556 Preferments.-Births.-Marriages. Members returned to serve in Parliament. Cambridge University.-W. Cavendish, Esq. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. S. H. Banks, Cowlinge P. C. Suffolk. Rev. H. Bathurst, Hollesley R. Suffolk. Rev. J.Bethune, Kilbride Church, Inverness. Rev. Horatio Bolton, Ashby and Obey with Thirne R. Norfolk; and Docking V. in same county. Rev. C. G. Boyles, Buriton R. with Petersfield Ch. Hants. Rev. D. Campbell, Aucharacle Ch. Argyle. Rev. G. Coldham, Pensthorpe R. Norfolk. Rev. F. Cook, Cross Ch. in Island of Lewis, Ross-shire. Rev. J. E. Daniel, Weybrean St. Mary V. Suffolk. Rev. J. Dickinson, Compton Dundon V. Somerset. Rev. J. G. Dobree, Fleet Marston R. Bucks. Rev. T. D. Dolben, Ipsley R. Warwickshire. Rev. D. Felix, Llanilar V. Cardiganshire. Rev. D. Gordon, Stoer Ch. Sutherlandshire, Rev. R. Harvey, Hornsey R. co. Middlesex. Rev. W. R. Halden, Oldbury P. C. Salop. Rev. J. P. Jones, Alton V. co. Stafford. Rev. Hewitt Linton, Nossington with Yarwell V. co. Lincoln. Rev. A. Mackenzie, Strontian Ch. Argyllshire. Rev. D. Mackenzie, Keanlochbervie Ch. Sutherlandshire. [June, Rev. W. Macqueen, Trumisgarry Ch. Inverness-shire. Rev. O. Mathias, Horsford V. with Horsham St. Faith P. C. annexed, Norfolk. Rev. W. Mellard, Caddington V. co. Beds. Rev. J. W. D. Merest, Staindrop V. with Cockfield R. annexed, co. Durham. Rev. J. Nicholson, Stenscholl Ch. Isle of Sky. Rev. J. C. Prosser, Newchurch R. co. Monmouth. Rev. R. Reid, Hallin in Watternish Ch. Inverness-shire. Rev. C. Rookes, Teffont Ewyas R. Wilts. Rev. A. Ross, Ullapool Ch. Ross-shire. Rev. H. Salmon, Hartley Wintney V. Hants. Rev. H. W. Salmon, Lidgate R. Suffolk. Rev. Sydney Smith, Combeflorey R. co. Somerset, and Halberton V. co. Devon. Rev. T. Speidell, Crick R. co. Northamp Rev. G. W. Steward, Caister St. Edmund and Trinity R. co. Norfolk. Rev. L. Tugwell, Longbridge Deverill V. Wilts. CHAPLAINS. Rev. A. Fitzclarence, to the Duke of Clarence. Rev. C. A. Morgan, in Ordinary to the King. Rev. W. Ricketts, to the Duke of Cumberland. CIVIL PREFERMENTS. Rev. Joseph Cooke, to be Head Master of Newark Free Grammar School. Rev. W. Hopwood, to be Master of Hitchin Free Grainmar School, Herts. Rev. John Shillibeer, to be Head Master of the Free Grammar School at Oundle. Rev. C. K. Williams, to be Master of the Grammar School, Lewis. BIRTH S. May 5. The wife of Dr. Gilbert, Principal of Brazennose College, Oxford, a dau. -17. At Rome, the wife of Major-Gen. Tolley, a dau.-19. The wife of C. Philips, esq. Barrister, a son.-24. At his seat, Kilmory, Argyleshire, the lady of Sir John Powlett Orde, Bart. a dau.-31. At Stanmer, Sussex, the Countess of Chichester, a dau. Lately. At Newbridge, Derry Dawlish, the resid. of her father, Col. Rochfort, M. P. the lady of E. W. Meade, esq. a son and heir. -In Arlington-street, the Lady Mary Stephenson, a dau.June 11. At Dublin, the Countess of Erroll, a dau.-12. The lady of Lieut.-Colonel Geo. Pollock, C. B. Bengal Army, a son. —13. At Totteridge-park, the lady of J. Browne, esq. M. P. a dau.- 14. In Connaught place, the lady of Sir C. H. Coote, Bart. M. P. a son.-15. At Rookwood, Surrey, the Right Hon. Lady Ch. Spencer Churchill, a dau.In Grosvenor-square, the Countess of Mountcharles, a dau.17. At Englefield-green, the wife of Lieut.Col. Salway, a dau.In Stratford-place, the lady of G. W. Tapps, esq. M. P. a son. -24. In Abingdon-street, the wife of John Bull, esq. a dau. MARRIAGES. March 14. At Malta, Lieut. James, 85th Light Infantry, eldest son of John James, esq. of Shelford, Cambridgeshire, to SusanAnn, third dau. of Col. the Hon. B W. H. Gardner, and niece of the late ViceAdm. Visc. Gardner, K.C.B. May 2. At West Ham, Major Edward Pearson, E. I. C. to Harriet, fifth dau. of 1829.] Marriages. the late Wm. Stanley, esq. of Marylandpoint, Stratford, Essex. -3. Mary's, Lambeth, John Chas. Stahlschmidt, At St. esq. to Sarah, dau. of Thos. Lett, esq.5. At Hastings, the Rev. Edw. Cardwell, Camden Professor of Ancient History in Oxford University, and Rector of Stoke Bruern, Northamptonsh. to Cecilia, youngest dau. of the late Henry Feilden of Witton House, Lancashire. Cheshire, Thos. Kinnersley, esq. of Clough 19. At Astbury, Hall and Ashley, co. Stafford, to Anne, youngest dau. of the late Col. Dixon, of Allerton Gledhon, co. York, and niece to Lady Warburton.-At West Malling, the Rev. W. M. Tucker, Rector of All Saints, Colchester, to Agnes Sophia, youngest dau. of John Bax, esq.-At the British Ambassador's Chapel, Paris, Chas. Hay Seton, esq. 5th Drag. Guards, second son of the late Sir Alex. Seton, Bart. of Abercorn, to Caroline, dau. of Walter Parry Hodges, esq. -20. At St. James's, Westminster, T. Gabb, esq. of Abergavenny, to Marcia, dau. of the late Sir Christ. Willoughby, bt.At Gloucester, Capt. C. H. Raymond, E.I.C. to Miss Warner, of the Spa.North Meols, co. Lancaster, Thomas Adam, -26. At esq. solicitor, in Halifax, to Caroline, second dau. of Thos. Edwards, esq. of Southport, late bookseller in Halifax.- -At War grave, Berks, Edm. Currie, eldest son of J. E. Currie, esq. of Standlake Park, to Margaret, third dau. of the late Geo. Valentine Cooke, esq. of Hertford-street, London.At Luckham, the Rev. G. Ross, to Jane, dau. of the Rev. R. F. Gould, Rector.28. At Kensington, John Speed Davies, esq. of Bernard-str. Russell-sq. to Isabella Anne, dau. of the late Nath. Huson, esq. barrister-at-law. -29. John Strong Armstrong, esq. Eccles-street, Dublin, to Emily, eldest dau. of W. Bruce, D. D. Belfast. 30. At. St. Andrew's, Holborn, Chas. Preston, esq. of Sewardstone, Essex, to Betsey, only dau. of Thos. Towle, esq. of King'sroad, Bedford-row.-At Bath, the Rev. Thos. Lathbury, to Sarah, fifth dau. of Daniel Connor, esq. of Norfolk-crescent. At Cheriton, Kent, Thos. du Boulay, esq. At Florence, Sir Grenville Temple, 557 dau. of S. Kingdon, esq. Southernhay.— Fynes Clinton, Rector of Cromwell, NotAt Orston, Nottinghamsh. the Rev. C. J. tinghamshire, to Rosabella, youngest dau. of John Mathews, esq. of Tynemouth. June 1. At Paris, Robert Bree, M. D. of George-street, Hanover-square, to Eliz. widow of Major Malkin, late 21st Dragoons. 2. -At Langley Colnbrook, Edw. Gresley Stone, esq. of Chambers-court, Worcestershire, and of Coptfold Hall, Essex, to Susan, third dau. of the Rev. Dr. Shepherd.St. George's, Hanover-square, T. Calverley, -At esq. of Ewell House, Surrey, to Eliz. Goldwyer, widow of the late C. Blagrave, esq. Market, the Rev. E. J. Bell, Vicar of Wickof Berkeley-square. At Wickham ham Market, to Fanny, seventh dau. of the Reading.late Rev. J. Eyre, Rector of St. Giles's, -3. At Cardiff, E. W. Duraford, esq. Royal Eng. eldest son of Lieut.col. A. W. Durnford, to Eliz. Rebecca, second dau. of John Langley, of Cardiff, esq. -4. At Great Malvern, W. Candler, esq. R. N. of the Lodge, Worcestershire, to Louisa, dau. of John Evered, esq. of Hill House, co. Somerset.-At Audley, Capt. Hebden, to Jane, dau. of the late Thomas Kinnersley, esq. of Clough Hall, Staffordsh. At -At St. George's, Hanover-square, Robert Dering, esq. Rifle Brigade, to Letitia, youngest dau. of the late Sir George Shee, Edgebaston, Warwicksh. the Rev. W. Farbart. of Lockleys, co. Hertford. quhar Hook, to Anne Delicia, eldest dau. of Dr. John Johnstone, of Galabank, N. B. and of Monument House, Edgebaston. 6. At Heytesbury, John Croomes, esq. of Walham Green, Middlesex, to Mary Eliz. eldest dau. of the Rev. D. Williams, of Heytesbury.Parratt, esq. of the Inspector-general's -At St. Margaret's, Thos. Office, to Miss Rose.-9. At Bramdean, Wilts, Sir John Maxwell Tylden, late Lieut. only dau. of the Rev. H. Lomax Walsh, Col. 52d Reg. of Milsted, Kent, to Eliz. LL.D. of Grimblesthorpe, Lincolush.At St. George's, Bloomsbury, Capt. Bax, E.I.C. to Anne, fourth dau. of John Hanson, esq. of Russell sq. and late of the Rookery, Woodford, Essex. At Christchurch, St. Marylebone, Adam Duff, esq. third son of R. W. Duff, esq. of Fetteresso Castle, Kincardineshire, N. B. to Eleanor, eldest dau. of the late Capt. Thos. Fraser, of Woodcot House, Oxfordsh.- -At Bloomsbury, the Rev. Wm. Brownlow, to Fanny, Temple, and grand-dau. of the late Sir Roonly dau. of R. J. Chambers, esq. of Middle bert Chambers, Chief Justice of Bengal. 10. Longe, Esq. of Spixworth Park, Norfolk, -11. At Goudhurst, Kent, Francis Law, [ 558 ] OBITUARY. [June, LANDGRAVE OF HESSE-HOMBURG. April 2. At Homburg, in his 60th year, his Serene Highness Frederic-Joseph-Louis, Sovereign Landgrave of Hesse Homburg; brother-in-law to His Majesty the King of Great Britain. His Highness was the eldest son of the Landgrave Frederic-Louis, whom he succeeded Jan. 20, 1820. He was mar ried at the Queen's Palace, Buckingham House, April 7, 1818, to the Princess Elizabeth, third daughter of his late Majesty, King George the Third. (See an account of the marriage in our vol. LXXXVIII. i. 365.) They left the country in the middle of the following June, "Every body," says the author of "An Autumn near the Rhine," published in 1818, "speaks well of the Prince, as a brave, honest soldier." A description of his territories, quoted from the same publication, will be found in our vol. LXXXVIII. ii. 435. The Landgrave is succeeded by a younger brother. EARL OF BRidgewater. April.. At Paris, aged 72, the Right Hon. and Rev. Francis Henry Egerton, eighth Earl of Bridgewater, ninth Viscount Brackley and Baron Ellesmere, and a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, senior Prebendary of Durham, Rector of Whitchurch and Middle in Shropshire, M.A., F. R. S. and F. S. A. The title of Bridgewater, which with this nobleman has become extinct, was first suggested as the reward of a meritorious and virtuous Chancellor, one of the best in the whole list of those who have kept the Great Seal of this country. From some difficulty in selecting the title, however, the patent for the Earldom was not completed before the Chancellor's death, when it was bestowed upon his son. In a letter of the period, the circumstances are thus related: "The 15th of this present [March 1616-17], the late Lord Chancellor left this world, being visited in articulo mortis, or not full half an hour before, by the new Lord Keeper [Bacon], with a message from his Majesty that he meant presently to bestow upon him the title of * In June 1616, it was uncertain whether the Lord Chancellor was to be Earl of Cambridge, Flint, or Buckingbam. Nichols's Progresses of King James the. First, vol.1v. p. 1095. Earl of Bridgewater, to make him President of the Council, and give him a pension of 30007. a year during his life. But he was so far past, that no words or worldly comfort could work with him, but only thanking his Majesty for his gracious favour, said these things were all to him but vanities.' But his son, though he lay then (and so doth still) as it were bound band and foot with the gout, did not neglect this fair offer of the Earldom, but hath solicited it ever since, with hopeful success at first, the King having given order for the warrant; yet it sticks I know not where, unless it be that he must give down more milk; though, if all be true that is said, 20,000%. was a fair sop before. His father left a great estate both in wealth and lands; 15,000l. a year is the least that is talked of, and some speak of much more."+ Scroop the fourth Earl of Bridgewater, was in 1720 advanced to the titles of Marquis of Brackley and Duke of Bridge, water, which came extinct with his younger son Francis, the third who enjoyed them, in 1803. That Duke's vast property in internal navigation was bequeathed to his nephew the present Marquess of Stafford, with remainder to the Marquess's second son Lord Francis Leveson Gower, the present Chief Seeretary for Ireland. To his cousin Lieut.Gen. Egerton, who succeeded him as seventh Earl of Bridgewater (and was brother to the nobleman now deceased), the Duke bequeathed Ashridge in Hertfordshire, with the other family estates in Buckinghamshire, Shropshire, and Yorkshire, to the amount of 30,0001. per ann.; and the greater part of his property in the funds, which amounted to about 600,000l. The seventh Earl survived until 1823, but left no children. His Countess, who was the only daughter and heiress of Samuel Haynes, Esq. is still living. The title then devolved on the subject of this memoir. His Lordship was born Nov. 11, 1756, the younger of two sons of the Right Rev. John, Lord Bishop of Durham, by Lady Auna Sophia Grey, daughter and coheiress of Henry Duke of Kent. He was educated at Eton, and afterwards at All Souls College, Oxford, where he attained the degree of M. A. in 1780. In the same year his father appointed him a Prebendary of Durham. In 1781 the Duke of Bridgewater presented him to † Ibid. vol. III. p. 266. 1829.] OBITUARY.-Earl of Bridgewater. the Rectory of Middle in Shropshire; as be did in 1797 to that of Whitchurch in the same county; and he retained them both until his death. Mr. Egerton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1784, and of the Society of Antiquaries in 1791. In 1796 he published in 4to. an edition of the Hippolytus of Euripides, "cum scholiis, versione Latina, variis lectionibus, Valekenari notis integris, et selectis aliorum vv. dd. quibus suas adjecit Fran. Hen. Egerton." By this learned work, which is described in the preface as partly the result of what he bad gathered at Eton from his masters Drs. Foster and Davies, Mr. Egerton acquired considerable credit. It was printed at Oxford, and is noticed in our review, vol. LXVI. pp. 851, and by correspondents in the same volume, pp. 901, 1009. Another classical production of the same editor was "A Fragment of an Ode of Sappho, from Longinus; also an Ode of Sappho, from Dionysius Halicarn." in 8vo. This In 1793 Mr. Egerton communicated to the fifth volume of the Biographia Britannica, a Life of Lord Chancellor Egerton, extending to 19 pages. memoir, greatly enlarged to 80 folio pages, still after the form of arrange ment adopted in the Biographia Britannica, was reprinted for his private use in 1798, the number being 250 copies. It was then entitled "A compilation of various authentic evidences and historical authorities, tending to illustrate the Life and Character of Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere, Viscount Brackley, Lord High Chancellor of England, &c. &c. &c. and the nature of the times in which he was Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor." This long article he in 1802 persuaded the booksellers to reprint for the sixth volume of the Biographia Britannica, then in progress; together with a memoir of bis father, the Bishop of Durham, which bad previously been prefixed to the third volume of Hutchinson's "History of Durham." That portion of the Biographia Britannica," when still unfinished, was consumed at the fire of Mr. Nichols's printing-office in 1808. There is, however, an edition of it in folio, "printed for private distribution," which bears the date 1807, and has the addition of a Memoir of Francis third Duke of Bridgewater. In the XVIth volume of the Transactions of the Society of Arts, is a description from Mr. Egerton's pen, of the underground Inclined Plane, executed by the late Duke of Bridgewater, at Walkden-Moor, in Lancashire. This was afterwards printed in French, Paris, 8vo. 1803, and another of Mr. Egerton's 559 productions is entitled, "A Letter to the Parisians, and the French Nation, upon Inland Navigation, consisting of a defence of the public character of his Grace Francis Egerton, late Duke of Bridgewater, including notices and anecdotes concerning Mr. James Brindley." This was printed in two parts, 8vo. 1819, and 1820. In January 1808, Mr. Egerton, and his sister Lady Amelia, the wife of Sir Abraham Hume, were raised, by his Majesty's sign manual, to the rank of Earl's children; and on the 21st of October, 1823, he succeeded his brother in his titles. His Lordship had for many years resided entirely at Paris. He printed there in 1814, "Lettre inédité de la Seigneurie de Florence au Pape Sixte IV. 21 Juillet, 1478." 4to. He also continued to amuse himself with domestic biography; and in 1826 he printed for private circulation some "Family Anecdotes," from which some extracts will be found in the Lite< rary Gazette for 1827, pp. 121, 153. The Earl's singularities were a gene ral topic for conversation at Paris. He had, at the time of his death, his house nearly filled with dogs and cats, which he had picked up at different places. Of the fifteen dogs which be kept, two were admitted to the honours of his. table, and the whole of them were fre quently dressed up in clothes like buman beings. Sometimes a fine carriage, containing half a dozen of them, was seen in the streets drawn by four horses, and accompanied by two footmen. In his last days, when so debilitated as to be unable to leave his own grounds, he is said to have adopted a strange substitute for the sports of the field, to which he had been addicted. Into the garden at the back of his house, there were placed about 300 rabbits, and as many pigeons and partridges, whose wings had been cut. Provided with a gun, and supported by servants, he would enter the garden and shoot two or three head of game, to be afterwards put upon the table as his sporting trophies! The Earl's remains were brought to England for interment. His will has been proved in the Prerogative Court, Doctors' Commons, by John Charles Claremont, Esq. (a banker, and partner in the house of Lafitte, in Paris,) Thumas Phillips, Esq. and Eugene Auguste Barbier, Esq. who are the executors. The will is long and very extraordinary, and there are added several codicils, equally extraordinary. His Lordship leaves legacies to all his servants, and some larger legacies to private individuals. He, however, adds that, in case he should 560 OBITUARY.-Earl of Bridgewater.-Bishop Lloyd. be either "assassinated or poisoned," the legacies are all to be void. He leaves 8,000l. to the President of the Royal Society, "to be applied according to the order and direction of the said President of the Royal Society, in full and without any diminution or abatement whatsoever, in such proportions and at such times, according to his discretion and judgment, and without being subject to any control or responsibility whatsoever, to such person or persons as the said President for the time being of the aforesaid Royal Society, shall or may nominate or appoint and employ; and it is my will and particular request that some person or persons be nominated and appointed by him to write, print, publish, and expose to public sale, one thousand copies of a work "On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation," illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments; as, for instance, the variety and formation of God's creatures, in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of arguments, as also by discoveries ancient and modern in arts, sciences, and in the whole extent of literature. And I desire that the profits arising from and out of the circulation and sale of the aforesaid work shall be paid by the said President of the said Royal Society as of right, as a further remuneration and reward to such person or persons as the said President shall or may so nominate, appoint, and employ as aforesaid. And I hereby fully authorize and empower the said President, in his own discretion, to direct and cause to be paid and advanced to such person or persons, during the writing of the aforesaid work, the sum of 3007. sterling, and also the sum of 500%. sterling to the same person or persons during the printing and preparing of the same work for the press, out of and in part of said sum of 8,000l. sterling. And I will and direct that the remainder of the said sum of 8,000l. sterling, or of the stocks or funds wherein the same shall have been invested, together with all interest, dividend or dividends accrued thereon, be transferred, assigned, and paid over to such person or persons, their or his executors, administrators, or assigns, as shall have been so nominated, appointed, and employed by the said President of the said Royal Society, at the instance and request of the said President, as and when he shall deem the object of this bequest to have been fully complied with by such person or [June, persons so nominated, appointed, and employed by him as aforesaid." (A splendid work on this subject was written by his Lordship, and privately printed by Didot some years back.) The family manuscripts and papers, together with a lock of his mother's hair, and a particular letter, written by her to himself, and delivered, at her request, after her death, he hopes may be permitted to be deposited and kept as heir looms in the family mansion at Asbridge, a permission which was refused to him by his brother, the former Earl of Bridgewater, with whom the late Earl does not appear to have been on friendly terms, although he hopes "God will forgive his brother as he does." His own manuscripts and autographs he leaves to the British Museum, with the interest of 7,000l. to the librarians who are to be appointed to take care of them, and 5,000l. to augment the collection of MSS. of that institution. He does not even mention his nephews by marriage, Lord Farnborough or Lord Brownlow, who will succeed to the mansion of Asbridge and most of the entailed property, after the death of the Countess of Bridgewater. His servants are to occupy their stations in his grand hotel in the rue St. Honoré, in Paris, for two or three months, after which it is to be sold, together with all his furniture, plate, and jewellery. In bis will nothing is intimated relating to his favourite dogs. The personal property amounts to 70,000. BISHOP LLOYD. May 31. In Whitehall-place, aged 44, the Right Reverend Charles Lloyd, D.D. Bishop of Oxford, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford. Dr. Lloyd was born Sept. 26, 1784. His father, the Rev. Thomas Lloyd, Rector of Ashton Sub-Edge, in Gloucestershire, was then residing at Downley in Buckinghamshire, and officiating as Curate to the Rev. Richard Levett, of West Wycombe. Soon after the birth of his son Charles, Mr. Lloyd removed to Bradenham, where he received pupils, and, at a later period, he became the tenant of Lord Dormer's seat, called Peterley House, his fame and celebrity conti nually increasing with the number of his scholars, who were of the highest families in the country. Of many children, four only survived their parents, and of these Charles was the eldest; his brother Thomas, who was born before him, after running a course as brilliant as ever was granted by Provi |