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198 BLYTHSWOOD frew,(^) with a spec. rem. failing heirs male of his body to five [!] of his yr. brothers in like manner (such number comprising the whole of them), the three younger being placed before the 2nd of the 5 brothers. () Pres. of the Highland and Agric. Soc. [S.] 1896-97; Lord Lieut, of co. Renfrew 1904 till his death. He ;«., 7 July 1864, in Whitehall Chapel, Augusta Clementina, 3rd da. of Robert John (Carrington, /or;«^r/>' Smith), 2nd Baron Carrington of Upton, being ist da. by his 2nd wife, Charlotte Augusta Annabella, da. of Peter Robert (Drummond-Burrell, formerly Burrell), Lord Willoughby de Eresby. He d. s.p., at Blythswood House, 8, and was bur. 11 July 1908, at Inchinnan, near Glasgow, aged 73. Personalty about £,c)fioo, exclusive of large settled estates.() His widow, who was b. 10 June 1841, living 191 1. He was sue, under the spec, rem., by his next br., who is outside the scope of this work. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 14,032 acres in co. Argyll, and 1,854 in co. Renfrew. Total, 15,886 acres, worth C^ASS ^ y^^""? exclusive of ;^i,9o6 for minerals. Principal Seat. — Blythswood House, co. Renfrew. BOCONNOC i.e. " BocoNNOc, Cornwall," Barony (Pitt), see " Camelford," Barony, cr. 1784; extinct 1804. BODIAM CASTLE See " AsHcoMBE of Dorking, Surrey, and of Bodiam Castle, Sussex," Barony (Cubitt), cr. 1892. BODMIN i.e. " Bodmin, Cornwall," Viscountcy (Robartes), see " Radnor," Earldom of, cr. 1679; extinct lysi- (^) This was one of eight Baronies conferred on the recommendation of Lord Salisbury when leaving office. Seebstof them jkZi "Llangattock." No less than twoof these (this one and Amherst of Hackney) had special remainders, in this case the exten- sion being "a very large order," and one almost unprecedented. Compare this case of five gentlemen at once being thus specially honoured for the merits (however great) of a surviving elder brother, with the limited number of persons which are usually included in such marks of favour, one, which, until a very recent period, was never granted save in cases of transcendent merit. For a list of, and remarks on special remainders granted to Commoners, see vol. iii, Appendix F. (^) i.e. Robert Douglas Campbell, who d. I June 1896, leaving male issue, and who was (it is said) passed over "for some misconduct." .('^) An active Conservative and Tariff Reformer, much interested in science, ex- perimenting largely in electricity and physics generally. He received the freedom of the City of Glasgow not long before his death. Douglas-Support, co. Lanark, the fine mansion of his successor, the Rev. Sholto Douglas Campbell, was destroyed by fire in June 1908. V.G.