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A.VELAND — AVERENCHES. 207 LAIN.( d ) P.C., 1880. He in, 14 July 1863 at St. Paul's Knightsbridge, Evelyn Klizabetb, 2nd <la. of Charles (Gordon), 10th Marquess of Huntly [S.], by his 2nd wife Mary Antoiuetta, da. of Rev. William Peous. She was b. 22 March 1846. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of about 17,600 acres in co. Lincoln (valued at about ±'27,000 a year), and about 13,600 acres in Rutland. Total 31,275 acres erf the yearly value of about £47,000. See Bateman's " Great Landowners." Primped Hcsiclcnec, Normauton Park, Rutland. [Nate. — The above is irrespective of some 132,000 acres, valued at about £74,000 a year, held by the Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, the mother of the present Lord AveJand.] AYENDALE, see AVAXDALE. AVON. U " LORD AVON AJND INNERDALE " [S.], see " Hasultox," Duke of [ft], en 1643. AYONDALE, see AVANDALE. AVERENCHES, see ABRIXCIS. (<1) The Hereditary office of LORD GREAT CHAMBERLAIN OF ENGLAND was granted by Henry 1 to Alberic de Vere, and held by the Earls ok Oxford, the heirs »i<i/eof his body, till the death, s.p., of the 18th Earl in 1625. The heirs ycncnil of tho grantee had, during that space of time, been passed over {eh. in 1526, on the death of the 14th Earl) in favour of the heir male, but, notwithstanding this fact, this great dignity was a century later, soon after the death (1625) of the ISth Earl abovenamed, awarded (by a remarkable decision), to Robert (Bertie), LORD Willoughby de Eresby, as s. and h. of Mary, aunt, of the whole blood, to the last holder ; the descendants of the three sisters (of the half blood) and coheirs of the last holder being passed over, as also his cousin and h. male (the h. male of the body of the Grantee) who me. to the Earldom of Oxford from which (in contradiction to what had been decided in 1520) this dignity was then first severed. As in the previous case in 1526, no notice was taken of the heirs general of the Grantee, viz. the descendants of the sisters and coheirs of the 14th Earl. The claim of Hugh, Lord Percy, styled Earl Percy (afterwards Duke of Northumberland), the senior coheir of this 14th Earl of Oxford and of all the preceding Earis, as also the claim of tlie Duchess of Athole [&], the senior coheir (through the half blood) of the 18th Earl of Oxford (the last of those Earls who was Gii eat Chamberlain) were both rejected, in 1781, as being "barred by the statute of limitations." See, under " Atiiole," p. 139, note " e," and p. 191, note " a." Lord Willoughby was cr. Earl of Lindsey in 1626, and the office of Lord Great Chamberlain was held by bun and the heirs male of his body till the death, s.p., of Robert, Duke of Ancaster, Earl of Lindsey, Lord Willoughby &c, in 1779, when it fell into abeyance between bis Grace's two sisters and coheirs. Of these (1) Priscilla Elizabeth m. Sir Peter Burrel], cr., in 1796, Lord Gwydyr, and d. 1828. In her favour, was terminated, 18 March 17 SO, the abeyance of the Barony of Willoughby of [sic] Eresby, winch again fell into abeyance on the death of her grandson in 1S70, till it was again terminated in 1871 (under the name of Willoughby elc Eresby) in favour of her gr.-uidaughter, the Dow. Baroness Avelaud as mentioned in the text. (2) Georgiaua Charlotte, m. George James, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley, and d. 1838. These two ladies, in whom tho House of Lords decided in 1781 that the office of Lord Great Chamberlain vested jointly, appointed Peter Bun-ell, afterwards Lord Gwydyr (the husband of tho former), their deputy. He d. 1820. His son, Lord Gwydyr (afterwards, 1628, Lord Willoughby of Eresby), officiated at the coronation of Geo. IV as deputy to his mother ; while the Marquess of Cholmondeley, as deputy to 'us mother, officiated at the coronation of William IV. Lord Willoughby and Gwydyr again officiated, in his own right, at the coronation of Queen Victoria, and iulS70 was represented by his two daughters, of whom the elder was the Dow. Baroness Aveland abovenamed. The Office is discharged by the respective representative of each coheir of the last Duke of Ancaster alternately in each alternate reign.