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BEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 411 Sackville, family name of the 7th Earl Delawarr. Sackville-West, family name of the sons of the 5th Earl Delawarr, ST. ALBAN'S, DUKE OF. (BEAUCLERK.) WILLIAM AMELIUS AUBREY DE YERE BEAUCLERK, P.C., 10th Duke, Hereditary Grand Falconer, and Hereditary Registrar of the Court of Chancery. Born April 15th, 1840; succeeded his father in 1849; edu- cated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cam- bridge; is a Dep. Lieut, of Lincolnshire; has been Hon. Col. of the 1st Notts Rifle Volunteers since 1863, and is President of the Chamber of Agriculture for Not- tinghamshire ; was Capt. of Her Majesty's Yeomen of the Guard 1873 4 ; married A pledge of better times. i st (1867), Sybil,^who died 1871, daughter of the late Gen. the Hon. Charles Grey, niece of the 3rd Earl Grey, K.G., and has issue, living, Son, Charles Victor Albert Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Burford, b. 1870, for whom Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales stood sponsors in person. Daughters, Louisa de Vere, b. 1869. Sybil Evelyn de Vere, b. 1871. His grace married 2ndly (1874), Grace, daughter of Ralph Bernal Osborne, Esq., and has issue, living, Son,b. 1874. Sister living, Diana de Vere, b. 1841, m. 1872, (Huddleston.) Patron of one living, Redbourne, V. Lincolnshire. Creations, Earl of Burford arid Baron of Heddington, 1 6/6, Duke of St. Alban's, 1684, Baron Vere, 1750, all in the peerage of England. arms, The royal arms of King- Charles TI.: 1st and 4th, France and England, Quar, terly ; 2nd, Scotland ; 3rd, Ireland ; the whole debruised by a baton sinister, charged with three roses, argent. (Crest, On a chapeau, gules, turned up, ermine, a lion statant guard- aut, or, ducally crowned, per pale, azure and gules, and gorged with a plain collar, gules, charged with three roses, argent. Supporters, Dexter, an antelope, argent, armed and un-> guled, or; sinister, a greyhound, argent, each collared as the crest, Seats, Bestwood-park, Arnold, Nottingham ; Redbourne, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincoln- shire, Town Residence, 4, Prince's Gate, S.W. C/M&,', Brooks's, White's. ST. ALBAN'S, Duke of, His Grace's predecessor was his father, William Aubrey de Vere, Qth Duke of St. Alban's. He was b. March 24, 1801, and succeeded his fa, ther, July 17, 1825: TO. 1st, June 16, 1827, Harriet, daughter of Matthew Mellon, Esq. and widow of Thomas Coutts, Esq. (she d. 183/), and by her had no issue: 2ndly, Elizabeth Catherine, daughter of the late Gen. J. Gubbins : and d May 26, 1849^ having had issu from his last marriage a son and a daughter. The Duchess married, 2ndiy, 1859, the 9th Viscount Falkland, K.C.H. ST. ALBAN'S, Dowager Duchess of, see VISCOUNT FALKLAND. ST. AS APH, BISHOP OF, see Lords Spiritual." St. Asaph, Viscount, son of the Earl of Ashburnham. (see Ashburn* ham.) St. Colme, Baron, title borne by the Earl of Moray.