LONDON DERRY

Charles William Vane , 3 Marque of (2 son of Robert Stewart, 1 marque of London derry 1739–1821). b. Mary st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct. 1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons 1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hu ars 12 April 1799 to 20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomas town in Irish parliament 1798–1800, M.P. co. London derry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hu ars in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7 April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court and Ball i lawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June 1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; amba ador to Vienna 27 Aug. 1814; a umed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hu ars 3 Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marque 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28 March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27 April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. d. Holder ne house, Park lane, London 6 March 1854. bur. Long Newton 16 March. J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage , iii 552–4 (1886), portrait ; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages (1836), portrait 10; Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii 411–20 (1820); St. Stephen’s. By Mask (1839) 78–88; H. Martin eau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 188–92; H. He avi side’s Annals of Stock ton on Tees (1865) 111–14. Note. —He left personal property of value of £335,000 exclusive of vast estates in England and Ireland, his widow’s personalty was sworn under £400,000, 24 June 1865. He was the lord high marshal at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839. He is drawn in Vivian Grey as Col. Von Trumpets on. In 1824 he was challenged to a duel by Wm. Battier, who was gazetted cornet 10 hu ars 27 Feb. 1823 and d. Paris 27 April 1839. On 13 June 1839 Lord London derry met Henry Grattan, M.P., on Wimbled on common, Grattan fired and mi ed and his lordship discharged his pistol in the air.