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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 493 WESTMORLAND, EARL OF. (FANE.) FRANCIS WILLIAM HENRY FANE, C.B, 12th Earl. Born Nov. 19th, 1825; suc- ceeded his father in 1859 ; educated at Westminster, and at Sandhurst ; entered the 53rd Foot, 1843, and served in the Punjaub Campaign, 1849, for which he has a medal with clasp for Goojerat ; became Aide -de-Camp to Lord Raglan, in the Crimea, 1854, Capt. and Lieut. -Col. Coldstream Guards, 1855, and brought home the despatches announcing the victory of the Alma; was made a C.B. 1855, retired as a Col. in the Army, 1860 ; has received the Crimean medal and clasp, and is a Knight of the Legion of Honour, and of the Medjidie ; and a Dep. Lieut, of Northamptonshire : married (1857) Lady Adelaide Ida Curzon, 2nd daughter of the 1st Earl Howe, G.C.B. and has issue, living, Son, Anthony Mildmay Julian, Lord Burghersh, b. 185Q. Daughters, Grace, b. I860. Margaret Mary, b. 1870. Sister living, Rose Sophia Mary, b. 1834, m. 1866, (Weigall). Patron of two livings, Warmington, V. Kings Cliffe, R. Northamptonshire. Creation, Earl of Westmorland and Baron Burghersh, in the peerage of England, 1624. Disgrace not the altar. , Azure : three dexter gauntlets, or. Creat, Out of a ducal coronet, or, a bull's head, of a brindled colour, armed, gold, and charged with a rose, gules. Supporters, Dexter, a griffin, per fesse, argent and or, collared, and line reflexed over the back, sable; sinister, a pied, or brindled, bull, collared and lined, or. Seat, Apethorpe-house, Northamptonshire. Clubs, Army and Navy. White's. WESTMORLAND, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, John, G.C.B. G.C.H. llth Earl of Westmorland. He was b. Feb. 3, 1784, and succeeded his father, Dec. 15, 1841 ; was a Gen. in the Army, a Count of various Foreign Orders. Col. of the 5th Foot, and greatly distinguished himself both as an officer and a diplomatist ; was appointed Envoy and Minister at Berlin, 1841, and at Vienna, 1851 ; Special Com- missioner at the Conferences at Vienna, 1855: m. June 26, 1811, Lady Priscilla Anne Weliesley, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Mornington; and d. Oct. 16, 1859, having had issue five sons and three daughters. WESTMORLAND, Dowager Countess of, PRISCILLA ANNE, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Mornington, b. 1793; m. 1811, the llth Earl of Westmor- land, who d. 1859. Residence, 29, Portman-square, W. Westport, Viscount, title borne by the Marquess of Sligo, "Weymouth, Viscount, son of the Marquess of Bath, (see Bath.)