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FORESTER, — FORMARTINE. 395 IV. 1886. J h Orlando Watkin "Weld (Weld-Forester), Baron FoiiKSTEit OF Willey Park, br. and h., being 1th, but 1st surv. a. of the 1st Lord, b. 18 April 1813 ; ed. at Westm, school, and at Triu. Coll., Cam- bridge ; M.A. ; 1888 ; in Holy Orders ; Hector of Broseley, Salop, 1841-59 ; Rector of Doveridgo, co. Derby, 1859-67, and of Gedling, Notts, 1867-87 ; Preb. of Hereford, 1817-74 ; Canon Res. and Chancellor of York, 1874. He m. firstly, 14 July 1840, his cousin, Sophia Elizabeth, da. of Richard Norman, by Elizabeth Isabella (his maternal Anut), da. of Charles (Manners), 4th Duke ok Rutland abovenamed, She d. 2 April'1872, in her 70th year, at Gedling Rectory. He in. secondly, 5 Oct. 1875, at St._ John's, Paddington, Emma Maria, 1st da. of William Tollbmache, by his first wife, Anna Maria Jane, 3d da. of Edward Adolphus (Seymour, afterwards St. Maue), 12th Duke op Somerset. She was 4. 7 June 1839. Family Estates.— These, in 1SS3, consisted of 14,891 acres in Salop and 721 in Staffordshire. Total 15,615 acres, worth £22,581 a year. Principal Residence. Willey Park, near Broseley, Salop. FORFAR. Sec "Aston of Forfar" Barony [&1> (Atton), cr. 1627, dormant, Earldom [S.] i. Archibald (Douglas), Earl of Ormond, Lord I. 1661 Bothwell and Haktside [SJj younger s. of Archibald, Earl of Ormond, &c. [S.] (who himself was s. and h. ap. of William, 1st Marquess OF Douolas [S.J but who d. v.p.), being eldest s. of his father's second wife, Jean, 1st da. and coheir of David (Wemyss), 2d Earl of Wemyss [S.], was b. 1653 ; sue. his father, 15 April 1655, as Earl of Ormond, &c. [S.], under the spec. rem. in the creation (3 April 1651), of those dignities. These, however, he resigned, and was, by a new patent, 2 Oct. 1061, cr. EARL OF FORFAR, LORD WANDALE AND HARTSIDE [S.], with rem. to his heirs male. He was zealous for the Revolution ; was P.C. to William III. and to Queen Anne ; was one of the commissioners for the Privy Seal [S.], 16S9-90 ; and for the Treasury, 1705 and 1706, and was a steady supporter of the Union. He m. (lie. from Vic. Gen., he .aged 25 and she 17), Robiua, da. of Sir William Lockhart, of Lee, Ambassador to France, by his second wife, Robiua, da. of John Sbwster, by Anne, sister of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector He d. 11 Dec. 1712, in his 60th year. Fun. entry in Lyon office. His widow d. at Bothwell Castle, 20 March 1741, aged 79. Her will pr. 1741. II. 1712, 2. Archibald (Douglas), Earl of Forfar, Lord to Wandale and Hartside [S.], only s. and h. Col. of the 3d Reg. of 1715. Foot (the Buns), 1713. Euvoy to Prussia, 1714. He was wounded in 17 places, at the battle of ShcrifFmuir, 13 Nov. 1715 (where he acted as Brig. Gen..), and was taken prisoner. He d. uum. (of his wounds), at Stirling, 8 Dec. 1715, when his honours became extinct or dormant.^) Admon. 6 Feb. 1715/6, and again 11 May 1717. FORMARTINE. i.e., " Formartine," Viscountcy [S.] {Gordon), cr. 1682, with the Earldom of Aberdeen [S.], which see. (") The heir male (collateral) would have been the Duke of Douglas [S.] till 1761 and, after his death (at that date), the Duke of Hamilton [S ] and his successors ; neither, however, ever assumed the title of Earl of Forfar, so that the grant to heirs male appears to have been understood as heirs male of the bod;/ of the grantee. " The dignity appears to have sunk with " the second Earl. "As far as yet discovered no ono siuce has assumed it, and Sir Robert Douglas, an undoubted collateral heir male explicitly states [Peerage pub. in 1764, p. 270], that by his death his honours became extinct." [lliddcll, 1833, p. 13.] It is also remarked that the collateral heir male, tho Duke of Douglas, "altho' sufficiently lavish of his titles, did not adopt Forfar."