TOLL OF THE PEERAGE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 154, 10 March 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

TOLL OF THE PEERAGE.

DKBRETT AND THE WAR. HEIRS TO MANY TITLES FALL IN BATTLE. The extent to which the peerage .has voluntarily .-in-rendered the lives of its sons to the service of the Emmpire is strikingly illustrated in the pages oi the new " Debrett." A roll of honour of .no;- than Soil names of those who have been killed or have died of wounds tills I:.' pages, and an anal;--:- of the list shows that it contain*: Ono member of the Roval Famil". » Peers. 16 Laronets. 0 knights, "i M.P.'s. 161 Companions, \>~> sons of peeivc, ;2 soils of baronets, VI sous of Knights. The cruel way in which fate has hi: som-j families .s shov.n ia the l'-~t. Thus, lord Pcnrhyn has lost his eldest son and tw) half biothers, Lord Desborough ha* lost two mjhs, as ha/e also Sir George Dashwood. S;r Henry IC. St. L. Clavke, and S.r Ludlam Pound, while Sir Archibald Lucas-Tooth has lost two brothers, and two sik?iee heirs to the earldom of Loudoun <es<;ve heirs to the earldom of Loudoun hive been killed. TITLES AFFECTED.

Changos in the succession to more than i<W t'tles have been caused by the deaths m the war. Among titles so affected are the following peerage-: Aherdr.ro. Amherst of Hackney. Aylesford Balfour of Burleigh. Brabourne, Br:dport Castle Stewart, Clifdcn, Congleton. Do Blaquierc, Do Freyne. De Ramsey. Desborough, Dunleath, Fanoonben" and Comers. Hamilton ol Dalell. Hardinge. Ha'dinge of Penshurst. Hawarden. Hillingdon, Killanin, Kesteven (now extinct), Kinio-s. Kinnaird knaiv-borough, Leconfield, Lincolnshire, Loudoun. Macdonald. Manners. Monck. Northampton. O'Neill. Penrhvn, Petre, Playtair, Ranfurly, Rede-dale, Ribblesdale, Rosmead. >r. Davids. Seaheld. Stamfordham, Temple. town. Tweeddale, Yalmtia, Vernon. \Yet-tmeath, Yarborough. In unite a. number of instances the peerage is threatened with extinction owing* to the death of all the possible heirs. Among titles so affected are the marqu sate of Lincolnshire and the baronies of Knarcsborough, PJayfair, Ribblesdale, Rosmead. and Stamfordham.

Malf-a-doen baronets are a!-o loft without heirs, and several titles are in d( ul)t owing to the heirs being repcrteJ "missing " The tot;. 1 numbc'" of now honours of a!! classes announced during tin- year December IOU-lo was more thnn '-It'-";, ar. aggregate only nr.ee before exceeded, in il/01, dur'ngthe South African War