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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 197 Son, Alex amler William George, Viscount Macduff, M.P., b. 184Q; was educated at Eton ; is Lord Lieut, of Elginshire, arid a Dep. Lieut, for Banffshire. Has sat as M.P. for Elginshire and Nairnshire (L.) since Feb. 174. Residence, 4, Cavendish -square, V. Clubs, White's, Brooks's, Marlborough. Daughters, Anne Elizabeth Clementina, b. 184", ro. 1865, the 5th Marquess Townsliend. Ida Louisa Alice, b. 1848. m. 18(57, (Hope), divorced 1873. Alexina, b. 1851, m. 18/0, (Coventry). Agues Cecil Emmeliue, b. 1852, m. 1871, Viscount Duppliii. Brother living, George Skene, o. 1816. Creations, Baron Braco of Kilbryde, 1735, Viscount Macduff and Earl of Fife, 1759' all in the peerage of Ireland. Baron Skene, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1857. Srms, Quarterly: 1st and 4th, or, a lion rampant, gules, Duff; 2nd and 3rd, vert, a fesse, daiicette, ermine, betweeft a stag's head, cabos^ed, or, in chief, and two escallops, argent in base. Duff of Bracu. (Trrst, A knight completely armed, and mounted on a horse at full speed, holding in his right hand a sword erect, and on his left arm a shield of the arms of Duff; on his helmet a demi-lion, rampant, gules, and a flowing mantle, also gules, doubled and tasselled, or; the horse clothed over the neck and body, and down to the fetlocks, with a red cloth charged with six shields of the arms of Duff. S'Upportrrs. Two wild men, wreathed about the temples and loins with laurel, and holding over the exterior shoulder a branch of oak, all proper, Scuts, Duff-house, Banff; Balvenie-castle, Duff-town; Auchintoul-house, Aberchirder and Rothiemay-house, Huntly, Banftshire; limes-house, Elgin, Westerton-house, Moray; Mar-lodge Braemar; Skene-house, Aberdeenshire. Town Residence, 4, Cavendish-square, W. Clubs, Reform, Brooks's, Boodle's. FIFE, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his uncle, James, K.T. G.C.H. 4th Earl of Fife. He was b. Oct. 6, 1771!, and succeeded his father, April 7, 1811 ; was created a Baron of the United Kingdom as Baron Fife, in 1825, and distinguished him- self during the Peninsular war as a General in the Spanish Army, into which he had volun- teered: m. Sept. o, 1799, Mary Caroline, daughter of J. Manners, Esq. and Louisa, Countess of Dysart, (she d. 1805, without issue); and d. March 9, 1857, when the English title became extinct. Fincastle, Viscount, son of the Earl of Dunmore. Finch, Baron, title borne by the Earl of Winchilsea. family name of the Earl of Aylesford. Finch-Hatton, family name of the Earl of Winchilsea. FIXGALL, EARL OF. (PLUNKETT.) Sits as BARON. ARTHUR JAMES PLUNKETT, P.C. 10th Earl. Barn May 10th, 1819; succeeded his father in 1869; entered the 8th Hus- sars, 1839, and retired 1857 ; served in the expedition to Kertch, and at the siege of ^ebastopol ; is a Magistrate for (co.) Meath : married (1857) Elise Mary, daughter of Mons. A. F. Rio, (this lady died, 18')-!), and has issue, living, Son, Arthur James, Lord Killeen, b. is.vi. Quick without impetuosity D'uiyhtrrs, Mary Louisa, b. I860. Henrietta Maria, b. 1861.