Marquesses of Londonderry
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Arms: Quarterly: 1st & 4th, Or, a Bend counter-company Argent and Azure, between two Lions rampant Gules (Stewart); 2nd, Argent, a Bend engrailed between six Martlets Sable (Tempest); 3rd, Azure, three sinister Gauntlets Or (Vane). Crests: Centre: A Dragon statant Or (Stewart); Dexter: A Griffin’s Head erased per pale Argent and Sable, beaked Gules (Tempest); Sinister: A dexter Cubit Arm in Armour, the hand in a Gauntlet proper, graping a Sword proper, pommel and hilt Or (Vane). Supporters: Dexter: A Moor proper, wreathed about the temples Argent and Azure, holding in the exterior hand a Shield Azure, garnished Or, and charged with a Sun-in-Splendour Gold; Sinister: A Lion Or, gorged with a Collar Argent, charged with three Mullets Sable.
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| Creation date | 13 January 1816 |
| Monarch | George III |
| First holder | Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry |
| Present holder | Frederick Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 10th Marquess of Londonderry |
| Heir presumptive | Lord Reginald Vane-Tempest-Stewart |
| Subsidiary titles | Earl of Londonderry Earl Vane Viscount Castlereagh Viscount Seaham Baron Londonderry Baron Kenlis Baron Stewart |
| Status | Extant |
| Former seat(s) | Mount Stewart |
| Armorial motto | METUENDA COROLLA DRACONIS (The dragon’s crest is to be feared) |
Marquess of Londonderry, of the County of Londonderry (/ˈlʌndəndriː/ LUN-dən-dree), is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
The title was created in 1816 for Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Londonderry. He had earlier represented County Down in the Irish House of Commons. Stewart had already been created Baron Londonderry in 1789,Viscount Castlereagh, of Castlereagh in the County of Down, in 1795 and Earl of Londonderry, of the County of Londonderry, in 1796. These titles are also in the Peerage of Ireland.
He was the son of Alexander Stewart, who had married Mary Cowan, sister and heiress of Robert Cowan, who gained great wealth as Governor of Bombay from 1729 to 1737. Alexander was from Ballylawn, a townland at the south-west corner of Inishowen in the north of County Donegal, a county located in the west of Ulster in the northern part of Ireland. However, much of the Stewart family wealth was based on the estates which came into the family through this marriage.
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