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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 487 1787; Capt. 58th Foot, 1791, and Lieut.-Col. 33rd Foot, 1793; joined the late Duke of York, in Holland, 1794, and on his return home in 1796, was promoted to the Colonelcy of his regiment ; was shortly afterwards sent to India ; served with great success, and received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament. In 1808, he landed at Lisbon, from which time commenced the series of splendid military triumphs in Portugal and Spain which helped to bring the Peninsular war to a close. In 1815, he resumed the command of the British . Forces, and on June 18 of that year the decisive battle of Waterloo was fought. After the peace of 1815, he took part in the settlement of the new territorial arrangements of Europe, and was present at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1818. In 1828, he became First Lord of the Treasury; carried the Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill, 1829, and resigned in 1830 ; for a short time held the seals of nearly all the offices of Government 1834. At the Coro nation of Queen Victoria he was Lord High Constable of England, and at the time of his death a Field Marshal in the Arm^: m. April 10, 1806, Lady Catherine Pakenham, third daughter of the 2nd Earl of Longford, (she d. 1831), and by her had issue two sons. He d. at Walmer Castle, Sept. 14, 1852, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His Grace's predecessor in the Earldom of Mornington, was his cousin, William Richard Arthur, 5th Earl of Mornington, who was b. 1813, and d. unmarried, 1863. WEMYSS AND MARCH, EARL OF. (CHARTERIS.) Sits as BARON WEMYSS. FRANCIS WEMYSS CHARTERIS DOUGLAS CHARTERIS, 8th Earl, Lord Lieut, of Peebles-shire. Born 1796; succeeded his father in 1853 ; is Lieut. -Gen. of the Royal Archers (the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland), Vice Lieut of Hadding^ tonshire, a Magistrate for cos. Berwick and Perth, and a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Mid-Lothian, and a Dep. Lieut, of Edinburgh : married (1 81 7) Lady Louisa Bingham, 4th daughter of the 2nd Earl of Lucan, and has issue, Ithmk ' living, Sons, Francis, Lord Elcho, M.P. b. 1818; was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford, (B.A. 1841) ; was a Lord of the Treasury, 18535 ; is a Dep. Lieut, of Hadding- tonshire, and has been Lieut.-Col. Scottish Rifles since I860; was M.P. for East Gloucestershire, 1841 6, and has sat for Haddingtonshire (L.C.) since 1847: m. 1843, Lady Anne Frederica Anson, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfleld, and has, with other issue, the Hon. Hugo Richard, b. 1857. Seat, Armisfield, Haddingtonshire. Residence, 23, St. James's-place, S.W. Frederick William, b. 1833, m. 1864. Daughters, Anne, b. 1829, m. 1852, the 4th Earl of Warwick. Louisa, b. 1830, m. 1854, (AVells) . Sisters living, Charlotte, m. 1825, (Fletcher) .Jane, b. 1811, m. 1858, (Dundas) Caroline, b. 1816. Patron of one living, Stanway, V. Gloucestershire. Creations, Baron Wemyss, 1628, Earl of Wemyss and Baron Elcho and Methel, 1633, Earl of March, Viscount Peebles, and Lord Niedpath, Lyne, and Munard, 1697, all in the peerage of Scotland ; Baron Wemyss of Wemyss, hi the peerage of the United Kingdom, arms, Quarterly : 1st and 4th, argent, a fesse, azure, within a double tressure, flory counterflory, gules, fharteru -, 2nd and 3rd, or, a lion rampant, gules, Wemyss. Custg, 1st, a swan, proper, Wemy/m; 2nd, a hand, holding a dagger, Charteris. Supportms, Two swans, wings inverted, proper. Seats, Niedpath-castle, and Hayes-lodge, Peebles-shire; Armisfield and Gosford- house, Haddingtonshire; Stanway, Gloucestershire; Elcho-castle, Perthshire. Club, Carlton.