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800 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. LONDONDERRY, MARQUESS OF. (VANE-TEMPEST.) Sits as EARL VANE. GEORGE HENRY ROBERT CHARLES WIL- LIAM VANE-TEMPEST, K.P., 5th Marquess in the peerage of Ireland. Born April 26th, 1821; succeeded his father the 3rd Mar- quess of Londonderry as Earl Vane 1854, and his half-brother as Marquess, 1872; educated at Eton, and at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1844, M.A. 1867). Sat as M.P. for North Durham, 184754; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Durham, Merionethshire, and Montgomeryshire, a Metuenda corolla draconis. Magistrate for Flintshire and the North Fear the dragon's crest. Riding of Yorkshire. Col. Durham Militia, and Lieut.-Col. Commandant 2nd Durham Volunteer Artillery Brigade; has received the Order of St. Alexander Newski of Russia; is Col. of the Seaham Volunteer Artillery Corps: married (1846) Mary Cornelia, only daughter of the late Sir John Edwards, Bart., and has issue, living, Sons, Charles Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, b. 1852 ; educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford; appointed Capt. 2nd Durham Volunteer Corps, 1868, Major, 1869. UnsuccessfuDy contested Durham (C.) Feb. 1874: m. 1875, Lady Theresa Susey Helen Talbot, eldest daughter of the igth Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot. Clubs, Marl- borough, White's. Henry John, f>. 1854. Herbert Lionel Henry, b. 1862. Brother living, Ernest M'Donnell Vane-Tempest, b. 1836, m. 1869. Daughter, Alexandrina Louisa Maud, b. 1863. Sisters living, Frances Anne Emily Vane-Tempest, b. 1822, m. 1843, the 6th Duke of Marlborough. Adelaide Emelina Caroline Vane-Tempest, b. 1830, m. 1852, (Law). Patron of six livings, Corris, V. TalyUyn, Merionethshire. Seaham, V. St. Nicholas, V. St. John, V. Seaham. ftew Seaham, V. St. Giles, V. Durham. Creations, Baron Londonderry, 1789, Viscount Castlereagh, 1795, Earl of Lon- donderry, 1796, Marquess of Londonderry, 1816, all in the peerage of Ireland; Baron Stewart of Stewart's Court and Ballylawn, co. Donegal, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1<81 4, Earl Vane and Viscount Seaham of Wynyard and Seaham, county of Dur- ham, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1823. Slrms, Quarterly: 1st and 4th, grand quarters, quarterly: 1st and 4th, argent, a bend engrailed, between six martlets, three and three, sable; 2nd and 3rd, azure, three sinister gauntlets, two and one, or, Vane. 2nd and 3rd, grand quarters, or, a bend, compony, ar- gent and azure, between two lions rampant, gules, Stewart. (Crests, 1st, an arm in armour, holding a sword, proper, hilt and pommel, or, Vane: 2nd, a dragon statant, or, Stewart. Supporters, Dexter, a grey horse guardant, caparisoned, thereon mounted an hussar of the 18th Regiment,' habited, armed, and accoutred, all proper; sinister, a bay horse, mounted as the dexter. Sert^.v, Seaham-hall, Sunderland; Plas Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire; Wynyard Park, Stockton-on-Tees; Mount Stewart, Newtownards, co. Down; Garron Tower, Larne, co. Antrim, Ireland. Town Residence, Londonderry House, Park Lane, W. C7w6s, Carlton, Wiiidham, Travellers', White's, Senior United Service, Marl- borough. LONDONDERRY, Marquess of, His lordship's predecessor was his brother, Frederick William Robert, K.P., P.C., D.C.L., 4th Marquess of Londonderry. He was b, July 7, 1805, and succeeded his father in 1854. Educated at Eton, an I at Oxford University. Sat as M.P. for co. Down. 1826 52. Was Lord Lieut, of Down, 1845 64, a Lord of the Admiralty, 1828. and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, 18345, sometime Col. 4th Down Militia, and a Magistrate for co. Down. He m. 1846, Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte Jocelyn, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Roden, and widow of the 6th Viscount Powerscourt, and d. Nov. 1872, without issue.