CRANBROOK— CRANSTOUN. 401 at Bradford, co. York; cd. at Shrewsbury School ; matric. at Oxford (Oriel Coll.) 22 Nov. 1S32 ; 2nd class classics and B.A. 1836 ; M.A., 1S61, being cr. D.C.L., 13 June 1S66. He was a Barrister of the Inner Temple 1810, becoming :i Bencher 1868 ; was M.I for Leominster. 1856-65, and for Oxford Univ., 1S65-78 : Under-Sec. for Home Deportment, 1S5S-59 ; P.C., 1S66 ; Pres. of the Poor Law Board, 1866-67 ; Home See., 1S07-C8 ; Sec. for War, 1S74-78 ; Sec. for India, 1S7S-80, when ho was raised to (dc Peerage as above; G.C.S I. (extra) 20 Apvil 1SS0; Loud Puv.sident OS the Council June 1S85 to Jan. 1SS6, and again Aug. 1886, having in the interval been again (for a few weeks) Sec. for War. He m. 29 March 1S3S, Jane, da. of James Orb, of Ballygowan and Hollywood House, co. Down, by Jane, da. of Richard Stewakt of ISallymena, co. Antrim. She is C.I. Family estates.— These, in 1S83, consisted of 5,177 acres in Kent, and 11 in Sussex. Total— 5.1SS acres, worth £6,126 a year. Principal residence— Hemsted Park, near Staplehurst, Kent. CRAXFIELD. Barony. 1. " Lioxel Cranfield, Knt, blaster of the Court of r i (j o i Wards and Liveries, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Commissioner of the Treasury, &c., - ' was, on 9 July 1621, a: " BARON CRAN- FIELD, of Craufield, co. Bedford."( a ) On 16 Sep. 1622 he was cr. EARL OF MIDDLESEX, both which titles, on the death of his yr. s., the 3rd holder of them, 26 Oct. 1671, became extinct. See " Middlesex," Earldom of, cr. 1622 ; ex. 1674. !>. "CRANFIELD of Cranfield, co. Bedford" Barony Sackville), cr. 4 April 1675 with the Earldom of Middlesex, which see; ex. (with the Dukedom and Earldom of Dorset), 1813. CRANLEY AND CRANLEY OF IMBERCOURT. Barony. I. 177G. Viscouutcy. L 1801. and h. of the Rt. e of Commons, 1727-61, Hon. 1. George Onslow, only s. Arthur Onslow, Speaker to the House of (Jommons, mi -HI, was, ou 20 May 1776, cr. BARON CRANLEY OK IMBE IICOURT, co. Surrey. On 9 Oct. following he sue. his cousin as BARON ONSLOW, a Peerage cr. 1716. On 19 June 1801 he was cr. VISCOUNT CRANLEY, of Cranley, Surrey, and EARL OF ONSLOW,( b ) co. Salop. See " Onslow" Earldom, cr. 1801. CRANSTOUN. Barony [S.J 1. Sir William Craxstodn, s. of John C, of Mories- I lG0 f ) toun, was Capt. of the Guards to James VI [S.], by whom he was Knighted, and having in. before 15 March 1581, Sarah, 1st da, of John CliANrfT0iiN,( c ) of Craustoun, co. Roxburgh, by Margaret, da. of Georgo Ramsay, of Dalhousie, acquired by her (whose br. d. s.p. legit.) the lauds of Cranstouu, and was cr. 17 Nov. 1609, LORD CRANSTOUN [S.], with rem. to his heirs male.(<>) He m. secondly Elizabeth Macuill, before 15 Nov. 1614 when they were both living. He d. at Cranstoun, and was bur. there 23 July 1627. Fun. entry in Lyon Office. (■) See " Creations, 1483— 164C," in ap. 47th Rep. D. K. Pub. Records. ( b ) See, ante, p. 102, note "a," circa fincm. ( c ) He was great grandson and h. of William do Cranstoun, one of the lessor Barons (but not a Lord of Pari.) in the Pari, of IS March 1481/2, who d. 1515. ('•) There is no mention of the limitation being to heirs bearing the arms of Cran- stoun (as is generally supposed) in the patent recorded in the Reg. of the Great Seal. 2 c
