s ABERCOBN — ABERCROMBIE. was cr. MARQUESS OF HAMILTON (») o{ Strabane, co. Tyrone, and DUKE OF ABERCOBN [I.]. From Feb. 1S74 to Dee. 1870 he was (for the second turn-) Loiiu Lieut. of Irki.a.vd. He was subsequently K.wov K.tthakrdi.vaiiy (*) to Italy for the investiture (at Rome, 2 March 187S) of King Humbert, with the Order of the Outer. Chancellor of the University of Ireland, 1SS1.( C ) He m. 25 Oct. 1S32 at Gordon Castle, eo. Banff., Louisa Jane, 2nd da. of John (Rrssixi.) 6th Pukk op Bedford, by Ids 2nd wife Georgiana, 5th da. of Alexander (Gordon), 4th Duke or GoitDOX [S.J She, who was b. 8 July 1812, is a member (3rd class) of the V. and A. [James Hajumox, si&M MAK^UKSS OF HAMILTON, s. .-m<I h. ap., b. 21 Attg. 1S3S, at Brighton ; ed. at Christ Church, Oxford j B.A., I860 ; M.A., 1S65 | Hon. Col. Donegal Militia. I860 ; M.P. for co. Donegal, 1860-80 : Lord of the Bedchamber to the l'riucu of Wales. 18(56. He in. 7 Jan. 1869, at St.. Geo.. I Ian. s<|., Mary Anna, yst. da. of Richard William Penn (CDBZON Howk), 1st Haw. ttoWE, bv his 2nd wife Anne, 2nd da. of Admiral Sir John GoitE, K.C.B. Shi: was b. 23 July 1848. [James Albert Edward Hamilton, usually sjmkim of as LORD PAISLEY, being s. and h. ap. of James H., by courtesy styled Marquess of Hamilton above-named, 80 Nor. KSo'y, in Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, Midi., the Prime <>i Wales being one of the Sponsors at his baptism.] ABEBCliOMME Barons [S.]. /. Sir James S anui i.an i>s id' Atocromljy. tMim St. I 1G-47 Monanre, co. Fife, s. and h. of James S. (who tl. v.p.) ■■•hit. his grand- father, Sir William Sandilands in Oct., 1611, and being then of age, was served h. to him, 5 and Ifi «f irly 161:". On 10 July Ib'lti, he obtained a charter of the P.arony of Abcrcrombio, &c, and bv letters patent, dat. at Caiisbrooke Castle, 12 Dec. 1647, was a: LORD OF ABERCKOMBIK [S.].( tl ) In live years' time he had wasted all his property, and having in ] G4!l sold his Castle of Newark and other estates, co. Fife, to Lt.-Gen. David Leslie, he embarked at Kircaldy in 1650 for the continent, where he was living 1G5S. He m. before 1644. Agnes, ( e ) 2nd da, of David (Cakxeuie), 1st Eakl of Soithksk [S.J bv Margaret, da. of Sir David Lindsay of Edjsell. II. 1G... 2. James (Saxdilandk), Lord oi' AnEncROMBiic [8.], only s. and h. He d. s.p., 1GS1, when the title, became ex. (') This creation was by promotion ( !!) of his Irish Viscountcy of Strabane, a mode of procedure supposed to lie authorised by the act of the Irish Union, but (excepting in this instance) not acted upon since 1831, when its absurdity and possible illegality was noticed. If the Viseountcy of Strabane has been " promoted," what has become of it ? It cannot both exist ill its former state, and yet have been " promoted," to a higher. 1*1 See list of these Garter missions under " C'athca iit, " Kari, <r. 1814. ( c ) The Duke of Abercom, the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Vendam arc the only Peers (in 1883) who, beside their Peerage of Parliament, possess Peerages both in Scotland and Ireland. From 1840 to 1868 the Marquesses of Hastings enjoyed the same distinction, and from 1088 to 1710 the famous Duku of Ormonde, ( J ) To him and the heirs male of his body, and that they " indignitabuntur et nominabunUir Domini tit Abercrombie, omni tempore futuro." In the return of the Lords of Sessions [S.J, 12 June 1739, it is stated that " it does not appear that either the patentee, or any successor of his in that light ever sat or voted in Pai l. — See '• Robertson," pp. 214 and 218. (') A letter f withdrawing a charge against her of iiicoutiueu.ee
