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CAITHNESS — CALEDON. 115 XXXV. 1881. l. r ). George PniLiPS Alexander (Sinclair), Earl op Caithness (1455) [S-l also BaSOH Baukogili. (1886) and a Baronet [S.], only s. an.l h., by 1st wife ; 4. 30 Nov. 1858 in Hill street, Berkeley sq., Midx. ; ed. ;it Mug. Coll. Cambridge. Lord Lieut, of co. Caithness, 18S1. Col. of the Caith- ness and Sutherland Volunteers, 18S1. Family Estates. TheHe, in 18S3, consisted of 14,-ltiO acres in co. Caithness, valued at £4,478 a year, and of 613 in Herts, valued at £978. Total 15,073 acres, valued at £5,451 a year. Principal Residences. BarrogiU Castle, near Thurso, co. Caithness, and Stagenhoe Park, near Welwyn, Herts. CALDECOT CASTLE. i.e. "P.aron Beaufort ok Caldecot Castle, co. Monmouth and Earl of Glamorgan ; {Somerset)." See under " Glamoroan," Earldom of, these titles being considered, by some, to have been a Peerage dignity cr. 1644. Barony [I.] I. 1790. Visoountoy [I] I, 1797. Earldom [I.] I. 1800. CALEDON. 1. James Alexander, yr. s. of Nathaniel A. of Guns- land, co. Donegal, Alderman of Londonderry, by Elizabeth, da. of William McClintock of Thiumore in that co.. was 1730 and, having amassed a largo fortune in the East Indies, returned to Ireland, where he purchased for about £'100.000 estates at Caledon and elsewhere. He was M.P. for Londonderry, 1775-90. On 6 June 1790 he was cr. BARON CALEDON of Caledon, co. Tyrone [I.]; on 23 Nov. 1797, VISCOUNT CALEDON of Caledon, co. Tyrone [I.], and on 29 Dec. 1S00 EARL OF CALEDON,('>) co. Tyrone [I.] He was a strenuous .supporter of the Union [I.] He m. 28 Nov. 1771, Anne, 2nd da. of James CracfurD of Craufurdsburn eo. Down. She d. 21 Dec. 1777. He d, 22 March 1S02, in Rutland sq. Dublin. Earldom. Viscountcy and. Barony [I.] II. > 1802. 2. Du Pre (Alexander), Earl of Caledon, &c. [L] only s. and h., b. U Dec. 1777 ; M.P. for New- townlands in the last Irish Pari., 1800 ; Rep. Pf.eu [I.] 1S04 ; Lord Lieut, of co. Tyrone; Col. of the Tyrone Militia ; Gov. of the Capt. of Good Hope,^') 1S07-11, being the first Gov. since its cession to the realm. K.P., 2S Aug. 1821. He m. 16 Oct. 1SU, at St. James, Westm., Catharine Freeman, 2d da. and coheir of Philip (Yorke), 3d Eari. of Hardwicke, by Elizabeth, da. of James (Lindsay), 5th Eari. of Bai.carres [S.] He d. 8 April 1839. His widow, who was 6. 11 April 1786, and Imp. at Maryleboue,^. S July 1863, aged 77, at Titteuhanger, Herts. III. 1839. 3. James Du Pre (Alexander), Earl of Caledon &c. [I.], only s. and h., b. 27 July 1812 ; M.P. for co. Tyrone, 1S37- 39 ; sometime Capt. in the Coldstream Guards ; Col. of the Tyrone Militia ; Kep. Pef.R [I.] 1841. He m. 4 Sep. 1845, Jane Frederica Harriet Mary, 4th da. of James Walter (Grimston), 1st Earl of Verulam, by Charlotte, da. of Charles (Jenkinson) 1st Earl of Liverpool. He d. 30 June 1855. His widow, who was b. 17 Jany. 1825, V.A. (2d class), extra Lady of the Bedchamber ( 1 878), was living 1SS7. ( n ) This Earldom was one of the 18 Irish Peerages conferred (on the last day of such creations before the Union) on persons who already possessed a Peerage of that Kingdom. See vol. i, p. 208, note "c." ( b ) A district in the Orange River is named after him. r