DONERAILE 399 VISCOUNTCY [I.]] BARONY [I. VI. 6. Edward (St. Leger), Viscount DoNERAiLE [1785], and Baron Doneraile [1776], in the peerage of Ireland, nephew and h., being s. and h. of the Rev. Edward Frederick St. Leger, Rector of Scotton, co. Lincoln, by Caroline Elizabeth, da. of William Richard Bishop, of Exeter, which Edward Frederick (who d. 5 Dec. 188 i, aged 48) was br. of the 5th Vis- count. He was b. 6 Oct. 1 8 66, at Scotton Rectory ; ed. ( 1 8 80) at Winchester, and at New Coll. Oxford, M.A. 1892; Barrister (Inner Temple), i89i.(") Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 16,400 acres in co. Cork and 12,300 in co. Waterford. Total, 28,700 acres valued at /^ 15,000 a year. Residence. — Doneraile Court, co. Cork. DONG AN, Viscountcy, see LIMERICK, Earldc DONINGTON BARONY. Charles Frederick. Abney - Hastings, formerly Charles Frederick Clifton, 4th s. of Thomas Clifton, I. 1880. of Clifton and Lytham, co. Lancaster, by Hetty, da. of Peregrine Treves, Postmaster Gen. of Bengal, b. 17 June 1822; ed. at Eton, and at Ch. Ch. Oxford, B.A. 1845," M.A. 1848. In consequence of his marriage, he assumed by Act of Pari, in 1859, ^^^ name o^ Abney-Hastings in lieu of his patronymic of Clifton, on inheriting, under a settlement dated 1844, the estates of his wife's relative, Sir Charles Abney-Hastings, 2nd Bart. He ;«., 30 Apr. 1853, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Edith Maud, ist da. of George (Rawdon-Hastings), 2nd Marquess of Hastings, by Barbara, suo jure Baroness Grey de Ruthin. She, who was b. 10 Dec. 1833, sue. her br., the 4th and last Marquess of Hastings, 10 Nov. 1868, as Countess OF Loudoun, yc. [S.], and in Nov. 1871 became also /«(? jure Baroness Botreaux, Hungerford, Moleyns, and Hastings, by the termination of the abeyance of those four Baronies in her favour. She d. 23 Jan. 1874, at Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, aged 40. He, being a Con- servative, owing to such alliance, was «-., 4 May i 880, BARON DONING- TON, of Donington Park, co. Leicester. He d. there, 24 July 1895, aged 73, and was bur. at Donington. C") Personalty ;/[76,520 gross, and
- C33,47i net.
(') Ralph St. Leger, his br. and h. presumptive, d. 12 Apr. 1908, aged 40, from a fall through a window in an hotel at Kandy, Ceylon. V.G. C') He became a Roman Cath. in 1890. For a list of peers and peeresses who have joined this faith since 1850, see vol. iii. Appendix G. V.G.
