I20 COMPLETE PEERAGE amesbury Anne {d. 3 Dec. 1847), da. of Richard Calthrop, of Swineshead Abbey, CO. Lincoln ; was b. at 4 Chester PI., 22 Dec. 1842, and was bap. 3 May 1843, at St. Peter's, Eaton Sq. ; ed. at King's Coll. School, at the Charter- house, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge. M.A. 1869, Hon. LL.D. 1892, Hon. LL.D. Edinburgh and Aberdeen ; D.C.L. Oxford ; F.R.S. Called to the Bar 1868; Q.C. 1878; Attorney Gen. 1885-86, 1886-92, and 1895- 1900 ; Master of the Rolls May 1900; Lord Chief Justice of England Oct. 1900. M.P. (Conserv. interest) for Launceston 1885, and for the Isle of Wight 1 885-1900. Knighted 9 July 1885 ; G.C.M.G., 7 Dec. 1893 ; cr. a Baronet 29 Jan. 1900, and P.C. in the same year. On 18 June 1900, being then Master of the Rolls, he was cr. BARON ALVER- STONE() of Alverstone, co. Southampton. He m., 20 Aug. 1872, at Withern, co. Lincoln, Louisa Mary, only da. of William Charles Calthrop, M.D., of Withern afsd., by Louisa Jane, da. of the Rev. Christopher Carr, rector of Fletton, near Peterborough. She, who was b. at Withern, d. 22 Mar. 1877, at Hornton Lodge, Kensington, and bur. at Norwood. () AMBERLEY i.e. " Amberley of Amberley, co. Gloucester, and of Ardsalla, co. Meath, " Viscountcy (Russell), cr. 1861 with the Earldom of Russell, which see. AMESBURY See "Douglas of Amesbury, Wilts," 'Q^rony (Douglas), cr. 1786, extinct 18 10. BARONY. I. Charles Dundas(') of Barton Court, Berks, 2nd s. I. 1832. of Thomas D., of Fingask, CO. Stirling, by his 2nd wife, Janet, da. of Charles (Maitland), 6th Earl of Lauder- dale [S,], b. 5 Aug. 1751. Ed. at Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; B.A. 1773, M.A. 1776. He was M.P. (in the Whig interest) for Richmond 1775-80; for Orkney 1780-84 ; for Richmond (again) 1784-86 ; and for Berks C) The arms granted to Lord Alverstone are described as " Azure two pallets or and five swans in cross proper between four annulets of the second. " This is evidently a differenced version of the arms allowed by the heralds in the early seven- teenth century to the Websters of Flamborough in Yorkshire, {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. f) Their only s., Arthur Harold Webster, b. 16 June 1874, ed. at Charterhouse, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge, m., 10 May 1898, Gwladys Marie de Grasse, 2nd da. of Sir Francis Henry Evans, ist Baronet [1902], but d. v.p. and s.p.^ after an operation for appendicitis, at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, 8 Aug. 1902, and was bur. at Cranlcigh, Surrey. (") The family of Dundas is one of the 1 2 given in Drummond's NohU British Familia ; see p. 1 1 8 note (b).
