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	Duke of Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Marquessate of Stafford, the Earldom of Gower and the Viscounty of Trentham are in the Peerage of Great Britain, the Dukedom, the Earldom of Ellesmere and the Viscounty of Brackley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and the Barony of Gower in the Peerage of England.
		He died childless and was succeeded in the Earldom of Sutherland and Lordship of Strathnaver, which could be inherited by females, by his niece Elizabeth.
		He is the grandson of a younger son of the third Earl of Ellesmere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_of_Sutherland (834 words)

	Clan SUTHERLAND
		The Earldom of Sutherland, the oldest extant in Britain, is said to have been granted by Alexander II, to William, Lord of Sutherland, about 1228, for assisting to quell a powerful northern savage of the name of Gillespie.
		This lady’s son was next heir to the earldom, and, whether or not she was instigated by her relative, the Earl of Caithness, she conceived the diabolic scheme of opening the way for her son’s succession by poisoning her guests.
		The Earldom of Sutherland, claimed to be the oldest in Britain, is alleged to have been granted to William, Lord of Sutherland about 1228 and the line remained unbroken until 1514.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/stoz/sutherl2.html (6775 words)

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		On the 3rd of November 1613 he was advanced to the earldom of Somerset, on the 23rd of December was appointed treasurer of Scotland, and in 1614 lord chamberlain.
		He supported the earl of Northampton and the Spanish party in opposition to the old tried advisers of the king, such as Lord-Chancellor Ellesmere, who were endeavouring to maintain the union with the Protestants abroad, and who now in 1614 pushed forward another candidate for the king's favour.
		Somerset, whose head was turned by the sudden rise to power and influence, became jealous and peevish, and feeling his position insecure, obtained in 1615 from the king a full pardon, to which, however, the chancellor refused to put the Great Seal.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=62067 (843 words)

	6.Duke of SutherlandEgerton, John Sutherland
		Earl of Ellesmere, who was the second son of the 1.
		Thus the Ellesmeres were immensely rich in their own right from the canals and also from property and coalmining.
		She was involved in an incident in the 1920s, known as the "Ellesmere Ball Row".
	worldroots.com /cgi-bin/gasteldb?@I25799@ (1065 words)

	Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was universally known as Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, receiving that title in 1603.
		He resigned many offices a few weeks before his death and was promised the Earldom of Bridgewater, but did not live to receive it.
		He had been created Baron Ellesmere on 21 July 1603, and Viscount Brackley on 7 November 1616.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Egerton,_1st_Baron_Ellesmere (184 words)

	History of the Sutherland Clan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The family are probably of Flemish origin, descended from Freskin, whose grandson, Hugh, was granted land in Moray around the year 1130 by David I. Hugh acquired estates in Sutherland and was referred to as Lord of Sutherland.
		On the death of the fifth Duke, the chiefship of the clan and the earldom of Sutherland devolved upon his niece, Elizabeth, the pres-ent Countess of Sutherland.
		The dukedom, however, did not die out, and was inherited by the Earl of Ellesmere, a descendant of a younger son of the first Duke.
	www.sutherlandclan.org.uk /sutherland_clan.htm (845 words)

	CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-CHESHIRE
		The gold and red quarters are derived from the arms of the the de Malbanks, holders of the barony of Wich Malbank, one of the eight baronies of the Earldom of Chester.
		The Borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston was formed by the amalgamation of the Borough of Ellesmere Port and the Neston Urban District.
		The three gold wheatsheaves on blue, are those of the Earldom of Chester, and relate to the County and manorial history of the town.
	www.civicheraldry.co.uk /cheshire.html (3397 words)

	Chapter 10: Le Strange Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		James Stanley, eldest son of Ferdinando’s brother William (the sixth earl) was summoned to the House of Lords during his father’s lifetime as Lord Strange, by writ of 1628, under the erroneous belief that the barony of Strange of Knockin was vested in his father.
		In the Hundred Rolls, Ness, Ellesmere, and Middle seem to be simply parts of the Hundred of Pimhill, which was in the King’s hands, and even Knockin (and for that matter Oswestry itself) seem loosely attached to the Hundred of Bradford, though Oswestry is expressly declared to be free of suit to the Hundred Court.
		Similarly Ellesmere, as a result perhaps of the grant to the le Stranges, had gone out of Pimhill Hundred to become a separate Marcher lordship, and was now reannexed to it.
	www.asiawrite.co.nz /lestrange/library/records/chap10.html (3760 words)

	Tour Sutherland, Tour Scotland.
		The 2nd dukes wife, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana (1806-1868), a daughter of Gcorge Howard, 6th earl of Carlisle, was one of Queen Victorias most intimate friends.
		His wife Anne (1829-1888), daughter of John Hay Mackenzie, was created countess of Cromartie in 1861, and the earldom descended to her second son Francis (1852-1893).
		When he died without sons the earldom fell into abeyance, but this was terminated in 1895 in favor of his (laughter Sibell Lilian (b.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /earls-dukes-sutherland.htm (692 words)

	Caithness CWS - Caithness Field Club - Annual Bulletins - 1976 - April - Dunrobin Castle - Earls and Dukes of Sutherland
		Sadly however, his prolificness as a writer was matched by his unreliability, for the extreme bias he shows towards his own family and his prejudice against their enemies has poisoned the historical records of the North over several centuries.
		Her own, son the next heir to the earldom, died also as a result of poison which had been given him unknowingly by a servant.
		When he died without issue, he was succeeded in the earldom and the Scottish titles by his niece, the third Elizabeth to hold the title, who sits as the twenty fourth holder of the ancient dignity.
	www.caithness.org /caithnessfieldclub/bulletins/1976/april/dunrobin_castle_earls_sutherland.htm (2759 words)

	Clan Sutherland History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Elizabeth, the 10th Countess of Sutherland, succeeded her brother John by "infeftment" of 1515, resigning the earldom to her eldest son Alexander, the ancestor of the family of Gordon, Earls of Sutherland.
		Her eldest son, Lord Strathnaver, is the heir to the ancient Earldom of Sutherland.
		It was inherited by the 5th Duke's nearest male relative, John Egerton, 5th Earl of Ellesmere, a descendant of the second son of the 1st Duke.
	www.clansutherland.org /PageHistory.htm (5180 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| The Duke of Sutherland
		John Sutherland succeeded his father in the Earldom of Ellesmere in 1944 and his kinsman in the Dukedom of Sutherland in 1963; but owing to a natural reticence he neither took his seat in the House of Lords nor entered into the national public life.
		His ancestor, the 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-57), was born Lord Francis Leveson-Gower, second son of the 1st Duke of Sutherland.
		When on the death of the 5th Duke (and 23rd Earl) of Sutherland in 1963, there was no male heir in the elder line, the Dukedom passed to the Ellesmeres, while the Earldom of Sutherland and the huge Highland estates went to the 5th Duke's niece, the present Countess of Sutherland.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2000/09/22/db02.xml (1361 words)

	Chester
		The series terminated in the reign of Henry III, and from that time the Earldom of Chester has been in the crown or in the hands of members of the royal house.
		A canal, which was cut in 1772, had no success till after many years the company united themselves to the proprietors of the Ellesmere canal.
		When the Act of Toleration gave liberty to the non-conforming Protestants to meet publicly for worship, they erected a spacious meeting-house in Chester, one of the earliest ministers in which was Matthew Henry, whose writings were long in great esteem in the non-conformist body.
	www.oldtowns.co.uk /Cheshire/chester.htm (2137 words)

	CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-CHESHIRE (OBSOLETE)
		Both these families held land in Stalybridge and in the eighteenth century the heiress of the Dukinfields married into the Astley family, from whose arms the cinquefoils are taken.
		The wolf and wheatsheaf represent the Earldom of Chester.
		The three garbs or wheat sheaves on a blue field, are from the arms of the Earldom of Chester, taken on account of the position of Wallasey in the County, which position is more particularly indicated by the adoption of the bugle-horn.
	www.civicheraldry.co.uk /cheshire_ob.html (2456 words)

	Smiles, Self-Help, Chapter 6: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Thus, not many years since, the representative of the earldom of Mar was discovered in the person of a laborer in a North-umberland coal-pit; and at this day, it is understood that the linear representative of Simon de Montfort, England's premier baron, is a saddler in Tooley Street.
		The great bulk of our peerage is comparatively modern, so far as the titles go; but it is not the less noble that it has been recruited to so large an extent from the ranks of honorable industry.
		Thus, the earldom of Cornwallis was founded by Thomas Cornwallis, the Cheapside merchant; that of Essex by William Capel, the draper; and that of Craven by William Craven, the merchant tailor.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Smiles/smlSH6.html (5460 words)

	Berkhamsted Local History Pages
		In 1605 Ashridge passed into the possession of a family which was to hold and foster the property for many generations.
		On the accession of James I he was confirmed Lord Keeper in May 1603, and in the July of the same year constituted Lord Chancellor and raised to the Peerage, adopting the title Baron of Ellesmere.
		John, Viscount Brackley, who succeeded to the Earldom and to the estate of Ashridge, inherited a Cromwellian mistrust of the House of Bridgewater.
	www.berkhamsted.info /localhistoryashridgemanorandmansion.htm (3586 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Robert Bacon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Essex, Robert Devereux, 2d earl of ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX, 2D EARL OF [Essex, Robert Devereux, 2d earl of], 1567-1601, English courtier and favorite of Queen Elizabeth I.
		Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron ELLESMERE, THOMAS EGERTON, BARON [Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron] 1540?-1617, jurist and statesman.
		A distinguished early career at law brought him appointment (1581) as solicitor general, and he became a favorite and adviser of Queen Elizabeth I. In 1592 he was appointed attorney general and in
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Robert+Bacon (725 words)

	Chapter 11: Le Strange Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The bordure engrailed, as borne round the arms of Roger of Ellesmere, is sometimes described as a bordure indented.
		A paper in the ‘Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society’[20] states that Hamon, the crusader, who had a grant of the manor of Ellesmere in 1267, bore, gules, two lions passant, argent, within a bordure engrailed, or.
		If this be correct, Hamon may have passed on this mark of difference to his brother Roger, together with the manor of Ellesmere, when he enfeoffed the latter in that manor on starting himself for the Holy Land in 1270.
	www.asiawrite.co.nz /lestrange/library/records/chap11.html (1673 words)

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		At present the Clan chief is a lady, this is because the Sutherland earldom can be, and has been three times inherited by the nearest female descendant, in the absence of a male heir.
		For several Generations, the dukedom and earldom were held by one and the same person.
		The earldom was inherited by his niece, the only child of his brother, Lord Alisdair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower.
	clansutherland.org.uk /public/history.jsp (2453 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He was the son of the 4th Earl of Ellesmere, to whose titles he succeeded in 1944;he subsequently inherited the Dukedom of Sutherland, Marquessate, and lesser titles from his third cousin once removed (whose niece inherited the Earldom of Sutherland).
		His family were patrilineally Gowers, tracing clearly to Sir Nicholas Gower, a 14th century MP, and possibly centuries before that...the branch who were created Earls of Ellesmere changed their name to Egerton under the terms of the will of Scroop Egerton, the famously rich Duke of Bridgwater.
		The Most Noble Sir John Sutherland Egerton,6th Duke of Sutherland, 7th Marquess of Stafford,8th Earl Gower and Viscount Trentham, 5th Earl of Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley,9th Baron Gower of Stittenham, and a Baronet, born May 10th 1915,died September 21st 2000.
	www.derbydeadpool.co.uk /deadpool2000/obits/sutherland.html (549 words)

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		The oldest earldom is that of Shrewsbury, conferred on the Talbots in 1442.
		Mary restored the earldom in 1557 to Thomas, seventh Earl, son of the preceding Sir Thomas, but he joined in the celebrated rebellion against Elizabeth, known as the Rising in the North.
		The earldom of Devon was conferred upon the Courtenay~ in 1885 by Edward III., but it was forfeited in two or three generations.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/nora/nora0097.sgm (19639 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot Society
		Elevated to the earldom of Lennox (the existing holder of the title, Robert Stewart, bishop of Caithness, having yielded to royal pressure to resign it) in 1580 and then raised to a dukedom in 1581, Lennox was loathed as a pro-French Catholic who enjoyed all too much of the king's favour.
		The latter's thoughts were given away in his endorsement to a letter replying to Bacon's which suggested the need for a history of Britain which read ‘Sir Francis Bacon touching the story of England’ (Hunt.
		Papers arguing against the change were the stuff of parliamentary business, enlarging on the theme that to give up the ancient and glorious name of England would mean that England would lose its identity, at home and abroad.
	www.gunpowder-plot.org /james.asp (18158 words)

	International Civic Heraldry- UNITED KINGDOM - ELLESMERE PORT AND NESTON
		The fl horizon line between silver borders symbolises the old pipes of the petroleum industry, and the blue vertical line between similar borders represents the Manchester Ship Canal on which Ellesmere Port is the first inward port of call.
		The heraldic golden sheaf or "garb", which since the thirteenth century has been traditionally associated with the Earldom and County of Chester appears in the third quarter, while the cornucopia in the fourth quarter suggests prosperity.
		The blues and white wavy lines on the crest are symbolical of the river Mersey and the ancient ship of commerce (or "lymphad") denotes the borough's status as a port and its ancient maritime associations.
	www.ngw.nl /int/gbr/e/ellesmer.htm (282 words)

	ELLESMERE MANUSCRIPTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His distant cousin, John William Egerton (1753-1823), inherited the earldom of Bridgewater and the Ashridge lands; the library and other properties including Bridgewater House in London were bequeathed by the 3rd Duke to his nephew, George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquis of Stafford (aftw.
		Leveson-Gower’s younger son, Francis Egerton, created Earl of Ellesmere in 1846, inherited the library, and it remained in the family until its sale to Henry Huntington by John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton (1872-1944), 4th Earl of Ellesmere.
		A fifth set of numbers was applied in modern times to most single items in the Bridgewater library, to individual documents as well as to bound volumes; the purpose of the numbers may have been an accounting for the sale of the library.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /Scriptorium/hehweb/elmss.html (1118 words)

	Lancashire Worthies - the Great Duke of Bridgewater
		In his public and political subserviency to Elizabeth and her successor, he was no worse than most of his neighbours, and his behaviour to Essex after the fall, and at the trial of that rash and ill-fated nobleman, contrasts very favourably with Bacon's.
		According to the late Lord Ellesmere, at a time when the Duke of Bridgewater was beginning to reap the profit of his perseverance and sacrifices, Lord Kenyon congratulated him on the result.
		The earldom went to his cousin, General Edward Egerton, and from him to the eighth earl, the originator, by bequest, of the Bridgewater Treatises, who died " in the odour of eccentricity," at Paris, in 1829 ; with him the earldom, too, became extinct.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/fulltext/lw1874/ch11.htm (8782 words)

	Favorite Poets and Poems Message Board
		His writings of this period include many of his songs and sonnets, and they are notable for their realistic and sensual style.
		When Lord Balmerino was put on his trial on the capital charge of retaining in his possession a petition regarded as a libel on the king's government, Drummond in an energetic "Letter" (1635) urged the injustice and folly of the proceedings.
		About this time a claim by the earl of Menteith to the earldom of Strathearn, which was based on the assertion that Robert III, husband of Annabella Drummond, was illegitimate, roused the poet's pride of blood and prompted him to prepare an historical defence of his house.
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	South Wirral Local Community. The Arms of the Borough of Ellesmere Port Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Shield: The fl horizontal line between silver borders symbolises the oil pipes of the petroleum industry, and the blue vertical line betwen similar borders represents the Manchester Canal on which Ellesmere Port is the first inward Port of call.
		The heraldic golden sheaf or 'Garb', which since the thirteenth century has been traditionally associated with the Earldom and County of Chester, appears in the Third Quarter, and the Cornucopia in the Fourth Quarter suggests prosperity.
		Crest: The blue and white wavy lines are significant with the River Mersey, and tha ancient ship of commerce (or 'Lymphad' in heraldic language) denotes the Borough's status as a Port and ancient maritime associations.
	website.lineone.net /~morritek/arms.htm (221 words)

	Sutherland
		The surname Sutherland is derived from the Norse Sudrland - South Land - the country being south of Caithness or Gallaibh, the Country of the Strangers.
		The Earldom is one of the seven old Earldoms in Scotland.
		The Earldom of Cromartie, which had been forfeited after 1745, was revived in 1861 in favour of her as only daughter of John Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie, whose ancestors had inherited the estates, including Castle Leod in Strathpeffer, from Lord MacLeod.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/leitrim/147/sutherland.html (1196 words)

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