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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 63 ~-58, and has been since then Equerry to the Queen. Is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Somersetshire, and a Magistrate for Devonshire, and Dorsetshire, a Trustee of the Koyal Agricultural Society, and Member of the Societe des Agriculteurs de France: married (1838) Lady Mary Penelope Hill, 2nd daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Downshire, K.P., and has issue, living, Sons, Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson, M.P. b. 1839; was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; entered the 25th Foot (the King's Own Borderers) as Ensign, 1857, became Lieut. 1859, Capt. 1862, retired 1870; is Lieut.-Col. West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry; was elected M.P. for West Somerset (C.) 1868: in. 1872, Lad/ Maria Fox Straugways, sister of the 5th Earl of lichester. Town Residence, 8, Gros- venor Gardens, S.W. Club, Carlton. Horatio Nelson Sandys, R.N. &. 1843, m. 18/2. William Nelson, R.N. b. 1848. Alexander Nelson, b. 1854. Alfred Nelson, b. 1856. Victor Albert Nelson (to whom Her Majesty stood sponsor), b. 1863. Daughters, Nina Maria, 6.1.841, m. 186l, (Ferguson) .Mary, b. 1846, m. 1868, (Eari of Yarmouth). Adelaide Fanny, b. 1850. Rosa Penelope, b. 1852. Sisters living, Mary Sophia, b. 1811, m. 1841, (Lee). Charlotte, b. '813, m. 1845 (Rochfort). Jane Sarah, 6.1817, m. 1st, 1838, (Holbech); 2n<ily, 1853, (Hotham). snily, 186o, (Armytage). Catherine Louisa, b. 1818, m. 1337, (Hall). Frances Caroline. b. 1821, m. 1845, (Walrond). Patron of one living, St. Thomas's, R. Cricket, Somersetshire. Creations, Baron Bridport, in the peerage of Ireland, 1794. Viscount Bridport of Cricket St. Thomas in the county of Somerset, and of Bronte in the kingdom of Italy, m the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1868. Duke of Bronte, in the Kingdom of Italy, 1799. &rnts, Azure : a frette, argent, on a chief, or, three crescents, sable. Crest, A Cornish chough, proper, in front of an anchor bendwise, or. j&tipporterg, Dexter, a figure of Neptune, crowned with an eastern crown, or, a green robe flowing round his loins, holding a trident in the left hand, and resting the right on an anchor ; sinister, a sea lion, argent, the back, fin, and top of the tail, gules, resting the sinister paw on an anchor, or. Seat, Cricket St. Thomas, Chard, Somersetshire. Town Residence, 12, Wimpole Street, W. Clubs, Carlton,-^Uuited Service. BRIDPORT, Viscount, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Samuel, 2nd Baron Bridport. He was b. Dec. 17, 1727, and succeeded his great uncle. May J, 1814: m. 1810, Lady Charlotte Mary Nelson (Duchess of Bronte), only surviving child and heir of the 1st Earl Nelson ; and d. Jan. 7, 1868, having had issue four sons anu five daughters. Her ladyship d. 1873. Brien, Viscount of, title borne by the Marquess of Lothian. BRISTOL, MARQUESS OF. (HERVEY.) FREDERICK WILLIAM JOHN 3rd Marquess. Born June 28th, 1834 succeeded his father in 1 864 ; was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge, (M.A. 1855); was M.P. for West Suffolk. 1859 64; is Hon. Col. of the Suffolk Militia: married (1862) Geraldine Geor- giana Mary, daughter of Gen. the Hon. George Anson, and has issue, living, Daughters, Katherine Adine Geraldine, b. 1864, Alice, b. 1874. I shall never forget Brothers living, John William Nicholas, b. 1841.