XXV. Theophilus bastings, EARL OF HUNTINGDON. HEOPHILUS HASTINGS, ninth Earl of Huntingdon, and second son of the seventh Earl of that name (by his second wife Francis, daughter of Francis Leveson Fowler, Esq.), was born on November 12th, 1696, at Donington Park, in the county of Leicester. On June 3rd, 1728, his Lordship married Lady Selina Shirley, daughter and co-heiress of Washington Shirley, Earl Ferrers. Her Ladyship was one of the most enthusiastic disciples of John Wesley; indeed, to such an extent did she appear to carry her devotion and reverence for this person, that she used to be entitled his "spiritual spouse." A servant stood but little chance of being hired, or a tradesman of being dealt with, who did not go to the same conventicle as her Ladyship; nor would she admit that there was any knowledge worth ** ********* FFFFFFF **** acquiring beyond a due initiation into Baxter's "Art of Groaning," his "Assistance to Flesh-encumbered Christians," and his "Saints' Rest"; which she pronounced to be the ne plus ultra of human compositions. The Earl died of an apoplexy on the 13th of October, 1746, and was buried in the church of Ashby de la Zouch, where there is a monument, with a long eulogium inscribed upon it. The portrait of the Earl of Huntingdon was one of the many left unfinished by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Mr. Walsh's picture was left in nearly the same state, as was also that of Viscount Shannon. aa XXVI. Charles Sackville, EARL OF DORSET. HARLES SACKVILLE, sixth Earl of Dorset After making the grand tour, Lord Dorset returned to Upon the death of his uncle, James Cranfield, Earl of sasasasasasasasasas |