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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 221 Sisters living, Jane Adele, b. 1834. Louisa Eleanor, b. 1840. Creation, Baron Graves, of Gravesend, Londonderry, in the peerage of Ireland, 1794. 3nns, Gules : an eagle, displayed, ducally crowned, or, on a canton, argent, an anchor, proper. (Treat, A demi-eagle, displayed and erased, or, encircled round the body and below the wings by a ducal coronet, argent. .Supporters, Two royal vultures, wings close, proper. Seats, Thanckes, and Gravesend House, Devonport. Town Residence, 8, St. George's Square, S.W. GRAVES, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, William Thomas, 3rd Baron Graves. He was b. April 18th, 1804, and succeeded his father 1830 ; educated at the Royal Military college, Sandhurst; m. 1st 1829, Sophia Tberese, who d. 1833, daughter of General Berthier; 2ndly, 1833, Louisa Adele Malene. He d. 1870, leaving issue one son and two daughters. GRAVES, Dowager Baroness, LOUISA ADELE, daughter of Malene, Esq. ; m. 1833, as his 2nd wife, William Thomas, 3rd Baron Graves, who d. 1870. Residence, Gravesend-house, Devonport. GRAY, BARONESS. (MURRAY.) * MARGARET MURRAY, Baroness Gray, in the peerage of Scotland, only child of the Hon. Margaret Gray, sister of the late Baroness, and who died in 1821, having married, in 1820, John Grant, Esq. of Kilgraston. Born April 14th, 1821 ; suc- ceeded her aunt in 1869 : married (1849) the Hon. Major David Henry Murray, son of the 3rd Earl of Mansfield, (he d. 1862). Creation, Lord Gray of Gray, Forfarshire, in the peerage of Scotland, 1415. arms, Gules : a lion rampant, within a bordure engrailed, argent. Crest, An anchor erect, or. Supporters, Two lions guardant, gules. Seats, Kinfauns-castle, Perthshire ; Gray-house, Forfarshire. Residence, Fenton-house, Hampstead. Town Residence, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, S.W. GRAY, Baroness, Her ladyship's predecessor was her aunt, Madelina, (17th) Baroness Gray. She was b. Nov. 11, 1709, succeeded her brother Jan. 31, 1867, and d. unmarried, Feb. 20, 1869. GRAY, MARY ANNE, Baroness, daughter of Lt.-Gen. Charles Philip Ainslie, of the 4th Dragoons : m. 1833, the 16th Baron Gray, who d. 1867. Residence,

  • The Lords Gray have always claimed the dignity of Premier Baron in the Scottish

peerage. John, the llth Baron, in 1793, at the election for the Representative Peers of Scotland at Holyrood, claimed precedency over all other Barons, and strongly protested against Baron Forbes being called before himself. The precedence, however, has never been definitely settled.