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220 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. and 1859 66. and Secretary of State for the Colonies, 186870, when he was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; went as Ambas- sador Extraordinary on a special mission to Russia, (on the coronation of Alexander II.) 1856. Is Chancellor of the University of London ; Constable of Dover Castle ; Lord Warden of the Cinque Port's, an Elder Brother of the Trinity House, and Hon. Col. of the 1st Administrative Battalion of the Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers. Sat as M.P. for Morpeth, 183740, and for Lichfield, 18416. Married 1st (1840), Marie Louise Pelline, only child of Emeric Joseph, Due de Dalberg, and widow of Sir F. R. E. Acton, 7th Bart. (this lady died, 1860); 2ndly (1865),^Castalia Rosalind, youngest daughter of the late Walter Campbell, Esq. of Islay, and has issue, living, Son, Granville George, Lord Leveson, *. 1872. Daughters, Victoria Alberta, b. 1867. Sophia Castalia Mary, b. 1870. Brother living, Edward Frederick, M.P. b. 1819, m. 1853. Sister living, Georgiana. Charlotte, b. 1812, in. 1833, (Fullerton). Creations, Viscount Granville of Stone Park, 1815, Earl Granville and Baron Leve- son, 1833, all in the peerage of the United Kingdom. lrmg Quarterly : 1st and 4th, barry of eight, argent and gules, a cross flory, sable, Gower ; 2nd, azure, three laurel leaves, or, Leveson; 3rd, gules, three clarions, or, Granville ; in the centre a crescent for difference. (Crest, A wolf passant, argent, collared and lined, or. Supporters Two wolves, argent, plain collared, and line reflexed over the back, gold, and charged on the shoulder with an escutcheon, gules, thereon a clarion, or. Seats, Stone Park, Stone, Staffordshire ; Walmer Castle, Walmer, Kent. Town Residence, iQ, Bruton Street, W. Clubs, Athenaeum, Travellers', St. James's, White's, Brooks' s. GRANVILLE, Earl, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Granville* 1st Earl Granville, G.C.B. P.C. son of the 1st Marquess of Stafford. He was b. Oct. 12 1773, and was, in 1815, raised to the peerage, as Viscount, and in 1833 as Baron and Earl ; was for some time Ambassador to Russia, and afterwards to France: m. Dec. 24, 1809 Lady Henrietta Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of the 5th Duke of Devonshire, K.G. and d. Jan. 8, 1846, having had issue three sons and two daughters. Her ladyship d. in 1862. GRAVES, BARON. (GRAVES.) CLARENCE EDWARD GRAVES, 4th Baron in the peerage of Ireland. Born June 8th, 1847; succeeded his father 1870; educated at Cheltenham College; entered the Royal Navy as Midshipman, 1861, and became Sub-Lieut, of H.M.S. "Royal Alfred," June, 1869, and Lieut. Nov. 1869, and retired from the service, 1873 : married (1870) Katherine Frederica, eldest daughter of Sir Clinton Murdoch, K.C.M.G., and has issue, living, Son, Sydney Thomas Williams North, b. 1872. An eagle does not catch flies. Daughter, -Violet Georgina Adele, b. 1871.