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STRANGE.


John (ASHBURNHAM), 3d Baron, afterwards (1730), 1st EARL OF ASHBURNHAM, She d. unm. 8 Aug. 1732, in her 16th year.

VI.1732.

6. JAMES (STANLEY), EARL OF DERBY [1485], and LORD STRANGE [1628], great uncle (ie., mother's paternal uncle), became in Aug. 1732, on the death of his said great niece, heir general of the said Barony, heing next br. to William George Richard, 9th EARL OF DERBY and 3d LORD STRANGE, ahovenamed He suc. his said br.. 5 Nov. 1702, as 10th Earl of Derby, becoming 8 Aug. 1732, 6th Lord Strange, as above mentioned. He d., s.p., 1 Feb. 1735/6, aged 71, when the Earldora of Derby devolved on his cousin and h, male, but the Barony of Strange, the Lordship of the Isle and Man, and much of his large estate. passed to the heir general as below. For fuller particulars of him, see "DERBY Earldom, cr. 1485, under the 10th Earl.

VII. 1736.

7. JAMES (MURRAY), DUKE OF ATHOLL, &c. [S.], ) also LORD STRANGE, cousin and b., being 3d but. 2d surv. s. of John (MerraT), 1st DUKE OF ATHOLL [S.], who was B, and h. of John (MURRAY), 1st MARQUESS OF ATHOLL, by Amelia Sophia, da. of (whose issue, in 1737, became sole heir to) James (STANLEY), 7th (XVIth) EARL OF DERBY and 1st LORD STRANGE (of the creation of 1628) abovenated. He was b. about 1690, and, according to an Act of Parl, of 1715, sue. (notwithstanding that his elder br., who d. umm. 9 July 1746, was then living) to the peerage [8] on his father's death, 14 Nov. 1724, and the Barony of Strange [E.] on the death 1 Feb. 1735, 6, of his said cousin. His claim to the said Barony having been allowed 24 Feb, he was sum. to the house, 14 March 1736/7, sitting for 4 years till the gen. election of 1741), both as an English Baron[1] and as a Scotch Rep. Peer. He d. s.p.m.s 8 Jan. 1764, aged 73.

VIII. 1764.

8. CHARLOTTE, DUCHESS OF ATHOLL, &c. [S], suo jure BARONESS STRANGE, ouly surv, da. and h. She, who was about 1731, m. 23 Oct. 1753, her first cousin. John (MUBRAY), 3d DUKE OF ATHOLL [S.], and inherited, as heir general, the Barony of Strange on her father's death, 8 Jan. 1764. Her husband d. 5 Nov. 1771, aged 45. She d. 13 Oct. 1805, aged 74.


Earldom. I. 1786. Barony. IX. 1805.

1 and 9. JOHN (MURRAY), DUKE OF ATHOLI, &c. [S.], 1st. s.; b. 30 June 1755; suc. his father in the peerage [S.], 5 Nov. 1774. He, being at that time h. ap. to his mother's Barony of Strange, was er. 18 Aug. 1786, BARON MURRAY OF STANLEY,[2] co, Gloucester, and EARL STRANGE [G.B.]; on her death, 13 Oct. 1805, he became also LORD STRANGE[3] [1628]. He d. 29 Sep. 1830, aged 75. ) For fuller particulars see "Atholl" Dukedon [S.], cr. 1703, under the 2d, 3d and 4th Dukes,


Earldom. II.

Barony. X.

1830

2 and 10. JOHN MURRAY (DUKE OF ATHOLL, &c. [S.], also EARL. STRANGE [1786], LORD STRANGE [1028], 1830. and BARON MURRAY OF STANLEY [1786], s. and h.; b. 26 June 1778; suc. to the prerage [S. E. and G.B] as above 29 Sep. 1830. See "ATROLL," Dukedom [S.] er. 1703 under the 5th and subsequent Dukes, with which peerage the Earldom of Strange [1786] and the Barony of Strange

[1628] have ever since continued united.

    her mother by the first husband. She, who was b. 1710. was living 23 Feb. 1714/5 (see the will of that date of her grandmother, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby), but d. umm. before 1718.

  1. ↑ (a) The place in which he sat in 1754 was, however, that of a Barony of the creation of 1628, i.e., next below Maynard (cr. 1627) and next above Leigh (cr. 1643), notwithstanding that the precedency of 1299 had been (wrongfully) allowed to his ancestor in 1628. See p. 269, note "b.”
  2. ↑ (b) This title appears as if meant to commemorate the descent of the house of Murray from the family of Stanley.
  3. ↑ (c) See vol. ii, p. 102, note "a." In this case (as in that of the Dukedom of Sutherland, cr. 1833, and the Earldom of Ferrers, cr. 1711) the remainder (in tail male) of the peerage of higher rank, being different from that (in tail general) of the peerage of the same name already enjoyed by the grantee, is very objectionable, inasmuch as they may at any time (as has been the case with the two peerages of Ferrers) devolve on different parties,
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