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214 DUNFERMLINE — DUNG ANSON. Speaker of the House of Commons,^) 1835 to 1S30, when, on retirement, he was (with a pension of £1,000 a year) raised to the Peerage as above stated, lie was cr. D.O.L. of Oxford, 5 July 1810, and Dean of Faculty in the Univ. of Glasgow in 1841. He m. 11 June 1602, Maiy Anne, 1st da, of Egertou LEIOH, i>f High Leigh, co. Chester, by Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Francis Jodrell,. of Twemlow, in that co. He d. 17 April 1858, iu his S2d year, at Colinton House, Midlothian. His widow d. there 2 Aug. 1874. II. I85S, 3. Ralph (Abercromuy), Baron Dumfermline, only to s. and h., b. 6 April 1S03 ; was Attache, &c, at several foreign ci nrts, 1868. 1321-35 ; Minister at Florence, 1SS5-3!) ; at Turin, 1810-01 ; and at the Hague 1S51-08. K.C.B., 1 March 1851. He m. 18 Sep. 18:i8, Mary Eliza, 1st d. of Gilbert (ELLIOT), 2nd E.mii. of MintO, by Mary, da. of Patrick Bryoone. He d, s.p.m. 12 July 1S68, at Colinton House afsd., when the Barony became extinct. His widow, who was b. 14 Feb. 1811, d. 10 April 1874, at Home. DUMFRIES, sco "Dumfries." DUXGAN OF CLANE. i.e., "Duncan of Clane, co. KUdarc," Viscountoy [I.] (Dunffan), er. 14 Feb. 1661, with a spec. rem. See " Limerick," Earldom [I.] cr. 1085; both forfeited 1691 ; ex. 1715. DUNGAXNOtf. Barony [1.1 Matthew O'Xeill, styled " Fearuoragii," illcgit. son of y i r,io Con (O'Neill), Eaiu. of Tyrone [I.], by Alison, wife of a Blacksmith at Dumlalk, was, 1 Sep. 1642, cr. BARON OF DUNGANNON [I.] " to hold the dignity during the life of his father with limitation to the heir ap. of the Earldom "( b ). His father was at the same time (on renouncing the style of " Tin; O'Neill") cr. Earl of Tyrone [I.] for life with rem. to him, the said Matthew, and the heirs male of his bodjr.f*) He m. Joanna, da. of Constantine Maouire, by whom he was father of Hugh, the celebrated Earl of Tyrone [I.], 1587-1012. He was killed by his legit, br. Shane O'Neill. His widow m. Henry O'Neill, of the Fews. II. 1587. 1. Hugh O'Xeill, s. and h. ap. of Hugh, the celebrated Earl of Tyrone [I ] by his 2d wife, Judith, da. of Harms O'Donnell, was cr. 10 May 1587, "BARON OF DUNGANNON, () OR DUN- GANNON " [1.], during the life of his father with limitation to the heir apparent of his father's Earldom, the [said] Earldom of Tyrone [I.] being regranted to his father (with divers rems.) by eonfninatiou of the letters patent of 1 October(°) 1542. He d. unm. and v. p. at Rome in 1609, and was bur. in San I'ietro Montorio there. (*) His election by 316 votes against 310 (for the lute speaker, Manners-Sutton) was a triumph of the Whig party. His short career, however, as Speaker " was marked by- no incidents which called for the exercise or display of those qualities by which the office acquires importance in peculiar emergencies." — [Annual Reg. 1858.] ( b ) See " Creations 1483-1646," in ap. 47th Hep. D. K. Pub. Records. ( c ) The words iu the patent are "Ac, post decessum predicti Conacii, probatissimo viro, subdito nostro, Matheo, alias Ferdoraghe, O'Nele, filio predicti Conacii, ac hcre- dibu3 masculinis de corpore predicti Mathei remanere." (") See "Creations, 1483— 1646," in ap. 47th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records. "Dun- cannon," seems to he a now obsolete way of spelling " Ihmijannon ," and clearly refers to Dungaunon iu co. Tyrone and not to Diincannon in the south of Ireland. (•) Sic, though on the patent roll of 31 Hen. VIII, the date is 1 September.