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 286 BRAYBROOKE the Army; F.S.A. 25 Mar. i847.('') -^ Conservative. He?«., 27 Jan. 1852, at St. Peter's, Eaton Sq., Charlotte Sarah, 5th da. of Hector John Graham (Graham-Toler), 2nd Earl of Norbury [I.], by Elizabeth, da. and h. of William Brabazon, of New Park, co. Mayo. He ^. s.p.m., 21 Feb. 1861, at Audley End, and was bur. at Littlebury afsd., aged 40. His widow, who was b. 26 Dec. 1826, m., 6 Nov. 1862, at All Saints', Upper Norwood, Surrey, Frederic Hetley, of Upper Norwood, M.D. and F.R.C.S. She^. 4 Feb. 1867, and was bur. at Norwood. V. 1 861. 5. Charles Cornwallis (Neville), Lord Braybrooke, Baron of Braybrooke, br. and h. male, b. 29 Aug. 1823, at Billingbear. Ed. at Magd. Coll. Cambridge; M.A. 1845. ^" politics he was a Conservative. He m., 9 Oct. 1849, ^^ St. James's, Westm., Florence Priscilla Alicia, 3rd da. of Cornwallis (Maude), 3rd Viscount Hawarden [I.], by Jane Crawfurd, da. of Patrick Crawford Bruce, of Taplow Lodge, Bucks. He d. suddenly, when at breakfast, at Audley End, 7, and was bur. 12 June 1902, at Littlebury, aged 78. His widow, who was b. 27 Oct. 1825, was living 1911. He was sue. by his next surv. br., who is outside the scope of this work. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 9,820 acres in Essex (derived from the Lords Griffin of Braybrooke) and 3,691 acres in Berks. Total 13,311 acres, valued at ^T 1 8, 1 73 a year. Principal Residences. — Audley EndC') (in Saffron Walden), Essex, and Billingbear, near Wokingham, Berks. BRAYE or BRAY [^Observations. — This is one of a series of Baronies, which, having been unheard of for centuries, were claimed, in the earlier years of Queen Victoria's reign, by any coheir who possessed sufficient interest to make success probable. The Claimants of such Peerages were legion, and, in the short space of 4 years, (1838-41) the abeyance of no less than 5 such Baronies (Vaux, Camoys, Bray, Beaumont, and Hastings), of which the average time of their disappearance was above 300 years, was terminated in favour of some distant descendant who seldom possessed even a particle of the ancient Baronial estate. (") The effect of this was to give the newly established Peer (whose ancestors for some three centuries or more had been but Commoners) precedence over nearly all of his own rank, many of whom had inherited ancestral Peerages, enjoyed continuously for generations.] (^) He also was an author, chiefly of antiquarian works ; a list of them is in th Annual Reg., 1861, p. 406. C") This famous mansion is (191 1) let on a long lease to Lord Howard de Walden. V.Q. (^) For a list of these Baronies called out of abeyance, see vol. iv. Appendix H.