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AYLESFORD — AYLMER. 211 Williams of Temple House, Berks, and of Craig-y-don, co. Anglesey, by Emily youngest da. of Anthony Bacon of Elcott, Berks. From her he was separated by 'deed dat. 22 May 1877. He d. s.p.m.( b ) at Big Springs, co. Howard, in Texas, 13 Jan. 1885, and was bur. in the church of Packingtou. Will dat. 2 Sep. 1882. His widow is now (1885) living. VIII. 1885. Charles Wightwick (Finch), Earl of Atlesford (1714), and Barou of Guernsey ^1703), br. and h. male, who estab- lished his claim to the Peerage( c ) and had writ of summons 31 July 1885, b. 7 June 1861, in Curzon Street, Mayfair. Major 1st Stafford Militia, 1881. He m. firstly, 4 Feb. 1873, Georgiana Agnes, 1st da. of William (Baqot), 3rd Lord Bagot, by Lucia Caroline Elizabeth, da. of George Jamas (Agar Ellis), Lord Dover. She who was b. 22 May 1852, d, s.p. 12 April 1874. He m. secondly, 16 Feb. 1879, Ella Victoria, widow of Charles Linton of Hemmingford, co. Huntingdon, yst. da. of John Ross of Benena, co. Cork. [Heneage Greville Finch, styled Lord Guernsey, s. and h. ap. by second wife b. 2 June 1883.] Family Esta tes. —These, in 1883, consisted of about 12,500 acre3 in co. Warwick ; about 4,300 in Leicestershire and 2,856 in Kent. Total about 20,000, valued at about £33,000 a year. See Bateinan's " Great Landowners." Note. — The Kentish estates, 2,864 f's/Cj) acres, were put up for sale in Sep. 1884, under a "disentailing act" of 1382. Some were not sold, but the amount realized was £80,000, of which £26,200 was paid for the Boxley abbey estate (905 acres) by the Earl of Roniney, the rental being about £1000 a year. Principal Residence, Packingtou Hall, co. Warwick. AYLjSIEE. [of Balrath,] Barons [I.] 2. Matthew Aylmer, 2nd s. of Sir Christopher A., 1st j i |g Bart. [I.], by Margaret, 3rd da. of Matthew (Plunkett), 5th Lord Louth [I.], having been page to the Duke of Buckingham, obtained the command of a ship, and after the battle of La Hoguo was made ('>) It appeared that the Countess gave birth to a son, on 4 Nov. 1881, at No. 8, Avenue Friedland, Paris, who was registered (the parents being not named) as " Guy Beiitrand," and who appears, sometimes, to have been styled " Loud Guernsey." His reputed father was George Charles Spencer-Churchill, then styled Marquess of Bland- ford, afterwards (1883), 8th Duke of Marlborough. Nearly two years afterwards this child wxs, 2it Juno 18S3, bap., under the same names, at St. Mary-le-Straud, Midx., but as son of Heueage, Earl of Aylesford and Edith, which paternity was however subsequently disallowed by the House of Lords. c The old legal doctrine of " Pater est quem nuptial demonstrant" has been overruled by the House of Lords in the following instances :— (1) In 1692-3 and (again) in 1813, in the case of the Earldom of Banbury, in which the legitimacy of Nicholas Knollys, b. 30 June 1630-1, was disallowed by their Lordships, notwithstanding it had been allowed by the King's B euch in 1694. (2) In 1S24, in the case of the Barony of GARDNER, .as against the claim of Henry Feuton Gardner, b. 8 Dec. 1802 in wedlock, but at a date which precluded the possibility of his legitimacy. (3) On 16 May 1S48, in the case of the Barony of Say and Sele, in which the right of Charles Twisletou (whose putative father " John Stein, Esq.," gave evidence as to such his paternity) was passed over, though the said Charles was b. 30 March 1797, 6</oce the dissolution [179S] of his mother's marriage with the Hon, Thomas James Twisletou, whose son (by a sufaequent wife) Frederick Benjamin Twisletou (6. 4 July 1799) was declared to have established his claim to the Peerage. (4) In July 1885 in the case of the Earldom of Ayleskord, as against the legitimacy of a child b. 4 Nov. 1SS1 in wedlock, of parties who were residing respectively in Chapel Place (Oxford Street) and in Portugal Street (South Audley Street) Midx., in the months of Jan., Feb., March and April previous to the birth. The same overruling has also been effected by Act of ParL, of which the following instances apply to Peerage successions, viz. : — (1) Act 9 and 10 William III, c. 11, " for dissolving the marriage between Charles [Gerard] Eaul op Macclesfield and Anne his wife, and to illegitimate the children of the said Anne " ; and (2) Act 6 and 7 Via., " to declare that certain persons therein named are not the children of George Ferrars [Townshend], Marquis Townsiiend."