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HOWTH — HUNGERFORD. 275 Family Estates.— These, in 1883, consisted of 7,377 acres iuco. Dublin, and 2,061 in co. Meath.— Total, 9,438 acres, worth £18,036 a year. Principal BtMenet— Hcrtrth Castle, co. Dublin. HX7GHEKDEN, i.e.," lTroiiEXDEX of Ilugheuden, Bucks" Viscountcy (D'krarti) cr. 1870 with the Earldom of Beacoxsfield, which see; ex. 1881. HUME OF BERWICK. Barony [&.] « George Howme [Home or Hume], Knt. High I. 1604 Treasurer of Scotland " was, on 7 July 1601, cr. BABON HUME ' [Howme or Home] of BERWICK" [S] with rem. te his beira for to ever("). Shortly afterwards, he was, as " Lord Home of Berwick Ifiio '" England [sic. but query ?], by pat. dat. 3 July 160a, cr. EARL U1 -' OP DUNBAR [S], with rem. to his heirs male. He it. s.p.rn.( b ) 29 Jan. 1611/12, since which time his honours have remained dormant Sec fuller particulars under "DunbaR " Earldom [SI, cr. 1605 ; dormant 1612. BarcnyfG.B.] Alexander HtME-C.uiriffii.L, sti/hil Lord Poiavarth, 1. 177G '- f ' ,JUt lst surv - s - :iml • a R- of iiu sK -ltu Eabl of Marchmont. [S.], by bis second wife Elizabeth, da. of Windmill CROJIPTOK, I. to 1750, having »i. 16 July 1772, at St. James' Westtn., Anuabella, 1st da. of Philip (Yoiike), 2d Earl of Harlwicke. by Jemima {nee '• Camtdkll), mio jure Marchioness Grey and Baroness Lucas cf Cbcdweli., assumed the name of Campbell after that of Hume, and was tr, 20 May. 1776, BARON HUME OF BERWICK^). He d. s.p. and y.p. at Wrest Park, Beds., 9 March, 1781, aged 30, when this Barony became extinct. His widow, who, on the death of her grandmother, 10 Jan. 1797, became suo jure Baroness Lucas ok Cruhweix was cr. (with a spec, rem.) 25 Oct. 1S10 Cocntkss De Grey of Wrest. See fuller particulars of ber under that dignity. She (I s.p. 4 May 1833, aged 82. HUNGERFORD, Barony by i. Sir Walter Hungerford, of Farleigh^), co. Writ. Somerset, 4th but 1st surv. s. and h. of Sir Thomas H. of the same (Speaker of the House of Commons) by Geva, or Joan, da. I. 142G. and coheir of Sir Edmund Hussey, of Holbrook, co. Somerset ; me. bis father, 3 Dec. 13PS ; distinguished himself pre-eminently in the wars with France, being Admiral of the Fleet in 1416; was Sheriff of Wilts, 14d6; M.P. for Wilts 1400-07; for Somerset, 1409 ; and for Wilts (again), 1413 ; and Speaker of the House of Commons, 1414; Steward of the Household to Henry (*) See vol. ii., p. 14, note "a," sub. " Hreadalbane " as to the peculiar power of nominating a successor granted in this and some other Scotch creations. (") See vol. iii., p. 201, note " e," sub. " Dunbar," as to his heirs general. ( c ) The family of Hume, or Home, of Polwarth, from which he was paternally descended, was a cadet branch of Home of Wedderburn, of which Home of Manderton was another eadtt branch. From this last branch derived George Home, or Hume, cr. Baron Home of Berwick in 1604, and Earl of Dunbar [S.] in 1605, as above stati d. ( a ) The name of this place seems to have been changed from Farleigb-Montfort to Farleigh-Hungerford by Sir Thomas Hungerford [bur. there 1S9S] as it is called by the latter name in the will of his widow Joan in 1412. See "Farleigh Hunger- ford "by Rev. J. E. Jackson. The Manor of Farleigh Hungerford (including the Castle) was purchased in 1891 for £40.000 by Lord Douingtou, whose wife was mo jure Countess of Loudoun, &c. (S.], Baroness Botreaux, lluiujcrjonl, &g. Seep. 189 sub. " Hastings."] The estate, however, was in possession of her immediate ancestors for let* than a centurt/, having been purchased by Sir Thomas Hungerford abovenamed in 1369, and forfeited by his great grandson, the 3r d Lord, in 1461. It was indeed restored in 1485 to the family, but not to the suo jure Baroness Hungerford (da. and b. of the 3rd Lord), from whom the future Lords derived ; the grantee being her cousin, Sir Walter II ungei ford (the heir mule of the purchaser) grandfather of Walter, Lord Hungerford de Jleijteslnmj, in whose posterity it long continued, rp