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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Agar-Robartes, family name of Baron Robartes. We have been. AILESBURY, MARQUESS OF. (BRUDENELL-BRI-CE.) GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK BRUDE- NELL-BRUCE, K.G. P.C 2nd Marquess and 3rd Earl ; Lord Lieut, of Wiltshire. Born Nov. 20th, 1804; called to the House of Lords as Baron Bruce, 1839; suc- ceeded his father as Marquess and Earl of Ailesbury, 1856, and his cousin as Earl of Cardigan, 1868; has been Lieut.-Col. of the Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry since 1837, and Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Col. in the Army, since 1857 ; appointed Master of the Horse, 1868: married (1837) Lady Mary Caroline Herbert, daughter of the llth Earl of Pembroke. Brother living, Ernest Augustus Charles, P. C.' M. P. heir presumptive, b. 1811; educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. 1831): was Vice Chamberlain to the Queen 18416, and 18528; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Wiltshire, and a Magistrate for Westminster ; was sometime Major in the Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry , has represented Marlborough (L.C.) since 1832: m. 1834, the Hon. Louisa Elizabeth Beresford, daughter of the 2nd Baron Decies, and had, with other issue, George John, b. 1839, TO. 1862, Lady Evelyn Mary, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Craven, and d. 1868, leaving issue a son, George William Thomas, b. 1863, and a daughter. Residence, 6, St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, W. Clubs, Athenaeum, Carlton, St. James's, Travellers', White's, Boodle's. Half-Brother living, Charles William, M.P., b. 1834, m. I860. Patron of eleven livings, Great Bedwyn, V. Little Bedwyn, V. Collingbourne Ducis, R. Easton Royal, D. Savernake, V. Savernake Forest, V. Wiltshire. Maulden, R. Bedfordshire. West Tanfield, R. Wath, R. Whorlton, V. EastWitton, V. Creations, Baron Brudenell, 1627, Earl of Cardigan, l66l, in the peerage of England. Baron Bruce, 1J46, Earl of Ailesbury, 1776, Marquess of Ailesbury, Karl Bruce, and Viscount Savernake, 1821, in the peerage of the United Kingdom. A* Baronet, l6ll. 9rms, Quarterly : 1st and 4th, or, a saltire and chief, gules : on a canton, argent, a lion rampant, azure, Brave ; 2nd and :ird, argent, a chevron, gules, between three caps of maintenance, their fronts turned towards the sinister, azure, Brvdenell. (Crest, 1st, a lion stataiit, tail extended, azure, Bruce; 2nd, a sea-horse, argent, Brudenell. Supporters Two savages wreathed about the temples and loins, each holding in his exterior hand a lance, and thereon a banner of the arms of Bruce. Srnts,~ Savernake Forest, and Tottenham Park, Marlborough, Wiltshire; Jerveaux Abbey, Bedale, Yorkshire. Town Residence, 73, Pall Mall, S.W. AILESBTTEY, Marquess of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Charles, K.T. 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl of Ailesbury. He was b. Feb. 14, 177:i, succeeded his father as Earl of Ailesbury, April 19, 1814, and was raised to the Marquisute seven years after: TO. 1st, April 10, 1793, the Hon. Henrietta Maria Noel-Hill, daughter of the 1st Baron Berwick, (she d. 1831), and by her had issue two sons and six daughters: 2ndly, Aug. 20, 1833, Maria, daughter of the late Hon. Charlas Tollemache, 4th son of Louisa, Countess of Dysart; and d. Jan. 4, 1856, having had issue from his second marriage an only son.