174 BESSBOROUGH Pilltown afsd., aged 84. (^) Will pr. May 1 906, gross over £ i ,600, net over j^i,400. His widow, who was h. 17 Dec. 1825, ^. of heart failure, at 38 Eccleston Sq., Pimlico, 15, and via.s i>ur. 20 Jan. 191 1, at Pilltown. [Edward Ponsonby, styled Viscount Duncannon, ist s. and h., b. I Mar. 1 85 1. Sec. to Lord R. Grosvenor at the Treasury 1880-84. Sometime Lieut. R.N. , retired 1874. Barrister-at-law 1879; Sec. to the Speaker (Peel) of the H. of C. 1884-95; C.B. (Civil) May 1895; Sheriff of CO. Carlow 1898 ; C.C. for Kilkenny 1899 ;C.V.O. Apr. 1902 ; Chairman of theL.B.iyS.C. Railway; a Kt. of Grace St. John of Jerusalem. Hew., 22 Apr. 1875, Blanche Vere, sister of Ivor Bertie (Guest), ist Baron WiMBORNE, and da. of Sir Josiah J. Guest, ist Bart., by Charlotte Elizabeth, only da. of Albemarle (Bertie), 9th Earl ofLindsey. Having j«c. to the peerage in 1906, he is, as such, outside the scope of this work.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of about 24,000 acres in CO. Kilkenny, worth about ^15,500 a year; about 10,600 in co. Carlow and 200 in co. Tipperary; also about 700 acres in co. Leicester worth about ;^900 a year. Total 35,440 acres, worth ^22,384 a year. Chief Residences. — Bessborough House, near Pilltown, co. Kilkenny, and Garry Hill, CO. Carlow. i.e. " Duncannon of Bessboroug h, co. Kilkenny," Barony [1.] {Ponsonby), cr. 19 July 1834, see "Bessborough," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1739, under the 4th Earl. BETTESHANGER See "NoRTHBouRNE OF Betteshanger, Kent, and of Jarrow Grange, CO. Durham," Barony (James), cr. 1884. BEVEL Bevel, Viscountcy, see Albemarle, Dukedom, cr. 3 Nov. 1721 by the titu/ar James III ; and vol. i. Appendix F. BEVERLEY i.e. "Beverley, CO. York," Marquessate (Doug/as), see "Dover," Duke- dom of; cr. 1708, extinct 1778. EARLDOM. I. Algernon (Percy), Lord Lovaine, Baron of X Alnwick, Northumberland, 2nd s. of Hugh (Percy, '" ■ formerly Smithson), Duke of Northumberland, tPc, by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Algernon (Seymour), Duke of Somerset, Earl () He was one of the numerous peers who have been directors of public com- panies, for a list of whom (in 1896) see vol. v, Appendix C. V.G.
