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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 405 Creations, Baron Oxmantown, of Dublin, 1792, Earl of Rosse, 1806, both in the peerage of Ireland. A Baronet, 1677. arms, Gules : three leopards' faces, argent. Crest, A cubit arm, proper, grasping a pole-axe, gules. Supporters, Two ounces, argent, spotted, sable, and gorged with a plain collar, gules, charged with four bezants. Sea t, Birr- castle, Parsonstown, King's County, Ireland. Clubs, Carlton, Athenaeum. ROSSE, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, William, K.P. LL.D. F.R.S. 3rd Earl of Rwse. He was b. June 17, 1800, and succeeded his father, 1841 ; was a Representative Peer for Ireland; Lord Lieut, of King's County, and a dis- tinguished Astronomer: m. 1836, Mary, eldest daughter and co-heiress of John Wilmer Field, Esq. of Heaton Hall ; and d. Oct. 31, 1867, having had issue four sons. ROSSE, Dowager Countess of, MARY, eldest daughter and co-heiress of John Wilmer Field, Esq.: m. 1836, the 3rd Earl of Rosse, who d. 1867. Residence, 10, Connaught place, W. Eossie, Baron, title borne by Baron Kinnaird. ROSSLYN, EARL OF. (ST.-CLAIR-ERSKINE.) FRANCIS ROBERT ST.-CLAIR-ERSKINE, 4th Earl, and a Baronet. Born March 2nd, 1833 ; succeeded his father in 1866 ; was educated at Eton, and at Merton Col- lege, Oxford, (B.A. 1852, M.A. 1856); is Lieut, in the 1st Fifeshire Mounted Volunteers, and a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Fifeshire; appointed Her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1874: married (1866) Blanche Adeliza, 2nd daughter of Henry Fitz Roy, Esq. of Salcey Lawn, Northamp- tonshire, and widow of Col. the Hon. Charles Henry Maynard, only son of the last Viscount Maynard, and has issue, living, Sons, James Francis Harry, Lord Loughborough, b. 1869. Alexander Fitz Roy, b. 1870. Daughters, Mtilicent Fanny, If. 1867. Sybil Mary, *. 1871. Creation, Baron Loughborough of Loughborough, Surrey, 1795, Earl of Rosslyn, Mid Lothian, 1801, both in the peerage of the United Kingdom. A Baronet, 1666. arms, Quarterly -. 1st, argent, a cross engrailed, sable, St. Clnir ; 2nd, argent, a pale, sable, Krskine; 3rd, azure, a bend between six cross crosslets fltchee, or, Mar; 4th, argent, on a chevron, between three roses, gules, a fleur-de-lis, of the field, W edderbum. (Crest, A demi-phoenix, in flames, wings expanded and elevated, proper. Supporters, Dexter, an eagle, wings inverted, proper, gorged with a plain collar, argent, thereon a rose, gules ; sinister, a griffin, wings elevated, proper, beaked and membered, or. Seats, Dysart-house, Kirkaldy, Fifeshire; Easton Lodge, near Dunmow, Essex. Town Residence, 40, Upper Brook-street, W. dubs Carlton, White' s. ROSSLYN, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, James Alexander, 3rd Earl, P.C. He was b. April 15, 1802; succeeded his father in 1837; was Master of the Buckhounds, 18416, and 1852, and Under Secretary for War, 1859; became a Lieut. -Gen. in the Army, 1859, a Gen. (April) 1866, and Col. of the 7th Hussars, 1864; was Major 1st Fifeshire Mounted Volunteers : m. 1826, Frances, daughter of Lieut. -Gen. Wemyss, (she d 1858) ; and d. June 16, 1866, having had issu^ <i son and a daughter.