HERA 
2. Catharine Gertrude, married to Frederic, fon of 
Thomas firft lord Grantham. 3. Louifa Margaret, born 
January if, 1753. 
Creations. —Baron Malmelbur.y, of Malmelbtiry in 
the county of Wilts, September 19, 1788 ; Vifcount and 
Earl, December 29, 1800. 
Residences. —Park-place, in the county of Oxford ; 
Hume Court' near Chrillchurch; and Leigh-place, in 
the county of Southampton.—Town-houle, in Spring- 
gardens. 
Armoria l Bearings. —See the annexed Engraving. 
The armorial bearings of the earl of Malmelbury being 
extremely interefting, and in a fingular manner expref- 
fi ve of the true nature of heraldry, we have deemed it ex¬ 
pedient to recite them at large: viz. Quarterly, firft 
and fourth azure, a chevron enninois, between three 
hedge-hogs or, for Harris. Second and third azure, 
two bars, and a chief or ; the laft charged with three 
efcallops of the field, for Clarke : and on a chief, ex¬ 
tending over the whole of the quartered arms, argent, 
the eagle of Pruifia difplayed fable ; langued gules, 
beaked, legged; on the bread the cipher F R, and 
over it the electoral cap ; over its head the fame cap : 
in the dexter talon a fceptre; in the finifter, a mound, 
all or; and on each wing a trefoil, as the chief. Sup¬ 
porters : Dexter, the PrulTian eagle as in the arms, the 
enfigns in the talons being omitted ; finifter, a rein-deer 
proper. Creft, a hedge-hog or ; his fide charged with 
three arrows ; one in pale, two in faltire argent, and 
acrofs them barwife a key azure. 
Motto, over the creft, on an orang ! e-coloured label, 
Je maintiendrai, “ 1 will fupport: ” the motto of the 
houfe of Naffau. Motto below the Ihield, Ubique pa- 
triamrem ini/ci, “ In all fituations remember your country.” 
Thele honourable augmentations were thus publicly 
announced: 
Whitehall, May 9, 1789. 
The king has been pleafed to grant to the right ho¬ 
nourable James lord Malmeibury, and his ifiue, his roy¬ 
al licence and authority, in pursuance of the royal per- 
miflion of the king of Pruftia, under his fignet and fign 
manual, bearing date 21ft day of Oftober laft, to add to 
the arms of his family the black eagle of Pruftia, 
either quarterly, or as one of his fupporters ; as a public 
mark of his PrulTian majefty’s efteem and regard, and as 
a memorial of the fatisfaftion he derived from his con¬ 
duct, in the character of his majefty’s ambaflador ex¬ 
traordinary and plenipotentiary to the States General of 
the United Provinces, during the late revolution in that 
country, as well as from his fervices in cementing the 
union between the two crowns, by the treaty lately fign- 
ed at Loo (fucK arms being firft duly exemplified ac¬ 
cording to the laws of arms). 
And the king has been further pleafed to grant to 
the faid James lord Malmeibury, his royal licence and 
authority, in compliance with the requeft of the prince 
of Orange, by letter written with his own hand, dated 
the 8th of Oftober laft, to take and ufe the motto of his 
ferene highnefs’s houfe, Je maintiendrai, in commemora¬ 
tion of the above-mehtioned revolution : and his majef- 
ty has alfo been pleafed to order this his conceflion and 
declaration to be regiftered in his College of Arms. 
ST. CLAIR ERSKINE, EARL OF ROSSLYN. 
JAMES ST. CLAIR ERSKINE, Earl of ROS¬ 
SLYN, and Baron Loughborough, of Loughborough, 
in the county of Surrey; a Lieutenant-general in the 
army, Colonel of the ninth Regiment of Dragoons/and a 
Director in the Court of Chancery in Scotland for life. 
He fucceeded his uncle, Alexander Wedderburne, the 
late earl, January 8, 1805 ; married Henrietta-Elizabeth 
Bouverie, eldeft daughter of the honourable Edward 
Bouverie, uncle to tiie earl of Radnor, and has iftue, 
James-Alexander, lord Loughborough, heir apparent, 
Vol. IX. No. 606, 
LDRY, . 539 
born April, 1802 ; Henry-Vranois, born January, 1804; 
and Janet, born November, i860. 
The family of Wedderburne derives its name from the 
barony of Wedderburne in the cdunty of Berwick. Da¬ 
vid Wedderburne, in the reign of Mary queen of Scots, 
was defcended in the collateral line from the ancient 
barons of Wedderburne, and had iftue, 1. Alexander, 
father of James; and of John, phyfician to the kings 
Charles I. and II. 2. James, who was defied, Febru¬ 
ary 1, 1636, lord bifiiop of Dumblaine ; but was depriv¬ 
ed by the alfembly of prelbyters at Glafgow in 1638, and 
died in the following year. James, elder fon of Alex¬ 
ander, had iftue, 1. Alexander, whofe grandfon John 
was created a baronet of the kingdom of Scotland by- 
queen Anne, Auguft 9, 1704. 2. Peter, who was ap¬ 
pointed, July 17, 1668, one of the lords of the court of 
feftion of Scotland ; in which charafter he bore the ftyle 
of lord Gosford, of the county of Mid Lothian. He had 
iftue Peter and Alexander. 
Peter, elder fon of lord Gosford, Was created a baro¬ 
net of the kingdom of Scotland by William III. De¬ 
cember 30, 1697, and married Janet, daughter and heir 
of fir Charles Halket, of Pitfefrane, baronet; by which 
lady he had iftue, 1. Peter, fecond baronet, who aftTim- 
ed the name of Halket in right of his mother, and was 
killed in the unfortunate aftion of general Bradock, 
near fort Du Quefne in North America, July 9, 1755. 
2. Charles. Sir John, third baronet, his fon, aftumed 
the name of Halket, and married Mary, grand-daughter 
of Thomas fifth earl of Haddington of the kingdom of 
Scotland ; by which lady he had iftue Charles, an officer 
in the army ■ Peter, in the navy ; John ; Henry ; Alex¬ 
ander ; Thomas; Margaret; Mary; Janet; Catharine; 
Shalto-Charlotte; and Helen. 
Peter, Ton of Alexander younger fon of lord Gosford, 
was appointed, July 24, 1755, one of the lords of the 
court of feftion of the kingdom of Scotland, in which 
charafter he bore the ftyle of lord Chefterhal. He mar¬ 
ried Janet, daughter of David Ogilvie, efq. by which 
lady, who died in June, 1771, he had iftue, 1. Alexan¬ 
der, lord Loughborough. 2. David, who embraced the 
military profeftion, and was killed at the fiege of Baroach 
in the Eaft Indies, December 31, 1773. 3. Janet, mar¬ 
ried to fir Henry Erlkine, of Alva, baronet, who died in 
July, 1765, and her ladyfiiip in J une, 1797, leaving iftue, 
1. James, the prefent earl, who took the name of St. 
Clair, by royal fign manual, June 9, 1789. 2. John, 
comptroller of the army accounts; married, in 1802, 
Mifs Mordaunt, daughter of the late, and filler to the 
prefent, fir John Mordaunt, bart. 3. Henfietta-Maria, 
only daughter, who, by royal fign manual, April 18, 
1801, takes place and precedency as the daughter of an 
earl of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 
Alexander lord Loughborough, the firft earl of Rofslyn, 
was appointed folicitor-general, January 26, 1771; and 
attorney-general, June 10, 1778. On the 14th of June, 
1780, he was made chief juftice of the Common Pleas, 
and called to the privy council; in 1783, he was api 
pointed firft commiflioner for keeping of the great feal ; 
and on January 27, 1793, lord high chancellor of Great 
Britain: created, by a fecond patent, Oftober 31, 1795’, 
baron Loughborough, of Loughborough, in the coun¬ 
ty of Surrey, with remainders feverally and fucceftively 
to fir James Sinclair Erlkine, bart. and to John Erlkinej 
his brother; and by patent, April 21, 1801, earl of 
Rofslyn, in the county of Mid Lothian, to him and the 
heirs male, with remainder as above. He died January 1 
3, 1805, and was fucceeded by his nephew, fir James St.¬ 
Clair Erlkine, the prefent and fecond earl. 
Creations. —Baron Loughborough, Oftober 31, 
1795 ; and Earl of Refslyn, April 21, 1801. 
Residences. —Sinclair Houfe, Fifelhire; and Laigle, 
in the county of York.—Town-houfe, Harley-ftreet, • 
Armorial Bearings. —See the annexed Engraving. 
6 Y Motto. 
