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PART I PEERS, PEERESSES, BISHOPS, PRIVY COUNSELLORS, LORDS OF SESSION, AND BARONETS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE ABDY, 3rdBt. (U.K.). Great. 8 Jan. 1850.— Slr Anthony Chaeles Sykes Abdy. s. of 1st Bt. B. 19 Sept. 1848; m. 11 Nov. 1886, Hon. Alexandrina Victoria, dau. of 4th Baron Mac- donald ; capt. (ret.) 2nd Life Gds. ; served in Egyptian campaign 1882 (medal with clasp); mil. attache Vienna 1885 ; sue. his bro. 1910. An ancestor of the present Bt.,the Rev. Thomas Abdy Rutherforth, assumed the surname of Abdj' in lieu of his patronymic, on inheriting, through his mother, the estates of Sir John Abdy, the 4th Bt., of Albyns, whose title, created in 1060, be- came extinct in 1759. Residences — 10, Lowndes Square, S.W. ; Albyns, Romford, Essex. Issue — 1. Grace Lilliau. 2. Violet. 3. Constance Mary. Sm Thomas Xeville Abdy, 1st Bt., b. 21 Dec. 1810 ; m. 19 Oct. 1841, Hariot (d. 8 July, 1877), dau. of Rowland Alston, of Pishiobury, Herts. ; and d. 20 July, 1877. Issue — 1. Sir Willi.m Neville Abdy, 2nd Et., b. 18 June, 1844 ; m. 1st, 10 July, 1886, Marie Theresa Petritzka (d. 17 Sept. 1902) ; m. 2nd, 6 Dec. 1902, Eliza Sarah, dau. of Oscar William Beech, and divorced her 1905 ; in. 3rd, 16 Feb. 1909, Florence, (m. ard, 7 Jan. 1913, Maurice Grant. Residence — 21, Park Square East, Regent's Park, S.W.), dau. of late Maj. L. L. C'ohn, R.A., and wdow of Gen. G. P. Robinson, and d. 9 Aut;. 1910. 2. Sir Anthony Charles Sykes Abdy, pros. Bt. 3. Henry Beadon Abdy, Heir Pres.. b. 13 July, 1853 ; m. 22 March, 1891, Anna Adele Coronna. Issue — 1. Robert Henry Edward Abdy, b. 11 Sept. 1896. 1. Gladys Erica. 2. Grace Emma Townshend, m. 19 March, 1S72, Lord Albert Leveson Gower, capt. 2nd Life Guards (see Sutherland, D. of), who d. 23 Dec. 1874. ABERBROTHWICK, Baron. DUEE OF. See Abercorn, ABERCONWAY, 1st Baron (U.K.). Great. 21 June, 1911; Bt. 8 Aug. 1902; R G. 1908. — Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren, s. of Duncan McLaren, Lord Provost, and for many years M.P. for Edinburgh, by Priscilla, dau. of Jacob Bright, of Rochdale, and sister of the Rt. Hon. Jolin Bright. B. 12 May, 1850 : m. 6 March, 1877, Laura, dau. of Henry Davis Pochin, M.P., of Bodnant, Denbighshire ; ed. at Grove House Sch. and Edin., Bonn, and Heidelberg Lfnivs. ; M.A. Edin. 1870 (first class honours, Ferguson and Hamilton scholar) ; called to the Bar (Lin- coln's Inn) 1874, K.C. 1897: M.P. (R.) Staf- ford 1880-0; and Leics. Bosworth div., 1892- 1911; J.P., Denbighshire, Flint, Middlesex, and Surrey ; largely interested in coal, steel, chem- ical, and shipbuilding undertakings ; chrmn. Metropolitan Rly., Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., John Brown & Co., of Sheffield and Clydebank; raemb. of the employers' panel for the Court of Arbitration ; formerly chairman of British Iron Trade Assocn. ; is a landowner in Xorth Wales, and owner of Croft Granite Quarries, in Leicester- shire : lias order of Sacred Treasure of Japan (3rd cl. ) ; raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Aberconway of Bodnant, in the co. of Denbigh, 1911. Residences — Bodnant, Taly- cafn, Denbigh ; Hilders, Shottermill, Surrey ; 43, Belgrave Square, S.W. Clubs — Reform; Savile ; National Liberal ; Royal Automobile. Issue — 1. Hon.Heney Duncan McLaren, Heir, h. 16 April, 1879 : m. 19 July, 1910, Christabel Mary, dau. of Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten, Asst. Commnr. Metrop. Police ; ed. at Eton and O.xford. M.A. 1905 ; called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn) 1904 : M.P. W. Staffs. 1906- 10, and Bosworth div. Leics. since Dec. 1910 ; director of Bolckow,Vaiighan& Co., Palmers' Shipbuilding Co., and Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. : J.P., Denbigh. Residence— 69, Eaton Place, S.W. Clubs— Brooks's ; Reform. Issue — Charles Melville McLaren, b. 16 April, 1913. Elizabeth Mary. 2. Hon. Francis Walter Stafford McLaren, M.P. for Spalding and parly, priv. secv. to Colonial Secretary since 1910 ; b. 6 June, 1886 : m. 20 July, 1911, Barbara, dau. of Col. Sir Herbert Jekyll, K.C.M.G. (see Kniglitage). Lieut. R.N.V.R., 1914. Club — Bachelors'. 1. Hon. Elsie Dorothea, m. 28 April, 1904. Edward A. J. Johnson-Ferguson (see Johnson-Ferguson, Bt.), and has issue. 2. Florence Priscilla, m. 8 May, 1907, Sir Henry Norman (see Knightage). 39