Excerpt from The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. 2: Extant, Extinct or Dormant; Bass to Canning
Among those genealogists who have kindly helped the Editor with notes and corrections, besides those already mentioned in Vol. I, are, in alphabetical order, Bright Brown, of Manila, Reginald M. Glencross, and J. Maitland Thomson, LL.D.
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