BRITAIN'S NOBILITY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 10 September 1915, Page 3

BRITAIN'S NOBILITY.

WAR'S HEAVY TOLL

The war is now in its .twelfth month, and the list of losses sustained by families in possession .of hereditary honors is a very large one (says an .English exchange). Of Peers we have lost Lords Anneslev, Brabourne, Congteton, De Freyne, Hawarden, Roberts (who really died on service), and possibly Lord' Erne, whose fate is uncertain. It is a curious fact that all of these, except Lord Brabourne, were Irishmen. The toll of heirs to Peerages is grievously heavy. The following Peers have lost their heirs: The Marquises of Lin- 1 colnshire, Northampton, and Tweeddale; the Earls of Aylesford, Ranfurly, Shrewsbury, Westmeath, and Yarborough; Viscounts Hardinge. 1 Templetown, Monck, and Valentia; j Lords Aberdare, Balfour of Burleigh. ! De Blaquiere, Desborough, Dunleath. Hamilton of Dalzell,_ Hardinge of Penshurst, Killanin, Kinnaird, Knares■borough, Leconfield, Macdonald, Manners, O'Neill, Playfair, Redesdale, St. Davids, Stamfordham, and Willingdon : and the Baronesses Aaiherst of Hackney and Kinloss, Lqrd Bolton iias lost his second direct •heir, 'i he eldest •son of his eldest son. Amongst the missing are the heirs of the Earl of Dudley, Viscount Bridport, and Lords Auckland and Stratheden and Campbell. By these deaths there is now no heir to the Marquisate of Lincolnshire, (there are heirs to his Barony of Carrington), nor to the Baronies of Kil-, lanin, Knaresborough (there is an heir to.the Baronetcy held by Lord Khares'inrons;h), Playfair and Stamfordham. The list of sons and brothers of Peers killed in the war is too long to enumerate.

As regards Peers connected with Scotland, such a. record includes rthe Duke of Abercorn, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earls of Galloway, Glasgow, and Lauderdale; Lords Lovat, Sempill and Sinclair, and. Lady Strathcona. A brother of the Duke of Roxburghe is mis.sing. Wounded Scottish Peers include the Duke of Roxburg'he and the Earls of Dalhousie and Leven and Melville. The Earl of Stair and Lord Garlics (Lord Galloway's heir) are prisoners.

The list of Baronets killed in the war includes Sir Gawaine Baillie, fifth Baronet of Pblkemmet; Sir Evelyn Bradford, second Baronet; Sir M-on-tague Cholmeley, fourth Baronet; Sir Roland Corbet, fifth Baronet; Sir Archibald Gibson-Craig of Riceatrton, fourth Baronet; Sir Robin Duff, second Baronet; Sir John Fowler of Braemore, third Baronet; Sir Edward Hulse, I seventh Baronet:- Sir Richard Levinge, ] tenth Baronet ; Sir Gilchrist Ogilvy _.of j Inverquharity, eleventh. Baronet;" Sir : Frank Rose, second Baronet; and Sir | Francis Waller, fourth Baronet. The following Baronets have lost their heirs: Sir Edmund Antrobus, fourth Baronet (Sir Edmiind himself has since died); Sir Frederick Banbury, first Baronet (no heir left); Sir Charles Campbell, eleventh Baronet of Auchinbreck; Sir Edward St. Lawrence Clarke, fourth Baronet (no heir left; two Sons killed in -sra-r); Sir .Charles Dunbar of Northneld, eighth Baronet; Sir Henry Farquhar of Gilminscroft, fowrt'h ' Baronet; Sir William Foster, third Baronet; Sir John Fowler of Braemore., third Baronet {Sir John is since dead); Sir George Jenkinson, twelfth Baronet (Sir George has since died); Sir Albert Naylor-Levland, second Baronet; Sir William" Miller of Glenlee, fifth Baronet; Sir Thomjts Stafford, first Baronet; Sir Charles Graves-Sawle, foairth Baronet (no heir left); and Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth, first Baronet (Sir Robert has since died). The heir of Sir Ralph Anstruther of Balcaskie, sixth Baronet, is missins.