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68 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 2trm0, Quarterly: 1st, the arms of king Charles II. debruised by a baton sinister, argent ; 2nd, or, on a bend azure, an estoile between two crescents of the field, Scott 3rd, quarterly : 1st and 4th, argent, a human heart, gules, crowned with an imperial crown, or j and on a chief azure, three mullets of the field, Douglas ; 2nd and 3rd, azure, a bend between six cross crosslets fitch^e, or. Marr ; the whole (of this quarter) within a bordure, or, charged with the double tressure of Scotland, gules ; the 3rd quarter is borne for the duchy of Queensberry; 4th, as the 1st. Crfst, A stag trippant, proper, attired and xinguled, or. j&upportfrs, Two female figures, habited from the waist downwards, in blue kirtles gathered up at the knees, the arms and bosoms uncovered , around the shoulders flowing mantles vert, suspended by the exterior hand ; girdles and sandals gules, and their heads adorned with a plume of three ostrich feathers, argent. Seats, Dalkeith-house, Edinburgh, N.B. ; Bowhill, Selkirk, N.B. ; The Lodge, Lang- holme, and Drumlanrig-castle,Thornhill, Dumfries-shire.N.B. ; Boughton-house, Kettering, and Richmond, Surrey. Town Residence, Montagu-house, Whitehall, S.W. Clubs, Cau-lton, Travellers', United Service, White's. BTTCCLETTCH AND QUEENSBERRY, Duke of, His Grace's predecessor was his father, Charles William Henry, K.T. 4th Duke of Buccleuch and 6th Duke of Queensberry. He was b. May 24, 1772; was summoned to Parliament in his father's Barony of Tindale in 1807, and succeeded to the family honours, Jan. 11, 1812 : m. March 23, 1/95, the Hon. Harriet Katherine Townshend, daughter of the 1st Viscount Sydney, (she d. 1814) : d. April 20, 1819, having had issue five sons and six daughters. BUCHAN, EARL OF. (ERSKINE.) DAVID STUART ERSKINE, 13th Earl, in the peerage of Scotland. Born Nov. 1815 ; succeeded his father in 1857 ; edu- cated in Germany; is a Dep. Lieut, of Linlithgowshire ; was an officer in the 35th Royal Sussex, and a Commissioner of Supply for Linlithgowshire : married (1849) Agnes Graham, who died 1875, daughter of James Smith, Esq. of Craigend Castle, Stirlingshire, and has issue, living, Sons, Shipley Gordon Stuart, Lord Camross, b. 1850 ; educated at Harrow; is a Dep. Lieut, of Linlithgowshire. Albany Mar Stuart, b. 1852. Brothers living, George Francis Albany, b. 1823. John M'Louglan Fraser, b. 1825. Sisters limnsr, Mary Margaret, b. 1811, m. 1838 (Constable). Christian Isabella, b. 1820, m. 1840 (Gordon). Alicia Diana, b. 1822, TO. 1st, 1843 (Hay); 2ndly, 1858 (Young). Elizabeth, b. 1831, TO. 1855 (Harvey). Margaret, b. 18, m. I860 (Vincent). Creations, Earl of Buchan, 1469. Lord Cardross, l6o6-10 confirmed to David, Lord Cardross, 1663-4, in the peerage of Scotland. Sfrms, Quarterly of four ; 1st, azure, three garbs, or, the feudal arms to the earldom of Buchan ; 2nd, argent, a pale, sable, Erskine 3rd, azure, a bend between six cross crosslets fitchee, or, Marr ; 4th, or, a fesse cheeky, azure and argent, Stewart of Kirkhall : over all, in the centre point, an escutcheon, gules , thereon an eagle displayed, argent, and in the dexter chief point a sun in splendour, or, a coat of augmentation for the lordship of Cardross. CTregt, A dexter arm, couped below the elbow, holding a club, all proper, Supporters, Two ostriches, proper. Seats, Amondell Park, and Kirkhill, Linlithgowshire. Town Residence, 107, Belgrave Road, S.W.