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296 DE TABLEY in Brook Str., Midx. He w., 2ndly, 26 Jan. 1871, at Compton Verney, CO. Warwick, Elizabeth, widow of James Hugh Smith-Barry, ist da. of Shalcross Jacson, of Newton Bank, co. Chester, by Frances, da. of the Rev. Joseph Cook, of Newton Hall. He d. 19 Oct. 1887, at Tabley House, in his 76th year, and was bur. in the church of Great Budworth. Will pr. 21 Jan. 1888, above ;^7 1,000, but said to be exceeded by the liabilities. His widow was living 191 6. III. 1887 3. John Byrne Leicester (Warren), Baron de to Tabley of Tabley House, also a Bart. [I. 1671], ist and 1895. only surv. s. and h. by ist wife; b. 26 Apr. 1835, at Tabley House; ed. at Eton circa 1848-54, and at Ch. Ch., Oxford, B.A. 1859, M.A. i860; Barrister (Line. Inn) i860, F.S.A. 25 Jan. 1883. A Liberal. C) He d. unm., 22 Nov. 1895, in the Isle of Wight, and was bur. at Little Peever, aged 60, when the peerage became extinct^ but the Baronetcy devolved on a distant cousin. Will pr. at ^^87,461. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 6,195 ^'^^s in Cheshire, worth ;^ 1 4,647 a year. Principal Residence. — Tabley House, near Knutsford, Cheshire. DEVEREUX or DEVEROSE() BARONY BY i. Sir John Devereux, or Deverose('=) of Lyonshall, WRIT. Dorstone, and Whitechurch Maund in Bodenham, co. I n Hereford, and Dinton, Bucks. His parentage is unknown, ^ ^' but he was probably a yr. s. of William Deverose, of Bodenham, who d'. in 1376/7. ('^) He joined the expedition of Bertrand du Guesclin to assist Don Enrique of Trastamara against Pedro the Cruel, King of Castile, but was recalled in 1366, with the other English subjects, by the Prince of Wales.() He distinguished himself at the battle of Najera, 3 Apr. I367.() Seneschal of the Limousin, 1369 to I37i.() He was at the capture of Limoges by the Prince of Wales in Sep. I370.() Appointed Seneschal of Rochelle in I372.(') Was defeated and taken prisoner by Du Guesclin at the battle of Chize in Poitou, 21 Mar. (*) He did not vote on the Home Rule Bill in 1893. He is spoken of as " a true poet, a scholar of very varied accomplishments, and a skilled numismatist," in a notice by Theodore Watts-Dunton, in the Athemsum, 30 Nov. 1895. Accord- ing to Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff he was "one of the most accurate of our critical botanists." Most of his poems were published pseudonymously as by " George F. Preston " or " William Lancaster." V.G. C) This article is by G. W. Watson. V.G. (•=) His arms were. Argent, a fesse and in chief three roundlets Gules, a mullet Or for difference. These arms are attributed to him in the Rolls, and were also, with the same difference, set up in Wythyam Church, Sussex, according to Nicholas Charles (Lansdowne MSB., no. 874, f. 130). C) He was obviously not the eldest son of this William, as the pedigrees state. For the family of Devereux of Bodenham, see Ferrers of Chartley. (') Froissart, lib. i, cap. 233-308.