190 SOMERVILLE — SONDES. XIX.(*) 1S6S, Aubrey John Somerville, cousin am] h. to male (tho' r.ot heir general), who, as heir mate, was possibly 1S70. entit!ed( h ) to be Louu Someryiiak [S.] and who assumed that dignity on the death (if the late Lord, J 7 Nov. IStiS. He was 1th but 1st surv.( c ) s. of the Rev. the Hon. William SOMBBVILLK, Hector of Barford, co. Warwick, by Charlotte, da. of the Rev. Walter ISac.ot, of Withheld, co. Stafford, which William (who d. 0 July l^. r >7, aged (57), was yr. br. to lvenehn, Mark, and John Sonthey, successively Lords Somerville as ubovestated. He was b. 1 Feb. IS.'iS, at Merideu, eo. Warwick, aud ed. at Rugby. He, who wits sometime of Port Macquarie, New South Wales, auumttl the peerage [St], 17 Nov. 1S68, but took no steps towards proving his right thereto. He </. num., 28 Aug. 1870, aged 31, at Bometville Aston afsd.,( J ) when the parage became dormant. Will |ir. under £9,000. SOMERVILLE [belaud], Seo "Atiii.umney of Somerville and Doi.lardstown, co. Meath," Barony [I.] (Somavtllt), cr. 1S63. SOMERY, SOMEEIE, or DE SOMFRY. Barony by /. John DE Somery, 0 f Dudley Castle,( e ) co. Stafford, Writ, s. and h. of Roger de S. of the same, by Agues, his wife, sue, his I 130^ father in 1291, being then aged 13 ; was in the expedition to Scotland, M 1301-1310 ; KB., 1306, He was sum. to Pari, as a liaron (LUUI) . JX. SOMERY, or DE SOMERY) by writs, directed "Joha»ni ae Somtrg," from 10 March (1807/8) 1 Ed. 1L, toll March (1321/2) 15 Ed. II.,(fj this last writ being 3 months after his death. He m. Lucy. He tt. s.p., 29 Dec. 189.1, when his honours became extinct, leaving his two si»ters(<) as co- heirs, htq. post, mortem, 21 Aug. aud 6 Dee. 1322. His wife (Lucy) survived him. SOMMERS, see St&tai*. SONDES OF LEES COURT. />., "Sondes op Lees Court, co. Kent," Viscuuntcy (Sonde; afterwards De Duras), cr. 1676, with the EARLDOM ok Kkykkskam, which see ; ex. 1709. i.e., "Sondes op Lees Court, c». Kent," Viscountcy ( Watson), cr. 1714, with the Eahldom of Rockingham, which see ; ex. 1716. (") These numbers are only accurate if the succession be taken as one in tail male. m See p. 137, note "c," and p. 188, note " f." (') He was nae of five brothers all of whom d. num., viz, (1) Walter Digby, b. 17 Dec. 1831,* 17 May I860 (2) Everard William, It. 3 July 1838, rf. 8 Sep. 1868 (3) Reginald Hugh, Lieut., 23d Koot ; b. 16 Dec. 1835 ; d. 8 Sep. 1855 (4) Aubrey John, as above (5) Augustus, b. S Aug. 1839, d. 8 April 1859. ( rt ) On his death in 1870 the male line of the family must apparently be sought at least as br back as the issue of James Somerville, of Drum {de jure Lord Somerville) who d. 1693. His two yr. sons, John and George, were both of high rank ill the Army. An account (by J. Bain, F.S.A.). of the claim of " the Rev. Dr. A. N. Somer- ville" (whose life by 0. Smith, LL.D., was pub. in 1S90), to be the male representa- tive of these Lords, is in " The Genealogist," N.S., vol. i.x, pp. 1-1. (°; See vol. iv, p. ISO, note "a," sub ' Dudley," fur notice of H. S. Grazebrook's valuable work on the " liarons of Dudley; ( f ) There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (S) Of these, the younger was Joan, then aged 30, aud widow of Thomas de Bote- tourt (S- and h. ap. of John, Lord Botetourt) ancestress of the Lords Botetourt, while the elder, Margaret, then aged 32, and wife of John da Sutton, inherited the Castle of Dudley (the Caput Baronia), and was mother of John, Lord Suttou de Dudley, See " Dudley " Barony, cr. 1342 ; iu abeyance 1757.
