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378 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. POLWARTH, BARON. (HEPBURNE-SCOTT.) WALTER HUGH HEPBURNE-SCOTT, 6th Baron, in the peerage of Scotland. Born Nov. 30, 1838; succeeded his father in 1867; educated at Harrow; is a Dep. Lieut, of Selkirkshire, and a Magistrate for Berwickshire and Roxburghshire : married (1863) Lady Mary Hamilton- Gordon, daughter of the 5th Earl of Aberdeen, and has issue, living, Sows, Walter George, Master of Polwarth, 6.1864. Henry James, b. 1866. George, 6.18/1. Robert, b. 1873. Another, b. 18/4. The moon will replenish her horns. Daughter ^ Georsina> b _ 1868 ..- Another, b. 18 7 5 . Brother living, Henry Robert, b. 1847. Sisters living, Katharine, b. 1842. Harriet Frances, b. 1845, m. 1872, (Baillie-Hamilton.) Creation, Baron Polwarth, in the peerage of Scotland, 1690. ?lrm0 Quarterly : 1st and 4th, or, two mullets in chief, and a crescent in base, azure, Scott; 2nd and 3rd, vert, a lion rampant, argent, armed, and langued, gules, Hume. CTrtSt, A lady richly attired, holding in her right hand the sun, and in her left a crescent, Supporters, Dexter, a lion reguardant, argent, armed and langued, gules , sinister, a mer- maid, proper, holding in her sinister hand a mirror. Seats, Mertoun-house, St. BoswelPs, Berwickshire ; Harden, Selkirkshire ; Humbie, Haddingtonshire. Club, Carlton. POLWARTH, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Henry Francis, 5th Baron Polwarth. He was b. Jan. 1, 1800, and succeeded his father in 1841 ; was a Representative Peer of Scotland, Lord Lieut, of Selkirkshire, a Lord-in- Waiting to the Queen, and a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Roxburghshire and Berwickshire : m. 1835, Georgina, 3rd, daughter of George Baillie, Esq. and sister of the 10th Earl of Haddington, (she d. 185Q); and d. Aug. 16, 186/, having had issue two sons and three daughters. Pomeroy, family name of Viscount Harberton. POM FRET, EARLDOM OF, see " Peerages Extinct." POMFRET, Countess of, AMABEL ELIZABETH, daughter of Sir Richard Borough, 1st Bart. ; b. 1802 ; m. 1st, 1823, the 4th Earl of Pomfret, (this title became extinct in 1867,) who d. 1833; 2ndly, 1834, the Rev. W. Thorpe, D D. Minister of Belgrave Chapel, who d. 1865. Residence, 32, Beaufort Gardens, Brompton, S.W. Ponsonby of Sysonby, Baron, title of the Earl of Bessborough on Roll of H.L. Ponsonby, family name of the Earl of Bessborough. ,, ,, Baron De Mauley. PONSONBY, Baroness, MARIA THERESA, daughter of M. Duerbeck, of Munich; m. 1851, the 3rd Baron Ponsonby, who d. 1861, (this title became extinct, 1866). Residence, Porchester, Baron, son of the Earl of Carnarvon, (see Carnarvon.)