1795.] Obituary of remarkable Perfons; with Biographical Anecdotes. 439 St. Marc, at the head of 200 men. 24. At Port Royal, Jamaica, Dr. Robert March 8. At Paris, Admiral Mitchell Graham, brother to the late Sir Bell ngham G. of Norton Conyers, . Yorkshire. He married a daughter of Mr. J. ckman, timbermerchant, of London. He was confined, in the time of Robespierre, in the Luxembourg prifon; and we are forry to add, that his fon and daughter are in a moft deplorable fate in Paris. He had refided a long time in France, from motives of pecuniary convenience, and was on the lift of fuperanza ed admirals. 24. After a long and lingering illness, 27. At his boufe, called Eaft Gate Barns, 1. At Manheim, after a fhort illness, his Bavaria, &c. brother to the late reigning feph, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Duke. 3. Mrs. Sarah Hinde, late of Edmonton. 7. At Shearby, co. Leicester, aged 43 John Wyatt, gent. 9. Rev. Wm. Oldham, rector of Norton, and vicar of Bungay Trinity, both in Suffolk. 10. At the family-feat at Law Trenchard, co. Devon, in her 85th year, Mrs. Gould, mother of Mrs. Charles Baring. 11. Aged 71, Mrs. Gregory, relict of the late Alderman G. of Leicester. 12. After a very long and painful illness, much advanced in years, Mrs. Harrison, relict of the Rev. Dr. H. late of Stamford. Her remains were interred at Ryal, in Rutland. Mr. Robert Burnaby, attorney at law, of Leicester. At Rome, Monsignor Stonor, uncle to the late Charles S. etq. of Stonor, in Oxfordshire. He repaired to Rome in the early part of his life, and never afterwards quitted that capital. pointed him one of the chamberlains of his Clement XIV. aphousehold; which office at the Roman prelate on him, with feveral diftinctive court he retained till the year 1788, when the prefent Pope conferred the dignity of quaintance. marks of favour. He was much respected, and died regretted by a numerous ac. 13. At Leicester, Mrs. Hubbard, wife of Mr. H. attorney. At the fame place, aged 82, Mr. Kinton. At Louth, co. Lincoln, in her 97th year, At her lodgings in Orange-court, Leicef- years ago. Mrs. Daly, wife of Mr. D. of Harcourt- an 440 Obituary of remarkable Perfons; with Biographical Anecdotes. [May, an example of filial duty and affection." vol. V. p. 372. Mifs Barfanti's first appearance on the stage was at Covent-garden, Sept. 21, 1772, in a prelude wrote on purpose, by Mr. Colman, to introduce her to the publick. In 1775 her father died; and in 1777 the mar ried a Mr. Lifley, who dying foon after, the took to her fecond husband Mr. Daly, with whom she has ever fince refided in Dublin. She fupported the characters of fine ladies in comedy with great fuccefs both in London and Dublin. 16. At Ridlington, in Rutland, George Belgrave, efq. At Walfall, in the courfe of four days, viz. on the 16th, Anne, wife of Jofeph Thornton, aged 29 years; on the 19th, Jofeph Thornton, aged 32; on the 21t, Jofeph Thornton, son of the above, and Anne' Thornton, aged 3 years. They were all in terred on the 22d, in one grave. At Loughborough, aged 68, Mr. John Ripecke, trumpeter in the 1oyal regiment of hoife-guards. He had been in the fervice 30 years and to months. In Ruffell-ftreet, Blomsbury, of a violent fever, the beautiful Lady Grantley, wife of Lord G. So fudden was this event, that she had prepared a dress to appear in, that night, at the Queen's ball. Her Ladyship was niece to the late Lady Dennison, and daughter and coheirefs of Jonathan Midgley, attorney, of Beverley, whofe immenfe property was fo fecured that the fecond fon of Lord Grantley would have inherited roo,ocol. Having left only one fon, the children of her fifter, who is married to an American gentleman, will fucceed to great part of this property. At Brompton, Kent, aged 23, Mr. JohnGray Tracy, clerk in the mafter-attendant's office, Chatham-yard. 17. At Ealing, co. Middlefix, in her 8th year, in the vigour of all her mental faculties, which neither her advanced age nor a lingering illnet bad in the fmalle ft degree impaired, Mrs. Hannah Harman, widow of the late Jeremiah H. efq. and daughter of Jonathan Gunnell, efq. of the antient family of the Gurnells, leflees, for feveral generations, of the manor of Great Eal ng. She was an excellent woman, and her lofs will be deeply felt, and univerfally laniented; for, to the poor, the fick, the friendlefs, and the ignorant, fhe was a conftant and unwearied benefa&trefs. At Shrewsbury, the Hon. Mrs. Dana, wife of the Rev. Mr. D. daughter of the late Lord Kinnaird, fifter to the prefent Lord. At Apley, near Bridgenorth, Thomas Whitmore, efq. M. P. for that borough. At Beverley, in his 74th year, Mr. Edw. Rushworth, ftone-mafon, father of the Rev. Charles Rushworth, B. A. fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge. At Staveley, near Sheffield, in an advan.ed age, Mr. Samuel Foxlow. He was in a good state of health a few minutes before his death. At Lisbon, Edward Townfend Jones, efq. late captain in the 34th reg. of foot. In 18. In his 72d year, Mr. Geo. Launder, 47 years organist of Maidstone. His skill and execution, as a mafter in his profession, were generally acknowledged and admired. His ability as a compofer has been proved on many occafions; and fome of his original pieces and el gant variations are full preferved, though his modefty and diffidence prevented their appearance from the prefs. Beyond the focial circ:e of his frien is and neighbourhood he courted no fame, and even preferred independence to money. temper, hatty and iritable, but plasable, kind, and generous; in principle, decided, confiftent, and inflexible. In 1792 he voluntarily expended more then rock. in improving and adding new ftops to the churchorgan; which valuable inftrument, from a paralytic affection, he could n longer touch with fatisfaction to himfelf, leaving this handfore teftimony of respect to the art he loved, and to the town that had adopted him. 19. In her geth year, at the house of her nephew, John Wightwick Knightley, efq. of Offchurch, in Warwickshire, Mrs. Mary Wightwick. At Twickenham, Lady Perryn, wife of Sir Richard F. one of the barons of the Court of Exchequer At Rumford, Effex, Cuthbert Mafhiter,efq. Capt. Payne Galloway, only fon of Payne, efq. who, a few years ago, took the name of Galloway for an estate at Tofts, in Norfolk, and younger brother, by a fecond marriage, of Sir Ralph Payne, K. B. and married one of the three daughters of Oliver De Lancey, efq. of New York, who loft a large property by his attachment to Geverniment in the American war, His lady died at Salt-hill, about 10 years ago, and left two children, the above young gentleman and a daughter, now in her 15th year. Capt. G. had returned from the masquerade to his lodgings in Maddox-ftreet on the preceding morning, and went to bed, leaving the candle burning, by, which means the bed caught fire. In attempting to fubdue the flames, rather than make lis efcape, he was fo fhockingly burnt that he died in great agony at five o'clock in the morning of the next day. He was a youth of uncommen talents; in his 19th year; seemed to have a peculiar genus for the military life, and advanced himself by his merit at a very early period. 20. At Honeyholm, in Stirlingshire, Lieutenant-colonel John Kay, of Glenboig, late of the 12th reg. of fout. Found dead on the road between Cafle Carey and his own houfe, the Rev. Francis Barnes, rector of South Cadbury, co. Somerfet, and late of Eaftham, co. Worcester. 21. Mr. 21. Mr. John Bailey, furgeon, of Long Sutton, co. Lincoln. He was inhumanly murdered, and a gold watch taken out of his pocket, about half past twelve in the morning, half way between Tidu and Sutton, on his return from visiting a patient at Tidd St. Mary, about three miles from his own houfe. The inftrument with which this murder was perpetrated is conjectured to * have been a plank-hook, which entered the left eye, divided the nofe, and came out of the lower jaw. In this itate he was found at five o'clock, alive and, fenfible, but unable to articulates and expired about fix. A difconfolate widow and one fon are thus deprived of an affectionate husband and father, and the country of an ornament to his pro feffion. The Sutton and Spalding troops of yeomanry, and more than a thoufand la-, menting fpectators, attended his corpfe to the grave. At his houfe in Took's court, Cuifitorftreet, John Eyre, efq. After a long, afflicting illness, Mr. Joshua Killer, proprietor of the Punch Bowl public-hoafe at Nottingham; a pun&tual, honest man, refpected by all his friends and ac quaintance. He collected the water-rents for the Water-work Company many years, with great fatisfaction to the public and his employers. At Bowmore, ifland of Iflay, in his 84th year, Major Donald Campbell. He ferved, under his late Majefty and the Duke of Cumberland at the battles of Dettingen, Fontenoy, and Culloden; afterwards in the Eaft Indies, under Gen. Laurence. 23. On Croom's-hill, Greenwich, aged 72, after repeated attacks of the pally, Mr. John Oliver, many years commander of the Grantham, in the East India Company's fervice; after the taking of which by the French at the Cape of Good Hope, 1759, he was aprointed mafter-attendant of the Company's fhipping. His wife died April 11, 1785; and he has left one fon, a clergyman. At Clifton, in her 21ft year, the Lady of the Chevalier de Foville, fecond daughter of the celebrated Mrs. Charlotte Smith. In his 19th year, after a long, often flattering, but at laft fatal, illness, Mr. William Pickwick, fon of Mr. P. of the White Hart ing at Bath. He had been but a fhort period entered at Oxford, when the rupture of a blood-veffel impaired a conftitution naturally good, and terminated in depriving fociety of a valuable young man, and lis diftreffed parents of an only child as amiable in manners as his genins was promising. Mr. John Wilson. He retained his faculties till within a few days of his death. In his 53d year, Mr. Bagerley, of Coffington, co. Leicester, 24. Mr. Parr, hofier, in Woolpack-lane, Nottingham. Mr. John Gill, auctioneer, Pepper-lane, Nottingham; whofe integrity will be long remembered. At Woodstock, co. Oxford, in his 8ft year, the Rev. James King, D. D. dean of Raphoe, in Ireland, formerly chaplain to the Houfe of Commons of England, and canon of Windfor. Mr. E. M. Diemar, printfeller, Strand.. At Bristol, where he had been for the recovery of his health, the Right Hon. and Right Rev. Thomas Talbot, Roman Catholic bishop for the Midland diftrict. He was brother to the late Earl of Shrewsbury, and uncle to the prefent. It is expected he will be fucceeded by the Rev. Mr. Berington. Aged 74, James Hopkins, efq. of Bethnal-green. At Swansea, co. Glamorgan, Mifs Frances Evans, youngeft darghter of the late Wm. E. efq. of Eagle's Bufh, in the faid county. She improved and cultivated, by reading and obfervation, an excellent understanding; ever difplayed that unaffected and engaging chearfulness which goodness and innocence naturally infpire, and was diftinguifhed for humanity and benevolence. Impreffed with the jufteft ideas of religion, the lived in ftric conformity to the holy precepts it inculcates; and, fupported by fuch principles, bore a languishing illness with patience, fortitude, and refignation 25. Found on the shore at Plymouth, near the old gun-wharf, stabbed in feveral places, Mr. Smith, fteward to Lord Geo, Lenox. He was a man much respected and lamented. 26. In her chair, of a gradual decay, aged 75, Mrs. Watfon, relict of the late Rev. Dr. W. mother of Mr. Serjeant W. and last furviving coleirefs of Thomas Hanchett, efq, of Chrifhall-grange, Effex. At his houfe in Upper Harley-ftreet, Sir Cha. Booth, of Harrietham place, Kent. At Bristol Hotwells, aged 33, Domville Poole, efq. of Dane-bank, near Warrington, captain in Col. Legh's regiment of, fencible cavalry, and, last year, high fheriff of Cheshire. At Oxtead-coltage, in his 80th year, James Hutton, efq. of Pimlico. Aged 67, Mrs. New, of Marlborough, co. Wilts; and, the next day, aged 69, Mr. New. At Higham-court, Mrs. Woodford, aunt to Lady Guife. 28. Dr. Hugh-Alexander Kennedy, phyfician to the Prince of Wales, and directorgeneral of the British hofpitals on the Continent. At Lincoln, the Lady of Samuel Beilby, D. D. &c. niece to Sir Richand Heron, bart. and daughter of the Rev. Dr. Raftall, prebendary of Normanton, in the church of Southwell, and rector of Waltham, co. Leicester. At his houfe at Walthamstow, in Effex, At Fa-row, near Whitby, aged rco, upwards of 70, Alexander Champion, efq. GANT. MAG. May, 1795. Mr. ΙΙ 442 Obituary of remarkable Perfons; with Biographical Anecdotes. [May, Mr. Henry Windus, youngest son of John W. efq. of Chancery-lane At Little Thorpe, cr. Leicester, Mrs. Hadwen, relict of the late Rev. Thomas H. of Loughborough. 29. At Nailfea, ca. Somerfet, in his 72d year, the Rev. Wm. Baddely, M.A. formerly of Brazen Nofe college, Oxford. At Brompton, Mifs Lucy Hargrave, dau. of Francis H. efq. of New Bofwell-court. At his houfe at Hambrook, co. Gloucefter, Richard Bayly, efq. many years in the commiffion of the peace for that county. At Putney, in Surrey, aged 88, the Lady of Peter Staple, efq. late of London, merch. 3. At Winchester, aged 89, the Rev. Mr. Lowth, one of the canons of that cathedral, and brother to the late Bishop of London. from the pen, it is supposed, of a learned and most intimate friend). A generous patron and encourager of learning, he took-under his protection poor scholars, for whom, as well by his own liberality as by a prudent and fuccef:ful application to the clergy and gentry of the neighbourhood, or to his friends at Cambridge, he procured the advantages of academical inftitution. Many of these might be named, who are now an honour to the place of their education, an ornament to the republick of letters, and a bleffing to fociety." The only ecclesiastical preferment which he poffeffed was the vicarage of Eafby, near Richmond, not worth 50l. ayear, to which he was presented in 1770. As a preacher, there was a gravity and an earneftnefs in his manner which riveted the attention of his hearers. The plainnefs of his flyle was admirably fuited to a country congregation, and thì strong and manly (pi At Newton St. Cyres, Devon, aged 69, much lamented, Boughey Skey, efq. formerly lieutenant-colonel in the army, the prime of whofe life was uniformly employ-rit of the difcourfes, in which he delivered ed in the active fervice of his country, having been one of the officers prefent at the victories of Quebec, Martinique, and the Havannah; and adding one to the number of those who unite the characters of the brave foldier and the real gentleman. At Richmond in Yorkshire, in his 72d year, the Rev. Anthony Temple, M. A. mafter of the free grammar-fchool at that place, and formerly of Sidney college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of B. A. 1745, and of M. A. 1770. His notions of grammar fhould feem to have been acquired by an early acquaintance with the Granimatical Commentaries and the Noctes Nottinghamicæ of Richard Johnson; and on those notions, improved and advanced by the exertion of his own vigorous intellect, was his plan of teaching the classical authors chiefly groundeds His great object being to explain the laws of construction, instead of requiring the recitat of rules, he taught his scholars by a corrected edition of Ward's Accidence, with a few manuscript definitions and obfervations of his own on the moods and tenfes, and on fome peculiarities of Syntax, generally either mifunderfood or mis-taught by his contemporaries. His viva voce inftructions were couched in language the most clear and nervous; and his illustrations were ever forceful and happy. The best proof of the excellence and fuccefs of his mode of teaching will be found in the diftinguished notice which a found and precife knowledge of the beft authors of claffic antiquity has derived upon his various pupils both in and out of the two univerfities. Though an uninterrupted flate of ill health had long confined him to his house, he did not remit. the most painful and affiduous attention to the duties of an office for which none was ever better qualified. One distinguishing feature of his character commands our 35planfe (we here quote from the account which appeared of him in the York Herald, . the precepts of Chriftian morality from the pulpit, amply rewarded every attention that his manner was fo well calculated to engage. As he was impressed with the most folemn fenfe of the duties of that paftoral office which, on account of the contiguous and convenient fituation of the parish, he had been anxious to obtain, fo was he often heard to regret, that an almost continued series of indifpofition had disabled him, for many years, from difcharging all thofe duties in perfon.-It may not be uninteresting to add the following anecdotes of his early life The idea of his being educated for the clerical profeffion was originally fuggefted by the hope, that a diftant relationship to Archbishop Potter might recommend him to preferment. The first fituation which he held in the church, after he left Cambridge, was the curacy of Kilburne, in the North riding of Yorkshire: and it was announced to his friends at collage in the following terms, by an honest countrymen, employed to fetch and carry the horfes of the studers, whofe ufual mode, at that time, of travelling to and from the univerfity was on horfeback. "Well, Robin, what's become of Temple?” Temple! leapt into paradife! curate of Kilburne, egliteen pound en a-year!'While he was thus fituated, Archbishop Potter was folicited in his favour. His anfwer was, that he thought the young man very well provided for. A strange coincidence in opinion betwixt an horfe-carrier and an archbishop! He was, after this, lecturer of Royston, in Hertfordshire; whence, in 1750, he was elected to the school, at Richmond, which he held till his death. The teftimonials to his character and abilities, produced by him as candidate on that occafion, favourable as they were in an extraordinary degree, were abundantly realize.l by the moit honourable difctarge of the du tes of that important station for 45. years. Thofe teftimonials are now in the hands of the corporation; and, in the prefent ftate of difficulty with regard to the appointment of a fucceffor, may fuggeft several useful hints to the electors in directing aud determining their choice. Of his abilities as a divine and a critick a farther account will be given in the next Magazine, with a catalogue of his writings, and a brief detail of the occafions on which they were written and published. About 11 o'clock this day, the Rev. Mr. Jackfon, found guilty of high treason, was brought up to the court of King's Bench, Ire land, where an arreft of judgment was to have been pleaded by his coupfel. When the counsel had begun in his behalf, Mr. J, who was in the dock, was feized with violent emotions, viz. the drawing up of his fhoulders, and frothing at the mouth, and fhortly afterwards dropped down and expired. It is imagined he took poifon in the morning, for when he came firft into court he looked uncommonly pałe, and in gret perfpiration. The night preceding his death, he had his wife and one or two friends with him in the gaol, and feemed not affected much at his fituation, but rather: cheerful, and was writing and preparing fome matters for his appearance in court next day. They left him at an early hour, and, when going away, he requested that one of them would apprize his lawyers to be prepared for his bufinefs next day. When Mr. Gregg, the gaoler, was about to lock him up at night in his apartment, he continued in the fame unembarraffed manner. In the morning, when Mr. Gregg faw him, in order to prepare bm to be brought up to Court, he found a great alteration in him; he was fitting on a chair very languid, and fomewhat convulsed, and complained to Mr. Gregg that he was very ill, and had been up fince four in the morning, faying that he could not lett in bed, and complaining that he was much affected in his Romach. Mrs. Jackson came to him, and cheffed his hair, and prepared him for Court. When the irons were putting on, as is ufual with the prisoners, but which were very light, he exclaimed, they were difgraceful things, and his illness was increafed. When the High Sheriff came to bring him up to Court, they found him, to their attonishment, exceedingly bad; and Mr. Jackfon, after faluting them as well as he was able, asked them, could his bringing up he deferred, fort he was then extreme'y i. Being antwered in the negative, he feemed to raffe himself, and faid, "well then, we'll go, and accordingly went with the Sheriffs, quite weak, into a carriage, perfpiring greatly at the fame time, and all the way to the Court fhewing contortions in his face and convulfions in his body. When Mr. Jackson was near expiring in the dock, he was heard to fay, in a very low * We have not feen "Academical Contributions," mentioned by our correfpondent. voice, by the perfon who was then supporting him, I wish it was over," and in a moment after was apparently, dead. He had in his pocket a pamphlet he had written in answer to Paine's Age of Reason, and a prayer of his own compofition, fuppofed to have been prepared for his ufe previous to his execution. Having expired in the Court, which is in the county of Dublin, his body was committed to the care of the High Sheriff of that district, who had a guard placed on it all night at the dock, and next morning an inqueft was held upon it, and a verdict brought in of Suicide. It was afterwards opened there by Surgeons Adrien and Hume, whofe opinion is, that he died by poifon, but of what kind they could not tell. His body was afterwards given up to his friends, who had it put in a black coffin, and conveyed to an houfe near May-lane, where the unfeeling people, who had it in care, fhewed his face to the curious, at a penny each, for some time before it was carried to its fepulchre. May 1. Major-general Lind, late lieute nant-colonel of the 20th reg. of foot. At Efords, near Hawkhurst, Kent, Samuel Boys, efq. many years a very active magiftrate for Kent and suffex. At her lodgings in Pall Mall, Mrs. Galloway, wife of Mr. James G. fteward to the late Duke of Cumberland, and to the Duke of Gloucester, and tenant of a confiderable farm at Plaistow, Eilex. At his houfe in St. George's, Canterbury, John Hollingbery Mann, efq. Mr. Barret, one of the comedians of the theatre-royal, Manchester. Mr. Sutton, one of the common-council of Leicefter.. 2. Az Evedon, near Sleaford, co. Lincoln, aged 91, Mr. Robert Greenfield, farmer and grazier He had been a confiderable occupier of land in that parish upwards of 70 years. In St. James's-fquare, Bath, Sir Herbert Perrott Packington, bart. of Weftwoodpark, co. Worcester. He was fecond furviving fon of Sir Herbert P. who died in 1748, well known in the gay world, by, Elizabeth, daughter of John Conyers, efq. of Walthamstow. He fucceeded his brother John in 1762, and, married Elizabeth, daughter of Cæfar Hawkins, esq. and widow of Mr. Wylde, of Ludlow, by whom he has left two fons (John his fucceffor) and two daughters, 4. At his houfe on Camberwell-terraec, much regretted, James. Farquharfon, efq. At Newark, Job Brough, efq. clerk of the peace for the county of Nottingham, and also for she borough of Newark. 5. At Ilketton, Mrs. Entwife, wife of the Rev. Mr. E. Mrs. Simpfon, relict of the late Alderman S. of Leicester. At his refidence at. Mr. Taylor's, in the market |