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BRADFORD — BRANDON. 5 Salop 1875. Ho m. 30 April 1844, atWflley, Salop, Selina Louisa, da. of Cecil (Weld- Forester), 1st Baron Forester, by Katharine Mary, da. of Charles (Manners), 4th Duke of Rutland. [George Cecil Orlando Bridgeman, styled Viscount Newport, 1st s. anil h. ap., b. Feb. 1845, sometime, 1851-57, an officer in the Life Guards. M.P. for North Salop, 1867. He in. 7 Sep. 1S69, Ida Annabella Frances, 2nd da. of Richard George (Lumley) 9th Earl of Scarbrouou by Frederics Mary Adeliai, 2nd da. of Andrew Robert Drummond of Cadlands, Hants. She was b. 28 Nov. 1848.] Note. — In 1883, the family estates, besides some 62 acres in Westmorland and some other small properties (less than 60 acres in all) in Denbighshire, Leicester- shire, Montgomeryshire, and Worcestershire, consisted of 10,883 acres in Salop, worth £15,686 a year; 6,843 in co. Stafford, worth £10,795 a year; 1,906 in co. Warwick, worth £5,276 a year, and, 1,S58 in co. Lancaster, worth no less than, £'J,S'J3 a year. Tot d 21,710 acres, worth £41 ,982 a year. Principal Residences. — Weston l'ark, in Westou-undor-Lizard, co. Stafford, and Castle Bromwich, near Birmingham, co. Warwick. Sec NEWPORT OF BRADFORD, Viseountcy, ct. 1675. Full account given under " Bradford " Earldom of, cr. 1694 ; ex. 1762. BRAE D'ALBANE, see Breadalbaxe. BRAMFIELD, i.e. BRANTFIELD. See " Boteler of Brantfield," Barony, en 1628; ex. 16-17. BR AM WELL OF HEVER. Rt. Hon. Sir George "William Wilshere Bram- ate a Lord Justice of Appeal, was, on 3 Feb. 1S82, cr. BARON WELL OF HEVER, co. Kent. He was s. and h. of George Bramwcll of London, Banker (who d. 1-5 Sep. 1S5S aged 85) and was b. ill London 12 June 1S08; Barrister (Line. Inn and Inner Temple) IS38, practising on the Home circuit ; Q.C., 1851 ; Bencher (Inner Temple) 1851 ; Baron of the Exchequer, 1H50-76 ; Knighted 30 Jany. 1856 ; P.C., 1876 ; one of the Lords Justices of Appeal, 1876 to 1881, being on his retirement therefrom raised lo Ike Peerage as above. (») He m. firstly, 1830, Mary Jane, da. of Bruno Silva. She d, s.p.m. 13 April lS36.(b) Ho m. secondly in 1861 (-). BRANCEPETH. i.e. " Baron of BRANCEPETH, co. Durham," and Earl of Somerset ; See " Somerset " Earldom of, a: 1613 ; ex. 1645. i.e. "Barox BRANCEPETH OF BRANCEPETH, co. Durham," cr. 31 Aug. 1866. See " Boynb " Viseountcy [I.], cr. 1717, under the 7th Viscount. BRANDON [co. Suffolk]. Barony"™!™ 0F BRAND0N ' C °' SufMk >" f Full account given under "Mac i.e. " VISCOUNT BRANDON, co. Suffolk," 1 CLES 1 F ™ D " E;u ' ldom of ' * 1679 ■ and Earl of Macclesfield. cx - U " M ' i.e. "Duke of BRANDON, co. Suffolk," cr. 10 Sep. 1711; See "Hamilton," Dukedom of [S.], cr. 1643, under the 4th Duke. (") " Mr. Baron Bramwell, Mr. Justice Willes [James Shaw Willes, b. 1814 j d. 1872], and Mr. Baron Martin [Samuel Martin, b. 1801 ; d. 1833] firm friends at the Bar and on the Bench have been classed together as three of the strongest judges of tho century. —See the " Times " 10 Jan., 1883. ( b ) In the "Tines," 13 June, 1S85, sub. "Lauderdale Peerage" is a statement by himself that he was m. at New York without bamiB or licence.