2nd, but only surv. s. and h. of . „ John D., of Ashburton, Devon (who d. there i Dec. ' ■ 1780, aged 80), by Agnes, da. of Henry Judsham, of Oldport, in Modbury, in that co., was b. 18 Oct. near, and bap. 29 Oct. 1 73 1, at Ashburton, and ed. at the Grammar school there. He was a Barrister, adm. to the Middle Temple, 8 May 1752, and one of the most popular Pleaders of his time. Recorder of Bristol 1766 till death ; Solicitor-Gen. 1768-1770 ; M.P. (Whig) for Calne 1768-82. ("=) P.C. A very full account of the contents of the whole of the Ashburnham MSS. will be found in Hist. MSS. Com., 8th Rep., App., part 3. The remainder of the Ashburnham library was sold in 1897. (•) John, his next br., and (1909) h. presumptive, b. 6 Mar. 1845, sometime 2nd Sec. Diplomatic Service, m., 21 May 1907, at St. Cuthbert's, Philbeach Gdns, Maud Mary, 2nd da. of Charles Royal-Dawson, of South East Wynaad, Madras Presidency. V.G. C") For a list of Peers and Peeresses who have joined this faith since 1850, see App. G. in vol. iii. V.G. (°) It was he who moved the celebrated resolution in the H. of Commons that " the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. " He and one Lucy Charlton appear in 1774 as "the powerful Pleader and Miss C, in the notorious t6te a t6te portraits in the Town and Country Mag., as to which see ante, p. 94. He was remarkably ugly. Lord Thurlow is said, in Rogers' Table Talk, to have caused a note to him at once to reach its destination by telling a waiter at