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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 443 STAIR, EARL OF. (DALRYMPLE.) Sits as BARON OXENFOORD. JOHN HAMILTON DALRYMPLE, K.T. 10th Earl, and a Baronet, Lord Lieut, of Wig- tonshire and of Ayrshire. Born April 1st, 1819; succeeded his father 1864 ; educated at Harrow ; served sometime as Capt. in the Scots Fusilier Guards; sat as M.P. for Wigtonshire, 1841 56; was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 186972; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Lanark- shire, and a Magistrate for the counties of Ayr and Lanark; formerly Capt. 1st Wigton Volunteer Artillery: married (1846) Louisa Jane Henrietta Emily, eldest daughter of the Due de Coigny, and has issue, living, Sons, John Hew North Gustave Henry, Viscount Dalrymple, b. 1848 ; educated at Harrow, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1869) ; appointed Cornet Royal Horse Guards, 1870, became Lieut. 18/1 ; was sometime Lieut, in the Ayr and Wigtown Militia, and resigned 1870 ; is a Magistrate for Ayrshire. Unsuccessfully contested Wigtownshire 1873. Residences, same as the Earl of Stair. Clubs, Brooks's, Marlborough. North de Coigny, b. 1853. Hew Hamilton, b. 1857. Robert Me Gill, b. 1862. Daughters, Jane Georgiana, b. 1850. Mary Evelyn, b. 1852. Anne Henrietta, b. 1855. Emily Ellen, b. 1859. Brother living, George Grey, b. 1832, TO. 1853. Sisters living, Elizabeth Hamilton, b. 1818. Anne, b. 1820, m. 1845, Sir J. Dick-Lauder, 8th Bart. Agnes, 6.1823, m. 1848, (Nisbett) . Margaret Penny, 6.1828, m. 1859, (Welwood). Creations, Baron Glenluce and Stranraer, and Viscount Stair, 1690, Baron Newliston, Viscount Dalrymple, and Earl of Stair, 1703, all in the peerage of Scotland ; Baron Oxenfoord of Cousland, Edinburgh, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1841. A Baronet, 1664, and 1698. Slrms, Or : on a saltire, azure, nine lozenges, of the field. Crest, A rock, proper. Supporters, Two lions, proper. Seats, Lochinch-castle, Stranraer, Wigtonshire; Oxenfoord- castle, near Edinburgh; Bargany, Ayrshire. Clubs, Brooks's, Guards', United Service. STAIR, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, North Hamil- ton, 9th Earl of Stair. He was b. 1776, and succeeded his brother, Jan. 10, 1853 ; m. 1st, May 27, 1817, Margaret, daughter of J. Penny, Esq. of Arrad, (she d. 1828), leaving issue a son and four daughters; 2ndly, March 23, 1831, Martha Willet, daughter of the late Colonel George Dalrymple ; and d. Nov. 9, 1864, having had issue from second marriage a son. Her ladyship d. 1869. STAMFORD AND WARRINGTON, EARL OF. (GREY.) GEORGE HARRY GREY, 7th Earl. Born Jan. 7th, 1827 ; succeeded his father, as Baron Grey of Groby, in 1835, and his grandfather as Earl of Stamford and Warrington, in 1845; was educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. 1848) ; is a Dep. Lieut, of Stafford- shire, and Hon. Col. of the 7th Adminis- trative Battalion Lancashire Rifle Volun- teers, and of the 23rd Lancashire Rifle According to my power. Volunteers: married (1848) Elizabeth,