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EARLDOM [I.] VI. VISCOUNTCY ANDBARONY[I.] V. CHARLEVILLE 143 5. Alfred (Bury), Earl of Charleville [1806], Viscount Charleville of Charle- 1874 ville Forest [1800] and Baron Tullamore to OF Charleville Forest [1797] in the peerage 1875. of Ireland, uncle and h. male, being 3rd and yst. s. of Charles William, the 2nd Earl, was b. 19 Feb. 1829; ed. at the Royal Mil. Coll.; sometime (1858) Capt. in loth Foot. Sheriff of King's County 1861. He w., 20 June 1854, at the Cathedral, Barbados, Emily Frances, 3rd da. of Gen. Sir William Wood, K.C.B., Col. 14th Foot, by Charlotte, da. of Capt. Edward Dix, R.N. He d. s.p., 26 June 1 875, at Brighton, aged 46, when all his honours became extinct. His widow d. at Geneva, 1 9 Apr. 1 9 11 . Family Estates, — These, in 1883, consisted of 20,032 acres in King's County, valued at ;£ 10,05 2 ^ year. CHARTLEY John Ferrers, of Chartley, co. Stafford, from his place of residence is often described as Lord Ferrers of Chartley, though neither he, nor any of his successors appear to have been sum. under that designation. Walter Devereux (who m. the heiress) was sum. te7np. Edw. IV as Devereux de Ferrers or Dominus de Ferrers, and Sir Robert Shirley, a coh. of the above, was sum. temp. Car. II and Jac. II as Shirley de Ferrers. See "Ferrers (of Chartley)," Barony by writ of summons, 1299. See also "Townshend," Marquessate, under the 3rd Marquess, who was known as Lord Chartley before his succession. CHATHAM i.e. "Chatham, co. Kent" Barony {Campbell), cr. 17 19 with the Earl- dom OF Greenwich. See "Argyll," Dukedom of [S.], cr. 1701, under the 2nd Duke. Extinct 1743. BARONY. I. Hester, only da, of Richard Grenville, of Wotton, Bucks, by Hester, sua jure Viscountess Cobham, was b. ^* ^701- 8 Nov., and bap. 6 Dec. 1720, at St. James's, Westm. She m., 16 Nov. 1754, by spec. lie. in Argyll Str,, the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, afterwards (1766) cr. Earl of Chatham (see below). On 4 Dec. 1761, she was cr. BARONESS CHATHAM of Chatham, Kent, with rem. of that Barony to the heirs male of her body by her said husband. A pension, "in consideration of Mr. Pitt's services," of It„ooo p.a. was granted for her life, her husband's, and their eldest son's. The peerage was doubtless granted for his political services, though she herself