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BUCKHURST 385 XII. 1864. I. Elizabeth, Countess De la Warr, wife of George John (Sackville West), 5th Earl De la Warr (who d. 23 Feb. 1869), was, on 27 Apr. 1864, a: BARONESS BUCKHURST OF BUCKHURST, Sussex, for life, with rem. of the title of BARON BUCKHURST OF BUCKHURST, Sussex, to Reginald William Sacrville-West, her 2nd surv. s. and the heirs male of his body, with rem. to her 3rd, 4th, and 5th surv. sons, by her said husband, in like manner respectively; and with a proviso that if any person taking under these letters patent " shall succeed to the Earldom of De la Warr, and there shall upon, or at any time after, the occurrence of such an event be any younger son or any heir male of the body of any such other son, then and so often as the same shall happen the succession to the Honors and dignities thereby created shall devolve upon the son of the said Elizabeth, Countess De la Warr, or the heir who would next be entitled to succeed to the said dignity of Baron Buckhurst, if the person so succeeding to the Earldom of De la Warr was dead without issue male." The patentee of this extraordinary (") creation was the only child that left issue of John Frederick (Sacrville), 3rd Duke of Dorset, &'c., and 9th Baron Bucrhurst. She was i>. 11 Aug. 1795, / > and l?ap. at Knole; m. (as above) 21 June 18 13, at Knole, and d. a widow, 9 Jan. 1870, in 17 Upper Grosvenor Str. Will pr. 15 Feb. 1870, under ;^ 18,000. n o n '-t o n O C 3 c n O 3 ON XIII. 1870. 2. Reginald Windsor (Sackville-West, after- wards Sacrville), Baron Buckhurst, 2nd surv. s. and, according to the spec. Im. heir. Took his seat in the House of Lords under the title of Baron Buckhurst. On 23 Apr. 1873 he sue. his eldest br. as Earl De la Warr, {ffc, but nevertheless retained the Barony of Buckhurst. He d. 5 Jan. 1896. XIV. 1896. 3. Gilbert George Reginald (Sackville), Earl De LA Warr [167 i], Viscount Cantelupe, Baron De la Warr [1299], and Baron Bucrhurst OF Buckhurst, Sussex [1864], 2nd, but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 22 Mar. 1869. On 5 Jan. 1896 he sue. his father as Earl De la Warr, 6fc., with which Peerage the Barony of Buckhurst, in spite of the remarkable proviso in the patent of its creation above quoted to the contrary, remains united. C') See " De la Warr," Earldom. (^) It was not, however, absolutely unique, for there exists one other creation con- taining a proviso of a similar nature, viz. the Earldom of Cromartie, fee., granted (three years previously) 21 Oct. 1861, to Anne, Duchefs of Sutherland, but the devolution of this Earldom has not been similarly tested. They have been appositely called "the two Jumping Peerages," the intention having apparently been to create a Peerage that -would jump from one person (in his life time) to another, according as certain contingencies arose. (*>) The Barony of Buckhurst was claimed, together with Knole Park, in Seven- oaks, Kent, and other Sackville estates, by the Hon. Mortimer Sackville-West, the 50