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342 BROUGHAM trade and Slavery," on 22 Mar. i860, cr. BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX OF BROUGHAM, Westmorland, AND OF HIGH- HEAD CASTLE, Cumberland, with spec, rem., failing heirs male of his body, to his br. " William Brougham^ Esquire." He w., i Apr. 1 8 1 9, at Cold- stream, Mary Anne, widow of John Spalding, of the Holme, Wigtown, ist da. of Thomas Eden, of Wimbledon, Surrey, (br. of William, ist Lord Auckland) by Mariana, da. of Arthur Jones. She, who was b. Oct. 1785, d. 12 Jan. 1865, at Brighton. He d.s.p.s., 7 May 1868, at his Chateau, at Cannes,(^) in the South of France, in his 90th year, and was bur. in the ceme- tery there, when the Peerage conferred on him in 1 830 became extinct, while that conferred in i860 devolved as under. Will pr. 17 June 1868, under

^2,000,

II. 1868. 2. William (Brougham), Baron Brougham AND Vaux OF Brougham and of Highhead Castle, br. and, accord- ing to the spec. rem. in the patent, h.C') to the title, b. 26 Sep. 1795. Ed. at Jesus Coll. Cambridge; B.A. (Senior optime) 1819; M.A. 1822, and some- time Fellow. Barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1823; M.P. (Whig) for Southwark 1831-34. One of the Masters in Chancery, Mar. 1831 till 1852. He m., 12 Aug. 1834, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Emily Frances, only da. and h. of Sir Charles William Taylor, Bart. [1828], of Hollycombe, Sussex, by Char- lotte, da. of John Poulett Thomson, of Roehampton, Surrey. She^. 8 Apr. 1884, at 21 Berkeley Sq., Midx. He d. 3 Jan. 1886, at Brougham Hall, in his 91st year. Will pr. 15 Feb. 1886, above ;^ 11 6,000. III. 1886. 3. HenryCharles(Brougham),Baron Brougham AND Vaux OF Brougham and of Highhead Castle, s. and h., b. 2 Sep. 1836. Ed. at Eton, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge. Clerk to the House of Lords, 1857-86. K.C.V.O. 14 Oct. 1905. A Liberal Unionist. He m., 18 Apr. 1882, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Adora Frances Olga, widow of Sir Richard Courtenay Musgrave, i ith Bart., da. of Peter W^ells, of Forest Farm, Windsor, Berks, by his 2nd wife, Adora Julia, da. of Sir John Hesketh Lethbridge, 3rd Bart. "See one approach with triple cue — Another such there's not in town — Twisting his restless nose askew, Hurrah, Hurrah! for Harry Brough: ram, Lord Professor at the U:

niversity we've got in town,

tniversity we've got in town." He is the " Mr. Quicksilver, cr. Lord Blossom and Box," in Warren's Ten Thousand a Tear. See note sub John, Earl Russell [1861]. (*) A good statue of him was erected there after his death. V.G. (*>) He was not however heir male of the grantee inasmuch as he was the yst. s. of his father, and the issue male of one ofhis elder brothers (John Waugh Brougham, who d. 22 Sep. 1829) was still existing.