588 OCOURRBNCES AFFBR 1 JAN., 1898. THB FOLLOWING SBVBN FSBRAOBS HAVB BBBN ORBATBD in the said year, 1898 (of which two, Halsbury and Muncaster, were conferred on existing Peers), viz., Thi Earldou or Halsbury and Viboountot of Tivbrton, both oo. DeTon {0ffard)t conferred, 19 Jau. 1808, on the Lord Chancellor, Baron Halabury. Ths Babont of Nbwlands of Nbwlandb AMD Babbowfibld, CO. Qlaagow, ahd of ICaudsub Cabtlb, oo. Lanark (tlozitr)^ 19 Jan. 1898. Tab Baront of Farquhar of St. Martlbbonb, co. London {Farqukar). 20 Jan. 1898. Thb Baromt of Munoastbr of Muncaater, oo. Cumberland (PmningUm)^ oonfeired, 11 June 1898, on Baron Muncaater in the Kingdom of Ireland. Thb Baroht of Hauburtob of Windsor in Nova Scotia in Canada (JToJi&icrton), 18 June 1898. Thb Baromt of Kitohbmbr or Khartoum and of Abpall, oo. Suffolk {KiUih€nir 1 Not. 1898. Thb Baromt or Curzom or Kbdlbstom, oo. Derby, in the peerage of Irelaad(*) (Owmm), 11 Not. 1898. G. R C, SI Dec,, 1898. (*) Thia creation followa (an interyal of 80 [I] yean haying taken place) the creation, 21 Deo. 1868, of the Barony of Rathdonnell [I.]. Soon after that date a bill (the Royal permiaaion haying preyioualy been obttuned) paased the House of Lords to put a stop to these anomaloua creationa. This bill, however, failed to pass the House of Commons, so that the legal power (conferred by the act of the Irish Union) remaina, though the general impression was that (in these circumstancea) it would never again be acted upon. See TJie OenecdogiU, N.S., vol. v., for several articles, by Q.E.C., on the Peerage of Ireland at and since the Union. From the creation of Rathdonnell [I.], in 1868, there huve been, down Ui Dec. 1898, eleven extinctions of Irish peerages which had existetl before the Union (Howden extinct in 1873, Bloomfield in 1879, and Clermont in 1898 were poH Union creations), v<s., Moira in 1868, Strangford in 1869, Bluyney in 1874, Charleviile in 1875, Aldborough in 1875, Ongley in 1877, Netterville in 1882, Uokeby in 1883, Hanekgh in 1885, Bautry in 1891, and Lismore in 1898. These, as well as the Barony of Qardner and the Earl- dom of Milltown, both of which were unclaimed for more than a year (one from Nov. 1888 and the other from March 1891) made a total of thirteen peerages available for new creations, to which may apparently be added one of the tvo Peerages of Kilwarden, which, existing ifparatcly at the time of the Union, became extinct together in 1 830, and of which only ont was made use of in a new creation. The peerage of Curzon of Kedleston, however, " was created not in lieu of the extinction of any three peerages, but in virtue of the number of Peerages of Ireland [i.e., those not held with any Peerage of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom] being below the number of a hundred, according to the provisions in art. 4 of the Act of Union. The total nuniljer of Irish peerages at present [».«., in Dec. 1898] existing, which have not an hereditary seat in tlie House of Lords u, including Ourson, 89." [ISx inforvi. Sir A. Vicars, Ulster]. With reference to a peerage [I.], being, if unclaimed for above a year, available as an extinction for a new creation, it may be observed that the Barony of Wallsoourt [I.], which was more than a year unclaimed (there being in fact no heir to it from 28 March 1808 to 19 Jan. 1806), was not so soted upon.
