Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage for 1880. Forty- second edition.
(Harrison.)—From Sir Bernard Burke's preface to this useful annual, we learn that there ate among the aristocracy 577 peers and 865 bayonets. Of every one of the 1,442 persons enjoying hereditary dignities, ample details of the family history are given. During the 12 months intervening between December 8th, 1878, and December 8th, 1879, 16 peers have died, viz., the Dukes of Newcastle, Roxburghe, and Portland ; the Marquess of Tweeddale; the Earls of Northesk, Winterton, Fife, Clanwilliam, and Durham, Viscounts St. Vincent, Dillon, and Chetwynd ; Lords Ruthdonuell Lawrence, Trimleston, and Bloomfield; and Baroness Braye. The title of Bloomfield has become extinct. 24 baronets have died during the same period, of whom 3, Matheson, Campbell, and Borough, have also become extinct. There has been no peerage conferred since that of Norton, in April, 1878; and only 1 baronetcy, that of Buchanan, since November, 1876.
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