Marriages. Caroline, dau. of late Rich. Schneider, esq. -At Weymouth, Thos. White, esq. of Rev. Chas. Ward, Rector of Maulden, Beds. 15. At Westbury, Glouc. to Susanna, dau. of Rev. Robert Foster, Preb. of Wells -At Kendal, T. J. Manning, esq. of Barbadoes, to Anne-CatharineRose, dau. of Fred. Nassau, esq. of St. Osyth Priory, Essex.-16. At Walcot Church, Bath, Lieut.-col. Chitty, E. I. C. to Mary-Anne, dau. of late J. C. Baseley, esq. of Norwich.-At St. James's, Maj. Henry Barrington, late 3d Drag. to Miss Brent Foote, of Barnes.-17. At St. George's, Bloomsbury, Wm. Gordon, Writer to the Signet in Scotland, eld. son of David G. esq. to Agnes-Maria, 3d dau. of John Hyslop, esq. of Upper Bedford-place. -18. At St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Jno. Thos. eld. son of Francis Justice, esq. of Abbey House, Berks, to Mary, dau. of late Harry Wormald, esq. of Woodhouse House, Yorkshire:- 19. At Dorchester, Walter Jollie, esq. of Edinburgh, to Hannah Lycette, dau. of late Lt.-gen. Avarne, of Rugeley, Stafford.col. Hon. Geo. Lionel Dawson, brother of -20. At London, Lieut.Earl of Portarlington, to youngest dau. of late Lord Hugh Seymour.cester-pl. the Rev. John Coker, Rector of -22. At GlouRadcliffe, Bucks, to Charl. Sophia, dau. of late Maj.-gen. Dewar.-23. At Wells, Rev. J. Sandford, to Eliz. dau. of late R. J. Poole, esq. of Sherborne.-24. At St. Paul's, Cov. Gard. W. R. Gurden, esq. of Kingsthorpe, Northamp. to Harriet, eld. dau. of Capt. Henry Cavendish, late R. I. Art.-25. At Daventry, Abr. Turner, esq. barrister, and of Areley House, Worc. to Jane, 2d dau. of late Bradford Wilmer, M.D. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. Aug. 2d son of Sir Geo. Pocock, bart. to Julia-Cath. 2d dan. of late Hon. Thos. W. CoventryAt Cheltenham, Rev. John Lightfoot, Vicar of Ponteland, Northumb, to Cordelia, dau. of late Rev. Dr. Kettilby, Rector of Sutton, Beds.--At Leeds, John Henry Fletcher, esq. Surveyor of Gen. Post Office, to Marianne, eld. dau. of C. C. Coventry, esq.. -26. At Montville-house, - [Sept. Guernsey, Wm. Peter, 3d son of late John Carey Metivier, esq. Sol.-gen. for that Island, to Julia-Anne, 2d dau. of Thos. Priaulx, esq. 29. At Kedleston, John Beaumont, esq. of Barrow-upon-Trent, to Hon. Mary Curzon, dau. of Lord Scarsdale. At Old Windsor, John W. Howard, Anna-Cath. only dau. of late John Rowley, esq. of Heathcote-st. Mecklenburgh-sq. to Marylebone, Col. Clitherow, 3d Foot, to esq. of the Madras civil service.--At St. Millicent, eld. dau.; and, at the same time, Edw. John, eld. son of Edw. Rudge, esq. of youngest dau. of C. Pole, esq. of WyckAbbey Manor House, Worc. to Felizarda, Bloomsb. John P. only son of Mr. Ald. Åthill, House, Glouc.kins, to Anna, dau. of J. G. Children, esq. -80. At St. George, of Brit. Mus.John Alex. Hankey, esq. of Grosvenor-sq. At St. George, Han.-sq. to Ellen, 3d dau. of Wm. Blake, esq. of ley White, esq. barrister, to Cath. Sarah, Portland-pl.3d dau. of late Col. Dacre. 31. Rev. -At Lambeth, Henry Hopdau. of late Godschall Johnson, esq. and Horace Geo. Cholmondeley, to Mary Eliz. grand-dau. to late Sir Philip Francis. house, to Eliza, eld, dau. of John Rawlin- Cath. only dau. of D, Davenport, esq. M.P. 1825.] [271] OBITUARY. DUKE OF ST. ALBAN'S. July 17. At his house in St. James'ssquare, in his 60th year, the most noble William Beauclerk, seventh Duke of St. Alban's, Earl of Burford, Baron of Heddington, and Baron Vere of Hanworth, co. Middlesex. Hereditary Grand Falconer of England, Hereditary Registrar of the Court of Chancery, and Lieutenant of the Royal Navy. He was the second son of Aubrey fourth Duke of St. Alban's, by Catharine, daugh ter of Wm. Ponsonby, Earl of Besborough; was born Dec. 18, 1766. On the 20th of July, 1791, he married first Charlotte-Carter, daughter of the Rev. Robert Carter Thelwall, of Redbourn, who died Oct. 19, 1797, without issue. He married secondly, March 4, 1799, MariaJanetta, only daughter of John Nelthorpe, esq. of Little Grimsby-house, co. Lincoln, by whom, who died Jan. 17, 1822, he bad issue 12 children. On the death of his nephew, Aubrey, the 6th Duke, who died an infant, Feb. 19, 1816, the late Duke succeeded to the titles; and is himself succeeded by his eldest son Wm. Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Barford. The remains of the Duke were removed on the 25th from St. James's-square, for interment in the family vault at Lincoln. The procession consisted merely of the hearse and six horses, followed by one mourning coach, containing the butler and housekeeper of the deceased. The funeral was private, that having been the wish of the deceased nobleman. DUCHESS OF Dorset. Arg. 1. At Knole, in Kent, the Duchess Dowager of Dorset. Her Grace was Arabella-Diana Cope, daughter of Sir Charles Cope, of Orton Longueville, bart. by Catharine 5th daughter of Sir Cecil Bishop, of Parham, co. Sussex, bart. (who afterwards married Charles first Earl of Liverpool). She married on the 4th of January, 1790, Joho-Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, nephew of Charles, 2d Duke, and son of John Philip Sackville (2d son of Lionel-Cranfield, 1st Duke of Dorset) by Frances, 4th daughter of John Eart Gower. By this nobleman,' who died July 19, 1799, her Grace had issue George John-Frederick,' 4th Duke, and two daughters, both nobly allianced. On the 7th of April, 1801, her Grace married Charles Earl Whitworth, G. C. B. D. C. L. the distinguished diplomatist, who died recently. See p. 79. There is hardly to be found a couple more generally and deeply lamented than her Grace and his Lordship-kindness, humanity, and benevolence marked every action of their private lives; while his Lordship's public services had obtained for him, honours, rank, and titles. Her Grace was inconsolable for the death of her husband, to which may in a great measure be attributed her own dissolution. The poor in the neighbourhood of their late residence, have now to deplore a double loss, which will be long and deeply felt by the innumerable objects of their bountiful charity. The expenses of the funeral of the Duchess of Dorset were estimated to amount to 2,000. The interior of the Churches of Kuole and Sevenoaks, in Kent, were hung in black; and, besides 160 of the tenants, by whom her Grace was well beloved, 22 horsemen attended the remains of this distinguished lady to the grave. EARL OF CRAVEN. July 30. At his lodgings, West Parade, Cowes, Isle of Wight, after a lingering illness, occasioned by rheumatic gout, in his 55th year, the Right Hon. William Craven, Earl of Craven, co. York, Viscount Uffington, Baron Craven of Hempsted Marshal, Berks, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Berkshire, Recorder of Coventry, Trustee of Rugby School, and a Lieut.-general in the Army. His Lordship was the eldest son, but third child, of William six'h Baron Craven, by Elizabeth, second daughter of Augustus, fourth Earl of Berkeley; was born Sept. 1, 1770. His Lordship having taken a passion for a military life at an early period, obtained a command in the Berkshire Militia; but resigning his situation, entered soon afterwards the regular army. On the death of his father, Sept. 26, 1791, he succeeded to the family title; and his mother (a laly celebrated for her taste and accomplishments) in the following month married the Margrave of Anspach and Bareuth. In 1793 his Lordship was appointed to an Ensigncy in the 43d foot; and the same year to a Lieutenancy in an Independent company, and to a company in the 80th. In the following year he was appointed Major of the 84th and Lieut.colonel, for which last he is said to have given a larger sum than was ever paid before. In this year he served in the campaign in Flanders, and was present at 272 OBITUARY.-Admiral Lord Radstock. at the siege of Nimeguen, and some less important affairs; he subsequently serv ed in the West Indies, and was present at the capture of Trinidad. He was also removed from the 84th to the Buffs, and from the latter to the 40th foot. On the first of January, 1798, he was appointed Aid-de Camp to the King, and received the Brevet of Culonel. In 1799 he served at the Helder, was in most of the general actions; and subsequently served in the Mediterranean. On the eighteenth of June, 1801, he was elevated to a Viscounty and Earldom by the titles of Viscount Uffington, co. Berks, and Earl of Craven, co. York. In 1803 he was appointed Colonel of the 9th battalion of Reserve; on Jan. 1, 1805, received the rank of Major-general, and served on the Staff of Great Britain from the commencement of the war till 1809. He received the rank of Li-utenant-General June 4, 1811. Lord Craven appears to have been equally fond of a nautical, as of a military life, for in 1806 he launched a fine new pleasure-yacht, the Louisa, from the docks at Shoreham, brig-rigged, carrying two twelve and six-pound carronades. He may be said to have originated the Yacht Club, which now forms so delightful and serviceable a portion of our national amusements; at least he was one of its principal early inunificent patrons. On the 12th of December, 1807, his Lordship married Louisa *, second daugh. ter of John Brunton of Norwich, gent. ap elegant actress of Covent Garden Theatre. [See vol. LXXVII. 1172.] By her he had issue the present Earl, born July 18, 1809, and three other children, two sous and a daughter. In November, 1815, bis Lordship had the honour of entertaining his present Majesty, then Prince Regent, at his house, Coombe Abbey, in Warwickshire, whence he visited the Marquis of Anglesea, at Beaudesert, and Lichfield; but returned to Coombe Abbey on the eleventh. When his death was known, all the yachts and vessels in Cowes Harbour and roads carried their Bags and burgees halfmast high, out of respect to his Lordship's memory, and the usual salute which was to have been fired on the arrival of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on a visit to Mr. Nash at East Cowes Castle, was, from a similar feeling, dispensed with. His remains were received at the Quay, Southampton, on their way to his family She lost ber eldest sister, Mrs. Warren, another accomplished actress, June 28, 1808. See vol. LXXVIII. 749, and some lines addressed to her, p. 728. [Sept. mausoleum at Coombe Abbey, by a hearse and six, and two mourning coaches and four; the hearse was preceded by mutes, and the coronet of the noble Earl was borne on a cushion by a man on horseback: the procession moved through the town about eight o'clock, and arrived at Oxford, Aug. 6, where the body lay in state at the Star Inn. His Lordship's will was proved in the Prerogative Office, Aug. 29, grant of probate being made to the Right Honourable William Philip, Earl of Sefton, his Lordship's brother-in-law, as one of the executors, power being reserved for the like purpose to the Hon. Henry Augustus Berkeley Craven, and the Hon. Richard Keppel Craven, the brothers, the other executors, whenever they apply for the same. The estates in Berks and Wilts are made subject to debts and legacies, but not so as to exonerate personal property. The testator confirms the settlement of 2000l. per annum made to the Countess subsequently to their marriage, and bequeaths to her besides au additional 20001. per annum for life. Also a priocipal sum of 40004. and the house, furniture, and the grounds at Hampstead Park, for life, the wine, &c. there, and all her jewels. The real estates in Wilt shire and Berkshire are devised to the testator's eldest son, Lord Uffington; those in Middlesex to his second son; and to his third son, charged on the Middlesex estates, 1500l. per annum, and a separate sum of 10,0001. The pictures, plate, and furniture at Coombe Abbey, and at Ashdown Park and Hampstead Lodge, are to be considered as heir-looms, and to accompany the devise of those estates accordingly. To Lady Georgiana Craven, his Lordship's sister, he has left 500l, per annum while she continues unmarried; and to Dr. Eden, "for his attention and kindness during his residence in my family, 3007. per annum for life." The Countess is appointed sole guardian of the children during their minority, and Lord Uffington residuary legatee. The will is dated the 26th of July, 1825. The personal estate is sworn under 70,0001. ADMIRAL LORD RADSTOCK. Aug. 20. In Portland-place, of apoplexy, aged 72, the Right Hon. William Waldegrave, Baron Radstock,, of Castletown, Queen's County, Admiral of the Red, K. G. C. B.; President of the Naval Charitable Society, Commissioner of the Church and Corporation Land Tax, a Vice President of the Asylum, and of the Mary-le-bone General Dispensary; and also a Vice President of several other benevolent institutions. The family of Waldegrave, formerly written 1825.] OBITUARY.-Admiral Lord Radstock, G.C.B. written Walgrave, of which this nobleman is a member, is denominated from a place of their own name in Northamptonshire, where they resided before the year 1200. His Lordship is the second son of John third Earl of Waldegrave *, by Lady Elizabeth Gower, sister of Granville, first Marquess, and aunt of the present Marquess of Stafford † ; and was born July 9, 1758. The profession of the navy was his own particular choice, and he was happily placed under the tuition of such officers as were calculated to improve his early genius for nautical science. Having gone through the inferior gradations of service in the Mediterranean and Western Seas, he was promoted to the command of the Zephyr sloop about 1775, and on the 30th of May, 1776, advanced to the rank of Post Captain in the Rippon of 60 guns, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Edward Vernon. Captain Waldegrave's time passed on in the usual routine of service until Aug. 10, 1778, on which day the Commodore being on a cruise off the coast of Coromandel, fell in with a French squadron under M. Tranjolly. An action ensued, and was maintained with great obstinacy for two hours, when the enemy, availing himself of the crippled condition of the British ships, made sail and steered for Pondicherry. On the 21st Sir Edward again got sight of them, but their superiority in sailing prevented his being able to bring them to action; they, however, quitted the coast, which gave the Commodore an opportunity of taking possession of the anchorage in Pondicherry-road, by which means he was enabled to co-operate with the army in the reduction of that place. Ju October it surrendered to the British arms. In this action the Rippon had 4 slain and 15 wounded. The climate of the East Indies not agreeing with Capt. Waldegrave's health, he returned to England, and immediately on his arrival was appointed to the Pomona of 28 guns. In this ship he captured the Cumberland American privateer of 20 guns, and 170 men. This was an important service, for the enemy's vessel had been particularly destructive to our trade. Some months after he removed into la Prudente of 28 guns and 280 men, and after making a voyage to the Baltic was attached to the Channel fleet. On the 4th of July, 1780, Captain Waldegrave having been sent by Sir Francis See vol. LIV. ii. p. 799. Lord Radstock's uncle, James 2nd 273 Geary to cruise off Cape Ortegal, in company with the Licorne of 32 guns, fell in with, and, after an obstinately contested action of four hours, captured, La Capricieuse, a new French frigate, pierced for 44 guns, but mounting only 32, with a complement of 308 men, above 100 of whom, including her Commander, were either killed or wounded. Upon taking possession of the prize she was found in so disabled a state, owing to her gallant defence, that upon the report of a survey held by the carpenters of the British frigates, Captain Waldegrave ordered her to be burnt. La Prudente bore the brunt of the above action, and was consequently a greater sufferer than her companion. She had four midshipmen and 13 seamen killed, her second lieutenant, one midshipman, and 26 men wounded. The Licorue had only three men slain and seven wounded, In the spring of 1781 Captain Waldegrave accompanied Admiral Darby to the relief of Gibraltar, and towards the close of that year he assisted at the capture of a number of French trausports that were proceeding with troops and stores to the West Indies, under the protection of M. de Guicher. The skill displayed by the British squadron on this occasion, in presence of an enemy's fleet, nearly double in numbers and force, is recorded in Marshall's Royal Naval Biography, p. 58-9. Having terminated his progress through the American war with infinite credit, the state of Captain Waldegrave's health required him to seek a milder climate than that of England; he accordingly repaired to the Continent, where he remained several years, during which period he visited Paris, Marseilles, Constantinople, Smyrna, and several of the islands in the Archipelago, and made a tour of the greater part of Greece, In the armament of 1790, in consequence of the differences with Spain respecting Nootka Sound, but amicably adjusted before a rupture, the subject of this memoir was appointed to the Majestic of 74 guns; and in 1793 to the Courageux of the same force, which accompanied Lord Hood to Toulon; at the surrender of which place, on the 28th of August, the disembarkation was completed under the immediate protection of two frigates, supported by the Courageux and three other line-of-battle ships. On the following day, Captain Waldegrave and the late Lord Hugh Seymour Conway were sent to England with Lord Hood's despatches, giving an account of this important event. Those officers being ordered to proceed by different routes, the former Father of Sir William Geary, bart. who died Aug. 6, 1825. See p. 276. pro 274 OBITUARY.-Admiral Lord Radstock, G.C.B. proceeded to Barcelona, and from thence across the Spanish Peninsula ; and returned to the Mediterranean with instructions for Lord Hood's further proceedings, by the way of Holland, Germany, and Italy, and on his arrival resumed the command of the Courageux, in which ship he terminated his services as a Captain. On the 4th of July, 1794, he was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, a short time previous to which he had been nominated a Colonel of Marines. His promotion to a flag obliged RearAdmiral Waldegrave to return to England by land. He subsequently held a command in the Channel fleet. On the 1st of June, 1795, he was made a Vice-Admiral, and in the fall of the same year he again sailed for the Mediterranean. During the succeeding spring he was sent with five ships of the line to negociate with the Tunisians. His mission was of a peculiarly arduous and delicate nature, notwithstand. ing which, however, he executed it to the complete satisfaction of those by whom he had been deputed. On the night previous to his quitting Tunis the boats of Vice-Admiral Waldegrave's squadron, under the direction of Captain Sutton of the Egmont, cut out of the bay several armed vessels. From this period, excepting the unprecedented length of time which the ships were kept at sea, nothing remarkable occurred until the 14th of February, 1797, when Sir John Jervis, with fifteen sail of the line, encountered and defeated, a Spanish fleet consisting of twenty-seven ships, seven of which mounted from 112 to 130 guns. This memorable event completely defeated the projected junction of the navies of France, Holland, and Spain, and thus preserved to Great Britain its proud dominion of the ocean. Upon this occasion Vice-Admiral Waldegrave received a letter from the Earl of St. Vincent, then Sir John Jervis, in acknowledgment of the very essential services he had rendered. He also received a note from the heroic Nelson, accompanied by the sword of the second Captain of the St. Nicholas, as a proof of his esteem for the noble manner in which he conducted himself, Soon after the above glorious event the subject of this memoir was nominated Governor of Newfoundland, and Commanderiu-chief of the squadron employed on that station. This appointment he held for several years, during which he devoted his whole attention to the welfare of that Island, and obtained very particular approbation. It was at that period the regulation for the Governor of Newfoundland to return to England at the fall of the year, and remain there during the winter months. In consequence of this custom, Vice-Adm. Waldegrave had the gratification of as [Sept. sisting in the solemn ceremonies of a day devoted to thanksgiving for the splendid triumphs that the Almighty had vouchsafed to the Fleets of Britain. On the 19th of Dec. 1797, their late Majesties and all the Royal family, attended by the great officers of the State, and the Members of both Houses of Parliament, went in procession to St. Paul's Cathedral to return thanks for the glorious naval victories obtained by Lord Howe, June 1, 1794; by Admiral Hotham, March 13, 1795; by Lord Bridport June 23, 1795; by Sir John Jervis, Feb. 14, 1797; and by Admiral Duncan, Oct. 11, the same year; and to deposit the flags taken on those occasions, as well as the colours of the Dutch Fleet captured by Sir George Keith Elphinstone, August 18, 1796. Fifteen Flag officers and twenty-six Captains attended the procession; and at the end of the first lesson entered in two divisions right and left of the King's chair, advancing to the altar, and there deposited the trophies of their valour. When Sir John Jervis was raised to the Peerage, and the other flag officers under his command were created Baronets for their conduct in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, the latter rank was offered to Vice-Adm. Waldegrave; this, however, be declined, as being inferior to that which he then held as an Earl's younger son. He received the freedom of the City of London for his distinguished services, and on the 29th of Dec. 1800, previous to the Union, was created a Peer of Ireland by the title of Baron Radstock *. His Lordship was promoted to the rank of Admiral April 29, 1802, from which time he was not employed. At the public funeral of the gallant Nelson, Lord Radstock attended the body by water from Greenwich, and was one of the supporters of the chief mourner, the late Sir Peter Parker, Admiral of the Fleet. He was nominated a G. C. B. Jan. 2, 1815. His Lordship married at Smyrna, in 1785, Cornelia Jacoba, second daughter of David Van Lennep, esq. chief of the Dutch Factory at that place, by whom he has had a numerous issue. Two of his sons are in the navy; the eldest of whom, Capt. the Hon. George Granville Waldegrave, C. B. succeeds to the title. These were the public services of the noble Peer, lately demised, to his country. In his private capacity, in every amiable and every attractive relation of life, his actions shone forth with resplendent lustre. To ameliorate the condition, to promote the happiness spiritual and * Radstock, co. Somerset. was possessed by his family since the reign of Henry the Eighth, by the marriage of his ancestor, Sir Edward Waldegrave. |