evidence: LONDONDERRY, George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, 5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). b. Vienna 26 April 1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball. coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham; cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848; M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6 March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col. commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special mission to [483]St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II. with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867; provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. d. Plas Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv 501 (1884), portrait; R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry, iv 276 (1885), portrait.