ALCESTER COMPLETE PEERAGE 97 THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. " (") In this will (which is signed " ALBION ") he states that " I am seized of the Province and County Palatine of New Albion as of free Principality and held of the Crown of Ireland of ivhich I am a Peer, (") which Honour, and Title and Province, as Arundell and many other Earldoms and Baronies, is assignable and saleable with the Province and County Palatine as a local Earldom. " () He was 2nd s. of Francis Plowden, of Plowden in Lidbury, Salop, by Mary, da. of Thomas, and sister of Sir Richard Fermor, of Somerton, Oxon. He was knighted in Ireland by the Lords Justices, 25 Dec. 1630. He m. Mary, da. and h. of Peter Marriner, of Wansted afsd., by Dorothy, his wife. He d'. July 1659. His wife survived him. Their 2nd s., Thomas Plowden, sue. under his father's will to " the Province and Earldom of Albion," and he, by will, dat. 16 May, and pr. 10 Sep. 1698, left it to his 3rd s., Francis Plowden, who went out there to prosecute his right, and d. in Maryland. His descendants registered their pedigree in 1774 at the College of Arms, London, but the style or title of Earl of Albion seems never to have been assumed after 1659. ALBUERA AND DUNGARVAN See "Beresford of Albuera and Dungarvan," co. Waterford, Barony {^Beresford), cr. 1814 ; extinct with the Viscountcy of Beresford 1854. ALCESTER BARONY. I. Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, G.C.B., 2nd, I. 1882 but 1st surv. s. and h. of Col. Sir Horace Beauchamp Sey- to mour, K.C.H. (who was s. of Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour, 1895. 5th s. of Francis, ist Marquess of Hertford), by his ist wife, Elizabeth Malet, da. of Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Bart., was b. 12 Apr. 1821, in Bruton Str., Midx. ; ed. at Eton ; entered the Royal Navy, Jan. 1834; served in the Burmese War, 1852-53 ; in the White Sea, 1854 ; in the Black Sea, 1855-56 ; in New Zealand, where he was severely wounded, 1860-61 ; Rear Admiral 1870; commanded a de- tached squadron, 1870-72; Junior Lord of the Admiralty, 1872-74, and 1883-85; commanded the Channel Squadron, 1874-77; Vice Admiral 1876; Admiral 1880, and Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Squadron, (*) There appears to be no authority for the existence of any Irish Peerage either of the name of " Albion " or of " Plowden " but he may have considered that he was a peer of Ireland, as holding a palatine earldom " of the crown of Ireland. " V.G. C) On 30 Oct. 1654, as "Sir Edmund Plowden, Earl of Albion, " he presented Ezekiel Lawrence to the benefice of LufFam, (? Lasham) Hants. (Loose sheets at Lambeth Library.)
