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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 357 , Azure : a lion passant, or, between three fleurs-de-lis, argent. Supporters Two dragons, wings elevated, sable, scaled, ducally gorged and chained, or. Sent, Wroxton-abbey, Banbury. Town Residences, 16, Arlington-street, S.W. ; Putney-hill, Surrey, S.W. NORTH, Baroness, Her ladyship's predecessor was her father, George Augustus, Qth Baron North, and 3rd Earl of Guilford. He was b. Sept. 11, 1/57, and succeeded his father, Ang. 5, 1/92: m. 1st, Sept. 30, 1785, Maria Frances Mary, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Buckingham, (she d. 1/94), leaving issue a daughter; 2ndly, Feb. 28, 1796, Susan, daughter of T. Coutts, Esq., the celebrated banker, (she d. 1837), leaving issue two daughters ; and d. April 20, 1802, when the Barony of North fell into abeyance between his three daughters. M*ria, his daughter by his 1st marriage and wife of the 2nd Marquess of Bute, d. 1841 ; Georgiana, his 2nd daughter by his 2nd marriage, d. 1835; the Barony then fell to his only surviving; daughter, the present Baroness. NORTH, Lady, (by courtesy), CHARLOTTE MARIA, third daughter of the Hon. and Kev. William Eden, Rector of Bishopsbourne, Kent ; b. 1831 : m. 1st, 1850, Dudley, Lord North (father of the present Earl of Guilford, who d. 1860) ; 2ndiy, 1801, Major Alexander George Dickson, late 13th Hussars, M.P. for Dover, of Belchester-house, Coldstream, N.B. Residence, -Walder share-park, Do v er. North, family name of the Earl of Guilford. North, Lord, son of the Earl of Guilford. (see Guilford.) NORTHAMPTON, MARQUESS OF. (DOUGLAS-COMPTON.) CHARLES DOUGLAS-COMPTON, D.C.L. 3rd Marquess. Born May 26th, 1816; suc- ceeded his father in 1851 ; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, (MA. 1837) ; is a Dep. Lieut, of Argyllshire ; was created Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford, 1850; is a Trustee of the National Gallery ; assumed, by sign manual, Ib31, the sur- name of Douglas before that of Compton, and the arms of Douglas, quarterly with those of Compton : married (1859) Theo- I seek but one. dosia, daughter of Henry Vyner, Esq. of Newby Hall, Ripon, (this lady died, 1804) . Brothers lining, William, R.N. heir presumptive, b. 1818; was appointed Captain in the Royal Navy, 1853, retired 1866, and became a retired Rear Admiral, 1869 : TO. 1844, Eliza, daughter of the late Admiral the Hon. Sir G. Elliot, K.C.B. and has, with other issue, Charles John Spencer, b. 1849. Residences, Barworth Manor, Studham, Dm i stable; Torloisk, Tabermory, N.B. The Rev. Alwyne, b. 1825, m. 1850. Sister //>/, Marian Margaret, b. 1817, m. 1841, the late Viscount Alford, M.P. eldest son of the 1st Earl Brownlow. Patron of 'three livings, Castle Ashby, R. Yardley Hastings, R. Northamptonshire. Tysoe, V. Warwickshire. Creations, Earl of Northampton, 1618, Marquess of Northampton, Earl Compton of Compton, Warwick, and Baron Wilmington of Wilmington, Sussex, 1812, all in the peerage of the United Kingdom. Quarterly, 1st and 4th, sable, a lion, passant, guardant, or, between three esquires' helmets, argent, Cuitiptmi; >_>n<l and 3rd, quarterly, 1st and 4th, ar-ent, a man's heart, gules, ensigned with an Imperial crown, proper, and on a chief, azure, three stars of the tirst, iind and :frd argent, three piles, issuing from a chief, gule-, on the last, two stars of the tirst, all within a bordure, azure, charged with eight buckles, or, Ihmgins. Crest, 1st, on a mount, a beacon, fired, proper, behind it a ribbon, inscribed with the words, Nisi Duminus, Compton; 2nd, a sanglier, sticking betwixt two clefts of an oak-