ACTON COMPLETE PEERAGE 55 ACHESON of Clancairney, co. Armagh. On 27 Mar. 1849 he sue. to his father's honours, when this Barony became merged in the Barony of WoRLiKGHAM (tT. 1835). See " GosFORD," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1806, under the 3rd Earl. ACTON OF ALDENHAM BARONY. I. Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Bart., 1. 1869. of Aldenham Hall, Salop, s. and h. of Sir Ferdinand Richard Edward Dalberg-Acton, Bart., of the same, by Marie Louise Pelina, only da. and h. of Emmerich Josef Wolfgang Heribert, Duke of Dalberg, (") was b. 10 Jan. 1834, at Naples, and sue. his father, as 8th Bart., 31 Jan. 1837. Ed. at the R.C. College at Oscott, and under Dr. DoUinger at Munich. M.P. for Carlow, 1859-65 ; for Bridgnorth, 1865, but was unseated on petition the following year. D.C.L. Oxford, 1887, LL.D. Cambridge, 1888. Hon. Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, 1890 (an honour shared only with Mr. Gladstone). A Lord in Waiting, 1892-95. Regius Professor ofMod. Hist. Cambridge, 1895. On iTDec. 1869 he was er. BARON ACTON OF ALDENHAM, Salop. C") He m., i Aug. 1865, at St. Martin, in Upper Austria, Maria Anna Ludomilla Euphrosina, 2nd da. of Johann Maximilian, Count of Arco- Valley, by Anna Margareta Maria Juliana Pelina, Countess Mares- CALCHi ; C^) she was b. 11 Feb. 1841. He d. 19 June 1902, at Tegernsee, Bavaria. (■*) He was sue. by his s., who is outside the scope of this work. (") He was only s. of Wolfgang Heribert, Kammerer von Worms, Reichsfreiherr von Dalberg zu Hernsheim, and was cr. a Duke of the Empire by Napoleon, by letters patent, dated 14 Apr. 1810, and confirmed by Louis XVIII, i Feb. 1817; he was cr. a Peer of France 17 Aug. 181 5, and ^. at Hernsheim near Worms, 27 Oct. 1833. (K. Hopf, Hist. Geneal. Atlas, 1858-66, vol. i, no. 201 ; A. R^v^rend, Armorial du Premier Empire, 1 895, vol. ii, p. 3). The arms quartered by the Lords Acton for this marriage differ somewhat from those of the Freiherren von Dalberg, which were. Quarterly, I and 4, Az., 6 fleurs-de-lis Arg., a chief diminui indented Or, for Kammerer von Worms ; 2 and 3, Or, a cross moline Sa., for Dalberg. To which the Duke added a chief Gu., sem6 with estoiles Arg. (Siebmacher, under 'Baden ; Rietstap, etc.) [ex inform. G. W. Watson.) V.G. C") Lord Acton of Aldenham bears arms of Gules with crosslets fitchy silver and two lions passant of the same. This is a Lestrange coat, borne by reason of the marriage of his ancestor Edward Acton with one of the daughters and coheirs of Fulk Lestrange of Longnor, a 14th century cadet of Lestrange of Blackmere. He quarters the arms of Dalberg as stated above, {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. (■■') Johann Maximilian, Graf von und zu Arco-Valley, genannt Bogen, Herr zu Arco, St. Martin, Valley etc., konigl. bayerischer Kammerer, etc. [b. 8 Apr. 1806, rf. at Venice 23 Dec. 1875), m. 11 June 1832, Anna Margareta Maria Juliana Pelina, Contessa Marescalchi [h. 28 Aug. 181 3, d. at Tegernsee 22 July 1885). Arco is in Tyrol, and Valley in Bavaria. [Chronik der Grafen des H. R. R. von und zu Arco genannt Bogen, 1 886). {ex inform. G. W. Watson.) V.G. C) He " is a theologian, a professor, a man of letters, a member of Society. When at intervals all too long he quits his retirement at Cannes or Cambridge, his
