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DKBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 55 BLAYNEY, BARONY OF, see " Peerages Extinct." Bligh, family name of the Earl of Darnley. BLOOMFIELD, BARON. (BLOOMFIELD.) JOHN ARTHUR DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD G.C.B., P.C., 2nd Baron. Born Nov. 12th, 1802; succeeded his father 1846; was appointed a Page of Honour to the Prince Regent (George IV.), 1812, Attache at Vienna, 1818, Paid Attache at St. Petersburg, 1823, and at Lisbon, 1824, Secretary of Legation at Stutt- gardt, 1825, and at Stockholm, 1826 i was Secretary of Embassy at St. Peters- burg, 1839 44, Minister Plenipotentiary, Fortune aids the brave. _ * , .. ~ . .. , . . , -, p * ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at St. Petersburg, 184451, and at Berlin, and at Anhalt-Dessau, Meck- lenburg-Schwerin, and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1851 60; and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Vienna, 1860 71 ; and a Lieut, on half-pay in the Coldstream Guards since 1818. Married (1845) the Hon. Georgiana Liddell, youngest daughter of the 1st Baron Ravensworth. Sisters living, Harriet Anne, b. 1806, m. 1833, (Kingscote) . Georgiana Mary Amelia, b. 1809, m. 1836, (Trench). Creation, Baron Bloomfield, in the peerage of Ireland, 1825, and Baron Bloomfield of Ciamhaltha, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1871. g, Argent : three fusils conjoined in fesse, gules, between as many cinquefoils, azure, on a canton of the last the prince of Wales's plume. (Crest, Out of a mural coronet, or, charged with two cinquefoils, azure, a bull's head, proper. Supporters, Two horses reguardant, argent, each gorged with a wreath of laurel, and pendent therefrom an escutcheon, the dexter gules, and charged with the Prince of Wales's plume, the sinister or, charged with a bomb fired, proper. Seat, Ciamhaltha, Newport, co. Tipperary, Ireland. Town Residence, 16, Holland Park, W. Club, Travellers'. BLOOMFIELD, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, P.C. G.C.B. G.C.H., 1st Baron Bloomfield. He was b. April 13, 1768 ; was a Lieut.- 1, en. in the Army, Col. Commandant of the Royal Artillery, and Governor of Fort Charles, Port Royal, Jamaica. In 1808, he was appointed General Attendant to George, Prince of ales, to whom, during the Kegency, he was Clerl: Marshal and Chief Equerry, as well as Private Secretary and Keeper of the Privy Purse; was knighted in 1815, and appointed Auditor and Secretary to the Duchy of Cornwall ; was sent, in 1824, as Envoy to Sweden, and was raised to the peerage of Ire- land in I8'^5i ni. Sept. 7, 1797, Harriet, daughter of John Douglas, Esq. of Grantham; he d. Aug. if, 1846, having had issue a son and four daughters. Her ladyship d. 1868.