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GLENELG —GLENLUCE. 35 GLENELG. Barony. The Rt. Hon. Charles Grant, 1st s. of Charles Grant, I. 1835 Many years M.P. for Invernesshire, by Jane, da. of Thomas Fraseb, tn ' ' was b. 26 Oct. 1778, at Kidderpore, in Bengal; ed. (as a Pensioner) at 1 QRfi M »g- Coll. Cambridge, 1795-1801 ; 4th Wrangler, Senior Chancellor's 10UD - Medallist and B.A., 1801; M.A. and Fellow 1804; LL.D. (Hon.) 1819. Barrister (Line. Inn) 1807; M.P. for the Fortrose burglis 1807-18, and for Jp.vernesshire 1818-35 ; was a Lord of the Treasury 1813-19; P.C. 1819: Vice President 1823-27, and President, 1827-28, of the Board of Trade, under the Conservative ministry ; President of the Board of Control, 1830-34, under the Whig ministry, and finally, from April 1834 to Jan. 1839, Sec. of State for the Colonies, being cr., 1 1 May 1835, BAB ON GLENELGO 1 ) of Glenelg, co. Inverness. " The Canadian rebellion of 1838 was fatal to his reputation, and resulted in the resignation of his office "( b ), his conduct being (not inaptly) stigmatised by the King as "vacillating and procrastinating."( b ) After this beheld no office but that of a Commissioner of the land tax, with a pension of £2,000 a year. Hed. unm.at Cannes, in the south of France, 23 April 1866, aged 87, when his Peerage became extinct. G LENG ALL. Earldom [I.] j, Richard (Butler), Baron Caher [I.], was, on 22 t loifi Jan. 1816, cr. VISCOUNT CAHER, co. Tipperary and EARL OF GLENOALL [I.] He was b. 13 Nov. 1775, and sue. his father James, Baron Caher, in that dignity iu July 1788. See "Caher " Barony [I.], cr. 15S3. Under tbe will of his distant cousin, Pierce (Butler) Baron Calier (who (/. a few weeks previously), he sue. to the family estates. Rep. Peer [I.], 1S01-16, being one of those originally elected. He m. 13 Aug. 1793, Emily, da. of St. John Jkiteuies, of Blarney Castle, co. Cork, by Arabella, sister of John, 1st Earl of Clare [I.], da. of John Fitz Gibbon, of Mount Shannon, co. Limerick. He d. 80 Jan. 1819, aged 43, at Caher Castle, co. Tipperary. Will pr. 1820. His widow d. 2 May 1836, aged 69, in Grosvenor square, Mids. IT. 1819, ,?. Richard (Butler), Earl of Glengall (1816), to Viscount Caher [1816], and Baron Caher [1583], in the peerage 1858. of Ireland, only s. and h , 1. 17 May 1794, at Cork ; styled Viscount Caher, 1816-19; sue to the peerage [I.], Jan. 1819 ; Rep. Peer [I.], 1829-58 ; Col. of the Tipperary Militia. He m. 20 Feb. 1834, at St. Geo. Han. sq., Margaret Lauretta, 2d and yst. da. and coheir of William Melhuish, of Woodford, Essex. He d. s.p.m., 22 Jan. 1858, when the Earldom and Viscountcy certainly, and the Barony possibly became extinct.(<>) His widow d. at No. 25, Grosvenor square, Midx., 2 April 1S64. Will pr. 21 May 1S64, under £45,000. GLENISLA see Glentla. GLENLIVET. i.e., Gordon of Strathaven and Glenlivet," Barony [S.] (Gordon), cr. 1660, with the Earldom of Abotne [S.], which see. GLENLUCE. i.e., "Glenluce and Stranraer," Barony |S.] (Dalrymph), cr. 1690, with the Viscountcy of Stair [S.], which see. i'.c."Newliston, Glenluce and Stranraer," Barony [S.] (Dahynple), cr. 1703, with the Earldom of Stair [S.], which see. (») He purchased the estate of Glenelg for about £85,000 from the heirs of the Campbell family. The spelling of " Glenelg," whether backwards or forwards, is the same. (l>) " Annual Register " for 1866, where it is added that he was " the last of the Cannint/Ucs' and that tho' " a politican of considerable note in his day " he " had somewhat passed out of the recollection of the public," (<=) See vol. ii, p. 105, note "a," sub "Caher." D 2