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The marquessate of
Willingdon was the most recent marquessate to be created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The most recently created
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Freeman-Thomas's ancestral home in Ratton, Sussex.) These titles were also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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2nd & 3rd: ermine two pallets in pale azure over all three fusils conjoined in fesse or
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Extinct marquessates in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
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Inigo
Brassey Freeman-Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Willingdon
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Hon. Gerard
Frederick Freeman-Thomas (4 May 1893
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