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Lord Avonmore is twenty-six years of age; a lieutenant in the army.

Family seat: Belle Isle, Tipperary.

Lord Bagot.

Is thirty-two years of age.

The entailed estates amount to 32,000 acres, yielding an income of $125,000.

He is a gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

Family seats: Blithfield Hall, Rugely, and Pool Park, Ruthin.

Viscount Baring.

Is the eldest son and heir of the Earl of Northbrook.

The entailed estates amount to 10,500 acres, yielding an income of $80,000.

The Earl, who has been a Cabinet Minister and Viceroy of India, is a partner of the banking house of Baring Brothers, and inherited a personality of $8,000,000 on succeeding to the title.

Viscount Baring is thirty-six years of age; was a captain of the Grenadier Guards and is a Member of Parliament.

Family seat: Stratton, Hampshire.

The Hon. Francis Baring.

Eldest son and heir of Lord Ashburton.

The entailed estates amount to 37,000 acres, yielding an income of $250,000.

Besides having an interest in the banking house of Baring Brothers, Lord Ashburton inherited about $3,000,000 from his father.

The Hon. Francis is twenty-four years of age.

Lord Borthwick.

Is sixth Baron; twenty-three years of age; educated at Oxford.

Family seat: Ravenstone, Wigtonshire, Scotland.

Lord Bennet.

Eldest son and heir of the sixth Earl of Tankerville.

The entailed estates amount to 31,000 acres, yielding an income of $150,000.

The Earl owns the only herd of wild cattle to be found in Great Britain.

Lord Bennet, who has at present nothing but a very small allowance, has served in the navy and in the army, and is thirty-six years of age.

Family seat: Chillingham Castle, Northumberland.

Lord Bertie.

Eldest son and heir of the eleventh Earl of Lindsay.

The entailed estates amount to 4,790 acres, yielding an income of $50,000.

Lord Bertie is twenty-seven years of age, and a lieutenant in the army.

Family seat: Uppington House, Stamford.

Earl of Buckinghamshire.

Is the seventh Earl, twenty-eight years of age.

The entailed estates amount to 5,200 acres, yielding an income of $25,000.

Lord Buckinghamshire was educated at Cambridge.

Lord Boston.

Is sixth Baron; twenty-eight years of age; Lord-in-waiting to H. M. the Queen. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and is a great favorite of the Queen.

The entailed estates amount to 12,500 acres, yielding an income of $77,000.

Family seats: Porthamel, Anglesey, and Hedsore Castles, near Maidenhead.

Viscount Boyle.

Is the eldest son and heir of the Earl of Shannon.

The entailed estates amount to 11,200 acres, yielding an annual income of $70,000.

The Viscount is twenty-eight years of age, was educated at Eton, and was formerly a lieutenant of the Rifle Brigade.

Family seat: Castle Martyr, Cork.

Lord Byron.

Is ninth Baron; thirty-three years old; educated at Harrow and Oxford.

The entailed estates amount to 19,000 acres, yielding an income of $8,000.

Marquis De Brissac.

Grandson and heir of the Duke of Brissac.

The Marquis is exceedingly wealthy, and is twenty years of age, his mother, the Vicomtesse de Tredern, being the heiress of the great French sugar refiner, Say.

Family seats: Chateau de Brissac, Anjou, and Chateau de Clermont-Gallerande, Sarthe.

The Earl of Burford.

Is the eldest son and heir of the Duke of St. Albans, who is the hereditary Lord High Falconer of England.

The entailed estates amount to 8,300 acres, yielding an income of $70,000.

The Earl is in his twentieth year, and is a godson of the Prince of Wales.

Family seat: Bestwood Lodge, Nottingham.

Earl of Camperdown.

Is third Earl, forty-eight years old, is Lord-in-Waiting to H. M. the Queen.

Possesses entailed estates to the amount of 14,000 acres, yielding an income of $50,000.

Family seat: Camperdown, Dundee.

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