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 CAITHNESS 485 Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 14,460 acres in Caithness, valued at £^,^1% a year, and of 613 in Herts, valued at £<)J2- Total 15,073 acres, valued at ;^5,45i a year. Principal Residences. — Barrogill Castle, near Thurso, Caithness, and Stagenhoe Park, near Welwyn, Herts. All of the above were alienated in 1889. CALDECOT CASTLE /.^. "Baron Beaufort of Caldecot Castle, co. Monmouth and Earl OF Glamorgan ;(5o»«d'rj^/)." See under "Glamorgan," Earldom of, these titles being considered, by some, to have been a Peerage dignity cr. 1 644. CALEDON BARONY [I.] I. James Alexander, yst. s. of Nathaniel A., of y Gunsland, co. Donegal, Alderman of Londonderry, '" ■ by Elizabeth, da. of William McClintock, of Dun- vy^rnTTNTrv n 1 "^^""^ ^" ^^^^ ^°*> ^^^ ^- I73°j ^'^'^j having amassed a '- '-' large fortune in the East Indies, returned to Ireland, I. 1797. where he purchased, for about /,6oo,ooo, estates at Caledon and elsewhere. M.P. for Londonderry, EARLDOM [I.] 1775-90; Sheriff of CO. Tyrone 1780, and of co. Ar- , n magh 1 78 1. On 6 June 1790 he was cr. BARON CALEDON of Caledon, co. Tyrone [I.]; on 23 Nov. 1797, VISCOUNT CALEDON of Caledon, co. Tyrone [I.], and on 29 Dec. 1800, EARL OF CALEDON,^ co. Tyrone [I.]. He was a Tory and strenuous supporter of the Union [I.]. He m.y 28 Nov. 1774, Anne, 2nd da. of James Craufurd, of Craufurdsburn, CO. Down, by Mabel, sister and h. of Arthur Johnson, and da. of Hugh Johnson. She d. 21 Dec. 1777. He d. 22 Mar. 1802, in Rutland Sq., Dublin, aged 72. Will pr. May i8o2.('') (*) This Earldom was one of the 18 Irish Peerages conferred (on the last day of such creations before the Union) on persons who already possessed a Peerage of that Kingdom. See vol. iii, Appendix H. ('') In England and the English, by Price Collier (1910), in which the humble origin of many EngUsh peerage families is disclosed (see note sub Craven), he is spoken of as a rich parvenu from India, who " buys a seat and becomes Earl of Caledon." He owned the borough of Newtownards, for which he received ;^i 5,000 compensa- tion at the Union, which, whether from self interest or conviction, he actively supported. At any rate hisservicesdid not go unrewarded by a grateful Government. His Irish estates are said in 1799 to have been worth ^12,000 p. a. For a list of the largest resident Irish landlords at that date see vol. iv. Appendix C. V.G.