COWPER— CRAMOND. 397 VII. 1856. 7. Francis Thomas de Grey (Cowper), Earl Cowper [1718], Viscount Fordwich [1718], Baron Cowper ok Wingham [1706], also a Baronet [E. and S.X who also became, 15 Aug. 1871, LORD DING- WALL in the Peerage of Scotland [1609], aud LORD BUTLER OF MOORE PARK, co. Hertford [16ti6] (being declared at that date by the House of Lords to be entitled ns heir gen. to those two Baronies, of which the attainder [1715] had been reversed on the 31 July previous), and who also became, 23 July 1880, by the death of his mother aboveuamed, LORD LUCAS OF CRUDWELL [16o3.] He was b. 11 June 1834 ; ed. at Harrow School ; niatrie. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 3 June 1852 ; 1st Class in Law and Mod. History, 1S55 ; M.A., 1861 ; Lieut.-Col. (2nd batt.) Herts Rifle Volunteers ; Lord Lieut, and Custos Rot of Beds, 1861 ; Envoy Extraordinary to Denmark for the investiture (at Copenhagen, 25 April 1865) of King Christian IX, with the Order of the Garter,(») Knight Grand Cross of the Danish Order of the Daunebrog, 1865 ; KG., 5 Aug. 1865 ; Capt. of the Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, 1871-74 ; P.O., 1871 ; Lord Lieut, op Ireland, May 1880 to May 18S2 ; High Steward of Colchester, 18S3. He to. 25 Oct. 1870, at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Katrine Cecilia, 1st da. of William (Cosipton), 4th Marquess ok Northampton, by Eliza, da. of Admiral the Hon. Sir George Elliott, KC.B. She was 6. 26 July 1845. Family estates.— These, in 1883, consisted of 10,122 acres in Herts ; 9,105 in Beds ; 5,294 in Notts ; 3,227 in Essex ; 2,787 in Derbyshire ; 2,536 in Wilts ; 2,078 in Kent ; 1,067 in Northamptonshire ; 913 in Leicestershire ; 696 in the N. and W. Ridings of Yorkshire (worth £3,S65 a year), and 44 in Suffolk. Total, 37,869 acres, worth .£60,392 a year, of which the estates in Beds, Essex, Wilts, Leicestershire, &c. (some 16,000 acres), were inherited from the family of De Grey. Principal Residences, Panshauger, Herts, and Wrest Park, near Ampthill, Beds. CRADOCKSTOWN. See " Howden op Grimston and Spaldington and of Cradockstown, co. Kildare," Barony [I.] (Cradock) cr. 1819, ex. 1873. CRAGSIDE See " Armstrong of Cragside, co. Northumberland," Barony (Arm- strong), cr. 1887. CRAMOND. Barony [S.] /, Dame Elizabeth Richardson, wife of Sir Thomas I 1 P>°8 Richardson, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, was, on 23 Feb. ~ " 1627/8, cr. BARONESS OF CRAMOND [S.] for life,(>') with rem. of the title of " Lord Baron of Cramoud, Baron of Parl.,"(°; [S.] to Sir ( a ) See an account of these special Garter missions, ante, p. 192, note " a." ( b ) In Crawford's Peerage (1716, p. 81) it is stated by that author that this "was the only female creation I have at any time observed in this realm " [S.]. It was doubtless granted to the Lady, instead of to her husband, as, at that time, it was unusual to raise a Judge to the Peerage, when in office, though, as this was not an Biu/lish peerage, the objection would not have had so much force. The remainder is remarkable as excluding the heir male of the body of the grantee, the Aehburn- ham family (the present Earl Ashburuham being now such heir male) and limiting it to a stranger in blood. ( c ) " There is no doubt that in the great majority of cases [of Scotch creations] the word Baron is not used, but I find, in 1587, Lord Altrik is given statam unius liberi Baronis ac domini nostri Parliamenti, in 1627, Napier is made Lord and Baron in Parliament and, again, in 1627, Aston is made a Lord Baron of Pari, and is spoken of, in the patent, as Lord Baron of Forfar ; in 1628, Dame Elizabeth Richardson is made Baroness Cramond, with rem. to her husband's sou and h. ap. of the dignity of Lord Baron of Cramond, Baron of Pari. ; in 1636, Home [receives a] confirmation as Earl, Lord aud Bauon of Pari. ; Carnegie (1616) is peculiar, Baroncm Majorm ct
