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BR AYE — BREADALBANE. 13 Stanford afsd. By royal lie. 12 March 1818 she took the name of Cave after that of Otway. In 1830 she was declared Baroness Braye as above stated. She d. s.p.m.s. 21 Feb. 1862, when the Barony again f ell into abeyance between her four daughters and coheirs.( a ) IV. 1879. 4- Henrietta, sua jar?, Baroness Braye, only surv. da. became, by the death of her only surv. sister, 13 May 1879, sole h. to her Mother, and, as such, inherited her Peerage. She, who was b. 3 Nov. 1808, m. 24 Sep. 1844 at the Chapel of St. Mark's Coll. Chelsea, Rev. Edgell Wyatt- Edcki.l, B.A., Hector of North Cray, Kent, 1834-51. She d. six months after her sister, 14 Nov. 1870, at Stanford Hall afsd. V. 1879. 5. Alfred Thomas Townshend (Wyatt-Edgeix, afterwards Vehney-Cave), LORD BRAYE, 3rd and yst, but only surv. s. and h.('>) He was 4. 23 July 1840 in Groat Stanhope street, Mayfair, Midx. ; ed. at Eton and at Ch. Ch. Oxford. By royal lie. 5 Feb. 18S0, he took the name Yerney-Caxc in lieu of that of Wyatl-Edgdl. He m. 9 Sep. 1873, Cecilia Harriet, da. of William Gerard AVal.mesi.ky of Westwood Hall, co. Lancaster. Family Kstutes. These, in 1883, consisted of 2,896 acres in co. Leic. ; 1065 iu co. Northampton ; 650 in Herts, and 47 in Midx. Total 4,658 acres valued at £8,317 a year. Principal Residence. Stanford Hall, (near Rugby), co. Northampton. BREADALBANE ; BREADALBANE AND HOLLAND ; BREADALBANE OF TAY- MOUTH CASTLE, ami BREADALBANE OF KENMORE. Viscountcy [S.] 1. Sir John Campbell, Bart, [S.] of Glcnnrquhy alias T, 1G77 Glenorchy, co. Argyll, only s. and h. of Sir John C. Bart. [S.] ' of the same (a Baronetcy cr. 30 May 1625) by his wife Mary, da. of i C ^ I William (Gii.uiam), Eabl or Mentkith &c. [S.] was b. about 1635 ; and, having sue. his Father sometime after 1657, was M.P. for _ , . Argyllshire, after the Restoration, of which he had been a great sup- l^'J porter; was principal creditor of George (Sinclair), Earl of Caithness J ] GS] [8-], Whose debts amounted to abovea million of marks, from whom he obtiu'ned a reversion of his Earldom &c, and after whoso death with ■precedency (May 1672) he was accordingly cr. 128 June 1677, EARL OF "/ 1677. CAITHNESS, VISCOUNT OF BREADALBANE, LORD ST. CLAIR ['•(/« Sancto Claro"] OF BERRIEDALE AND GLEN- URCHY [S.], and directed to assume the name and arms of Sinclair [" cognomen dc Sinclair"] which name and all of which title* he resigned in 1681, it having been hold that George Sinclair, h. male of the last Earl of Caithness [&.] was entitled to that Earldom. On 13 Aug. 16S1 (under the name of "John Campbell of Glenurchie ") he, accordingly, obtained a new patent, with the former precedence (28 June 1677), whereby he was cr. EARL OF BRAE d'ALBANE [sic.] AND HOLLAND,^ VISCOUNT OF TAY AND PAINTLAND, LORD GLENURCHY, BENE- DERALOCH, ORMELIE AND AVEICK [S.], with a spec, proviso (similar to one (>) These were (1) Maria, b. 24 Dec. 1792 ; d. num. 13 May 1879, (2) Anne, wife of Rev. Henry Kemp Richardson, d. s.p. 22 May 1871, (3) Catherine, Dow. Countess Beauehamp, d. s.p. 4 Nov. 1875, and (J) Henrietta, the survivor, who inherited the title. Robert Otway-Cave, br. of these Ladies, sometime M.P. for co. Tipperary, d. s p. and v.m. 29 Nov. 1844. ( b ) His elder br. Edmund Verney Wyatt-Edgell, Capt. 17th Lancers d. unm. a few months before his mother, being slain at, Uluudi iu Zululand, 4 July 1S79, aged 33. ( c ) The choice of the title of " Holland " being that of the Earldom enjoyed by his late wife's family, which Earldom (tho' in 1673 it had become merged in that of " Warwick ") did not become extinct till 1759, seems somewhat unaccountable,