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 CHURCHILL 209 m., I Jan. 1887, at Cottesmore, Rutland, Verena Maud, 3rd and yst. da. of Henry (Lowther), 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, by Emily Susan, da. of St. George Francis Cavlfeild. She was ^. 6 Apr. 1865, at 21 Wilton Crescent, Midx. [Victor Alexander Spencer, 2nd but ist surv.('') s. and h. ap., i. at 6 Herbert Str., 2, and /^ap. 30 Aug. 1890, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, Queen Victoria (who had been sponsor to his father) being (by proxy) one of his sponsors. He was a Page of Honour to Edward VII.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 5,352 acres in co. Oxford, valued at ^("6,329 a year, and 3,760 in Wilts, valued at ;^5,304. Total, 9,112 acres, valued at ^11,543 a year. Principal Resiliences. — Corn- bury Park, near Charlbury, Oxon, and West Lavington House, near Devizes, Wilts. Note. — The Oxfordshire estates were sold for ^115,000 in 1897 to Mr. Du Cros, and re-sold in 1900 to Vernon James Watney, whose noble monograph on Combury and the Forest of Wychwood was privately printed in 19 10. CHURSTON OF CHURSTON FERRERS AND LUPTON BARONY. I. John Buller-Yarde-Buller, 2nd but ist surv. s. and h. of Sir Francis Buller-Yarde-Buller, 2nd Bart., I. 1858. by Elizabeth Lydia, da. and h. of John Halliday, of Dilhorne Hall, co. Stafford, which Sir Francis was only s. and h. of the well-known Judge (i 778-1 800), Sir Francis BuUer, of Lupton, Devon, who was cr. a Baronet 13 Jan. 1790. He was b. 12 Apr. 1799, at Dilhorne afsd.; matric. at Oxford (Oriel Coll.) 15 May 18 16, B.A. and 2nd class in classics, 1819, M.A., 1822; being cr. D.C.L., 9 June 1853. He sue. his father in the Baronetcy and family estates, 17 Apr. 1833; and was M.P. (Conservative) for South Devon, 1835 till 1858. On 2 Aug. 1858, he was cr. BARON CHURSTON OF CHURSTON FERRERS AND LUPTON, co. Devon.C') Special Dep. Warden of the Stannaries, 1852. By royal lie, 28 Feb. i860, he discontinued for himself and his issue the name of Buller, before that of Tarde-Buller. He m., istly, 24 June 1823, Elizabeth, sister of John, ist Baron Winmarleigh, da. of Thomas Wilson Patten, of Bank Hall, co. Lancaster, by Elizabeth, da. of Nathan Hyde. She d. 20 Feb. 1857, at Lupton, aged 58. He w., (^) His elder br., Victor Alexander, b. at Cottesmore Hall 18 Jan. 1888, d. the same day. C') Disraeli, in his Lord George Bentinck, cap. xvi, describing the gentlemen of England who refused to follow Peel in his conversion to Free Trade, refers to him as Peel's "choice and pattern country gentleman whom he had himself selected and invited but six years back to move a vote of want of confidence in the Whig Govern- ment." V.G. 27