AiREY COMPLETE PEERAGE 69 I. 1633. OF AIR [S.]. By a subsequent patent, dat. at Dun- glass, 12 Tune 1633, he was cr. LORD CRICHTON OF SANQUHAR and CUMNOCK, VISCOUNT OF AIR and EARL OF DUMFRIES [S.], with a spec. rem. (as to this creation) to heirs male for ever bearing the name and arms of Crichton. See Dumfries, Earldom of [S.], cr. 1633. AIRDES, see ARDES AIREY BARONY. I. Richard Airey, ist s. and h. of Lieut. Gen. Sir y n ^ George Airey, K.CH. [d. 1833), ^7 Catharine, yst. ' da. of Richard Talbot, of Malahide Castle, co. Dublin,
- by Margaret, suo jure Baroness Talbot of Malahide
1 88 1. [I.], was b. Apr. 1803, at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Ed. at Woolwich Academy. Ensign 34th Foot, 1821 ; Capt. 1825 ; Alde-de-Camp to the Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, 1827-30 ; to the Governor of British North America, 1830-32; Military Secretary there, 1832-35 ; Lieut. Col. 34th Reg., 1838 ; Assistant Adjutant Gen. at the Horse Guards, 1838-47; Assistant Quarter-Master-Gen. there, 1851-53 ; Acting Quarter-Master-Gen. in the Crimea, 1854-55; was in command of a brigade at Alma, Balalclava, and Inkermann, and was at the capture of Sebastopol ; Quarter-Master-Gen. of the forces, 1855, when he received the local rank of Lieut. Gen. in Turkey. He was nom. K.C.B., 5 July 1855, for his services against the Russians; was Col. of the 17th Foot, i860; Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Gibraltar, 1865-70; G.C.B., 13 Mar. 1867; Col. of the 7th Foot, 1868 ; Adjutant Gen. of the Forces, 1870-76; Gen. in the Army, 1871-72. On 29 Nov. 1876, he was cr. BARON AIREY C) of Killingworth, Northumberland. In Oct. 1877 he retired from the army. He w., Jan. 1838, Harriet Mary Everard, 3rd da. of his maternal uncle, James (Talbot), Lord Talbot of Malahide [I.], by Anne Sarah, da. and coh. of Samuel Rodbard, of Evercreech, Somerset. She d. 28 July 1881, in Lowndes Sq., Midx. He survived her but a few weeks, and d. s.p.tn.s., 13 Sep. 1 88 1, at the Grange, Leatherhead, Surrey, when the title became extinct. (") Both were bur. in the cemetery at Kensal Green, Midx. (") Lord Airey of Killingworth bore arms of Azure a cheveron silver between three molets silver in the chief and a mural crown gold in the foot with three cinqfoils of the field on the cheveron. This modern shield seems to have been based upon the ancient arms of the Derbyshire Eyres, which were adopted without reason by more than one of the surname of Airey. {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. () He appears to have been a hardworking, strong, efficient man, trained in the school of Wellington. Owing to the attempt to throw on him the responsibility for the failure of the commissariat department in the Crimean War, he demanded an official enquiry, the result of which was to clear him of the charge. V.G.
