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Eversley, Viscount (UK, 1857 - 1888)

Creation: let.pat. 11 Apr 1857

Extinct: 28 Dec 1888

Family name: Shaw-Lefevre

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Arms:

Quarterly:  1st and 4th, Sable a Chevron Argent between in chief two Trefoils slipped Or and base a Bezant therefrom issuant a Cross Pattée of the third (Lefevre);  2nd and 3rd, Sable a Chevron Ermine on a Canton Or a Talbot's Head erased Gules (Shaw)

Crest:

Six Arrows interlaced saltirewise three and three proper within an Annulet Or

Supporters:

On either side a Talbot that on the dexter Gules on the sinister Sable each charged on the shoulder with a Mace erect Gold

Motto:

 Sans Changer

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Charles [Shaw-Lefevre], 1st Viscount Eversley, GCB PC

1st son and heir of Charles Shaw later Shaw-Lefevre MP, by his wife Helena Lefevre, only dau. and hrss. of John Lefevre, of Heckfield Place, co. Hampshire

born

22 Feb 1794

mar.

24 Jun 1817 Emma Laura Whitbread (b. 19 Jun 1798;  d. 20 Jun 1857;  bur. in Kensal Green Cemetery, co. Middlesex), 2nd dau. of Samuel Whitbread MP, of Cardington and Southill, co. Bedford, by his wife Lady Elizabeth Grey, 1st dau. of Charles [Grey], 1st Earl Grey

children

1. Charles Shaw-Lefevre (dvp.)

2. Charles Shaw-Lefevre (dvp.)

3. Charles Shaw-Lefevre (dvp.)

1.

2. Hon Helena Shaw-Lefevre (d. 15 Sep 1897), mar. 26 Feb 1851 Sir Henry Bouverie Paulet St John-Mildmay, 5th Bt., and had issue

3. Hon Elizabeth Shaw-Lefevre (d. 23 Dec 1867), mar. 22 Feb 1859 as his first wife her brother-in-law's cousin Capt Hervey George St John-Mildmay RN, of Hazlegrove, co. Somerset (b. 19 Apr 1817; d. 21 May 1882), 2nd son of Paulet St John-Mildmay MP, of Farley Chamberlayne, co. Hampshire, and Hazlegrove, co. Somerset (by his wife Anna Maria Wyndham Bouverie, 3rd dau. of Hon Bartholomew Bouverie MP (by his wife Mary Wyndham Arundel, 2nd dau. of Hon James Everard Arundel), 2nd son by his second wife of William [Bouverie], 1st Earl of Radnor), 3rd but 2nd surv. son of Sir Henry Paulet St John later St John-Mildmay, 3rd Bt., and had issue

died

s.p.m.s. 28 Dec 1888 (bur. with his wife in Kensal Green Cemetery, co. Middlesex)

created

11 Apr 1857 Viscount Eversley, of Heckfield in the County of Southampton, with a life pension of £4,000 a year

suc. by

son

note

barrister, Lincoln's Inn 1819;  Member of Parliament (Liberal) for Downton 1830-31, for Hampshire 1831-32, and for North Hampshire 1832-57;  Bencher, Lincoln's Inn 1839;  Privy Councillor 1839;  Speaker of the House of Commons 1839-57;  Governor of the Isle of Wight 1857-88;  a Trustee of the British Museum 1858-88;  Second Church Estates Commissioner 1858-59;  Ecclesiastical Commissioner 1859-88;  Yeomanry ADC to Queen Victoria 1859-88;  President, Royal Agricultural Society 1863;  President, Statistical Society 1877-79;  GCB (Civil) 1885

On the death of the 1st Viscount Eversley the Viscountcy of Eversley became extinct.

 First written

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