DEVONSHIRE — DIGBY. 119 March 1858; High Steward of Cambridge, 18G0; Chancellor oi the Univ. o£ Cam- bridge, 18(32; P.C., 1878. He m. 6 Aug. 1829, Blanehe-Oeorgiann, 4th da. of George (Howard,) Oth Eaiu, of Carlisle, by Georgiaua- Dorothy, sister and coheir of William (Cavendish), Gtli Duke ok Devonshire abovenamed. She who was b. 11 Jany. 1812, (I. (as Countess of Burlington) 27 April 1540. [Spencer-Compton Cavendish - , styled ^Lyrquess OF Hartington from 1858 having previously been styled Lord Cavendish, 1st s. and h., b. 23 July 1833 ; ed. at Trin.-Coll., Cambridge; M.A., 1854 ; was attached to Earl Granville's spec, mission to Russia in 1S56. M.P. for North Lancashire, 1857-58 ; for Radnor district, 18(59-80 ; for north-east Lancashire, 1S80-S5; and for the Rossendale division, since 1885 ; one of the Lords of the Admiralty, March to April 1863; Under Sec. for War, 1S63-G6; P.C., I860; Sec. for War, Feb. to July, 1866; Postmaster Gen., 1S6S-70; Ch. Sec. for Ireland, 1871-74; Sec. for India, 1SS0-S2, and again Sec. for War, 1SS2-85. LL.D. of Cambridge, 1862 ; Lord Rector of the Univ. of Edinburgh, 1877 ; cr. D.C.L., of Oxford, 20 June, 187S.] Family Etfatfis. Those, in 1S83, consisted of 89,462 acres in Derby- shire; 19,329 in the West Riding of Yorkshire; 12,651 in Lancashire, 983 in Cum- berland; 1,392 in Lincolnshire, and 179 in Notts, Staffordshire and Cheshire; also (in the South), 11,062 acres in Sussex ; 3,014 in Somersetshire and 524 in Middlesex. In Ireland, 32,550 acres in co. Cork ; 27,488 in co. Waterford ; and 3 in co. Tipperary. Total 198,572 acres, valued at f 180,750 a year. Principal Jlesidenccs : Chatsworth House and Hardwicke Hall, both in co. Derby ; Holkar Hall, co. Westmorland ; Bolton Abbey, co. York ; Compton Place, near Eastbourne, Sussex; and Lismore Castle, co. Waterford. The Duke of Devonshire stands 7th in point of acreage,, but 2nd in point of rental, among the 28 noblemen who in 1883 possessed above 100,000 acres in (lie United Kingdom. See a list of those in vol. ii, p. 51 ; note " a," sub. " Buccleuch." It is curious however, that not one acre of all this vast property is in Devonshire, from which county the Peerage title is taken. So, also, as to Earl of Derby in Derbyshire, &c. See p. 77. DE WARENNE, or WARREN". See " SuRitEy," Earldom of (Warcnne), 10»6-1317. DEYjSTCOURT, see "Deixcourt." DEYVILLE, sec " Deivill." Barony. I. 1618. II. 1641. DIGBY OF SHERBORNE. 1. " Joiw Digby, Knt.," was, on 25 Nov. 1618,1 cr. BARON DIGBY OF SHERBORNE, co. Dorset, and, on ' 15 Sep. 1022, was cr. EARL OF BRISTOL. He d. 21 Jany. 1652/3. DlGDY OP Siier- _ Father's Barony as above, v.p. 9 June 1641. He sue. his father, 21 Jany. 1652/3, as Earl of Bristol. He d. 20 March " 2. George (Digdy), Baron borne, s. and h. ftp., was sum. in hi in, 1677, to 1698. | "8 Is* § W 3 6 3. John (Dionr), Earl op Bristol and Baron Diqbt of Sherborne, only surv, s. and h. He d. s.p. 18 Sep. 1698, when all his honours became extinct. * . The estate of Sherborne was inherited by his cousin and b, male, William, 5th Baron Digby of Geashill [I.], whose grandson Henry, the 7th Baron, was, m 1765, cr. Baron Digby of Sherborne [G.B.] See the next article.
