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Cable, Baron (UK, 1921 - 1927)

Creation: let.pat. 17 Jan 1921

Extinct: 28 Mar 1927

Family name: Cable

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Arms:

Per pale Vert and Or fretty a Fess dovetailed also per pale thereon a Fret between two Padlocks all counterchanged

Crest:

In front of a Fret Sable an Escutcheon Or charged with a Padlock Sable

Supporters:

On either side a Gavial (i.e. crocodile) of the River Ganges proper gorged with a Mural Crown Or

Motto:

 Probitate et Labore (By probity and work)

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Ernest [Cable], 1st Baron Cable

only son of George Herbert Cable, of Calcutta, India, by his wife Emily Maria Pickersgill, dau. and eventual cohrss. of Richard Pickersgill, of St Pancras, co. Middlesex

born

1 Dec 1859

mar.

10 Oct 1888 Lilian Sarah Sparkes, dau. of Weston Joseph Sparkes, of Dawlish, co. Devon

children

1. Lieut George Pickersgill Cable (b. 5 Dec 1891;  k.v.p. 9 May 1915)

1. Hon Noorouz Weston Cable, mar. 15 Dec 1908 (div. 1924) Maj Sir Lionel Cecil William Alexander, 6th Bt. DSO, of Mill Lane House, Crondall, co. Hampshire, and had issue

2. Hon Ruth McCarthy Cable, mar. 11 May 1918 Capt E C Benthall, of Calcutta, India, and had issue

died

28 Mar 1927

created

17 Jan 1921 Baron Cable, of Ideford in the County of Devon

note

President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce;  additional member of the Council of the Viceroy of India;  Sheriff of Calcutta 1905;  High Sheriff of Devon 1916;  knighted 1921

On the death of the 1st Baron Cable the Barony of Cable became extinct.

 First written 22 Nov 2009

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