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EEBRETT s ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Abernethy, Baron, title borne by the Duke of Hamilton. Aberruthven, Baron, ,, Duke of Montrose. ABINGDON, EARL OF. (BERTIE.) MONTAGU BERTIE, D.C.L. 6th Earl. Born June 19th, 1808; succeeded his father in 1854; educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. 1829); Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford, 1834; was M.P. for Oxford county, 1830 and 183252, and for Abingdon, 18*52 4; is Lord Lieut, of Berkshire, High Steward of Oxford and Abingdon, and a Dep. Lieut, of Oxford- shire : married (1835) Elizabeth Lavinia, only daughter of George Granville Vernon Uarcourt, Esq. (this lady died 1858), and has issue, living, Sons, Montagu Arthur, Lord Norreys, A. 1836 ; educated at Eton ; is Lieut., Col. Royal Berks Militia: was sometime Lieut. Queen's Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry, and a Magistrate and a Dep. Lieut, for Berkshire, and a Magistrate for Oxfordshire: m. 18.18, Caroline Theresa, who d. 1 8/3, daughter of Charles Towneley, Esq. of Towneley, and has, with other issue, Montague Charles Francis, b. I860. Residence, 12, Charles-street, W. Clubs, Travellers', White's. Francis Leveson, b. 1844, TO. 1874. Alberic Edward, b. 1846. George Aubrey Vere, d. 1850. Charles Claude, b. 1851. Reginald Henry, b. 1856. I)M^ers,-Elizabeth Emily, b. 1838. Lavinia Louisa, h. 1843. Evelyn Frances, b. 1848. Brother living, The Rev. Henry William, D.C.L. A. 1812. Sisters living, Charlotte Margaret, A. 1809. Emily Caroline, b. 1810, TO. 1830, (Bathurst). Patron of five livings, Cumnor, V. South Hinksey, V. cum Wootton, V. Wytham, R. North Hinksey, V. (alternately), Berkshire. Albury, R. Oxfordshire. Creations, Baron Norreys, by writ, 1675, with the precedence of the first summons to his maternal ancestor, dated 1 57 J, Earl of Abingdon, in the peerage ot England, 1 682. "String, Argent, three battering rams barwise in pale, proper, armed and garnished, azure, (frest, The bust of a man affrontee and couped at the shoulder, proper, hair and beard, sable, ducally crowned, or. Supporters, Dexter, a grey friar, habited with cross and beads, pendent from his girdle, and his right hand resting on a staff potence, all proper ; sinister, a wild man wreathed about the temples and loins with oak ; each charged on the breast with a frette, or. Seat, Wytham -abbey, Oxford. Town Residence, IS, Grosvenor-street, W. Clubs, Brooks's, White's, St. James's. Valour is stronger than a battering ram. ABINGDON, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Montague, D.C.L. 5th Earl of Abingdon. He was b. April :10, 1/84, and succeeded his father, Sept. 26, 1799; was Lord Lieut, of Berkshire, and High Steward of Abingdon; and officiated as cup - bearer at the coronation of George IV. : m. 1st, Aug. 27, 1807, Emily, daughter of Gen. the Hon. Thomas Gage, (she d. 1838), and by her had issue five sons and three daughters ; 2ndly, Feb. il, 1 841 . Lady Frederica Augusta Kerr, daughter of the late Countess of Antrim ; and d. Oct. 16, 1854, without issue from his second marriage. Her ladyship survived him ten years.