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 488 COWPER Fantily Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 10,122 acres in Herts; 9,105 in Beds; 5,294 in Notts; 3,227 in Essex; 2,787 in Derbyshire; 2,536 in Wilts; 2,078 in Kent; 1,067 in Northants; 913 in Leicestershire; 696 in the N. and W. Ridings of Yorkshire (worth ;{[3,865 a year), and 44 in Suffolk. Total, 37,869 acres, worth £6o,t,1 a year, of which the estates in Beds, Essex, Wilts, Leicestershire, &c. (some 16,000 acres), were inherited from the family of De Grey. Principal Residences. — Panshanger, Herts, and Wrest Park, near Ampthill, Beds. CRADOCKSTOWN See "HowDEN of Grimston and Spaldington and of Cradocks- TOWN, CO. Kildare," Barony [I.] (^Cradock), cr. 18 19, extinct 1873. CRAGSIDE See "Armstrong of Cragside, co. Northumberland," Barony {Arm- strong), cr. 1887. CRAMOND BARONY [S.] I. Elizabeth Beaumont, ist da. of Sir Thomas B.,, of Stoughton, CO. Leicester, by Catherine, da. and h. ^ - • of Thomas Farnham, of Bedworth, in the same co. She m., istly, Sir John Ashburnham, of Ashburnham, Sussex, who d. 29 June 1620, aged 48, and was bur. at St. Andrew's, Holborn. M.I. She w., 2ndly (as 2nd wife), 14 Dec. 1626, at St. Giles's -in -the- Fields, Sir Thomas Richardson. By the influence of her husband she was cr., 29 Feb. i627/8,(^) BARONESS OF CRAMOND [S.], for lifcjC) with rem. of the title of " Lord Baron of 1 9 II, p. 2 1 2). A cultivated, agreeable, handsome, and capable man, he acted with coolness and courage during the trying time when he was Lord Lieut, of Ireland. Having previously been a Liberal, he energetically opposed Gladstone's Home Rule schemes, but during the latter part of his life, ill health prevented his taking an active part in politics. V.G. (") Not 1628/9 ^s '" Diet. Nat. Biog. The Record says "ultimo Februarii," and it is so given in Wood's Doug/as. Probably the date of 23 Feb. in the 1st edit, of this work, which has been followed in Scots Peerage, arises from G.E.C. having overlooked the fact that 1628 was leap year, and written 28, for which 23 is a common misprint. V.G. (•>) In Crawford's Peerage (1716, p. 81) it is stated by that author that this "was the only female creation I have at any time observed in this realm" [S.]. It was doubtless granted to the lady, instead of to her husband, as, at that time, it was unusual to raise a Judge to the Peerage, when in office, though, as this was not an English peerage, the objection would not have had so much force. The remainder is remarkable as ^■Arcluding the heir male of the body of the grantee, the Ashburnham family (the present Earl Ashburnham being now such heir male), and limiting it to a stranger in blood.