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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 129 God gives the increase. CROrrON, BARON. (CROFTON.) EDWARD HENRY CHURCHILL CROFTON, 3rd Baron, in the peerage of Ireland, a Baronet, and a Representative Peer for Ireland. Born Oct. 21st, 1834; suc- ceeded his father 1869 ; is a Dep. Lieut, of co. Roscommon. Brothers lining, Charles St. George, heir pre- sumptive, b. 1336; became Lieut, in the Royal Navy, 1857, retired 1870; is a Magistrate for Roscommon : m. 1864, Theresa Augusta, daugh- ter of D. Tighe,Esq., of Rossana. (co.) Wicklow, (she d. 1867,) and has, with other issue, Arthur Edward Lowther, b. 1866. Alfred Henry, b. 183/. Francis George, b. 1838, m. 1864. Sister living, Augusta. Caroline, A. 1839, m. 1866, the Hon. Luke Gerald Dillon, eldest son of Baron Clonbrock. Creation, Baron Crofton, of Mote, Roscommon, in the peerage of Ireland, 1797. A Baronet, 1758. arms, Per pale, indented, or and azure, a lion passant guardant, counterchanged- Crest, Seven ears of wheat growing on one stalk. .ioupporttra, Dexter, a lion, azure ; sinister, a stag, proper. Seat, Mote-park, (co.) Roscommon, Ireland. Clubs, Carlton, Sackville-street (Dublin.) CROFTON, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Edward, 2nd Baron Crofton, son of the Hon. Sir Edward Crofton, Bart. He was b. Aug. l, 1806, and succeeded his father in the Baronetcy, 181 6, and his grandmother in the Peerage, 1817; was a Representative Peer for Ireland, a Lord in Waiting to the Queen, 1852, 1858 9, and 18668, and a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for (co.) Roscommon m. Oct. 19, 1833, Lady Georgiana, Paget, 3rd daughter of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey; and d. Dec. 27, 1869, having had issue four sons and one daughter. CROFTON, Baroness, GEORGIANA PAGET, 3rd daughter of the 1st Mar- quess of Anglesey, G.C.B., G.C.H., P.C. : m. 1833, the 2nd Baron Crofton, who d. 1869. Residence, Mote-park, (co.) Roscommon. CROMARTIE, COUNTESS OF. (LEVESON-GOWER.) ANNE SUTHERLAND LEVESON-GOWER, 1st Countess, only child of John Hay Mackenzie, Esq. Born April 21st, 1829 : married (1849) the 3rd Duke of Suther- land, (see that title) . Heir, Her second son, Francis, Viscount Tarbat, b. 1852. (For her ladyship's other children, see Sutherland.) Creation, Countess of Cromartie, Vis- countess Tarbat, Baroness Castle-Avon and Ba- roness M'l.eod, all in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1861, with right of succession to her second surviving son.