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 i8o BLACHFORD his Peerage became extinct.(^) His widow rt'. 13 July 1900, at Wisdome, near Cornwood afsd. Will pr. over ;^2 5,000 gross, and over ;^24,ooo net. Fami/y Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 2,919 acres in Devon, valued at about ;r2,5oo a year. Princha/ Residence. — Blachford Park, near Ivybridge, Devon. BLACKBURN OF KILLEARN BARONY FOR Colin Blackburn, 2nd s. of John B., of Killearn, LIFE. CO. Stirling, by Rebecca Leslie, da. of the Rev. Colin , „ ^ Gillies, was b. 18 May 18 13, at Levenside, co. Dun- ' barton; ed. at Eton, and Trin. Coll., Cambridge; B.A., jg°, and 8th Wrangler, 1835; M.A. 1838; Student of Law " ' (Line. Inn) 1835; Barrister (Inner Temple) 1838, when he joined the Northern Circuit; Justice of the Queen's Bench 1859, being knighted 24 Apr. i860. On 16 Oct. 1876 he was appointed {l>ei»g the first appointment so made) a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (under " the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876 "), and was cr. a Baron for life by the style or title of BARON BLACKBURN OF KILLEARN, co. Stirling.(^) (f) The Baronetcy {cr. 21 Feb. 1698/9) devolved on his next br., John Charles, who d. unm., 25 Mar. 1894, aged 76, when it passed to Edward, the only surv. br., who d. 9 Mar. 1895, aged 75, on whose death it became extinct. C') The following extracts indicate the nature and extent of the creations under THE Appellate Jurisdiction Act (39 and 40 Victoria, cap. 59) — Clause VI. — "Every Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, unless he is otherwise entitled to sit as a Member of the House of Lords, shall, by virtue and according to the date of his appointment, be entitled during his life to rank as a Baron by such style as Her Majesty may be pleased to appoint, and shall, during the time he continues in his office as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and no longer, be entitled to a Writ of Summons to attend and to sit and vote in the House of Lords ; his dignity as a Lord of Pari, shall not descend to his heirs." Letters Patent. — "We, cs^c, do nominate and appoint him the said [Sir Colin Blackburn], being a person qualified as in the Act is prescribed, to be a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary l)y the style and title »/" Baron [Blackburn of Killearn in the CO. of Stirling] to have, hold, enjoy and exercise and occupy the said office of a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary unto him the said [Sir Colin Blackburn] during his good behaviour, i3°c., together with all powers and authorities, rights, privileges, rank and precedence to the said office belonging, or in anywise appertaining and to hold the said style or title o/"Baron [Blackburn of Killearn in the co. of Stirling] unto him the said [Sir Colin Blackburn] for and during the term of his natural life." At the institution of this order in i 876 only two such Lords were authorised, these being (i) Blackburn and (2) Gordon. Then came (3) Watson in 1880, viceGovAon deceased ; (4) Fitzgerald, in 1882, on the resignation of Sir M. Smith, following on that of Montague Bernard, who were paid members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; (5) Macnaghten, in 1887, vice Blackburn resigned; (6) Morris, in 1889, vice Fitzgerald deceased. The death (3 Dec. 1890) of Sir Barnes Peacock, also a paid member of the Judicial Committee, which had been preceded by that of the third member, Lord Monkswell, in 1886, enabled the creation (under the Act of