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 548 CROMARTIE or CROMARTY birth, rem. to the said Francis S.L.G. and the heirs of his body^i^) rem. to each other her younger sons in like manner in priority of birth, rem. to her da. Florence S.L.G. and the heirs of her body, rem. to each other of her daughters in like manner in priority of birth. " Provided C") that if the said Francis S.L.G. or any other person taking under the said letters patent shall succeed to the Earldom of Sutherland, and there shall upon or at any time after the occurrence of such event be any other younger son or any other ("=) daughter of the said Anne, Duchess of Sutherland, or any heir of the body of such other son or da., then, and so often as the same may happen, the succession to the honours and dignities thereby created shall devolve on the son or da. of the said Anne, or their heirs, who would be next entitled to succeed to the said honours if the person so succeeding to the Earldom of Sutherland were dead without issue." She was Mistress of the Robes, 1870-74; V.A., 3rd class. She d. 25 Nov. 1888, at Sutherland Tower, Torquay, and was bur. in Babbacombe cemetery, Devon. V. 1888 2. Francis (Sutherland-Leveson-Gower), Earl of to Cromartie, ViscountTarbat,Baron Macleod of Castle 1893. Leod, and Baron Castlehaven, 3rd but 2nd surv. s., h. to his mother's peerage under the spec. rem. in their creation. He was b. 3 Aug. 1852, at Tarbat House. A Conservative. He m., 2 Aug. 1876, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, Lilian Janet, 1st surv. da. of Godfrey William Wentworth (Macdonald), Lord Macdonald, Baron of Slate [L], by Maria Anne, da. and coh. of George Thomas Wyndham, of Cromer, Norfolk. He d. s.p.m., at Stafford House, St. James's, 24 Nov. 1893, aged 41, and was bur. at Trentham, when the (^) One would have expected some words to have been here inserted (as in the Barony of Lucas of Crudwell, cr. 1663) to prevent the dignity from falling into abey- ance. Possibly, however, the Scottish title of this [U.K.] peerage gave rise to a notion that it would devolve (without any special h'mitation) on the senior coh. as heir of line. (*") This extraordinary proviso, whereby the attempt is made to subject a peerage dignity to a shifting remainder (so that, on certain contingencies happening, it should pass from one person to another), was, at the time of its perpetration, unprecedented. It was, however, shortly followed, 27 Apr. 1864, in the case of the Barony of Buck- hurst, and these two creations have been called " the jumping Peerages." In the case of Buckhurst, however, when the contingency [i.e. the succession of the then Baron Buckhurst to the Earldom of Delawarr) happened, on 23 Apr. 1873, the claim of the Hon. Mortimer Sackvi lie- West to the Barony, under the shifting clause, in its creation was disallowed, the peerage not being allowed " to jump " from him who had sat therein to another. In the Scottish peerage, however, with sanction of the Crown, some such devolution of dignities (though not to the extent of depriving a living man ot a peerage he actually held) has occasionally been essayed, and even (in 1748) effected in the case of the Earldom of Stair, thus kept separate from the Earldom of Dum- fries. See Her. and Gen., vol. viii, pp. 81-83. if) This word " other " would appear to have the effect 01 excluding Florence, the eldest da., and the only one mentioned in the patent.