252 HOME — HOO. Office, 1824-27 ; Under Sec- for Foreign Affairs 1828-30; sue. to the pea-aye [S ] 20 Oct. 1841 : KEr. FltR [8.] 1843-74 ; Keeper of the Great Seal [S.] 1858 ; Lieut. - Gen. of the Royal Archers [S.]. Having ni. 4 Dee. 1882, Lucy Elizabeth, 1st da. and coheir of Henry James (ScoTT-MotlTAGD), 2d BASON Montagu or Houghton, by Jane Margaret, 1st da. of (whose issue on ti April 1857, be.-aiue choir to) Archibald James Edward (Doigi.as, formerly StrWABT), 1st BAKOK Douglas ok Douglas, he ob- tained a Barony [U.K.] of the same designation, being cr. 11 Juno 1875, BAHON DOUGLAS of DOUGLAS, co. Lanark. His wife, who was b. 14 Nov. 1805, d. 15 May, 1877, at the Hirsel. He il. suddenly (in the road near the Hirsel) 4 July 18S1, aged 81. Earldom [S.] 22 and 17. Charles Alexander (Douglas- XII. Home), Eaiil of Ho.mf. [1605J, Loud Home [1473], and Barony [S.J .1881. i, 0 rd Din-glass [1605] in the peerage of Scotland, also XVII. I Loud Douglas of Douglas [1875], s. and h., 6. 11 April ) 1884, at the Hirsel ; styled LonD Douglass, 1S41-S1 : cd. at Eton and at Trin. Coll., Cambridge. Ou the death of his mother, 1877, he took the addit. name of " Doughs of Douglas," tinder the deed of entail of the Douglas estates. He sue. to the peeruyc [S. and U K.] I July 1881. Lieut.-Col. Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry, lSGti; aide-de-camp to the Queen, 18S7 ; Lord Lieut, of Berwick- shire, 1S79-90, and of Lanarkshire, 1890. He m. 18 Aug. 1820, at Howick, co. Northumberland, Maria, posthumous da. of Charles Conrad Gkky, Capt. K.N., by Caroline Ncsbit, 1st da. of Turner MaOAH, of Caitiff, co. Armagh. She was 4. 23 Feb. 1849. [CuAHLEs-CosrATmcK-AitcmnAi.D Douglas-Home, styled Loud Doug-Lass, only s. and h. ap., h. 29 Dec, 1873 ; ed. at Eton]. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 01,943 acres in Lanarkshire ; 25,380 in Roxburghshire ; 10,422 in Berwickshire ; 5,209 in Forfai shire ; 2,271 in Ayrshire, and 1,325 in Renfrewshire. Total, 100,550 acres, worth (exclusive of minerals, valued ai £5,916) £56,632 a year. Principal Residences. — The Hirsel, near Coldstream, co. Berwick ; Douglas Castle, and Bothwell Castle, both co. Lanark. AW. — These last named castles, and the vast estate in Lanarkshire were derived from the family of Douglas. The Earl of Home stands 25th in point of acreage among the 2S noblemen who, in 1SS3, possessed above 100,000 acres in the Uuited Kiugdom. See a list of these in vol. ii., p. 51, note "a," jmJ. " Buccleuch." HOME OF BERWICK. See under "Hume of Berwick," Barony {Hume), cr. 1G04. HOMET. This was never an English peevage, but was a Norman seigniory, conferred in 1418 on Sir Walter Hungerford, afterwards (1426) cr. Lord Hungerford. It was, however, assumed (with others) in 1485, as a peerage dignity bv Mary, suo jure Baroness Botreaux, &c, and has been even attributed to her heirs, the Marquesses of Hastings. See p. 186. note " b," sub. " Hastings de Hastings." HOO. Barony. Sir Thomas Hoo ( a ) of Hoo, in Luton, Beds ; Mulbarton, I. 1447 co. Norfolk, &e„ s. and h. of Sir Thomas Hoo, of the same, by his to first wife, Eleanor, da. and h. of Thomas Felton, of co. Huntingdon ; 1455. was b. before 1400 ; sue. his father 23 Aug. 1420 ; distinguished him- self greatly in the wars with France ; Keeper of the Seals in France, 1435 J Chancellor of France, 1436-39. In 1439 a grant in fee was made to him of the Castle, Lordship and Honour of Hastings ( b ). Was el. K.G. 11 July, and inst. 10 («) See an interesting article, by W. D. Cooper, in the Sussex Arch. Coll. (viii., pp. 97-131), on the families of Braose and Hoo. 0>) As to the devolutions of the Barony of Hastings, co. Sussex, see p. 185, note "a," tub. "Hastings."
