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358 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. tree, with a chain and lock holding- them, all proper, in a scroll above, Luck sicher^ Douglas. Supporters, Dexter, a dragon, ermine, ducally gorged and chained, or ; sinister, an unicorn, argent, horned, maned, hoofed, and tufted, sable. Seats, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire ; Compton Wynyates, Kineton, "Warwickshire. Town Residence, 145, Piccadilly, W. NORTHAMPTON, Marquess of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Spencer Joshua Alwyne, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, b. Jan. 21, 1790; succeeded his father, May 24, 1848 ; hewas President of the Royal >ociety ; m. July 24, 1815, Margaret, daughter of the late Major-General D. Maclean Clephane, (she d. 1830) ; and d. Jan. 17, 1351, having issue four sons and two daughters. NORTHBROOK, BARON. (BARING.) THOMAS GEORGE BARING, P.C., G. C.S.I., 2nd Baron, and a Baronet. Born Jan. 22, 1826; succeeded his father in 1866; edu- cated at Christ Church, Oxford, (2nd class in Classics, 1846) ; was Private Secretary to Sir George Grey successively at the Home Office, to Mr. Labouchere (Lord Taunton) at the Board of Trade, and to Sir Charles Wood (Viscount Halifax) at the India Office and the Admiralty; was a Lord of the Admiralty, 1857 8, Under Secretary for War for a few months in By uprightness and labour. 1861, Under Secretary for India, 1861 4, Under Secretary for the Home Depart- ment, 18646, Secretary to the Admiralty, 1866 ; and Under Secretary for War, 1868 72, when he was appointed Governor General of India ; sat as M.P. for Penrhyn and Falmouth, 1857 66 ; is a Magistrate for Hampshire, and Major Hants Yeomanry Cavalry: married (1848) Elizabeth Harriet, daughter of the late Henry'Charles Start, Esq. of Crichel-house, Dorset- shire, (this lady died, 1867), and has issue, living, Son, Francis George, b. 1850; educated at Eton; entered the Rifle Brigade as Ensign 1870, and became Lieut. 1871 ; appointed Aide-de-Camp to his father, the Gov.-Gen. of India, 1873. Daughter, Jane Emma, b. 1853. Sisters living, Mary, b. 1827, m. 1864, (Carter) .Hannah, b. 1831. Alice, 6. 1833. Half-Brother living, Francis Henry, b. 1850. Patron of two livings, Kingsworthy, V. Micheldever, R. Hants. Creation, Baron Northbrook of Stratton, in the county of Hampshire, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1866. A Baronet, 1793. , Azure: a fesse, or, in chief, a bear's head, proper, muzzled and ringed, or, t, A mullet, erminois, between two wings, argent. Supporters, On either side a hear, proper, muzzled, and charged on the shoulder with a portcullis, or. Official Residence, Government House, Calcutta. Town Residence,!, Hamilton- place, S.W. C/M**, Brooks's, Travellers'. NORTHBROOK, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Fran- cis Thornhill, 1st Baron Northbrook, and a Baronet. He was eldest son of Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Bart, of Larkbeer, Devonshire; was A. April 26, 1796; was M.P. for Ports- mouth, 1826 65 ; Joint Secretary to the Treasury, 1834; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 183941; First Lord of the Admiralty, 184951; and was raised to the peerage of the