344 FEVERSHAM — FTELD. [Charles William Reginald Duncombe styled, since 1831, Viscount Hklmslet, grandson and h. ap., being only s. nud h. of W. R. Duncombe, styled Viscount Helmsley and Muriel, his wife, both abovenained. He was 6. 8 May 1S79.] Family Estates— These, in 1SS3, consisted of 39,313 acres in the North Riding of Yorkshire, worth £34,328 a year. Principal liesielcncc. Duncombe Park(») in Helmsley, co. York. FFRENCH( b ) OF CASTLE FFRENCH. Barony [I.] 1. Dame RoseFfrench, ( b )widow, was on 14 Feb. 1798, I 179S BARONESS FFRENCH OF CASTLE FFUENCH, co. Qalway [1.1, with rem. of that dignity to the heirs mule of her body by her late husband Sir Charles Ffrench, Bart. [I.], to whom she was m. 25 June 1761.(°) He, who had been cr. a Bart. [LJ 17 Aug. 1779, d. 1784. The BaroneBS was 1st da. of Patrick Dillon, of Killeeu, co. Roscommon, and d. 8 Dec. 1805. II. 1805. 2. Thomas (Ffrench), Baron Ffrench of Castle Ffrench [I.], only s. and h. He m. May 1785 Margaret, da. of Thomas Redington, of Kileornan, co. Galwav, by Sarah, da. of Christopher Bukkk, of Kileornan afsd. He d. 9 Dec. 1814.( d ) His widow d, 7 Dec. 1849, aged 82, at Glenloe. III. 1814. 3. Charles Austin (Ffrench), Baron Ffrench of Castle Ffrench [I.], 1st s. and h., b. 9 April 1786. He m. 28 Sep. 1809, Maria, 1st da. of John Browne, of Moyne, co. Gal way, by Margaret, da. and coheir of John Dolphin, of Turoe, in that co. She d. July 1827. He d. 25 Sep. 1860, aged 74, at Tarver Hall, co. Mayo. IT. 1860. 4. Thomas (Ffrench), Baron Ffrench of Castle Ffrench [I.], 1st s. and h. b. 13 Sep. 1810. He m. 18 Oct. 1851, Mary Anne, only da. and h. of Richard THOMPSON, of Stansty Hall, co. Denbigh. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, were under 2,000 acres. Principal Residence. Elm Park, Merrion, Dublin. FIELD OF BAKEHAM. Barony. Sir "William Ventris-Field, one of the Judges of the T 1890 supreme Court of Judicature, was, 23 April 1890, cr. BARON FIELD OF BAKEHAM, co. Surrey. He was 2d s. of Thomas- Flint Field, of Fielden in Barton-in-the-Clay, BedB. ; was b. 21 Aug. O) This mansion was burnt down in 1879. (*") The ludicrous mode of spelling this name with a double " f " has been stereotyped by its adoption in the patent of 1798. It probably arose from ignorance that the form of the capital " F " was that of the small " f " duplicated, so that not only every " Fool," but even every " Felon " (if spelt with a capital "F") would be equally entitled to the double "f" as these scions of the house of French. This (triple x) ffoolish Jf'ancy has happily not been repeated by any other member of the peerage, and, considering the spread of education, is not likely now to again occur. ( c ) It is not very clear on what grounds this old lady obtained a Peerage ; neither her husband, son, or any of her relatives appear to have been in Pari., or to have done any political or oilier service to the Government. ( d ) " A Roman Catholic and a most strenuous supporter of complete emancipation so as to preclude religious distinctions from interfering with civil rights. He was also an eminent Banker aud the embairassments which occurred previously to hia death are Baid to have hastened that event." See Sir Egerton Brydges's " Bioyr. Peerage" [I.], 1817.
