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CALEDON 487 V. 1898. 5. Eric James Desmond (Alexander), Earl of Caledon, 6t'c. [I.], I St s. and h. ap., b. 9 Aug. 1885, in Carlton House Terrace, Westm. He was a page at the Coronation of Edward VII; 2nd Lieut, ist Life Guards. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 29,236 acres, co. Tyrone, and 2,877, CO. Armagh, viz. 32,1 13 acres in Ireland, worth ;^I9,754 a year; also 1,947 acres in Herts, worth £,2,^6^] a year. Total, 34,060 acres, worth ;{^22,32i a year. Principal Residences. — Castle Caledon, co. Tyrone, and Tittenhanger Park, near St, Albans, Herts. CALLAN VISCOUNTCY [I.] I. George Feilding, s, of William, Earl of Denbigh, and nephew of George, [afterwards Duke, I. 1622. but then] Marquess of Buckingham, High Admiral of England, was, on 7 Nov. 1622, cr. BARON FEILDING OF LECAGH, co. Tipperary, and VISCOUNT CALLAN, CO. Kilkenny [I.], with a grant of the reversion {") of the EARLDOM OF DESMOND, CO. Kerry [I.], on the death of Richard (Preston), the then Earl of Desmond, s.p.m. This event took place on 28 Oct. 1628, when the said Viscount Callan became Earl of Desmond [I.]. He d. 31 Jan. 1665, being sue. by his son William, who, in 1675, became Earl of Denbigh, in England. See "Desmond," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1622. BARONY [I.] I. George Agar, 3rd but ist surv. s. and h. of James Agar, of Ringwood, co. Kilkenny, by Rebecca, da. I. 1790 of William (Flower), ist Baron Castle Durrow [I.], to was b. 4 Dec. 1751; sue. his father (*>) 3 Aug. 1769; was 18 15. M.P. for Callan 1777-90 ; P.C. [I.] 12 Sep. 1789. On 4 June 1790, he was cr. BARON CALLAN of Callan, (*) This grant was in contemplation of his marriage with Eh'zabeth, only da. and h. presumptive of Richard (Preston), Earl of Desmond and Baron Dunmore [I.], and Lord Dingwall [S.], whose Irish Peerages, cr. 1 1 July 1619, would on his death s.p.m. (which occurred 28 Oct. 1628) have become extinct. The match, however, never took place, as in 1629 the said lady m. James Butler, then styled Viscount Thurles, afterwards the celebrated Duke of Ormonde. This patent refers to a patent dat. at Westm. II July [16 19] 17 Jac. I, by which Richard Preston, Knt., Baron Preston of Dunmore, was cr. Earl of Desmond. No entry of it has been found in the Calendar to the English Patent Rolls of that date, where this patent [7 Nov. 1622] is enrolled. C") He was killed by Henry Flood in a duel. His sister, Ellis, was cr. Countess of Brandon [I.] in 1758; while his two nephews (sons of his br., Henry Agar, of Gowran) were respectively cr. Viscount Clifden [I.] in 1781, and Baron Somerton [I.] (afterwards Earl of Normanton [I.]) in 1795; making four Peerages conferred, within 40 years, on different members of the family of Agar. G.E.C. A fifth was added by the creation of Lord Robartes in 1869, who was grandson of the Viscount Clifden abovenamed. The families of Pitt and Baring have had similar fortune in the acquisi- tion of honours; see notes sub Camelford and sub Revelstoke. V.G.