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- The only child and daughter, Harriet-Williamina, married, in July, 1858, her cousin, Charles Henry Rolle Trefusis, now twentieth Baron Clinton. At her father's death, then Lady Clinton, she was duly served heiress by the Sheriff of Chancery, under the deed of entail made in 1811 by Baron Sir John Stuart, and, in accordance therewith, she entered into possession. Shortly afterwards her cousin, now Sir William Forbes, Bart., in New Zealand, as the eldest son of Charles Hay Forbes, deceased, raised in the Court of Session an action in which he sought to have Lady Clinton's title set aside, on the ground that, under the destination of the entail, he was entitled to succeed to the estates in preference to her ladyship. The Court of Session, and afterwards the House of Lords, decided that the title of Lady Clinton, under the deed of entail, was unchallengeable. This amiable lady, who had endeared herself to the people of Fettercairn, died at the family mansion of Heanton-Satchville, North Devon, in July, 1869, leaving a family of two sons, Charles-John-Robert and Henry-Walter; and three daughters, Ada-Harriet, Mary-Elizabeth and Margaret-Adela. The Hon. Charles-Forbes-Trefusis attained his majority in January, 1884, and has since taken an active part in county and local affairs. The Hon. Henry-Walter is a Captain in the Scots Guards, and has lately been appointed aide-de-camp to General Gascoigne, Commander of the Forces in Hong Kong. The Hon. Margaret-Adela, in 1897, married the Rev. Leonard White-Thomson, second son of Colonel White-Thomson of Broomford, County Devon. During the years of Mr Trefusis's minority, his father, Lord Clinton, as administrator at law, ably and efficiently managed and improved the property. Mr Trefusis married, in 1886, Lady Jane-Grey McDonnell, fourth daughter of Mark fifth Earl of Antrim, and they have two daughters, Harriet and Fenella.
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