SOUTHWELL, Viscount (Irish peerage)—Seats, Hindlip, Worcestershire, and Court Mattress, Limerick. Thomas Southwell, Esq., of Court Mattress, was created a Baronet by Charles II, and, after the Restoration, was succeeded by his grandson, who took an active part in the cause of William III. He was created a Baron of the kingdom of Ireland by George I, in 1717. Thomas George, the third Baron, was, in 1776, created Viscount. He died 1780, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Thomas Arthur, fourth Baron and second Viscount, who married, in 1774, the daughter of Francis John Walsh, de Sérrant. He died February, 1796, and was succeeded by the present lord, THOMAS ANTHONY, under the title of fifth Baron and third Viscount Southwell. Lord Southwell married, May, 1799, Jane, the younger daughter of John Berkeley, Esq., of Hindlip, in whose right he came into possession of the Worcestershire property. His lordship, in 1836, received from his late Majesty the dignity of the Knighthood of the Order of St. Patrick. Is patron of the living of Hindlip, Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Worcester, &c. BARONETS. PAKINGTON—Seat, Westwood Park; created, 1620; revived, 1846. Sir John Pakington, who died 6 January, 1830, in his 70th year, being unmarried, and the title became extinct. His sister Elizabeth married William Russell, Esq., of Powick Court, and her surviving son, JOHN SOMERSET RUSSELL, assumed the name of his maternal ancestors, and inherited the Pakington estates. The family honours were gracefully revived in his person: he was elevated to the rank of a Baronet of the United Kingdom in 1846. He married, first, Mary, only child of Moreton Aglionby Slaney, Esq., and by her (died in 1843) has issue one son, John Slaney Pakington, Esq., married, 4 July, 1849, to Lady Diana Boyle, youngest daughter of the late Earl of Glasgow; Sir John married, secondly, 1844, Augusta, daughter of the Right Rev. George Murray, D.D., Bishop of Rochester; and, thirdly, June, 1851, Augusta, relict of the late Colonel Davies, of Elmley Park. Sir John is patron of the living of Hampton Lovett; has been Chairman of the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions since 1834; is Captain of the Westwood Troop of Worcestershire Yeomanry; twice unsuccessfully contested the representation of the county; and has sat for the borough of Droitwich since 1837. On the accession of Earl Derby’s administration, he was appointed Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies.