[477] Alexander, tenth Duke (1767–1852).
[478] Edward Adolphus, eleventh Duke. See ante, p. 68.
[479] James, sixth Duke (1816–1879).
[480] To rescind the Irish Church resolution of 1835.
[481] Charles William, third Marquess, half-brother of the eminent statesman, better remembered as Lord Castlereagh. Lord Londonderry was a soldier and diplomatist.
[482] George O’Brien, third Earl of Egremont, died unmarried in November 1837, aged eighty-six. Lady Munster was his illegitimate daughter, but his estates in Sussex and Cumberland were devised to other adopted heirs.
[483] An extreme instance of this partiality is described in Warren’s Ten Thousand a Year. In 1868 the jurisdiction to decide disputed elections was transferred to the Court of Common Pleas.
[484] John Thomas, first and only Earl of Redesdale (1805–86), Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords, 1851–86. Lord Redesdale was one of the last men in England who wore habitually in the daytime the old-fashioned “tail-coat.”
[485] Lady Catharine was daughter of the third Earl of Radnor, and Victor was her fifth son. See ante, p. 219.
[486] There is a portrait of the Queen by John Partridge in King George’s room at Buckingham Palace showing the hair done in this fashion.