LLANOVER — LOCHMABEN. 127 LLANOVER OF LLANOVER AND ABERCARN. Barony. The Rt. Hon. Sir Benjamin Halt,, Bart., was cr., I 1859 29 June 1859, BARON LLANOVER OF LLANOVER AND ABEIt- , ' CARN, co. Moumouth. He was s. and h. of Benjamin Hall, of 1Qf 7 Hensol Castle, co. Glamorgan, and of Abercarn, co. Monmouth (who 18b '- d. 31 July 1817, aged 39), by Charlotte, da. of William Crawshaw, of Cyfarthfa, co. Glamorgan; was 6. 8 Nov. 1802; entered Westm. school, 1S14, and mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 24 May 1S20; M.P. for Moumouth borough, 1832-37, and for Marylebone, 1837-59 ; was cr. a Baronet (as "of Llanover, co. Monmouth"), 16 July 1838; P.C., 1854 ; President of the Board of Health, 1S51-55 ; First Commissioner of Public Works, 1855-58, raised to the peerage as above, 29 June, and took his seat, 4 July 1859 ; Lord Lieut, of co. Moumouth, 1881. He 7)i., 4 Dec. 1823, Augusta, da. and coheir of Benjamin Waddington, of Llanover afsd., by Georgina Mary Ann, da. of John Port, formerly Sparrow, of Ham, co. Derby. He d. s.p.m.s., 27 April 1867 (after a long illness) aged 64, at 9 Great Stanhope street, Mayfair,( a ) and was bur. at Llanover, when the Barony became extinct. M.I. there and in Llaudaff cathedral. ( ,J ) His widow living 1S92.('°) Family Estates. — These, in 1S83, consisted of 6,312 acres in Monmouthshire and 221 in Glamorganshire. Total 6,533 acres, worth £S,136 a year. Principal Residence. Llanover, near Abergavenny. LLANTHONY. i.e., " Ormonde op Llanthony, co. Monmouth," Barony (Butler), cr. 1821 ; see " Ormonde " Mnrquessate [I.], cr. 1825. LOCHABER. i.e., " Badenocii, Lociiaber, Stiutiiaven," &c, Barony [S.] (Gordon), cr. 1684 with the Dukedom ok Gordon [S.], which see ; ex. therewith, 1S36. LOCIIINVAR. i.e., "Lochinvar" Barony [S.] (Gordon), cr. 1C33 with the Vis- countcy of Ken.muue [S.], which see ; dormant 1847. LOCHLEVEN. i.e., "Douglas of Lociileven, co. Kinross," Barony (Do/if/Icvt), cr. 1791 ; see " Morton * Earldom [S.], cr. 1458, under the 18th Earl ; ex. 1827. LOCHMABEN. i.e., "Murray of Lociimaben," Barony [S.] (Murray), cr. about 1622 with the Viscuuntcy of Annand [S.] ; see " Annandale " Earldom [S.], cr. 1625 ; ex. 1658. i.e., "Johnston of Lochwood, Lochmaben, Moffatdale, and Evan- dale," Barony [S.] (Johnston), cr. 1661 with the Earldom ok Annandalk and Harwell [S.J, and again in 1701 with the Mahqukssate of Annandale [S.] ; see those dignities ; dormant 1792. (") The measures chielly supported by him were the abolition of church rates, the reform of ecclesiastical abuses, and the establishing of the Metropolitan Board of Works. ( b ) His grandfather, the Rev. Benjamin Hall, D.D., was Chancellor of the Diocese of Llandaff, and d. 2 Feb. 1825, aged 82, having survived his eldest son, Benjamin Hall, abovementioned. She was the editor of the "autobiography of Mary (Granville), Mrs. Delany."
