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220 DUNMORE— DUNKAVEN. [Alexander-Edward Murray t;/;//!^? Viscount Fincastle, s. andli. ap., b. 22 April 1S71, the rrince of Wales being cue of his sponsors-] Family Estates. — These, in 1SS3, consisted of 74,000 acres in co. Inverness (valued at £2,839 a year) and 4.620 in co. Stirling. Total 7S.620 acres worth £10, 111 a year, exclusive of shooting rents and of £ 1,000 for minerals. Principal Residence ; Dunrnore (formerly Eapitinstone) Park, near Falkirk, co. Stirling. DURING. i.e., " Dunsing ofPuxxixc: axd Pitcairns, co. Perth," Barony (Rollo), cr. 1869 ; see " Kollo," Barony [S.], cr. 1651, sub the 10th Lord. DUNOON, i.e., " Oransav, Dunoon, and Arase," Baronies [S.] (CampLcll), cr. 1706, with the Eabldom of Ilay [S.] ; which see ; ex. 1761. DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT EARL. Earldom [I.] 1, Valentine Richard Quix("), of Ad are, co. Limerick, t 1S-T> B - and °f Windhaui( b ) Qnin, of the same, by Frances, da. of Richard Dawson, of Dawson's Grove, co. Monaghan, was b. 30 July 1752 ; metric at Oxford (Mag. Col!.) 31 May 1761) ; sue. his father April 1789 J cr. a Baronet 24 March 1781 J M.P. for Kilmallock, 1799-1S00 : raised to the peerage 31 July 1S00( C ), being cr. BARON ADARE of Adare [I.] lie was subsequently, 5 Feb. 1810, cr. VISCOUNT MOUNT-EARL [I.], and, finally, 5 Feb. 1S22, VISCOUNT ADARE, and EARL OF DUNRAVEN (") and MOUNT- EARL [I.] He m. firstly, 24 Aucr. 1777, Frances Muriel, da. of Stephen (Fox- Stkangways), 1st Earl of Ilchester, by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Thomas Horner. She, who was b. Aug. 1755, el. (as Baroness Adare) May 1814. He m. secondly 26 Feb. 1810, Margaret Mary, widow of Col. Arthur BleNNBBHASSST, relict, formerly, of George L'Estrange, da. of James Coghlan. of Claghan House, King's county. She el. (as Viscountess Mount-Earl) 0 Nov. 1S21 in the Circus, Bath. He rf. 24 Aug. 1S24, aged 72. Will pr. 1824.(°) II. 1824. 2. Windham Henry (WYKBHAM-Qrflii), Earl of Dun- raven and Mount-Earl, &c. [I.], s. and h., b. 21 Sep. 1782 ; ed. at Eton and at Mag. Coll., Oxford, where he matric. 28 May 1799 ; M.P. for co. Limerick, 1806-20 ; styled Viscovkt Adare, 1322-24. Having m. 27 Dec. 1810, Caroline, da. and h. of Thomas WYSDHAM, of Dunraven Castle, co. Glamorgan (by ( a ) Some account of the families of O'Quin or Quiii is in the " Her and Gen." vol. iii, pp. 490-498 in a review of the " Mcmoricds of Adare Manor." ( b ) The christian name of " Windham," given to him (as well as to his 2d son and to his grandson, the 3d Earl) possibly represented that of " Wielcnhnm" ; his mother having been a coheir of the family of Widenham, of the Court, co. Limerick. The marriage of the 2d Earl with the heiress of Wyndham of Dunraven, in 1810, appeals to be the first connection of that family with the race of Quin. ( c ) He was one of the 20 commoners ennobled in that year, being the year of the Irish Union. See vol. 1, p. 166, note " a," sub. " Ashtown." (*) The title of " Dunraven was in honour of the possession of his son's wife, the heiress of Dunraven Castle, co. Glamorgan. See a similar instance of a peerage title taken from the estate of a da. in law, when in 1616, Lord Chancellor Ellcsmere was cr. Viscount Brackley, vol. ii, p. 2, note "b." {") It is difficult to understand why the services conferred by this gentleman ■were rewarded with a Baronetcy, a Barony, two Viscounties, and an Earldom. They appear to have rendered in the short time (1799-1800) when he was M.P. [I.] for which the Barony conferred in 1S00 would seem to have been au equivalent. See note " c," ante.