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200 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. FITZWILLIAM, EARL. (WENTWORTH-FITZWILLIAM.) WILLIAM THOMAS SPENCER WEXTWORTH- FITZWILLIAM, K.G. 6th Earl, and 8th Baron; Lord Lieut, of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Bom Oct. 12th, 1815; suc- ceeded his father in 1 857 ; was educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, (M.A. 1837) ; wasM.P. forMalton, 1837 41, and 18467, and for Wicklow, 1847 57; has been Col. of the West York Yeomanry Cavalry since 1846 : married (1838) Lady Frances Harriet Douglas, Let^o^ desires obey your reason. eldest daughter of the 19th Earl of Morton, and has issue, living, Sows, William, Viscount Milton, b. 1839; educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cam- bridge; was Capt. in 1st West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry, 1867 72 ; is a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire ; sat as M.P. for the South-West Riding of Yorkshire (L), 186574 : m. 1867, Laura Maria Theresa, daughter of the late Lord Charles Beau- clerk, and grand-daughter of the 8th Duke of St. Alban's, and has with other i>sue, Charles William, b. 18/2. Residence, Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham. Club, Brooks's. William Henry, M.P. b. 1340. William Thomas, b. 1846. William Charles, *. 1848. William John, b. 1852. William Hugh Spencer, b. I860. William Reginald, b. 1862. Daughters, Frances Mary, b. 1842, m. 1867, (Doyne). Mary, b. 1844, m. 1872, (Boscawen). Alice Mary, b. 1849. Albreda Mary, b. 1855. Charlotte Mary, b. 1858. Brother living, Charles William, M.P., b. 1826, m. 1854. Sisters living, Charlotte, b. 1807. Mary, 6.1810, TO. 1831, (Thompson). Frances Laura, b. 1813, TO. 1837, (Simpson). Anne, b. 1819, TO. 1838, Sir J. J. R. Mackenzie, 6th Bart. Dorothy Henrietta, b. 1822. Albreda Elizabeth, b. 1829, TO. 1853, the 2nd Baron Lyveden. Patron of twenty livings,- Thurnscoe, R. Thorpe Bassett, R. Elsecar, V. Yedingham, V. Wentworth, V. Swinton, V. Hoyland, V. Tinsley, V. Tankersley, R. Smeaton Kirk, R. St. Michael's, V. and St. Leonard's, V. New Malton. Greaseborough, V. Old Malton, V. Kilnhurst, V. Hooton Roberts, R. Hutton Bushell, V. Bulmer, R. Yorkshire. Dore, V. Somershall Herbert, R. Derbyshire. Creations, Baron Fitzwilliam of Lifford, 1 620, Viscount Miltownof Westmeath, and Earl Fitzwilliam, of Tyrone, in the peerage of Ireland, 1/16, Baron Milton, of Milton, Northamptonshire, 1742, Viscount Milton and Earl Fitzwilliam, in the peerage of Great Britain, 1746. Srms, Quarterly: 1st and 4th, lozengy, argent, and gules ; 2nd and 3rd, sable, a cher- ron between three leopards' faces, or. CTregts, 1st, out of a ducal coronet, or, a triple plume of ostrich feathers, argent ; 2nd, a griffin passant, argent. .Supporta'S, Two wild men, wreathed about the temples and loins, and each holding in the exterior hand the trunk of a tree, (without leaves), eradicated, proper, and disposed across the body beiidwise, that in the hand of the dexter supported in bend sinister, that in the hand of the sinister supported in bend dexter. Seate, Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham ; Coollattin, (co.) Wicklow, Ireland. Town Residence, 4 Grosvenor- square, W. FITZWILLIAM, Earl, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Charles William, K.G., 5th Earl Fitzwilliam, who was b. May 4, 1786; and succeeded his father, Feb. 8, 1833 ; he TO. July 8. I80t>, Mary, daughter of the 1st' Baron Dundas, (she u. 1830) ; and d, Oct. 4, 1857, having issue six sous and seven daughters. Flower, family name of Viscount Ashbrook,