AMIENS COMPLETE PEERAGE 125 NEY,(') CO. London, (") with a spec. rem. of that dignity, failing heirs male of his body, to his ist da., Mary Rothes Margaret, wife of Lord William Cecil, and the heirs male of her body. He ;«., 4 June 1 856, at Hunmanby, CO. York, Margaret Susan, da. and h. of Admiral Robert Mitford, of Mitford Castle and of Hunmanby afsd., by Margaret, da. of James DuNSMORE, of Edinburgh. She was b. 8 Jan. 1835, at Lucker, Northum- berland, and bap. there. He d.^ suddenly, aged 73, at 23 Queen's Gate Gardens, 1 6, and was bur. 20 Jan. 1 909, at Didlington afsd. Will pr. Feb. 1909, ^67,457 gross, i,2> ! net. Q He was sue. by his ist. da. and h., under the spec, rem.., who is outside the scope of this work. Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 9,488 acres in Norfolk; 240 in the East Riding of York, and 47 in Kent. Total^ 9-,ll S acres, worth ;^6,976 a year. Principal Residence. — Didlington Hall, near Bran- don, Norfolk. AMIENS i.e., "Amiens," Viscountcy [L] {Stratford), cr. 1777 with the Earl- dom OF Aldborough [L], which see ; extinct 1875. exceptional favour of a spec. rem. to his ist da. it is impossible to suggest. (For a list of, and remarks on, spec. rems. granted to commoners, see vol. iii, Appendix F). It is also much to be regretted that he was allowed to take the title of Amherst, then enjoyed by a noble family to whom it had been granted for really eminent services to the State. This action is the more unreasonable when it is remembered that the grantee was not an Amherst at all by male descent, and that if he did not fancy either of his other surnames, he could perfectly well have taken the simple title of" Hackney " where much of his property was situated. V.G. This was one of 8 Baronies conferred at the recommendation of Lord Salisbury, when leaving office, for a list of which see note mb. 1st Lord Llangattock. No fewer than two of these, of which this was one, were granted with a special remainder. C) Lord Amherst of Hackney bore the undifFerenced arms of the old Kentish family of Amherst (see Amherst, Earldom), quartering Daniel (his paternal coat) and Tyssen. {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. C") See note iub Wandsworth, as to the " county of London. " In a letter, however, 22 Apr. 1897 (marked -i|y trom the "London County Council, Estates and Valuation department, " signed " Andrew Young, Valuer, pr. W.G. " in reply to enquiries (made by G.E.C.), it is stated that " By the Local Government Act, 1888, and the Metropolis Management Act, 1885, Putney, which includes Roe- hampton, was incorporated and became part of London, ceasing from that time to form ^zrt oi Surrey ! " It is presumed therefore that this remark [mutatis mutandis) applies generally to all other places now situated in the county (or " administrative county " as, at first, it was certainly designated) of London. C^) For the greater part of his life he had been a collector of rare books, MSS., Egyptian antiquities, and works of art, but owing to the rascality of his solicitor, who stole an immense quantity of his money, he was forced shortly before his death to sell his choicest treasures. V.G.
