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I85I to 1868. BOTREAUX XX. i8?i 20. Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet'i (Rawdon-Hastings), Marquess of Hastings [U.K.], Lord Grey of Ruthin, (=) [1324], Bot- REAUX [1368], HuNGERFORD [1426], MoLEYNS [1445], Hastings of Hastings [1461], and Hastings of Hunger- ford [1482] in England, and Baron Rawdon [G.B.], also Earl of Loudoun C") fffc. [S.], and Earl of MoiRAand Baron Rawdon [I.], br. and h. He d. s.p., 10 Nov. 1868, when all his honours [I.,G.B. and U.K.] cr. by paient,heczme extinct, the Scottish Peerages devolving on his ist sister (the h. of line), and the English Baronies (in fee) falling into abeyance between her and his other sisters and coheirs.^ See fuller account under "Hastings," Marquessate, cr. 1817, extinct 1868. , 245 z o ■ "n 00 C ~ 'a P |-^ n o c 3 c 3 &- n ►1 XXI. 1871. 21. Edith Maud, ^«(P_/«rf Countess OF Loudoun, tr'c. [S.], ist sister and coh. (but heir of line and inheritrix, in 1868, of the Scottish Peerages), then wife of Charles Frederick Abney- Hastings (to whom she was m. 30 Apr. 1853), who (after her death) was (4 May 1880) cr. Baron Donington (see that title). She, who was b. 10 Dec. 1833, became Baroness Botreaux [i368],('^) Baroness Hunger- ford, Baroness Moleyns, Baroness Hastings of Hastings, and Baroness Hastings of Hungerford, the abeyance of these Baronies (of which she was heir to a fourth part,(^) and the senior coh.) having been terminated by letters patent, 6 Nov. 1871, in her favour. She d. 23 Jan. 1874, aged 40. See fuller account under "Loudoun," Earldom of [S.], with which dignity these Baronies thus became united. (') On the 18 Nov. 1858 he iwc. his mother in this Barony, of which, at his death, in 1868, the representation devolved on his 5 sisters, viz. the 4 daughters (hereafter mentioned) of his father, and Barbara, Baroness Churston, the da. of his said mother by her 2nd husband, Admiral Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton, G.C.B. C') The Earldom of Loudoun, i3c. [S.], was inherited by the 2nd Marquess of Hastings on the death of his mother. Flora, sua jure Countess of Loudoun, i3. [S.], on 9 Jan. 1 840. (■=) The Marquesses of Hastings (1840 to 1868) possessed a Peerage not only of England, Scotland, Ireland, but of Great Britain, and of the United Kingdom. (^) See ante, p. 241, note "e." (') The other coheirs were her three younger sisters of the w^hole blood, viz.: (i) Bertha Lelgarde, h. 30 Apr. 1835, who w., 11 Dec. 1855, Augustus Wykeham Clifton, and in whose favour the Barony of Grey (of Ruthin), to which, in right of her mother, she was one of the five coheirs (see note "a" above) was terminated by patent, 29 Dec. 1885; (2) Victoria Mary Louisa, b. 18 July 1837, m., 31 Oct. 1859, J°h" Forbes Stratford Kirwan, and d. 30 Mar. 1888, leaving issue; and (3) Frances Augusta Constance, h. lb Mar. 1844 (posthumous), m., 30 July 1 863, Charles (Marsham) Earl of Romney.