The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-03 00:00:00

DEATH OF LVHO WILLOUGHBY DE

ERESBY.

We have to record the death if Lord Willow/1,1,y de
Eresny, Hereditary Great Chamberlain of Eiigiand, pinny
with U. Margate of etio'monieley. ills lordship die on
liatorday, the 07th, at his recelence near Richmond, In the
49'h year of his age, having held his honours little more-than
five years
The Right Hon. Alberic Drurnmund.Willoughby,
acci riling to Sir Bernard Burke and the heralds, 24, h
Lord Willoughby de Kesby arid third L ,rd Gwydyr,
of Gwydyr, in the county of C anarvon, was horn in
the pariah if St. George's, Hanover-, roam. on Demme
her 05. 1821. He was the oily Poo of Pi ter Robert,
19,h Lord Willoughby sod second Luid Gwydyr, by
hi, wife Clementine Sarah, only surviving child and
heirees of James, Lord Perth, in the peerage it
Englmol a title which tev.iarne extinct at the c irn-
mencernent of the present century, a few years
after it had text created. and throign whi in
Lord Willotighby inherited Drummond d'aet'e and
the Imo goificent Sz,ittish estates of the ancient
earls and dukes of Perth, and in consequence of
which marriage he mistimed the addatii.uil name of
Drummond. 'the noblemen now deceased inherited the
honours of the peerage on his father'edeath in February,
1665 ; he was patron of about 15 livings, and was ap-
pointed a deputy lieutenant for Lincolnshire in 1849.
He acquired, it will be remembered, considerable noto-
riety in connexion with various claims and sails Wan.

tated by Madame HAlteyra.--Re never married, but
he leaves two eurviring sistere, Clementine Elizabeth,
widow of the first Lord Aveland, and Charlotte
Angled& Arebelle, widow of Itobert. second Lord
Caringt in. Toe barony of Willoughby de Ertsby
stashie at present fourth on the roll of the Home
of Peers, havinic ben created by writ AD. 1313.
It was carried by marriage into the Beetle family,
afterwards earls and ruarquiees of Lindsey, and even-
tually dukes of Anemic]. ; and it was at the death of
the last duke but one, in 1i79 that the barony of Wil•
loughby and the Hereditary Great Chaliberlainship
fell int.• abeyance between the Duke's two sisters, Lady
Priscilla and Lady Geurgiania ; but the abeyance no far
as regarded this barony was determined the following
year in favour of the former, who married Peter Burrell
a gentleman who, as Sir Nathaniel Wraxall Mils us in
his goseiping Memoirs of /Ws His Own Time, rose from
humble position by is run of good luck to become
Lord Gwydyr, and the husband of the holder of one of
proudest Siguities in the British Peerage. Mr. Burrell
was the grandfather of the nobleman just deceased. It
ehouldbe adied that the Lady Georgians above men-
tioned carried by her marriage a moiety of the office of
Hereditary Great Chamberlain into the noble house of
Chulmondeley.

A CORRECTION.

--
It. Burrell (nnw Lord Gwydyr), in noticing the
abve, writes to The Times:—

In )our ACCO,II4 111 The Times of to-day [llonday] of the de-
Conan .4 Loot Willoughby de Ere•by you have unintentionally
done my family an ininitice, by quoting the Ignorant gossip nf
Wratall, in which he states that my ancestor, Peter Burrell,
who married Lady Priscilla Bertie, "rope from a humble
position by a run of good luck to become Lord Owydyr
the fact being that the said Peter Barrell succeeded to his
great uncle', baronetcy, Sir Ilerrik Burred, who was also a
mttnber of Parliament

Mr Burrell's family held large estates in Simies and sent,
and Peter Burrell, subsequently creatt d L .rd Gwydyr, had
an estate of his own worth air, ut £15,100 a year. Ile can,
therefore, hardly be said " to have risen from humble cir-
cumstances "
. . . .

I should feel much obliged if you iroubl take au o;.por•
tuuity of carectul the above tubsoitaterueut.