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DEBRETT S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 217 GKAFTON, DUKE OF. (FiTz-RoY.) WILLIAM HENRY Fnz-RoY, 6th Duke, Born Aug. 5th, 1819; succeeded his father in 1863 ; educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge ; was Comptroller of the Seals until the abolition of that office, and Attache at Naples, 1841 ; sat as M.P. for Thetford, 184763; is a Dep. Lieut, of Northamptonshire and Suffolk, He- reditary Ranger of Whittlebury Forest, Col. of the West Suffolk Militia 1846, and Lieut.-Col. of the 1st Battalion of North- amptonshire Rifle Volunteers (1860) ; The ornament and recompence of virtue. marr i e( i (1858) the Hon. Marie Louisa Anne Baring, daughter of the 3rd Baron Ashburton. Brothers living, Augustus Charles Lennox, C.B., heir presumptive, b. 1821 ; educated at Harrow; entered the 60th Rifles 1837; exchanged into the Coldstream Guards 183Q, became Lieut. 1841, Capt. 1847, Major 18 , Lieut.-Col. 1854, Col. 1862, and Major- Gen. 1875 ; served in the Crimean war, at the siege of Sebastopol, the battles of Balaclava and Inkermann (where he was severely wounded), &c. Has received the Crimean medai and clasps, the Sardinian and Turkish medals, and the Order of the Medjidie, made a C.B. 1873. Was appointed Equerry to the Queen 1849; is a Magistrate for North- amptonshire: m. 1847, Anna, daughter of James Balfour, Esq., of Whittinghame Hall, Berwick, and has, with other issue, Henry James, b. 1848. Residence, Whittlebury, Towcester. Clubs, White's, Travellers'. Frederick John, b. 1823, m. 1853. Sisters living Mary Elizabeth Emily, 6.1817, m. 1837, (Phipps). Maria Louisa, b. 1818, m. 1846, the 1st Baron Penrhyn. Patron of four livings, Euston, R. Sapiston, V. Great Fakenham, R. Suffolk. With Rector of Ashton, Roade, R. Northamptonshire. Creations, Baron Arlington, 1664, Baron Sudbury, Viscount Thetford and Ipswich, and Earl of Arlington and Euston, 1672, Duke of Grafton, 1675, all in the peerage of Great Britain. SJrms, The royal arms of Charles II. viz. Quarterly : 1st and 4th, France and England quarterly ; 2nd, Scotland ; 3rd, Ireland : the whole debruised by a baton sinister, compony of six pieces, ardent and azure. OTrest, On a chapeau, gules, turned up ermine, a lion statant guardant, or, ducally crowned, azure, and gorged with a collar counter compony, argent and azure. Supporters, Dexter, a lion guardant, or, ducally crowned, azure; sinister, a greyhound, argent, each gorged with a collar counter compony, argent and azure. Seats, Euston-hall, Thetford, Suffolk ; Wakefield-lodge, Stoney Stratford, Northamp- tonshire. Town Residence, 4, Grosvenor Place, S.W. Clubs, Travellers', White's. GRAFTON, Duke of, His Grace's predecessor was his father, Henry, 5th Duke of Grafton. He was b. Feb. 10, 17QO, and succeeded his father Sept. 28, 1844 ; was M.P. for Thetford, and Bury St. Edmund's, for several years, and Col. of the West Suffolk Militia: TO. June 20, 1812, Mary Caroline who d. 1873 daughter of the Hon. Sir George C. Berkeley, G.C.B.; and d, March 26, 1863, leaving issue three sons and two daughters. Graham, Marquess of, title borne by the Duke of Montrose. ,, Earl, title of the Duke of Montrose on Roll of H. L. ,, family name of the Duke of Montrose, Graham-Toler, Earl of Norbury.