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DEBRETT S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 19 Alloa, Baron, title borne by the Earl of Kellie. Altamont, Earl of, ,, Marquess of Sligo. Althorp, Viscount, ,, ,, Earl Spencer. Amberley, Viscount, son of Earl Russell, (see Russell.) By constancy and valour. AM H ERST, EARL. (AMHERST.) WILTIAM PITT AMHERST, 2nd Earl. Born Sept. 3rd, 1805; succeeded his father 1857; educated at Christ Church, Oxford, (B.A. 2nd class in classics, 1827) ; is a Magistrate for Kent: married (1834) Gertrude, daughter of the late Hon. and Rt. Rev,. Hugh Percy, D.D. Bishop ot Carlisle, and has issue, living, Sons, William Archer, Visct. Holmesdale, M.P. b. 1836; educated at Eton; entered the Cold- stream Guards, 1854, appointed Lieut, and Capt. 1855 ; served in the Crimean war ; was present at Balaclava and at Inkermann, where he was severely wounded, and before Sebastopol ; retired 1862 ; was Capt. 3/th Kent Rifle Volunteers, 1866 7 ; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Kent; sat as M.P. for West Kent 185968, when he was elected M.P. for Mid Kent (C.): m. 1862, Lady Julia Mann Cornwallis, daughter of the 5th and last Earl Cornwallis. Seat, Linton Park, Staplehurst, Kent. Town Residence, 20, Belgrave Square, S.W. C/wis, Carlton, Travellers'. Frederick, b. 1838. Percy Arthur, 6.1339.- Jeffrey Charles, b. 1844. Josceiine George Herbert, b. 1846. Hugh, b. 1856. Daughters, Mary Sarah, b. 1837, m 1857, (Egerton). Constance Harriet, b. 1843, m. 1871, (Monck). Margaret Catherine, b. 1848. Elinor, b. 1850. Charlotte Florentia, 6.1851. Patron of one living, Tanworth, V. Warwickshire. Creations, Baron Amherst of Holmesdale, 1788, and Viscount Holmesdale and Earl Amherst, 1826, both in the peerage of the United Kingdom. &rms, Gules : three tilting spears erect, or, points argent. (Crest, On a mount, vert, three tilting spears, points upwards, one in pale and two in saltire as in the arms, entwined by a wreath of laurel, proper. Supporters, Dexter, a Canadian hidian of a copper colour, his exterior arm embowed holding an axe erect, proper, rings in his nose and ears, and bracelets on his arms and wrists, argent, over his shoulder two buff belts in saltire, sus- pended from one his powder horn on his right side, and from the other his scalping knife on his left ; before him a short apron, azure, tied round the waist with a belt, gules, fim- briated, or , on the legs blue gaiters, seamed, gold, his ancles fettered together and the chain, affixed to the bracelet on his exterior wrist, proper ; sinister, a similar Indian, hold- ing in his exterior hand a wand, the lower end resting on his hip, and on the upper end a scalp proper. Seat, Montreal, Sevenoaks, Kent. Town Residence, 43, Grosvenor-square, W. Club, Carlton. AMHERST, Earl, His lordship's predecessor was his father, William Pitt, 1st Earl and 2nd Baron Amherst. He was b. Jan. 14, 17/3, and succeeded his uncle as Huron, Aug. :t, 17117 ; created Earl Amherst, 1826; was sometime Minister in China, and afterwards Governor-General of India: m. 1st, July 24, !800, Sarah, daughter of the last Baron Archer, and widow of the 5th Earl of Plymouth, (she d. 1833), and by her liad issue four sons and a daughter; 2nuly, June 25, 1839, Lady Mary Sackville, daughter of the 3rd Dnkc of Dorset, and widow of the 6th Earl of Plymouth ; and d. March 13, Itio", without issue by his last marriage. Her ladyship survived 'him seven years.