Lord Herries
(1804-1876)
2 July 1861
Volume 4, page 156, sitting number 4696.
William Constable-Maxwell, 10th Baron Herries was the son of Marmaduke William Constable-Maxwell and Theresa Apollonia née Wakeman.
On 12 November 1835 he married Marcia Mary Vavasour, daughter of the Honourable Sir Edward Marmaduke Joseph Vavasour, 1st Bt. and Marcia Bridget Lane-Fox.
He was restored as 10th Baron Herries of Terregles in 1858 after the title had fallen into abeyance.
He died on 12 November 1876. His death was reported in the South London Chronicle (18 November 1876). 'The death is announced of Lord Herries, which occurred on Sunday morning at his hotel in Berkeley-square. His lordship's health had been in an unsatisfactory state for some time past. The late peer's father, Marmaduke William Constable, assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Maxwell, as eldest son of Lady Winifred Maxwell, only daughter and heiress of William Maxwell, called Earl of Nithsdale. The deceased peer is succeeded in the Scottish peerage by his eldest son Marmaduke, Master of Herries, born Oct. 4, 1837, and married April 14, 1875, to the Hon. Angela Mary Charlotte Fitzalan Howard, second daughter of Lord Howard of Glossop. His lordship holds a commission in the West Yorkshire Yeomanry (Hussars).'
A lengthy description of his funeral appeared in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (18 November 1876), which read in part: 'The remains of Lord Herries, who died on Sunday morning last, at his London residence in Berkeley Square, were yesterday deposited in their last resting place in the family vault attached to the chapel at Everingham Park, his lordship's Yorkshire seat, near Market Weighton. The deceased nobleman was a Roman Catholic, and therefore he was interred with the ritual and imposing pomp and ceremonies of the Romish Church. The corpse was on Wednesday brought from London, and reached Everingham Station [...] about five o'clock in the evening. It was there met by a number of his lordship's tenantry on horseback. As it was dark, a torchlight procession was formed, and the corpse was slowly conveyed to Everingham Park, other tenantry joining the procession as it neared its destination. The remains were placed in a very beautiful chapel immediately adjoining the hall, which was built by his lordship nearly forty years ago at a cost of £30,000. The body was laid in an open coffin, and the coffin was placed on a catafalque. Lighted tapers were placed around the coffin, and remained there during the whole time that the body rested before the high altar.' The article continues with a long list of the mourners and a detailed description of the service.
[From an album compiled by Margaret Randalina Barnewall, Lady Trimleston.]