23. Rev. Benj. Newton, chaplain to the Duke of Portland, to Mifs Fendal, of Great Portland-ftreet. At Beverley, Henry B. Barnard, of South Cave, to Mifs Gee, eldest daughter, and one of the coheireffes, of the late Roger G. of Bishop Burton, co. York, efq. 24. Mr. Smith, jun. of Bunhill-row, to Mifs Eliz. Lepard, daughter of Mr. L. ftationer in Newgate-ftreet. Rev. Dr. Dowfon, principal of Edmund Hall, to Mifs Hawkefwell, of Oxford. DEATHS. 1787. T Wallajabad, in the Eaft In For doubtlefs now he lives With our Grand Mafter in Heaven."" 1788. Jan. 7. At Naffatt, in the Weft Indies, after a lingering illness, John Baldwin, efq. member of affembly for that town. Lately, at Calais, on his way to Paris, Jas. Tekell, efq. of the Inner Temple. At Prbolis, near Drefden, M. Paliích. The knowledge he acquired by a constant applica❤ tion to phyfic and aftronomy deferves the greatest praife. He was a man of the cha racter of the ancient Romans, for he culti vated his lands with his own hands, lived like a philofopher, and to great talents joined mo ral and exemplary manners, which infpired June 4. A dies, juftly and univerfally la- every one with respect and veneration for mented, the Hon. Col. George Mackenzie (brother-german to Lord Macleod), of his Majefty's 71ft regiment, and commandant of the fecond brigade.-His remains were conveyed to the garden houfe of William Balfour, eft at Madras, efcorted by a party of the 19th light dragoons, and a detachment of infantry. Every military honour was paid by the second brigade on the removal of the corpfe from Wall jabad. On the evening of the 7th, his body was depofited in the church-yard of Madras. During the funeral ceremony, half-minute guns were fired from the fort, the flag hoifted half-maft high, and three vollies were fired from his Majesty's 14th regiment of Hanoverians over the grave. The Governor, Council, and Settlement, civil and military, attended to pay the laft tribute to the remains of a gallant foldier and warm friend. July 15. At Calcutta, Lieutenant-Colonel Wedderburne. Aug. 1. At Bombay, John Blakeman, efq. physician general. 24. At Bengal, Lieut. R. Parry, of the 5th battalion of Sepoys. Sept. 2. At Dinapore, Enfign F. Bingley. 7. At Jelda, Lieut. J. Abercrombie, adjutant of the 25th battalion of Sepoys. Dec. 24. Mrs. Ainfie, wife of Tho. A. efq. collector of the customs at Quebec. About the latter end of this year (1787), in New Hampshire in America, Afa Dunbar, efq. He was an eminent practitioner in the law; mafter of the Rifing Sun Lodge; a man of great genius and literary talents; and a moft excellent mafon. A brother mafon infcribed the following lines on his tomb: "Peace to thefe afkes: May the green grafs and Rowers Around this grave Be as the memory of him beneath, País not the fpot without heaving a figh, For he was your friend and your companion. him. He was one of the greatest astronomers of this age. In 1783 he difcovered comet, which acquired him the praifes of the Royal Society of London, with whom he correfponded. Many learned men, and even princes, vifited his museum, and expreffed their admiration and esteem for him. At Bruffels, in his 54th year, the Baron de Hugbert, feigneur of Kruyningen; nearly related to the Trevor family, being uncle to the prefent Lord Viscount Hampden. Near Keffel, in Upper Guelderland, Monf. Dan. Cabot, defcendant of the celebrated C. who was grand pilot to Henry VI. of England, and who had an handsome salary allowed him for his knowledge and experie ments in the communicative virtues of the magnet. His brother died a short time fince in French Flanders, Rev. Mr. Davis, rector of Abergwilly, near Carmarthen. In a fit of infanity he ftabbed himself in three places in his body, and afterwards threw himself into a pond whence he was taken, foon after, quite dead. At Abergavenny, greatly regretted, Mr. Philip Williams, an eminent furgeon and apothecary there. In the early part of life he ferved as furgeon in the royal navy, but for many years paft practifed with great skill and fuccefs in the county of Monmouth. At Coventry, Mr. Thomas Noxen, schoolmafter, formerly theriff of that place. He was committed to Newgate, with his colleague in office, in 1781, by the Houfe of Commons, for not making a return to the King's writ, and other undue proceedings at the election there. At Diffington, in her 85th year, Mrs. Sarah Crofthwaite, wife of Capt. Jn. C. They had been married 65 years, and had had 9 children, 26 grand-children, 24 great grandchildren, and great great grand child. Mrs. Wheeler, wife of Wm. W. efq, of Winterford, near Kidderminster. At Afpeley, near Nottingham, Mrs. Alexander, wife of A. efq. of Potton, Bedfordfh.. In his 72d year, Mr. Henry Girdlestone, furgeon, of Holt, co. Norfolk. He had been 49 years in the practice of midwifery. At Spalding, aged 81, Mrs. Pulvertoft, re lict of John P. gent, who died in 1731. At Lewes, Suffex, aged 94, Mrs. Elizabeth Ruffell, a maiden lady. At the fame place, Mr. Clofe, gardener to John Fuller, fq. of Rofe-hill; remarkable for his kill in the management of hot houfes, At Sibford Ferris, co. Oxford, Thomas Walford, efq. At Bath, Mrs. Markby, wife of Tho. M. efq. of Cambridge. At Cambridge, Tho. Coe, efq. formerly of Newgate-street. of Freifingen. He was born May 11, 17273 elected prince-bishop June 23, 1769. 17. In his diocefe of Lintz, after a short illness, aged 86, Count Erneft of Heberstein, count of the Holy Roman Empire, privycounsellor of his Imperial Majesty, bishop of Lintz, &c. He was buried at the cathedral church of Lintz on the 19th inst. 18. At Gibraltar, Mrs. Pringle, wife of Lieut.-Col. P. commanding engineer, and daughter to the late Col. Balneavis, of Kirkland, in North Britain. 21. At Castle Grant, Dundas Cha. Grant, fon of Sir Jas. G. of Grant. Suddenly, very mach refpected and lamented, the Rev. Jonathan Shutt, rector of North Witham, co. Lincoln. Independent of the immediate duties of his profeffion, which he difcharged in the moft confcientious manner, it would be to a degree uncharitable not to mention the first virtue, cha Sir Richard Chase, knt. of Much Haddam, Herts. His fortune, which is very confiderable, devolves between his two nephews, Francis and Richard Stanley, fons of Francis S. rector of Hadham, and grandsons of Dr. Wm. S. dean of St. Paul's; the former of thefe is vicar of N. Weald, Effex, and rector of Eaftwick, Herts; the latter a barrister of the Inner Temple, and recorder of Hertford, At Woodfide, near Hatfield, Herts, the widow of the late Wm. Hartley, efq. laterity, as being practised by this gentleman and principal fecretary to his Excellency the Hon. Mr. Villiers, lately Lord Hide and E. of Cla rendon, on his embafly to Saxony and Poland, and alfo wife of Mr. Bellis, late a jeweller in Pall Mall; mother of the late Mrs. Penrofe, wife of Mr. P. furgeon at Hatfield, and of Capt. Bellis, of Bombay. At Malden, Effex, Rev. Tho. Cooch, LL.B. formerly fellow of St. John's Coll. Cambr. At Farringdon, Berks, Mr. Waight, an minent brewer. At Reading, Mrs. Anne Mafsham, relict of Mr.Tho, M.; mother of the Rev. Mr. M. of Hatfield; and one of the daughters of the late Samuel Thomson, eíq. of Bradfield boufe, Berks. At Clothall, Herts, the Rev. Tho. Cecil Greaves, rector of that parish, and of the rich rectory of Hatfield, to which last he was prefented by the Earl of Salisbury, 1772, and to the former in 1780. He is fucceeded at Hatfield by the Rev. Mr. Keate, vicar of Cheshunt, and rector of Little Berkhamsted. At Ekham, Kent, Jof. Middleditch, esq. At Idlington, Mrs. Ditton, widow of the late Rev. Mr. D. (fon of the famous aftrono mer) many years lecturer of that parish. Mr. Cain Adams, attorney, of Dear street, Soho. His father, mother, and thirty-one brothers and fifters, were buried in the cha pel yard of St. Anne, Soho, where he, the last of the family, was also interred. By the burfting of a blood-veffel in the brain, Hammond, efq. many years an eminent brewers In the Temple, Wm. Hammet, efq. late Mrs. Smith, wife of Mr. Tho. S. mercer in the Cloysters, West Smithfield. March 15. At five o'clock in the afternoon, after a long illness, in his 61ft year, Louis-Jofeph, baron of Welden, prince-bishop his lady, who died only 7 weeks before him. At her houfe on Eafy-hill, near Birming ham, Mrs. Baskerville, relict of the late Mr. John B. fo juftly celebrated for his beautiful types, and elegant fpecimens of printing. At Aire, in France, where the went for the completion of her education, in her 20th year, Mifs Nancy Lepper, eldest daughter of Mr. L. of Lower Holloway, Middletex. 23. In the Caftle of Chefter, Capt. Edwa Colliers (late of the 5ad regiment) commanding an invalid company there. At Holywell, near Oxford, aged about 70, the Rev. Dr. Tho. Chapman, rector of Navestock, Effex, and formerly fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. At Stockton, co. Durham, after a gradual decay of nature, aged 78, Mr. Tho. Wright. He was many years agent, in the iron bufi→ nefs, to the late Wm. Sleigh, efq. of that place. As a member of fociety he was in many respects useful;" but more particularly fo from his great fkill in the mathematics, which he attained folely by the force of his own genius, and from the perufal of the best authors upon thofe fubjects; and generously instructed several young men, gratis, in the different branches. His laft pupil, a native of Stockton, has been handfómely fupported by the inhabitants of that place, as a teacher of the mathematics, for upwards of 24 years. 24. In St. James's Place, the Right Hon. Lady Eliz. Fitzwilliam, fifter to the late, and aunt to the prefent, Earl F. She was second daughter of John, fecond Earl F. and was born Dec. 9, 1724. 25. At Bromley, aged 81, Mrs. De Briffas. In Charles-ftreet, Mrs. Dorrien, relict of the late Liebert D. efq. At Lifbon, Francis Throckmorton, efq. grandfon to Sir Rob. T. bart. At Manchester, after a fevere illness, at the early age of 31, Mr. Geo. Burchell, who for feveral years conducted the subscription concerts in that town. 26. At Bath, of a mortification in his bowels, Mr. Peter Cazalet, fen. merchant in Auftin Friar's. Mrs. Creffwell, relict of the late Cha. C. efq. of the General Poft-office. At his feat at Bramling, in his 81ft year, Adm. Cha. Knowler, a fuperannuated admiral. At Chelfea, Mrs. Tracy, relict of the late Hon. John Atkyns T. of Stanway, co. Gloucefter, and late one of the curfitor barons of the Exchequer. At Paris, M. Gerbier. He was one of the best lawyers in France, and the most eloquent orator at the bar. He was born at Rennes, the capital of Bretany, in July, 1725. His voice was reckoned one of the moft harmonious, and the most perfect in its tones, of any of the public fpeakers. At Callercoate, co. Northumberland, Jas. Mills. He was a fisherman, in 1715, at Bamborough, when Lance Earrington took Holy Inland Caftle, and was in company with the country people raifed in fearch of him. At the age of 82 he married a widow, a fecond wife, and begot three daughters, the eldest of whom married a fisherman, and has had three children. 27. Mrs. Seddon, wife of Mr. S fen. the famous cabinet-maker in Alderfgate-ftreet. At Barrowby, advanced in years, Mrs. Parfons, a widow lady of York, and relict of the late Major P. At Liffon-green, Paddington, James Melliar, M.D. of North Cadbury, co. Somerset. At Portsmouth, in his 95th year, Mr. Wm. Tattum. 28. Mr. Wm. Lyon, one of the yeomen of his Majesty's body-guards. Aged 81, Rev. Mr. Cha. Wefley, brother to the celebrated Mr. John W.; the joint founders of the fect called Methodists. At Granby-row, Dublin, the Right Hon. Baronefs Dillon. Aged 71, Rev. Mr. Wright, rector of Birkin, co. York. Aged 87, Mrs. Day, widow, of Deeping St. James, co. Lincoln. 29. At Blandford Park, the feat of the Duke of Beaufort, in his 21ft year, William Evelyn, efq. only fon of Wm. E. efq. of St. Clere, in Kent, M.P. for Hythe, in that county. His death was occafioned by the hurt he received in confequence of a fall from his horfe, as he was hunting fome weeks ago, which was then thought to be only a flight injury to his head. A few days afterwards he appeared tolerably well recovered, and went on a vifit to the Marquis of Worcester; where, over-heating himself with riding, a pain in his head enfued, and he was obliged to undergo the operation of trepanning, which he furvived only two days. and At Elfmore, co. Gloucester, Fev. Charles Bishop, rector of Elkitone and Rudfor in the commillion of the peace for that co. ...At Chefhunt, Herts, Rev. T..o. Griffin, M.A. fen. fellow of St. John's College, Oxf. curate of Chefhunt, one of the furrogates of the London diocese, and one of the preachers at Whitehall. In Berkley-street, Portman-fqua. Francis Ritchie Mowat, lieutenant in the navy, font of Capt. Francis M. of Aberdeen. 30. Mr. Jn. Kilvington, attorney, of Red Lion-fquare. Mifs Saxby, only daughter of Wm. S. efq. water-bailiff of London. At Peterborough, aged near 80, Mrsa Bothway, relict of Mr. Jof, B. formerly grocer there. 31. At Stanmore, Middlefex, aged 74, Rev. James Dalton, rector of that place; to which he was handfomely prefented by Geo. Drummond, efq. 1781, (fee vol. LI. p. 444) having formerly kept an academy there. At his houfe in St. Martin's Stamford-Baron, co. Lincoln, advanced in years, the Rev. Geo. Pochin, rector of Morcot, co. Rutland, and Caythorpe, co. Lincoln. He was a general philanthropist, of a most pious difpofition, greatly revered by his parishioners, and every person who knew him, for his extenfive charity and benevolence, At Wefton, Herts, Rev. Jof. Reed, near 37 years vicar of that parish. His immediate predeceffor in the living held it 64 years; fo that it had been in poffeffion of two fucceffive incumbents above 120 years. At her house in Curzon-street, May Fair, after a painful illness, which the bore with great refolution, the Right Hon. Sufannah Lady Viscountess Fane, relict of Charles Vif count F. of the kingdom of Ireland. She was daughter of John Marriott, esq. of Sunning, Berks, and Stufton, Suffolk; and was mar ried, 1ft, in 1726, to Sir Wm. Juxon, bart. of Little Compton, co. Gloucester, who died S. P. Feb. 3, 1739; 2dly, June 8, 1749, to Viscount Fane, by whom the had no chil❤ dren. Viscount F. had two fifters, his coheirs; Mary, married to Jerome Baron de Salis, and Dorothy, the present Countess of Sandwich-Her Ladyship actually wrote, and fuperintended the prefs while they were printing thofe anecdotes refpecting herself, which are introduced in the celebrated novel of "Peregrine Pickle;" and which, in beauty of compofition, are fo fuperior to the rest of that work. Dr. Smollett received a very handsome reward for inferting them, but had no fhare whatever in preparing them for the public eye. Her life afforded a melancholy inftance of the miseries infeparable from a mifapplication of superior talents and elegant accomplishinents; and her indifcretions furnifhed materials for the reprehenfible book alluded to in the "Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer," p. 366.-To the fate of this lady. John◆ ion has a beautiful allusion in his Vanity of Human Wishes:" "Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty fpring, King." And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'd a It has been jupposed, but erroneouily, that her her portrait was intended by Hogarth in his "Henry VIII. and Anne Boleƒn.” At Brompton row, Mrs. Johnfon, widow of the late Harry J. efq. of Milton Bryant, co. Bedford. April 1. In St. John's Square, Mr. Tho. Kent, late druggift in Alderigate-street. In Halfey-court, Blackman street, Mr. Halliday, formerly an eminent fugar-baker and refiner at Paul's Wharf, in the houfe occapied by the late Sir Barnard Turner.What renders his death more diftreiting is, that his wife lay dead at the time; and four children are totally unprovided for. 4. In Crown-court, Ralph Aldus. efq, attorney at law, formerly of Gray's Inn, and one of the fix gentlemen whom Mr. Macklin profecuted, fome years ago, for a confpiracy against him. This confpiracy began with their hitfing him from the stage, when he attempted to perform the character of Macbeth. Mr. Macklin refented this in a manner which part of the audience did not like; and they obliged the managers to difmifs him. He afterwards brought his action against Aldus and five others, which ended in a compromife, Mr. Macklin agreeing to their taking col. of tickets on his daughter's benefit, 100l. on his own, and paying the law cofts. The burden of this fell principally on Aldus. At Framlingham, co Suffolk, aged 107, Mrs. Anne Butler, a maiden lady; formerly maid of honour to Queen Anne, and a relation to the Duke of Ormond, on whofe difgrace the retired to the above town. 5. In her 87th year, at the Rev. Dr. Bell's, in Little Dean's-yard, Weftminft. Mrs. Bell, relict of the late Wm. B. efq, of Greenwich. Of a fever, aged 16, Mr. John Bland, fon of Mr. B. of Mincing-lane. In Temple-street, Bristol, Mr. Jof. Ring, potter. He was unfortunately killed by the failing-in of a warehouse; and has left a wife and nine children. At Enfield, Mr. May, formerly an eminent batcher, but had for fome years retired. 6. At Knightsbridge, Mis. Skrine, wife of Hen. S. efq. She was delivered of a fon, her first child, a little time before (fee p. 269). In Greville-ftret, near Hatton-garden, where he had lived many years with great refpectability, and enjoyed an uncommon hare of good health and spirits for her age (74), Madame Catherine Rollan.-She was a principal dancer on Covent-garden stage, so far back as fifty-four years ago; and followed that profeflion, by private teaching, to the laft year of her life. She had fo much cele brity in her day, that, having one evening fprained her ancle, no less an actor than Quin was ordered by the manager to make an apo logy to the audience for her not appearing in the dance. Quin, who looked upon all dans cers as the "mere garnish of the ftage," at firft demurred; but being threatened with a GENT. MAG. April, 1788. forfeiture, he growlingly came forward, and in his coarfe way thus addreffed the audience "Ladies and Gentlemen, 1 am defired by the manager to inform you, that the dance intended for this night is obliged to be postponed, on account of Mademoiselle Rollan having diffocated her ancle; I wish it had been her neck, the b-ch." 7. At her feat at Campsey Ash, co. Suff. aged 83, Mrs. Eliz. Braham, a maiden lady, who had but a few months furvived an only fifter. Her real estates, which were confiderable in that county, she has bequeathed to her coufin, Philip-Edward B. efq. governor of Tapanooly, in the inland of Sumatra, the next heir male of her name and family. In an advanced age, Lady Grierson, relict of late Sir Gilb. G. bart. of Lag, in Dumfries. 8. At Bath, about fix o'clock in the morning, the Right Hon. Richard Rigby, M.P. for Tavistock. His illness was not of long duration; its approach was fudden; but from the first, the effects were highly alarming to his friends. His laft complaint was that of a dropfy; in which he was attended by Dr. Harrington. According to the best calculation we can make, he was about 65 or 66 years of age.—Mr. R. made, at a very early age, a confpicuous figure in life. It was not accident that brought him into the higher circles. He was born to a handsome patrimony, Miftley, the feat where he lately refided, once poffefed by the famous Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford; on his accession to it in 1730 the rent-roll was 1100l. a year.→→ Mr. R's father was a woollen-draper in Paternofter-row, but being appointed by the South Sea comp ny, under the patronage of Sir Joho and Sir Jofeph Eyles, their factor under the affiento, or contract, with the Spanish crown, thereby got a large fortune and purchased the estate of Miftley, which his fon has very much enlarged.--Having completed his academical ftudies, he vifited the principal courts of Europe during his minority, and e.urned to England in the 21ft year of his age; when he was fos licited and prevailed upon to offer himself a candidate for Sudbury, a borough near his own feat, for which place he was returned to Parliament after a violent oppofition. A general election following close, he had a fes cond contest to support, which was attended with fimilar circumstances of triumph and expence. About this time he became a meme ber of the fashionable club at White's, where his fortune experienced further difatters. Embarked however in polite life, with every advantage to be derived from strong, manly talents, and a winning address, it is no won der that the leaders of the contending parties of those days, were defirous of enrolling him under their respective banners. Frederick Prince of Wales, father of his prefent Mas jesty, was amongst the foremost to cultivate his acquainitanae; he perfonally idvited him He to his levees at Laicefter-house, and became over the appointment to the great astonish The anember |
