266 Amhle and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 



Francis Eyre, and died 1798. His eldest son James in 1755 

 succeeded his mother^" as 4th Earl of Newburgh, and died in 

 1786, leaving an only child Anthony 5th Earl of Newburgh. 

 To the latter was made the royal grant of Amble in 1799. At 

 his death s.p. in 1814, he was succeeded as 6th Earl by his cousin 

 Francis Eyre, eldest sou of Lady Mary and Francis Eyre. The 

 6th Earl was father to the 7th and 8th Earls of Newburgh, who 

 both died s.p., and also of a daughter Lady Dorothy Eyre — the 

 last descendant of her family — who became wife to Lieut.-Col. 

 Charles Leslie, and also died s.p. in 1853. Thereupon the title 

 of Countess of Newburgh was assumed by the Princess Gruistin- 

 iani, a descendant of Charlotte, Countess of Newburgh by her 

 first husband, Mr Clifford: but Amble with greater estates 

 under the will of Lady Dorothy remained with her husband who, 

 dying in 1870, devised them in trust for his son by his first 

 marriage, Mr Charles S. Leslie. 



This devise has been contested in the Queen's Bench division 

 of the High Court by Mr Gladwin Cave, who claimed under 

 an alleged re-settlement of the estates made by the 6th Earl in 

 favour of his wife. Miss Dolly Gladwin. The interest in the 

 case turned upon a technical point in a settlement made in 1812. 

 At the hearing, the counsel for the claimant, remarked that " this 

 is not the sort of suit to be strangled at its birth. It was a fine 

 healthy suit, pregnant with many points, and involving property 

 to the value of two millions." Nevertheless the judgment was 

 given in favour of Mr Leslie and his trustees." 



The accompanying Plate [No. YL] will show the reader how 

 little is left of the old manor house or hall, which succeeded and 

 incorporated the ancient monastic cell. It now belongs to the 

 Eoman Catholic Church, which has a chapel and school adjoining. 



^•^ London News. The Countess Dowager of Newburgh, a Flemish, lady 

 (wife of the late Chas. Radcliffe, esq., beheaded on Tower Hill) has taken 

 a house in Golden Square — her son and her two daughters are come over 

 with her. — Newcastle Gazette, 28th October 1747. 



London, August 7th.— Last Monday morning died the high and puissant 

 Lady Charlotte Livingstone, Countess of Newburgh, in Scotland, a peeress 

 in her own right, whose title devolves to James Radcliffe, Viscount 

 Kinnaird, her eldest son. She was relict of Chas. Ratcliffe, esq., and 

 remarkable for her piety and extreme charity to the poor. She had a 

 provision made a few years since out of the Derwentwater estate for the 

 support of herself and family. — Newcastle Qourant and Newcastle Journal, 

 16th August 1755. " Times, 9th April 1891. 



