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352 DEVONSHIRE Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 89,462 acres in Derby- shire; 19,329 in the West Riding of Yorkshire; 12,681 in Lancashire; 983 in Cumberland; 1,392 in Lincolnshire, and 179 in Notts, Staffordshire and Cheshire; also (in the South), 1 1,062 in Sussex; 3,014 in Somersetshire and 524 in Middlesex. In Ireland, 32,550 acres in co. Cork; 27,488 in CO. Waterford; and 3 in co. Tipperary. Total, 198,667 acres, valued at X 1 80,750 a year. Principal Residences. — Chatsworth House and Hardwicke Hall, both in co. Derby; Holkar Hall, Westmorland; Bolton Abbey, co. York; Compton Place, near Eastbourne, Sussex; and Lismore Castle, CO. Waterford.(*) DEYNCOURT see DEINCOURT DEYVILLE see DEIVILLE DIGBY OF SHERBORNE BARONY. I. "John Digby, Knt.," was, on 25 Nov. 1 61 8, cr. BARON DIGBY OF SHER- I- 161 8. BORNE, CO. Dorset, and, on 15 Sep. 1622, was cr. EARL OF BRISTOL. He d. 21 Jan. 1652/3. II. 1 64 1. 2. George (Digby), Baron Digby of Sher- borne, s. and h. ap., was sum. in his father's Barony as above, v.p., 9 June 1641. He sue. his father, 21 Jan. 1652/3, as Earl of Bristol. He d. 20 Mar. 1676/7. III. 1677 3. John (Digby), Earl of Bristol and to Baron Digby of Sherborne, only surv. s. and 1698. h. He d. s.p., 18 Sep. 1698, when all his honours became extinct. The estate of Sherborne was inherited by his cousin and h. male, William, 5th Baron Digby of Geashill [I.], whose grandson Henry, the 7th Baron, was, in 1765, cr. Baron Digby of Sherborne [G.B.]. See the next article. largely owing to her influence that her second husband took such an active part in politics, and her great ambition was to see him Prime Minister. She spoke with a German accent and was very fond of card-playing and racing. V.G. (*) The Duke of Devonshire stood 7th in point of acreage, but and in point of rental, among the 28 noblemen who in 1883 possessed above 100,000 acres in the United Kingdom. See a list of these in vol. vi, Appendix H. It is curious, how- ever, that not one acre of all this vast property is in Devonshire, from which county the Peerage title is taken. So also as to the Earl of Derby in Derbyshire, ^c. See ante, p. 222. q n o E. 3 S- o "^