The Aristocracy of London: Part I: Kensington: Titled, Untitled, Professional, & CommercialAnonymous
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The Aristocracy of London: Part I: Kensington: Titled, Untitled, Professional, & Commercial
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- London
Architect, (13_a_, _Great George Street_, _Westminster_).
7. LYON-BOWES, Hon. Claude,
2nd s. of late Lord Glamis; grands. of 11th and brother of present Earl
of Strathmore. B. 1824; m. 1853, Frances Dora, dau. of Oswald Smith,
Esq. of Blendon. Formerly Lieut. 2nd Life Guards.
10. MILLETT, Charles, Esq.
(_Union Club_).
11. LANGLEY, Henry, Esq.
S. of Major Langley, of Brittas Castle, co. Tipperary. B. 1820, at
Portarlington; m. Harriet Maria, only child of James Bradshaw, Esq. M.P.
for Canterbury. Late an officer 2nd Life Guards. At present a captain
in the 2nd or South Middlesex Rifle Volunteers; and Fellow of Royal
Horticultural Society (_White’s and Travellers’ Clubs_).
20. BULLER, Sir Arthur William, Kt., M.P.
2nd s. of late Charles Buller, Esq. M.P. for West Looe, and for some time
in the Bengal Civil Service, by Barbara Isabella, dau. of Gen.
Kirkpatrick. B. at Calcutta, 1808; m. 1842, Maria, dau. of Francis
Templer, Esq. Treasurer of Ceylon. B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge 1830;
M.A. 1834; c. to the bar, Lincoln’s Inn, 1834. Western Circuit, Queen’s
Advocate, Ceylon. 1840–8. Knighted 1848; from which period until 1858,
was a judge of the Supreme Court of Calcutta; M.P. (Liberal) for
Devonport, since 1859. (_Athenæum and Reform Clubs_; _Morval_, _near
East Looe_, _Cornwall_).
21. MILLS, Richard, Esq.,
B. 1826, at the Moat, Eltham, Kent; m. 1855, dau. of Henry Bowden, Esq.
of Coopers, Chislehurst, Kent. Educ. at Charter House and Brasenose
College, Oxford. M.A. 1850; Solicitor of the firm of Ward and Mills,
late Eyston, Ward, and Mills (1, _Gray’s Inn Square_, _Union Club_).
33. MURRAY, John Nesbitt, Esq.
Eld. s. of late James Murray, Esq., of Philiphaugh, by Mary Dale, dau. of
Henry Hughes, Esq., of Worcester. Is chief of the numerous and powerful
clan of the Murrays of the south of Scotland. His family held landed
possessions in that country prior to the twelfth century, from which time
these have descended in unbroken succession to himself. Among his
ancestors we find many men of great note, including the famous “outlaw
Murray,” of the time of James IV. (_see Sir Walter Scott’s_ “_Border
Minstrelsy_”). B. 1817; m. 1840, Rosemary, only dau. and heir of William
Andrew Nesbitt, Esq., (assuming thereupon the name of Nesbitt); and has
two sons and one dau. J.P. and dep.-lieut. for Selkirk; member of the
Royal Company of Scottish Archers and Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland.
(_Reform Club_; _Philiphaugh_, _and Hareheadwood_, _Selkirk_).
34. LLOYD, Ernest Boteler, Esq.,
In the Legacy and Succession Duty Department of Inland Revenue Office
(_Somerset House_; _Conservative Club_).
35. ASHBROOK, Dowager Viscountess, Emily Theophila,
Eldest dau. of Sir Thomas Metcalfe, Bart., and sister of late Lord
Metcalfe, G.C.B., Governor General of Canada. B. 1790: m. 1812 (as
second wife), 4th Visc. Ashbrook, by whom she was mother of the late
Duchess of Marlborough.
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