1828.] ObituarY.-Hon. and Rev. A. G. Legge.—Hon. Sir G. Grey. 371 the Right Hon. Abraham, now Earl of Erne, but still unmarried; 3. the Hon. John, Lieut.-Col. in the Army, and Governor of Hurst Castle, who married in 1797 Jane, daughter of Walter Weldon, esq. by Aune, only daughter and heiress of Sir Samuel Cooke, Bart. of St. Catherine's near Dublin, and has issue; 4. Patience, who died young; 5. Lady Catherine; and 6. the Hon. Meliora, who died in 1784. The Earl married, se condly, July 22, 1776, Lady Mary Hervey, eldest daughter of Frederick Augustus, fourth Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, sister to the present Marquess of Bristol, to the late Duchess of Devonshire, and the Countess of Liverpool. By the Countess, who survives him, he had an only child: 7. Lady ElizabethCaroline-Mary, married March 30, 1799, to James-Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, esq. now Lord Wharncliffe. HON. AND REV. A. G. LEgge. Aug. 21. At the house of his brother the Hon. Henry Legge on Blackheath, aged 55, the Hon. and Rev. Augustus George Legge, M.A. Chancellor and Prebendary of Winchester, Chaplain to his Majesty, Rector of Wonston and North Waltham in Hampshire, and a Justice of the Peace for that county; brother to the late Earl of Dartmouth, K. G. and the late Bishop of Oxford; and uncle to the present Earl. He was born April 21, 1773, the eighth and youngest son of William the second Earl of Dartmouth, by Frances Catherine, sole daughter and heiress of Sir Charles Gunter Nicoll, K.B. He was educated, with others of his brothers, by Dr. Parr at Hatton *; and was afterwards of Merton College, Oxford, where be attained the degree of M.A. in 1796. He was appointed King's Chaplain in 1798. For his other preferments he was entirely indebted to his balf-uncle the late Bishop Northt. He presented him to the Rectory of Wonston in 1797; to that of Crawley, also in Hampshire, in 18..; to his prebendal stall at Winches ter in 1817, and to the Chancellorship and the Rectory of North Waltham in 1819. Mr. Legge was married at Blithfield, Dec. 15, 1795, by Dr. Bagot, Bishop of St. Asaph, to that prelate's niece Honora, daughter of the Rev. Walter Bagot, Rector of Blithfield. By this lady, who is aunt to the present Lord Bagot, and survives her husband, he had issue three sons and five daughters: 1. the Rev. George-Augustus, the late Vicar of Bray. He married, Aug. 20, 1825, Augusta, eldest daughter of William-Bowyer Atkins, of Braywick Grove, esq. but died without issue in the following June, and is briefly noticed in our vol. xcvt. i. 646. 2. Charlotte-Anne, married in 1825 to the Hon. and Rev. Arthur-Philip Perceval, son of Lord Arden. 3. Another 4. Heneage-Walter, who was a Midshipman, R. N. but died March 2, 1827, aged 22 (see our last vol. parti. 285). 5. another son. 6. Honora, who died July 7, 1814. 7. Frances-Catherine, who died an infant Nov. 27, 1812. 8. Henrietta-Elizabeth, who died Feb. 26, 1824, in her 11th year; and 9. a daughter born in April 1816, son. Mr. Legge's death was awfully sudden. Whilst sitting at dinner he was seized with an attack, supposed to bave been occasioned by suppressed gout, and expired in a few minutes. He was a man of real kindness of heart and amiable manners; and his loss is sincerely lamented by his numerous relations and friends. HON. SIR GEORGE Grey, Bart. Oct. 3. At his residence in Portsmouth Dockyard, after a long and painful illness, aged nearly 61, the Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart. K.C.B. Cap. tain in the Royal Navy, resident Commissioner of Portsmouth Dock-yard, Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court at There had previously been two marriages between the families of Legge and Bagot. In 1724 Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, the fifth Baronet, married Lady Barbara Legge, daughter of the first Earl of Dartmouth. Afterwards Charles Bagot Chester, esq. (son of Sir Walter) married Catherine, daughter of the Hon. Heneage Legge. Mrs. A. G. Legge is grand-daughter of Sir Walter, and the Hon. A. G. Legge was greatnephew of Lady Barbara. Since Mr. Legge's marriage, a fourth alliance took place in 1807, when the present Lord Bagot (grandson of Lady Barbara) married Lady Louisa Legge, daughter of the late Earl. 372 OBITUARY.-Hon. Sir G. Grey.-Rt. Hon. Denis Browne." [Oct. Barbadoes; an Alderman of Portsmouth, He was born Oct. 10, 1767, the fourth but third surviving son of Gen. Charles the first Earl Grey, by Elizabeth, daughter of George Grey, esq. of Southwick in the county of Durham. He was a Lieutenant of the Resolution in Rodney's action in 1782; and at the commencement of the war with France, in 1793, we find him serving on board the Quebec of 32 guns; from which he was promoted to the command of the Vesuvius bomb; and on the 1st Nov. in the same year, he obtained post rank in the Boyne, a second-rate, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis, with whom he served during the memorable West India campaign. At the siege of Guadaloupe he commanded a detachment of 500 seamen and marines, landed to co-operate with the army. On the 1st of May, 1795, soon after Capt. Grey's return to England, and whilst he was attending a court-martial at Portsmouth, a fire broke out on board the Boyne, then at Spithead, and she was totally destroyed. (A particular account of this accident will be found in our vol. LXV. p. 433.) Captain Grey subsequently commanded the Glory, another ship of 98 guns, forming part of the Channel fleet. In the following year we find him in the Victory, a first-rate, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis, with whom he continued during the whole period that officer held the command on the Mediterranean station. He consequently assisted at the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797, on which occasion the Victory had only 1 man killed and 5 wounded. Previously to his return to England, his friend the Commander-in-chief gave him the dormant appointment of Adjutantgeneral of the Fleet, under which he acted in a certain degree, so as not to give offence to the senior Captains. The Admiral, in a letter to Earl Spencer, announcing his intention of resigning the command to Lord Keith, mentions this circumstance, and adds, "In the state I am in, Captain Grey is essentially neces sary to my comfort, and I hope your Lordship will approve of his accompanying me.' In the spring of 1800, Earl St. Vincent hoisted bis flag on board the Ville de Paris of 110 guns, as Commander-inchief of the Channel fleet; and at the same time our officer assumed the com mand of that ship, which he held until the month of March 1801. He was soon after appointed to one of the yachts in attendance on the Royal Family at Weymouth, and continued to be employed on that sort of service till about April, 1804, when he succeeded Sir Isaac Coffin, as Commissioner of Sheerness Dockyard, from whence he afterwards removed to Portsmouth. In June 1814, his present Majesty, when on a visit to the Reet at Spithead, in company with the Allied Sovereigns, was received by Commissioner Grey, and in consequence presented him with the patent of a Baronetcy, which is dated July 29 that year. On the 20th May, 1820, he was. nominated an extra K.C.B. Sir George Grey married, in July 1795, Mary, daughter of Samuel Whitbread, esq. by Lady Mary Cornwallis, and sister to the late Sam. Whitbread, esq. M.P. for Bedford, who had in 1788 married Sir George's elder sister Lady Elizabeth Grey. By this lady, who survives him, Sir George bad issue six daughters and three sons: 1. Mary, married in 1828 to Thomas Monck Mason, Esq. Capt. R.N. 2. Sir George, born in 1799, who has succeeded to the Baronetcy; 3. Elizabeth, who became in 1817 the second wife of the Hon. Charles Noel Noel, now Lord Barham, but died in the following year, shortly after giving birth to a son, now heir apparent to that title; 4. Harriet; 5. Hannah-Jean; 6. Charlotte, who died at the age of eight in 1814; 7. Jaue, married in 1826 to Francis Baring, esq. eldest son of Sir Thomas Baring, bart. ; 8. Charles; and 9. a son, who died an infant in January, 1814. RT. HON. DENIS BROWNE. Aug. 14. At Claremorris, aged 68, the Right Honourable Denis Browne, a Privy Councillor for Ireland, Governor of the County of Mayo, and late Knight in Parliament for the same; uncle to the Marquis of Sligo, K.P., and great uncle to the Earl of Disart. He was the younger son of Peter the second Earl of Altamont, by Elizabeth only daughter and heiress of Denis Kelly, esq. Chief Justice of Jamaica. He was one of the representatives of the county of Mayo in Parliament for upwards of five and thirty years, during which time he held paramount sway over its internal discipline and local interests. In the long voyage of his political life, be had to encounter many severe storms, in which be proved himself a skilful and successful pilot. During the trying season of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion, and more private and local disturb. ance, his active and vigilant mind was 1828.] OBITUARY.-Sir T. Whichcote.-Sir R. J. Woodford. eminently and usefully engaged in the punishment as well as the prevention of crime, and in the preservation of the public peace. As a ruler and a magistrate, he did not bear the sword in vain; be was in times of danger and commotion a terror to all who proved themselves inimical to public safety, or to private tranquillity,-an avenger to execute wrath on those who did evil, and conduced as much as any man of bis rank to suppress that spirit of insubordination, so dangerous to the public weal, and so prevalent in an often distracted country. In the more private, though not less useful, situation of a resident country gentleman and landlord, Mr. Browne was, by example and precept, an encourager of industry and agriculture. In 1822 Mr. Browne published "A Letter to the most noble the Marquis Wellesley, on the present State of Ireland" (reviewed in vol. XCII. i. 439). For some years previous to his decease, he had in a great measure retired from public life; notwithstanding which, he acted as one of the Grand Jurors of his county at the late Assizes; and whilst in the execution of his duty, he was seized with the illness which terminated fatally. Mr. Browne married, in 1790, his cousin Anne, daughter of Ross Mahon, esq. by Lady Anne Browne, daughter of the first Earl of Altamont.* By this lady, who, we believe, survives him, he had issue; 1. James Browne, esq. now M.P. for the county of Mayo; 2. Peter, late M.P. for Rye, who married in 1822 Catherine-Esther, daughter of the late J. Paget, esq.; 3. Denis; 4. John; 5. George; 6. Anne; 7. Elizabeth; 8. Jane, who died in 1825; and 9. Charlotte. SIR THOS. WHICHCOTE, BART. Sept. 29. At Aswardby in Lincolnshire, having sustained an honourable and amiable character, aged 65, Sir Thomas Whichcote, fifth Baronet of that place. He was born March 5, 1763, the only surviving son of Sir Christopher the fourth Baronet, by his distant cousin Jane, daughter of Thomas Whichcote of Harpswell, esq. Knight of the Shire of Lincoln in six successive Parliaments. Sir Thomas succeeded his father in the Baronetcy March 9, 1786; and served Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1798. He married, June 24, 1785, Diana, third daughter of Edmond Turnor, of Penton * Mr. Browne's sister Lady Elizabeth was married in 1786 to Ross Mahon, esq. of Castlebar; and his sister Lady Charlotte is wife of John Mahon, esq. 373 in Lincolnshire, esq. and by that lady had eight sons and five daughters: 1. Diana, married in 1810, to Hermann Gerard Hilbers, esq 2. Sir Thomas, who has succeeded to the Baronetcy; he married in 1812 Lady Sophia Sherard, sister to the present Earl of Harborough, and has several children. 3. Henrietta, married in 1807 to Capt. James Atty, of the North Lincoln Militia, and died in 1810. 4. Henry, who died an infant. 5. Caroline, married in 1814 to Francis Willis, esq. son of the late Archdeacon of Wells. 6. Benjamin. 7. the Rev. Francis, who was of Christ's College, Cambridge, M.A. 1819, and married in 1826 Eliza, only daughter of Robert Bree, M. D. 8. George. 9. Catharine, married in 1816 to the Rev. John Hanmer, Vicar of Hanmer in Flintshire, third son of the present Sir Thomas Hanmer, bart. and brother-in-law to Lord Kenyon. 10. Charles; and 11. Robert, who both died infants; 12. Louisa; and 13. Christopher, born in 1806. SIR R. J. WOODFORD, BART. May 17. On board his Majesty's packet the Duke of York, when returning towards England, aged 44, his Excellency Sir Ralph James Woodford, second Baronet of Carleby in Lincolnshire, and Governor of Trinidad. He was the only son of Sir Ralph the first Baronet, formerly Minister-extraordinary at the Court of Denmark, and a character who must still be fondly remembered by the few who, like himself, adorned by their wit and graceful conversation the charming circle of the celebrated Mrs. Montagu. He died Aug. 26, 1810, and was succeeded by his son now deceased, Sir James had been fifteen years Governor of Trinidad; and his good judgment, steadiness, and suavity of manners, brought that island from its turbulent, self-ruining condition, to a state of order, prosperity, and internal happiness. His health being at last affected by so long a residence in a tropical atmosphere, he made a cruise to Jamaica for change of air and scene. But the remedy was not successful; and quitting that island with an increase of alarming symptoms, his valuable life terminated on his voyage home to the more salubrious climate of his native country. Sir James was never married; and the Baronetcy has become extinct. The next male heir of the family is his cousin, Gen. Alexander Woodford, maternal nephew to the late Duke of Gordon, who, while commanding the foot guards of Houguemont, behaved with distin 374 OBITUARY.-Sir P. Macgregor.-Sir H. Torrens. guished gallantry on the ever-memorable day of Waterloo. He is at present in a military station at Corfu. SIR PATRICK MACGREGOR, BART. July.. In Saville-row, aged 51, Sir Patrick Macgregor, Bart. Serjeant-surgeon to the King, Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to the General commanding in chief, and for twenty years Personal Surgeon to his late Royal Highness the Duke of York. . Sir Patrick was the fourth but eldest surviving son of James Macgregor, of Bellimore, co. Inverness, esq. by Margaret, daughter of Alexander Grant, of Tullochgorum in the same county. His father died in India in 1794, and four brothers were all military men. Charles, the eldest, died also in India in 1782; George, who was Major in the E. I. Company's service, and Governor of Cuddalore, died in 1810; James died at Bastia in 1795. Sir Patrick's younger brother, Lieut. Col. William Gordon Macgregor, formerly of the 9th foot, is still living. Sir Patrick was created a Baronet only in the present year, by patent dated the 17th of March. It is remarkable that he was the very last on the roll of Baronets. He married, Nov. 12, 1806, Bridget, daughter and heiress of James Glenny, of Quebec, esq. and has left issue: 1. Sir William, who has succeeded to the title, born in 1817; 2. Charles; 3. AnneGrant; 4. Georgiana; 5. Bridget; and 6. another daughter. SIR HENRY TORRENS, K.C.B. Aug. 23. While on a visit at Welwyn in Hertfordshire, aged 48, Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, K.C.B. K.T.S. Colonel of the 2d foot, Adjutant-general of his Majesty's forces, and a Commis sioner of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. This most able and distinguished officer, who was brother to the Hon. Robert Torrens, now Judge of the Common Pleas in Ireland, and to the Ven. John Torrens, D.D. the present Archdeacon of Dublin, was born in the city of Lon donderry in 1779, the son of the Rev. Thomas Torrens. Having lost both his parents at an early age, he and his three brothers were left to the care of his grandfather, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Torrens, a Fellow of the University of Dublin, and a gentleman of high literary attainments. He received his education at the Military Academy of Dublin, where, from the hilarity of his disposi tion, he was universally designated Happy Harry." In November 1793, [Oct. being then only fourteen years of age, he commenced his military career as an Ensign in the 52d regiment. In June 1794 he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the 92d regiment; and in Dec. 1795 was removed to the 63d regiment. With the latter corps he joined the expedition under Sir Ralph Abercrombie for the reduction of the enemy's colonies in the West Indies, distinguished himself by his bravery on several occasions, and was severely wounded in the thigh at the siege of Morne Fortunée in St. Lucie, May 1, 1796. On the 9th of June following, he rejoined the corps at St. Vincent, and was present at the storming of three French redoubts on the 10th of June. He served for seven months in the Charib country, and commanded a post in the woods during the reduction of those people. In March 1797, on the return of the troops to Jamaica, the General rewarded his services by a company in one of the West India corps then forming; and on one occasion, when quitting the regiment with which he had been acting, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers under his command insisted upon bearing him in triumph upon their shoulders, as a rude but touching mark of their attachment and admiration. In 1798 Sir Henry Torrens returned to England; and in August following was appointed Aid-de-camp to Gen. Whitelocke. In November of the same year he embarked for Portugal, as Aid-decamp to General Cuyler, who commanded the British auxiliary army sent to protect that country from the threatened invasion of the Spaniards under French influence. While holding this situation, in Aug. 1799, he was removed from the West India corps to the 20th regiment of foot; and hearing that his regiment was to form a part of the force destined for Holland under the Duke of York, he immediately relinquished the advantages of his staff situation for the post of honourable danger. He served in all the different actions of this sanguinary campaign, during which the British army sustained its high character, though the object of the expedition failed. The inundation of the country, and defeat of the Austrian army upon the Rhine, which enabled the French to assemble a force four times more numerous than ours, compelled our troops, after many a desperate struggle, to eva cuate Holland. In the last of these contests, which was fought between Egmont and Harlaam, Sir Henry Torrens was again desperately wounded. A musquet ball passed through his right thigh and lodged in the left, from which it was 1828.] OBITUARY.-Sir H. Torrens.-Dr. Gall. In Nov. 1799, after his return from Holland, Sir Henry Torrens was promoted to a majority in the Surrey rangers, which corps he formed and commanded, and served with it one year in Nova Scotia. He was subsequently removed to the 86th foot, which be joined in Egypt, and commanded it on its return across the desart on its return to India; as he did subsequently for two years, when in the field during the war with Scindia. After which he obtained leave to return home on account of ill health, in consequence of a coup de soleil. At St. Helena, however, be recovered his health, and married Miss Patton, daughter of the Governor. He then returned to India, served there till 1805, on the 1st of January in which year he was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Col. After his return to England, Lient.Col. Torrens was employed for fifteen months in the staff as Assistant Adjutant-general for the Kent district; he was removed as Major to the 89th foot; and in 1807 joined the expedition against South America, as Military Secre tary to the Commander of the Forces, Lt. Gen. Whitelocke. At the attack of Buenos Ayres he received a contusion from a musket ball, which shattered a small writing apparatus which was slung to his side. On his return to England he was appointed in December 1807, Assistant Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief. In 1808 he served in the expedition to Portugal as Military Secretary; and was present at the battles of Roleia and Vimiera, for which battles he wore a medal; but in October of that year he returned to England to his former Secretaryship, and afterwards succeeded as Chief Secretary. In 1811 he was appointed to a company in the 3d Guards; in 1812 he was made Aid-de-camp to the Prince Regent with the rank of Colonel, and in 1814 he attained that of Major-General. In November 1815 he was appointed Colonel of the Royal African corps, in September 1818 removed to the 2d West India regiment; and in August 1822 to the 2d foot guards. About eight years ago he was appointed to the situation of Adjutant-general, and his health, which had suffered from excessive exertion and close confinement while he was Military Secretary, was entirely restored. The last important work of Sir Henry Torrens, in his situation of Adjutant-General, was the revision of the army regulations. The experience of the campaign, and more particularly the successful adoption of a 375 new and more rapid mode of warfare of the Duke of Wellington, induced Sir Henry to revise the old regulations, which were founded upon the slow German system, and to embody into them, with great labour and zeal, the prompt and rapid movements which had been so successfully adopted by the British ar mies. This work met with the warm approbation of the Commander-in-chief, and has been generally admired by mili tary men for the clear and masterly me thod of the arrangements. The death of Sir Henry Torrens was awfully sudden. Apparently never in better health and spirits than on the fatal day which closed his honourable and exemplary life, he went out for an airing on horseback, accompanied by Lady Torrens, his two daughters, and some gentlemen. He was seized with apoplexy, but did not fall from his horse. As soon as it was discovered that he was in a fit, he was carried into the house, and every effort was made to effect his recovery, but without success. From his first seizure, till the moment of his decease, two hours afterwards, he never spoke. By the desire of his family, the funeral of Sir Henry Torrens was private. It took place at Welwyn, on the Thursday following his death, August 28. His remains were attended to the grave by one of his earliest and most attached friends, Lieut.-Colonel d'Aguilar. DR. GALL. Aug. 22. At his country house, at Montrouge, near Paris, aged 71, the celebrated phrenologist, Dr. Gall. Jean Joseph Gall was born in 1758, in a village of the Duchy of Baden; his parents were in trade. It was at Baden where he first commenced his education, then at Brucksal, and afterwards at Strasburgh, where he studied medicine, under professor Hermann; it was at Vienna in Austria, that he became invested with the title of Doctor, in the year 1785, and afterwards followed the practice of medicine; but at this place he was not permitted to develope his new ideas on the functions of the brain, which he had founded both on scientific study and observations on nature. This opposition to his views at length determined him to visit the north of Germany, and he was well received in all: the capitals of the German States, as well as in Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark, and he explained his system, before several Sovereigns, by whom he was honoured with marks of esteem and admiration. He likewise visited England, and at length determined to go to and |
