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BOYNE 269 VIII. 1872. 8. GusTAVus Russell (Hamilton-Russell), Viscount BoYNE [17 1 7], and Baron Hamilton of Stackallan [17 1 5] [I.]; also Baron Brancepeth [1866], only s. and h. He was b. 28 May 1830; ed. at Eton. A Conservative. He ;«., 2 Sep. 1858, at St. Peter's, Pimlico, Katharine Frances, 3rd da. of John (Scott), 2nd Earl OF Eldon, by Louisa, da. of Charles (Duncombe), ist Baron Feversham. She, who was b. 15 Dec. 1837, d. 19 May 1903,31 Brancepeth Castle. "Will pr. above ;^2o,ooo net. He d. at his seat, Burwarton Hall, 30 Dec. 1 907, and was bur. 6 Jan. 1908, at Brancepeth, aged 77. Will pr. Apr. 1908, gross over ;^668,ooo, net over ;^435,ooo.(*) [Gustavus William Hamilton-Russell, 2nd but ist surv. s. and h. ap.jC") 1^. II Jan. 1 864; sometime Capt. 3rd Batt. Northumberland Fusiliers. He w., 4 Oct. 1906, Margaret Selina, only da. of Henry Ulick (Lascelles), 5th Earl of Harewood, by Florence Katherine, 2nd da. of Orlando George Charles (Bridgeman), 3rd Earl of Bradford. She was b. 1 1 Aug. 1883. Having sue. to the Peerage after 22 Jan. 1 901, he is outside the scope of this work.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 18,023 acres in Durham (valued at above ^^76,000 a year), 8,424 in Salop, 580 in co. Radnor, and 439 in the North Riding of York, besides 2,739 in co. Meath. Total 30,205 acres, valued at ^^88,364 a year. Principal Residences. — Brancepeth Castle, CO. Durham; Burwarton Hall, Salop; and Stackallan, co. Meath. BRABAZON BARONY [I.] I. Edward Brabazon, s. and h. of Sir William B., many years Vice-Treasurer and sometime Lord Justice I. 1 61 6. [I.], by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Nicholas Clifford, of Holme, Kent, /«c. his father 9 July 1 552, (') being then in his 4th year; P.C. [I.] 1584; M.P. for co. Wicklow 1585, and for Bangor 16 13-15; knighted by the Lord Dep. [I.] 24 Aug. 1595; High Sheriff of co. Stafford 1 606-07 ;() one of the Council for Munster 161 5. He was, 19 July 16 1 6, cr. LORD BRABAZON, BARON OF ARDEE,(') CO. Louth [I.]. He m. Mary, da. of Edward Smith, of Mitcham, Surrey, Clerk of the Green Cloth to Queen Elizabeth. He d. 7 Aug. 1625, and was bur. at St. Catharine's, Dublin. Fun. entry [I.]. Will, in which he styles himself "Sir Edward Brabazon, Knight, Lord Baron of Ardee," (") This large accumulation of money was mainly due to royalties on coal. V.G. (^) His elder br., Gustavus Claud, h. 29 Dec. 1861, d. an infant, 9 Feb. 1862. V.G. (•=) See Lodge, vol. i, p. 226 note. The M.I. erroneously states his death to have been in 1548. (^) le resided, when in England, at Nether Whitacre, co. Warwick, which he had purcL ised in 1598, and which was sold by his s. and h. in 1630. ('■) See the long preamble to the patent in Lodge, vol. i, p. 272.