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CLEVELAND 287 FamUy Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 55,537 acres in co. Durham; 25,604 in Salop; 6,025 in Sussex; 4,784 in Somerset; 3,482 in Northants; 2,397 in Wilts; 2,449 i" Kent; 2,520 in Cornwall; an un- known quantity (worth ;(i3,970 a year) in co. Stafford; 1,085 '" Devon, and II in CO. Gloucester. Total 104,194 acres, worth £^7,29^ a year. Principal Residences. — Raby Castle, co. Durham, and Battle Abbey, Sussex. Note. — Battle Abbey, with 6,000 acres, was sold by auction 26 Nov. 1901, for ;^ 2 00,000, C*) to Sir Augustus Webster, Bart., whose father had sold it to the 4th Duke in 1857. CLEWORTH John (Drummond), Earl of Melfort [S.], was, by patent, dat. at Dublin, 7 Aug. 1689, cr. by James II (after his deposition from the English throne), BARON CLEWORTH [i.e. Clewer, near Windsor], Berks-C) See "Melfort," Earldom of [S.], cr. 1686. For a list of the Jacobite Peerage see vol. i. Appendix F. CLIFDEN OF GOWRAN BARONY [I.] I. James Agar,('=) s. and h. of Henry A., of , , Gowran Castle, co. Kilkenny (d. 18 Nov. 1746), by ' ' ■ Anne, sister of Welbore, Baron Mendip, da. of -^-j_^,, i-. , Welbore Ellis, Bishop of Meath, was b. 25 Mar. Vlbt^UUINiUl [l.J j^^^. ^^g ^_p_ ^^^ Gowran, 1753-60; for co. I. 1781. Kilkenny, 1761-76; and for Gowran again, 1776; Commissioner of the Revenue [I.], 1771-85; Com- arms and alliances of the Vane family (the early ones mythical) were set up in the windows of the great hall at Battle, [ex inform. J. H. Round). "In her youth had been a most beautiful woman. She possessed much of the ability of her brother; she had read widely, talked very well, and was a good artist. Her second husband, the late Duke of Cleveland, was a fine specimen of an English aristocrat, and as he got older I think his picturesqueness increased. In the evening, when he wore his Ribbon of the Garter, standing up with his tall erect figure, piercing eyes, and snow- white hair, he was always a very striking personage." {Alcmories of Fifty Tears, by Lady St. Helier, 1909, p. 94). Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff in his Notes from a Diary mentions "the excellent reply attributed to her when some foreigner, who had been long absent from England, said 'And what has become of that beautiful Lady Dalmeny whom I used to admire so much,' 'Ah monsieur, elle n'est plus.'" V.G. (^) The Duke of Cleveland was one of the 28 noblemen who in 1883 possessed above 100,000 acres in the United Kingdom. See a list thereof in vol. vi, Appendix H. (b) See Riddell, p. 963. (■=) See vol. ii, p. 487, note " b," as to the 4 Peerages, conferred, within 40 years, on different members of the house of Agar,