Earl of Salisbury later by Richard Neville "the Kingmaker", upon whose death the title went into abeyance because multiple individuals were entitled to inherit it. Then, in 1472, it was granted to George, Duke of Clarence, who was married to Warwick's eldest daughter. When the Duke of Clarence was executed in 1478 for treason (supposedly by being drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine), the title was forfeit. It was then granted to Edward of Middleham (who was his nephew via the Duke's brother Richard), who died in 1484 at the age of 11. It was restored to two of George of Clarence's
Archibald Butt President Taft when he threw out the first ball at the first home game of Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals in 1910 and 1911. Butt died at sea shortly before the season-opening game in 1912 and Taft, according to the "Washington Post", was overcome and "could not be present for obvious reasons." On March 3, 1911, Butt was promoted to the rank of major in the Quartermaster Corps, and later that year he became a member of the Georgia Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from his great-grandfather Lieutenant Robert Moseley, a veteran of the American Revolution.