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74 DEBRETT S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. CADOGAN, EARL. (CADOGAN.) GEORGE HENRY CADOGAN, 5th Earl. Born May 12th, 1840; succeeded his fa- ther in 1873; educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford ; was sometime Major in the Royal Westminster Militia. Sat as M.P. for Bath (C.) for a few weeks in 1873. Is an Hereditary Trustee of the British Museum, and a Magistrate for Middlesex and Norfolk. Appointed Par- liamentary Under Secretary for War 1875. Married (1865) Lady Beatrix Jane Craven, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Craven, and He who envies is the inferior. has issue, living, Sons, Albert Edward George Henry, Viscount Chelsea, b. 1866, to whom H.R.H. the Prince of Wales stood sponsor. Henry Arthur, b. 1868. Gerald Oakley, b. 1869. Daughters, Emily Julia, b. 1871. Another, b. 1874. Brothers living, Arthur Charles, b. 1841, m. 1870. Cecil James George, R.N., b. 1846. Charles George Henry, b. 1850. m. 1874. Sisters living, Charlotte Georgiana Mary, b. 1843, m. 1874, (Currie). Patron of two livings, Chelsea, R. and Upper Chelsea, R. Middlesex. Creations, Baron Cadogan, 1 718, Viscount Chelsea and Earl Cadogan, 1800, Baron Oakley, in the peerage of Great Britain, 1831. Slrtnss, Quarterly: 1st and 4th, gules, a lion rampant reguardant, or, Cadogan ; 2nd and 3rd, argent, three boars' heads couped, sable. Crest, Out of a ducal coronet, or, a dra- gon's head, vert. Supporters, Dexter, a lion reguardant or, gorged with a collar gemel flory counterflory gules ; sinister, an eagle wings elevated sable, beaked, membered, and navally crowned or, gorged with a riband argent, fimbriated gules, pendent therefrom a representation of the cross of the Imperial Austrian military order of Maria Theresa, which the Emperor of Austria conferred upon George, 3rd Earl of Cadogan (1814) for distinguished services (in co-operation with the Imperial troops) on the Coast of the Adriatic. Seat, Babraham, Cambridge. Town Residence, Chelsea House, Cadogan Place, S.W. C/w6s, Carlton, White's, Travellers'. CADOGAN, Earl, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Henry Charles 4th Earl Cadogan. He was 6. Feb. 15, 1812, and succeeded his father Sept. 15, 1864; educated at Eton, and at Oriel College, Oxford (B.A, 1832) ; was created D.C.L. of the University of Durham, 18; sat as M.P. for Reading 18417, and for Dover, 18527, unsuccessfully contested Middlesex the latter year. Was Attache at St. Petersburg 1834 5, Secretary of Embassy at Paris, 18589 (some part of the time as Charge d'Affaires), and Capt. of the Yeoman of the Guard 1866 7; was Col. of the Royal Westminster Militia until his death, and an Hereditary Trustee to the British Museum : rn. 1836, Mary Sarah, who d. 1873 daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley, D.D., Canon of Durham. He d. June 18/3, leaving issue four sons and four daughters. CAIRNS, BARON. (CAIRNS.) HUGH MAC CALMONT CAIRNS, P.C. D.C.L. LL.D. 1st Baron, a Knight, and Chancellor of the University of Dublin, 2nd son of the late William Cairns, Esq., of Cultra, (co.) Down. Born Dec. 1819 ; was educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; called to the Bar at the Middle Temple 1844, and became a Q.C. and Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, 1856 ; Solicitor-General, 1858 9, Attorney -General from June till Nov. 1866, a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal 18668, and Lord High I flourish.