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i86 BLANTYRE Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana, da. of George (Howard), 6th Earl of Car- lisle. She, who was b. 8 Aug. 1825, d. 24 Nov. 1869, at Nice. He d. s.p.m.s., 15 Dec. 1900, aged nearly 82, at Erskine House, when his Peerage became extinct. Will pr. over ;^ 108,000 personalty. (") [Walter Stuart, j/)7fi2' Master of Blantyre, only s. and h., b. 17 July 1 85 1, at Erskine House, co. Renfrew; sometime Capt. ist Sutherland Rifles, d. unm. and v.p., 15 Mar. 1895.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 4,449 acres in co. Ren- frew; 2,946 in CO. Dunbarton; 2,953 in co. Haddington; 2,878 in co. Ber- wick, and 527 in co. Lanark. Total 24,061 acres, valued at about /,20,ooo a year. Principal Residence. — Erskine House, co. Renfrew. BLAQUIERE see DE BLAQUIERE BLARNEY i.e. " Blarney, co. Cork " Barony [I.] (Maccarty), see " Muskerry," Viscountcy [I.], cr. 1628; extinct 1770. BLASONBERRIE i.e. "Blasonberrie " Viscountcy [S.] {Hume), see " Marchmont," Earldom of [S.], cr. 1697. BLAYNEYC) BARONY [I.] I. Edward Blayney, 3rd s. of David Lloyd B., of J .^ Gregynog, co. Montgomery, by Elizabeth, da. of Lewis Jones, of Bishop's Castle, Salop, having served in Spain and the Low Countries, accompanied, as a Col. in the Army, the Earl of Essex to Ireland in 1598, and was made Gov. of Mount Norris in 1601; was at the siege of Kingsale; knighted at Dublin Castle, 29 May 1603; Seneschal ofco. Monaghan, 1604, being afterwards (by Charles I) made Lord Lieut, there- of; M.P. for CO. Monaghan, 161 3-1 5. P.C. [L], and one of the Governing Council for Munster, 161 5. By patents 21 Feb. 1607, and 8 June 161 1, he had grants of considerable territory in co. Monaghan; finally, on 29 July 1 62 1, he was cr. LORD BLAYNEY, BARON OF MONAGHAN,(^) CO. Monaghan [L]. He »z., before 13 June 1605, Anne, widow of George Blount, of Kidderminster, and formerly of Capt. Henry Colley, (=>) His 1st da., Mary, h. 15 Sep. 1845, d. unm. His 2nd da., Ellen, i. 31 Aug. 1846, m. Major Sir David Baird, Bart. His 3rd da., Evelyn, h. 24 June 1848, m. W. H. Gladstone (//. 1891), 1st s. of the well-known statesman, and d. 26 June 1888. By his will he left his landed estates to his grandson, William, yr. s. of Sir D. Baird. V.G. (•>) For various corrections and additions to the account of this peerage the Editor is indebted to D. G. Warrand. V.G. (') The preamble to the patent is given in Lodge, vol. vi, p. 308.