County of Sussex
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, is a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
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. It was created on 1 July 1826 for Charles Ellis, a Jamaican sugar planter and slave-owner who had earlier represented
Heytesbury
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The civil parish includes most of the small neigh ...
East Grinstead
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in the
House of Commons
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. In 1798 he married the Hon. Elizabeth Catherine Caroline Hervey, daughter of
writ
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in 1597; see the
Baron Howard de Walden
Baron Howard de Walden is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ of summons in 1597 by Queen Elizabeth I for Admiral Lord Thomas Howard, a younger son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife, the Honourabl ...
for earlier history of this peerage). In 1845 he also succeeded his father as second Baron Seaford.
Charles married in 1828 Lady Lucy Cavendish-Bentinck, daughter of
William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland
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, and his wife Henrietta Scott. Through this marriage a substantial fortune came into the Ellis family, mainly based on property ownership in central
London
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, and also their family Kilmarnock estate and
Dean Castle
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The Castle takes its name from ‘The Dean’ or wooded ...
, which was in use until 1975 and his since been run by
East Ayrshire
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Council. His grandson, the eighth and fourth Baron, assumed in 1917 by Royal Licence his great-grandmother's surname of Scott in addition to that of Ellis. He was succeeded by his son, the ninth and fifth Baron respectively. On his death in 1999 the two baronies separated.
The barony of Howard de Walden fell into
abeyance
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between the late Baron's four daughters, while the barony of Seaford, which could only be inherited through male lines, was passed on to his second cousin once removed, the sixth and () present holder of the title. He is the great-grandson of the Hon. William Charles Ellis, second son of the second Baron Seaford. Lord Seaford is also high in line of succession to the barony of Howard de Walden.
However, by Royal Warrant dated 25 June 2004, the Queen called the Barony of Howard de Walden out of abeyance in favour of the eldest daughter, Mary Hazel Caridwen Czernin (born 1935).see
Baron Howard de Walden
Baron Howard de Walden is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ of summons in 1597 by Queen Elizabeth I for Admiral Lord Thomas Howard, a younger son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife, the Honourabl ...
In 1957 she had married Joseph Czernin, son of Count Franz Josef Czernin, a member of one of the oldest and most prominent noble families of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, now Czech Republic. By her husband she has five daughters and a son, Peter Joseph Czernin (born 1966), who is heir to the title.
heir apparent
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is the present holder's eldest son, the Hon. Benjamin Felton Thomas Ellis (b. 1976)
See also
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Baron Howard de Walden
Baron Howard de Walden is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ of summons in 1597 by Queen Elizabeth I for Admiral Lord Thomas Howard, a younger son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife, the Honourabl ...
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Marquess of Bristol
Marquess of Bristol is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom held by the Hervey family since 1826. The Marquess's subsidiary titles are Earl of Bristol (created 1714), Earl Jermyn, of Horningsheath in the County of Suffolk (1826), and ...
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Duke of Portland
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