592 APPENDIX B A LIST OF PEERS AND HEIRS APPARENT OF PEERS WHO SERVED IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR OF I 899- I 902 The following peers and heirs apparent of peers served in various capacities in the Boer War. It will be noticed that the Lords bore an honourable and heavy share of the load of suffering, loss, and danger, which was entailed on the nation at that epoch in the effort to maintain our South African Empire, an effort made necessary in the main by the vacillating and pusillanimous conduct of our statesmen in the past. Had brothers and younger sons of peers been included in this list the number would have been very largely increased. Abinger, James Yorke McGregor Scarlett, 4th Baron. AcHESON, Archibald Charles Montagu Brabazon, styled ViscovnTy ist s. of the Earl of Gosford. AiLESBURY, George William James Chandos Brudenell-Bruce, 6th Marquess of. AiLSA see Cassillis. Airlie, David William Stanley Ogihy, 8th Earl of, killed in action. Albemarle, Arnold Allan Cecil Keppel, 8th Earl of. Annesley see Valentia. Ardee, Reginald le Normand Brabazon, styled Lord, ist s. of the Earl of Meath. Arran, Arthur Jocelyn Charles Gore, 6th Earl of Athlumney, James Herbert Gustavus Meredyth Somerville, 2nd Baron. Atholl see Tullibardine. AvA, Archibald James Leofric Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, styled Karl of, ist s. of the ist Marquess of Dufferin, killed in action. Balfour of Burleigh see Burleigh. Basing, George Limbrey Sclater-Booth, 2nd Baron. Bathurst, Seymour Henry Bathurst, 7th Earl. Bellew, George Leopold Bryan, 4th Baron. Brassey see Hythe. Braye, Alfred Thomas Townshend Verney-Cave, Baron. Brooke, Leopold Guy Francis Maynard Greville, styled Lord, ist s. of the 5th Earl of Warwick.
