76 Promotions and Preferments.-Births.-Marriages. Rev. H. J. Todd, to the Prebend of Hasthwaite, York Cath. Rev. P. Balfour, Tealing Ch. in the Presby- Rev. H. J. Barton, Latton and Eisy R. co. Rev. G. Bonnor, to be Minister of New Suf- Rev. J. Bramston, Great Baddow V. Essex. [Jan. Rev. J. Spurgeon, Twyford R. Norfolk. Rev. E. H. G. Williams, Chapl. to the dow- CIVIL PREFERMENTS. J. I. Lockhart, esq. M. P. elected Recorder of Romsey, vice R. W. Missing, esq. dec. Rev. W. H. Clarke, Second Master of Norwich Free Gram. School. Rev. J. Hutchinson, Head Mast. of Chelmsford Free Gram. School. BIRTH S. July 13. At Sydney, the Lady of Lieut.Gen. Darling, Governor of New South Wales, a dau. Lately. At Oakley-park, Ludlow, Lady Harriet Clive, a son.- At Islington, the wife of Capt. Balchild, R.M. a dau.At Brompton-barracks, Chatham, the wife of Capt. Begbie, 82d Reg. a dau.——At Portsmouth, the wife of Major Chichester, 60th Rifles, a son. Dec. 31. The Hon. Mrs. Ferguson, a dau. Jan. 2. At Gunton-park, in Norfolk, Lady Suffield, a son.-4. At Mere, the wife of John Chafin Morris, esq. Commander R.N. a son.-7. In Harley-street, the wife of Dr. Southey, a dau.-10. In York-place, the wife of Major Livingston, E.I.C. service, a son.-12. In George-street, Hanoversquare, the wife of George Bankes, esq. M.P. a son. 13. At Beal-house, the wife of H. W. Mason, esq. High Sheriff of Bucks, a dau.-14. In Green-street, Grosvenorsquare, the wife of D. Barclay, esq. M.P. a son, since dead.. 15. In London, the wife of W. E. Taunton, esq. Recorder of Oxford, a son. MARRIAGES. Lately. In Carmarthenshire, J. D. Davies, esq. R.N. to Mary, eldest dau. of the late Sir William Mansel, Bart.-At Brafferton, the Rev. B. Lumley, Rector of Dalby, to Miss Howard, dau. of the late John Howard, esq. of Hull.- -The Rev. J. E. Daniel, Vicar of Weybread, eldest son of Capt. Daniel, R.N. of Ipswich, to Mary, eldest dau. of John Aldrich, esq.- -At Quebec, the Hon. F. W. Primrose, brother to the Earl of Rosebery, to Percy Gore, third dau. of the late Col. R. Gore, of Barrymount, in Ireland, and niece to Vice-Adm. Sir John Gore.At Kesgrave, Wm. Page Wood, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, second son of Matthew Wood, esq. M.P. to Charlotte, only dau. of Edw. Moor, esq. of Great Bealings, Suffolk. Jan. 4. At Marnhull, Dorset, the Rev. F. V. Luke, Rector of Frinton, Essex, to Agnes Eliza, dau. of the Rev. W. B. Ramsden.-5. At St. Mary's, Mary-le-bone, R. Browne Clayton, only son of Lieut.-Gen. B. Clayton, of Fulwood-hall, Lancashire, to Cath. Jane, only dau. of the late Rev. R. Dobson, of Furneux Pelham, Herts.At St. James's, Westminster, J. Bowen Gumbleton, esq. of Fort William, co. Waterford, to Aun, eldest dau. and co-heiress of H. Everard, esq. of Spalding.- -7. At Bath, the Rev. Wm. Coyte Freeland, of Cogges- W. Duke, jun. esq, of Hastings, to Sarah EARL OF Kellie. Dec. 3. At Airdrie House, co. Fife, aged 83, the Right Hon. Methven-Kellie Erskine, tenth Earl of Kellie, Viscount of Fenton (the premier Viscounty of Scotland), and Baron of Dirleton, co. Haddington, and ninth Baronet of Cambo, co. Fife. His lordship was the sixth and youngest son of David Erskine, Esq. (fourth son of Sir Alexander the second Baronet of Cambo, and brother to Sir Charles, Sir John, and Sir William, the third, fourth, and fifth Baronets) by his second wife, Miss Young of Edinburgh. David was fourth in descent from Thomas first Earl of Kellie; and maternal grandson of Alexander the third Earl; his father Sir Alexander, who was Lord Lyon King of Arms, and Knight in Parliament for Fifeshire, having married Lady Mary Erskine, the third Earl's eldest daughter. Mr. Methven Erskine had in early life some employment in Bengal. He married at Edinburgh, July 10, 1781, Jobauna, daughter of Captain Adam Gordon of Ardoch, and sister to the Lady to whom his elder brother Thomas (after wards the ninth Earl of Kellie) had become united at Gottenburgh ten years previously. We believe both these sisters, a circumstance which must have appeared very remote at the period of their marriage, lived to be Countesses of Kellie. Anne, widow of Earl Thomas, died on the 20th of last March; and Johanna, we believe, now survives her husband. Between the period of the marriage of the subject of this notice, and his accession to the earldom, the following elder male branches of his family (if not others) were removed by death: towards the close of 1781 died Thomas-Archibald the sixth Earl; in 1790 died Sir Chas. Erskine, 6th Bart. of Cambo (the eldest brother of Methven); in 1791 Sir William Erskine, his son and successor; in 1793 David, Methven's fourth brother; in 1797 Archibald the seventh Earl; in 1799 Charles the eighth Earl of Kellie, and the younger brother and successor of Sir William, and also heir of his cousin Earl Archibald; and in 1828 Thomas the ninth Earl, Methven's, next elder brother. On the death of the last-mentioned at Cambo House, Feb. 7, 1828,* Methven Erskine, Esq. at the age of 82, succeed * A memoir of this nobleman, who ed to a title, between which and the tenant living at his birth, all the above males, and three others who died young, had intervened. We believe that this peerage has now become extinct, it having been in error that we considered in 1828 the then successor to the title to have been a son of David Erskine, Esq. who died at Wareham in 1804, that gentleman (according to Douglas's Peerage, by Wood) having deceased unmarried. Stewart Erskine, Esq. of Bromley Lodge, Kent, his only younger brother, who died at Bromley, and has a tomb in the churchyard there, married (says the same authority) Miss Reid, but had no issue. The Viscounty of Fenton, bestowed on him in 1606, was the first created in the Peerage of Scotland. The family of Erskine, Earls of Kellie, was descended from Sir Alexander Erskine of Gogar, fourth son of John fourth Lord Erskine, and brother to the Regent John of Mar; and was raised to the peerage in the person of Sir Alexander, son of Thomas, a juvenile companion of King James VI., the courtier who slew Alexander Ruthven in the rencountre denominated the Gowry Conspiracy; and who afterwards, accompanying his royal master to England, was one of the most favoured of that Monarch's countrymen. was a Representative Peer and Lordlieutenant of Fifeshire, was given in our vol. xcvi. i. 269; in the genealogical particulars are some errors, which it is hoped are corrected in the statement above. A beautiful portrait of Earl Thomas, painted by Wilkie for the County Hall, Cupar, was exhibited at Somerset House in 1829. * This branch of the ancient baronial family of Pomeroy was founded in Ireland by the Very Rev. Arthur Pomeroy, Dean of Cork, whose ancestors were of Engesdon, in Devonshire. His grandson, Arthur Pomeroy, on being raised 78 OBITUARY.-Gen. Lord C. Fitzroy. of Henry Colley, of Castle Carbery, co. Kildare, Esq. and Lady Mary Hamilton, third daughter of James, sixth Earl of Abercorn. Mr. Colley was the elder brother of the first Lord Mornington, and Lord Harberton was consequently a second cousin of the Duke of Wellington, the Marquess of Wellesley, &c.; and in fact the representative of the elder branch of the family of Colley or Cowley. The Hon. Henry Pomeroy sat in the Irish House of Commons, during more than one Parliament, for the borough of Strabane. He succeeded his father April 9, 1798 and we believe was never a member of the British Parliament. Lord Harberton married, Jan. 20, 1788, Mary, second daughter of Nicholas Grady, of Grange, co. Limerick, Esq.; and by that lady, who died Jan. 22, 1823, had an only child, the Hon. Henry Pomeroy, whom he lost at the age of fourteen in 1804. The Viscount is succeeded by his next brother, the Hon. Arthur-James Pomeroy, who is in his seventy-seventh year. He is married, but has no children. The Hon. and Rev. John Pomeroy, the next brother, has four sons. GEN. LORD CHARLES FITZROY. Dec. 20. At his residence in Berkeleysquare, aged 65, General the Right Hon. Lord Charles Fitzroy, of Wicken in Northamptonshire, M.A. Colonel of the 48th Foot; brother to the Duke of Grafton. Lord Charles Fitzroy was born July 17, 1764, the younger son of the first marriage of Augustus-Henry 3d and late Duke of Grafton, K.G. with the Hon. Anne Liddell, only daughter and heiress of Henry Lord Ravensworth. He was created Master of Arts of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1784, his father being then Chancellor of that University. He was appointed Ensign in the 3d foot guards in July 1782, Captain in the 43d foot 1787, and from that year to 1789 was on half-pay. At the close of the latter year he was appointed to a company in the 45th foot, from which he was removed to the 3d foot guards. His Lordship served with the brigade of Guards in Flanders, during the whole of the campaigns of 1793 and 1794. He was present at the siege of Valenciennes, and at every action in which the grena to the peerage, took the title from the manor of Harberton, in Devonshire, a part of the extensive possessions of the great house of Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, co. Devon. [Jan. dier battalion was engaged. In February 1795 his Lordship was appointed Aidde-camp to the King, and Colonel in the army; and Jan. 1, 1798, Major-general, He served on the Staff in Ireland from February that year till April 1799, when he was removed to the Staff in England; on which he continued, with the exception of the year of peace, 1802, until the 1st of May, 1809. For several years he commanded the garrison in Ipswich, in which situation he was greatly and deservedly respected. The 1st of January, 1805, he obtained the rank of Lieut.General, and was appointed Colonel of the 43d foot; and on the 4th of June, 1814, he was promoted to the rank of General. Lord Charles Fitzroy was for many years one of the Burgesses in Parliament for Bury St. Edmund's. He was first returned in 1787, in the room of his cousin the late Lord Southampton, who then accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. At the general election in 1790 he was re-elected; but at that of 1796 Lord Hervey was returned in his room. 1802 he was again chosen, and he continued member during four parliaments, till 1818, when he resigned his seat to his nephew the Earl of Euston. In Lord Charles Fitzroy was twice married; first, June 20, 1795, to Frances, only daughter of Edward Miller Mundy, Esq. (for many years M.P. for Derbyshire) by his first wife Frances, eldest daughter of Godfrey Meynell, Esq.; and balf-sister to the late Duchess of Newcastle (see the memoir of Mr. Mundy in vol. XCII. ii. 472). By this lady, who died Aug. 9, 1797, his Lordship had one son, Lt.Col. Charles Augustus Fitzroy, now Deputy-Adjutant-general at the Cape of Good Hope, and who succeeds to his father's Northamptonshire estates; he married in 1820, Lady Mary Lennox, eldest daughter of Gen. Charles fourth and late Duke of Richmond and Lennox, K.G. and has a family. His Lordship's second marriage, March 10, 1799, was with Lady Frances Anne Stewart, eldest daughter of Robert first Marquis of Londonderry. Her Ladyship died Feb. 9, 1810, leaving two sons and two daughters: 2. Frances, married in 1824 to the Hon. George Rice-Trevor, M.P. eldest son of Lord Dynevor; 3. George, Capt. 1st foot guards, and now or late Aidde-camp to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; 4. Emily-Elizabeth, who died in April 1827; and 5. Robert. On the 30th Dec. his Lordship's remains were interred at Wicken, near Stoney Stratford, in which parish he had resided for nearly twenty years. His death is deeply and deservedly re 1930.] OBITUARY.-Hon. J. Coventry.-Sir P. G. Egerton. gretted in that neighbourhood, where he was universally beloved by all classes. On his death-bed his Lordship ordered blankets and other necessaries, with a considerable quantity of coal, to be distributed amongst the poor of Wicken, and also amongst the poor at Euston and that neighbourhood, nearly the last words which he was able to write being a direction for a distribution to be made on New-year's Day, whether he should survive to that time, or, as he himself anticipated, should have quitted the scene of this world. His Lordship's will was proved on the 6th of Jan. and the personalty sworn under 100,000l. The will is written on parchment, in his own hand-writing, partly on the 12th of October, 1829, and partly on a following day; and there is a codieil dated the 8th Dec. in a different writing. HON. JOHN COVENTRY. Nov. 12. At Burgate, Hampshire, aged 64, the Hon. John Coventry, halfbrother to the Earl of Coventry. This gentleman was born June 20, 1765, the elder son by the second marriage of George-William the sixth Earl, with the Hon. Barbara St. John, fourth daughter of John tenth Lord St. John. He was twice married, first in 1788, to Miss Anne Clayton, by whom he had issue two sons and two daughters: 1. Caroline, married in 1824 to Hugh Mallet, of Ash House in Devonshire, Esq.; 2. Frederick, married in 1819 to his second cousin Louisa, only daughter of Sir Henry Halford, Bart. M.D. by the Hon. Elizabeth-Barbara St. John, fourth daughter of John eleventh Lord St. John, and has several children; 3. John, married to Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. M. Wilson, and has also several children; 4. Anne, married in 1823 to her first cousin Thomas-William Coventry, Esq. Barrister-at-law, the only son of the late Hon. Thomas William-Coventry, her father's younger brother, who died in 1816. The Hon. John Coventry married secondly, in August 1809, Anna-Maria, widow of Ebenezer Pope, Esq. and second daughter of Francis Eves, of Clifford Place in Herefordshire, Esq.; and has left that lady his widow. REV. SIR P. G. EGERTON, BART. Dec. 13. At Oulton Park, Cheshire, after only three days' illness, aged 62, the Rev. Sir Philip Grey Egerton, ninth Baronet of Egerton and Oulton Park, Rector of Tarporley, and of the upper 79 mediety of Malpas, both in the same county. Sir Philip was born at Broxton in Cheshire, July 6, 1767, the second son of Philip Egerton, of Oulton, esq. by his maternal cousin-german Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Haskin Eyles-Styles, Bart.; and sister and sole heiress to Sir John Eyles-Styles, the fourth and last Baronet of that name. He was formerly Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, where be proceeded B.A. 1790, M.A. 1794. He was presented to the upper mediety of the rectory of Malpas in 1804, by bis aunt. Miss Elizabeth Egerton, patron for that turn; and to Tarporley in 1806, by his brother Sir John Grey Egerton. On the death of Sir John, May 24, 1825, this gentleman succeeded to the title of Baronet, which had devolved on his brother on the death of Thomas Earl of Wilton in 1814 (see the biogra phical notice of Sir John in our vol. xcv. ii. 85). On the 15th of July following, he received the royal license to bear the name of Grey before that of Egerton, and to quarter the arms of Grey de Wilton, and also to use and bear the same supporters allusive to that family, which had been granted to his brother in 1815, in commemoration of his descent from Bridget, sister and co-heiress to the last Baron of that name, who was the wife of Sir Rowland Egerton, the first Baronet. Sir Philip Grey Egerton married, Sept. 14, 1804, Rebecca, daughter of James Dupré, of Whilton Park, in Buckinghamshire, Esq. and had issue five sons and five daughters. 1. Sir Philip-de-Malpas, born in 1806, (and so named from the Barons of Malpas, the earliest progenitors of the family), who has succeeded to the Baronetcy, and is a Gentlemancommoner and B.A. of Christchurch, Oxford; 2. Mary-Anne-Elizabeth; 3. Charles-Duprè; 4. John-Francis; William-Henry; 6. Madelina, died in 1813; 7. Richard-Caledon; 8. Eglantine; 9. Fanny-Sarah; and 10. Rebecca-Catherine. SIR RICHARD Bedingfeld, Bart. 5. Nov. 22. At Windsor, when on his way to London from a visit to Lord Dillon at Ditchley, of apoplexy, aged 62, Sir Richard Bedingfeld, the fifth Baronet of Oxburgh in Norfolk; father-in-law to Lord Petre, and brother-in-law to Lord Stafford. Sir Richard was the representative of a distinguished Roman Catholic family, which has for several generations formed alliances with some of the most illustrious families of the peerage; and was 80. OBITUARY.-Sir R. Bedingfeld, Bart, &c. &c. the only child of Sir Richard the fourth Baronet, by the Hon. Mary Browne, only daughter of Anthony seventh Viscount Montagu. He succeeded his father March 17, 1795, and married on the 17th of the following June, CharlotteGeorgiana; only daughter of Sir William Jerningham, the fifth Baronet of Cossey in Norfolk, (by the Hon. Frances Dillon, aunt to the present Viscount Dillon,) and sister to the present Lord Stafford. They had issue four sons and four daugh-ters: 1. Frances Charlotte, married in 1815 to William-Francis-Henry the present and 11th Lord Petre, and died Jan. 30, 1822; 2. Matilda-Mary, married in 1820 to Stanley Cary, of Fullaton in Devonshire, Esq.; 3. Agnes-Máry, married in 1823 to Thomas Molyneux Seele, of Hurst House in Lancashire, Esq.; 4. Sir Henry-Richard Bedingfeld, born in 1800, who has succeeded to the Baronetcy; he married in 1826, Margaret-Anne, only daughter of Edward Paston, of Appleton in Norfolk, Esq.; 5. CharlotteEliza; 6. Charles-Richard, an officer in the Austrian service; 7. Edward-Richard, a midshipman, R.N. who was drowned at sea in 1823; and 8. FelixWilliam George-Richard. SIR J. H. WILLIAMS, BART. Dec. 3. At Clovelly Court, Devonshire, aged 64, Sir James Hamlyn Williams, the second Baronet of that place. Sir James was the only surviving son of Sir James Hamlyn, (whose paternal natne was Hammett,) the first Baroner, and M.P. for Carmarthenshire from 1795 to 1802, by Isabella, fourth daughter but at length sole heir of Thomas Williams, of Edwinsford, co. Carmarthen, Esq. and niece to Sir Nicholas Williams, Bart. who was Lord Lieutenant and Knight in Parliament for that county in the reign of George the First. The deceased received the Royal licence to assume the name and arms of Williams only in 1798. In 1802 his father resigned in his favour the representation of the county of Carmarthen ; but at the next general election in 1806 Sir William Paxton was elected. Mr. Williams succeeded his father in the Baronetcy May 28, 1811. He married, July 22, 1789, DianaAnne, daughter of Abraham Whittaker, of Stratford in Essex, Esq. and by that lady had issue; 1. James, who was formerly a Major in the 7th Hussars, and married Feb. 15, 1826, Lady-Mary-Fortescue, fourth daughter of Earl Fortescue; 3. the Rev. Orlando, Rector of Clovelly; 4. Diana; 5. Arabella, who became in 1820 the third wife of Lord [Jan. Barham, and died in the year 1829 (see vol. xcix. ii. p. 380); and 6. Charlotte, married in 1819 to Sir Arthur, the present and seventh Baronet of Raleigh in Devonshire. We are not sure whether Sir' James Williams's eldest son James survives to succeed to his title, or whether it has devolved on Major Williams, who married Lady Mary Fortescue. SIR R. B. DE CAPELL BROOKE, BART. Nov. 27. At Great Oakley in Northamptonshire, in his 72nd year, Sir Richard Brooke de Capell Brooke, of that place, Bart. Colonel of the Northamptonshire Militia, and F.R.S. The paternal name of this gentleman was Supple, he being the only child of Richard Supple of Aghadoe, co. Cork, Esq. by Mary, daughter and heiress of Arthur Brooke, Esq. the descendant of an ancient Northamptonshire family. On the death of his father in 1797 Richard Brooke Supple, Esq. obtained the royal licence to assume the name of Brooke, as directed by the will of his great uncle Wheeler Brooke, esq. and at the same time to change that of Supple to de Capell, that being considered to be the original orthography of his paternal name. Philip de Capell, who went to Ireland with Robert Fitzstephen, temp. Henry II. was rewarded with the estate of Aghadoe, co. Cork, to be held by knight's service, and the payment of a pair of spurs at Easter at Dublin castle; and that estate, subject to the same quit-rent, has descended in the family to the present time. Sir Richard was created a Baronet by patent dated June 30, 1803; he married Ang. 18, 1788, Mary, only child and heiress of Major-Gen. Richard Worge, Colonel of the 8th foot, by whom he had two sons, Sir Arthur, who has succeeded to the Baronetcy, born in 1791, and is a Lieutenant in the Royal horse guards; and William, born in 1801; and four daughters, Mary-Anne, Sophia, Louisa, and Augusta. SIR WM. FOWLE MIDDLETON, BART. Dec. 26. At his seat, Shrubland Park, near Ipswich, aged 80, Sir William Fowle Middleton, Bart. a Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for Suffolk. Sir William was a native of South Carolina, and was born on the 19th of Sept. 1749, the eldest son of William Middleton, Esq. (son of Artliar, sometime Governor of that Colony, and who died about 1737) by his third wife Sarah, daughter of Morton Wilkinson. At an early period of life, he was removed to |