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582 APPENDIX E Viscount Stanhope of Mahon. This practice is similar to what is often done in the case of an actual Peerage; e.g. "Viscount Barnewall of Kingsland," "Viscount Monson of Castlemaine," i^c, which are frequently designated as "Viscount Kingsland," "Viscount Castlemaine," i^c. The case, how- ever, of [Nelson] Earl Nelson (Viscount Merton of Trafalgar and of Merton, co. Surrey), where the h. ap. is styled Viscount Trafalgar, though the designation of " Trafalgar " is, in the patent, joined, not to the family name, but to the name of another locality, seems somewhat anomalous. Lastly, (lo) with regard to the practice of attributing courtesy titles to the children of courtesy Lords (a practice not inaptly described as " the shadow of a shade"), this, as to the eldest grandson of a Duke or a Marquess (such grandson being the s. and h. ap. of the s. and h. ap. of the Peer), obtained as early, if not earlier, than the end of the 17th century. In the will of Charles, Duke of Bolton, dat. 9 Apr. 1694, he speaks of his grandson, the s. and h. ap. of his ist s. and h. ap. {styled Marquess of Winchester), as " Charles commonly called Lord St. John." As to all other children of courtesy Lords, it is doubtful if any courtesy title was ever attributed to them till the reign of Queen Victoria — certainly none has ever been officially recognised; e.g. it being the custom that none under the rank of an Earl's daughter should officiate as a Royal bridesmaid, and Her Majesty wishing for the services as such (on the occasion of her wedding, 10 Feb. 1840) of the da. of the (courtesy) Earl of Surrey and of the da. of the (courtesy) Earl of Uxbridge, it was thought necessary that the Queen's pleasure should be signified (by a document under the sign manual) that each of these ladies should hold the rank of the da. of an Earl, and they accordingly (on that day) took their place as the lowest in rank among the daughters of Earls, though the courtesy rank of the Earl of Surrey (the father of one of them) was that of a Marquess and above all Earls whatsoever. The case of the h. ap. of the Earl of Donough- more does not seem to fit into any of the above categories. The courtesy title adopted is that of Viscount Suirdale, which designation does not accord with any of the titles held by the Earl. See ante, p. 402, note "b." With it may be classed the title of " Garioch " used by the h. ap. of the Earl of Mar.