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JOHNSTONES OF DERWENT 301
XV. Mary Cecilia (twin with Jemima), married, May 17, 1837, the Hon.
Lawrence Harman King-Harman, second son of the Earl of Kingston. He
assumed the name of Harman on succeeding to his grandmother's (the Countess
of Rosse) estate of Newcastle, Co. Longford. She died Jan. II, 1904, leaving
issue.
XVI. Charlotte Octavia, married, first, May 1845, James Harrison
Cholmeley, Major, 8th Hussars; died s.p. 1854. She married, secondly, Oct.
9, 1867, Francis Bernard Pigott of Eagle Hill ; died 1875. She died March 26,
1898.
Mr Johnstone of Alva died April 7, 1830, and was succeeded by his son,
James, in Alva and Hangingshaw, born July 4, 1801, J. P. and D.L. of Clackmannan,
Stirling, and Selkirk, M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross from 185 1
to 1857. Married, first, Jan. 9, 1846, the Hon. Augusta Anne Norton, daughter
of the Hon. Fletcher Norton, Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland and sister
of Fletcher, third Lord Grantley. She died 1859, leaving
(1) John Augustus James of Alva, born 1847 ; died sp. 1890.
(2) Caroline Elizabeth Mary, now of Alva.
He married, secondly, May 5, 1862, Sarah Mary, daughter of Lieutenant-
Colonel L'Estrange of Moystown, King's County. The British residents in
Brussels in 1861 recollect the keen competition between Mr Johnstone and
a foreign Royal Prince for Miss L'Estrange's hand. The children of the second
marriage were
(3) James Henry L'Estrange, M.V.O., Major R.E., of the Hangingshaw,
Selkirk, J. P., Order of the Osmanleh, President of the Egyptian Railway
Board, born Aug. 8, 1865 ; died 1906. He married, 1891, Amy Octavia,
youngest daughter of the late Andrew Wauchope, and had— 1, John Andrew
born May 1893, heir to his aunt ; 2, Henry James, born 1895 ! 3» Andrew
Wauchope, born 1903.
(4) Henry Beresford, B.A., Oxon., born Jan. 26, 1871, Vice-Consul at
Addis Aluba, late Assistant Collector, Rabai, East Africa.
(5) Gilbert Lumley, late Lieutenant R.F.A., Sub- Inspector Hausa Force,
Africa, born April 16, 1872. Married, 1907, Florence, daughter of A. Fincham.
Mr Johnstone died Feb. 24, 1888. The eldest son, John Augustus James
Johnstone of Alva, Co. Stirling, J. P., born May 3, 1847, married, May 1868,
Emily, daughter of the late R. W. Crossling. He died s.p. April 1, 1890,
and was succeeded in Alva by his sister, Caroline Elizabeth.
The Vanden-Bempde Johnstones of Hackness Hall, represented by Lord
Derwent (Sir Harcourt Johnstone), descend from John, second son of Sir
William Johnstone, second Baronet of Westerhall, by his marriage with Char-
lotta, Marchioness of Annandale. Their two sons — Richard (created a
Baronet), an M.P. in the Irish Parliament, and Charles, of Pembroke and
Ludlow—have been described. The Marchioness spent the last few years of
her life with her daughter, Charlotte Henrietta, at Turnham Green, Chiswick,
to be near her unfortunate son, and he was often well enough to stay in the
same house. She lived quietly from choice, but it was no isolation. Sir