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 290 BRAYE fair, Midx.; ed. at Eton, and at Ch. Ch. Oxford. He became a Roman Catholic in i870.(^) A Knight of Malta. By royal lie, 5 Feb. 1880, he took the name of Verney-Cave in lieu of that of Wyatt-Edgell. He served in the war in South Africa. C') In politics he is a Liberal Unionist. He w., 9 Sep. 1873, Cecilia Harriet, da. of William Gerard Walmesley, of West- wood Hallj CO. Lancaster. [Adrian Verney Verney-Cave, ist s. and h. ap., b. 1 1 Oct. 1874, w., 28 Aug. 1900, at the Rom. Cath. Church, St. James's, Spanish Place, Man- chester Sq., Ethel Mary, 2nd da. of Edward Bouverie B. Pusey, Capt. R,N., by Esther Elliot, only da. of the Rev. Richard Cox Hales.] Family Estates. — These, in 18 83, consisted of 2, 896 acres in co. Leicester, 1,065 ''^ Northants, 650 in Herts, and 47 in Midx. Total 4,658 acres valued at ^^8,3 17 a year. Principal Residence: — Stanford Hall, near Rugby, Northants. BREADALBANE; BREADALBANE AND HOLLAND; BREADALBANE OF TAYMOUTH CASTLE, and BREADALBANE OF KENMORE VISCOUNTCY [S.] I. John Campbell, only s. and h. of Sir ., John C., Bart. [S. 1625], of Glenurquhy otherwise ' ' Glenorchy, co. Argyll, by his ist wife, Mary, da. ,„ of William (Graham), Earl of Menteith [S.], was b. about 1635. He sue. his father June FART DOM rs 1 1686, and after the Restoration, of which he had L ■-' been a great supporter, was M.P. for Argyllshire, L 1 68 1 1669-74; was principal creditor of George (Sinclair), ., , r /■ Earl of Caithness fS.l, whose debts amounted to wttn precedency of ibni. , ■,,• c c u u u. • j ^ ■' J I I above a million 01 marks, irom whom he obtained, 8 Oct. 1672, a reversion of his Earldom, <yc., and after whose death (May 1676) he was accordingly cr., 28 June 1677, "upon gross and false misrepre- sentations," EARL OF CAITHNESS, VISCOUNT OF BREADAL- BANE, LORD ST. CLAIR Ide Sancto Claro] OF BERRIEDALE AND GLENURCHY [S.], and directed to assume the name and arms of Sinclair [cognomen de Sinclair], which name and all of which titles he was compelled to resign in 1681, it having been held that George Sinclair, h. male of the last Earl of Caithness [S.] was entitled to that Earldom. On 13 Aug. 1 68 1 (under the name of "John Campbell of Glenurchie") he obtained a new patent, with the former precedence (28 June 1677), whereby he was (*) For a list of peers and peeresses who have joined this faith since 1850, see vol. iii, Appendix G. C') For a list of peers and heirs ap. of peers who fought in this war, see vol. iii, Appendix B,