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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 313 LYVEDEN, BARON. (YERNON.) FITZ-PATRICK HENRY YERNON, 2nd Baron. Born 1824; succeeded his father 1873; educated at Eton, and at University College, Durham. Was Attache at Madrid 1846 8, at Hanover 18489, and at Berlin 184950, and Private Secretary to the Dulce of Somerset, (Woods and Forests) 1850, and also to his father the 1st Baron, when he was Secretary for War 1852, and afterwards when he was President of the Board of Vernon always flourishes. Control 18558. Formerly an officer in the Northamptonshire Militia. Unsuc- cessfully contested Northamptonshire, 185U and 1857, and is a Dep. Lieut, of that county : married (1853) Lady Albreda Elizabeth Wentworth- Fitzwilliam, daughter of the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G. Brothers lining, The Rev. Courtenay John (heir presumptive], b. 1828, educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1851) ; is a Magistrate for Northamptonshire ; has been since 1854 Rector of G-afton Underwood, Kettering : m. 1856, Alice Gertrude, daughter of the Rev. Maurice Fitzgerald Stephens Townshend. M.A., Vicar of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, and has with other issue, Courtenay Robert Percy, b. 1857- Resi- dence, Gratton Underwood, Kettering. Club, Union. Greville Richard, b. 1835, m. 1858. Patron of one living, Grafton Underwood, R. Northamptonshire. Creation, Baron Lyveden of Lyveden, Northamptonshire, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1859. 9rms, Quarterly : 1st and 4th, argent, a fret, sable, Vernon; 2nd and 3rd, gules, three bars, gemelles, argent, a chevron ermine, on a chief of the second, three blackamoors' hearts, proper, a canton, of the field, charged with a battle-axe, or, all within a bordure counter compony, of the second and azure, Smith. (Crests, 1st, a boar's head erased, sable, ducally gorged, or, Vernon; 2nd, a cubit arm, erect, in armour, proper, charged with a battle-axe, sable, the hand grasping two wreaths of laurel, pendent on either side, also proper, Smith, ^appomrs, Dexter, a boar, sable, ducally gorged, and suspended therefrom by a chain, an escutcheon, or, charged with arose, gules, slipped, proper; sinister, a wyvern, vert, plain collared, and suspended therefrom by a chain, an escutcheon, or, charged with a tosj, slipped, proper. Seat, Farming Woods, Thrapstone, Northamptonshire. Club, Brooks's. LYVEDEN, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Robert, P.C., G C.B., 1st Baron, son of Robert Percy Smith, Esq., of Cheam, Surrey, (formanyyears Judge- Advocate- General in India) by Caroline Maria, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Vernon, Esq. widow of the 1st Earl of Upper Ossory, (title extinct). He was b. Feb. 1800 ; educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford, (B.A. 2nd class in Classics, 1822); sat as M.P. forTralee, 182931, and for Northampton, 183159: was a Lord of the Treasury, 18304; Secretary of the Board of Control, 18359; Under Secretary for the Colonies, 183941 ; Secretary of War (for a few weeks in Feb.) 1852 ; and President of the Board of Control, 1855 8 : assumed the surname of Vernon only for his children, 1846, and for him- self in 1S">D, in lieu of that of Smith : m. 1823, Emma Mary Fitz-Patrick, natural daughter of the 2nd and last Earl of Upper Ossory, and sister of the 1st Baron Castletown, and d. Nov. 12, 1873, leaving issue three sons. LYVEDEN, Baroness, EMMA MARY, natural daughter of the 2nd and last Earl of Upper Ossory, and sister of the 1st Baron Castletown : m. 1823, the 1st Baron Lyveden, P.C., G.C.B., who d. 1873. Residence, Farming Woods, Thrapstone.