Sivewright, of Blakesley, Northamptonshire, to Cath. Sarah, youngest dau. of Lady Morres Gore.Rev. J. Egerton, to Ellen, dau. of T. Gould, esq. of Northaw-place, Herts. July 1. At St. George's, Lieut.-Colonel Wilson, C. B., to Eliza Frances, eldest dau. of Edw. Ind, esq. of Eastbury Lodge, Essex. -At St. George's, F. Beckford Long, esq. to Maria, fifth dau. of Jas. Daniell, esq.J. Craven, esq. of Clapton, to Cath. Maria, dau. of David Powell, esq. of Loughton, Essex. At Bathwick, Rich. Tho. Welbank, esq. of the Madras Army, to Margaret Sophia, eldest dau, of John Lee Allen, esq. of Errol Park, Perthshire.At Edmonton, the Rev. Thos. Bissland, to Emma, only dau. of the late Thos. Borton, esq. -2. At Worcester, Charles Lloyd Harford, of Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, to Martha, youngest dau. of Edm. Barrett, esq. of Worcester.3. At Halifax, Yorkshire, Capt. Wellesley Ashe, 93d High land Reg. grandson of the late Sir Thos. Ashe, to Miss M. W. Haigh, only dau. of Geo. Haigh, esq. of the Mount, Halifax. -At Hull, the Rev. C. Joseph Camidge, Incumbent of Nether Poppleton, near York, to Charlotte, eldest dau. of Mr. Hustwick, of Hull.—At Richmond, Fred. Sturmer, esq. to Mary, second dau. of John Norris, esq.- -At Dover, John Henry Cockburn, Lieut. R. A. to Louisa, eldest dau. of the late Rev. Rich. Harvey, Rector of Upper Swell, Gloucestershire.- At St. Peter's, Marlborough, the Rev. T. Bullock, of Castle Eaton, Wilts, to Ellenor, third dau. of T. Maurice, esq. of Marlborough.- -5. At Paris, Geo. Cornwall Legh, esq. to Louisa Charlotte, second dau. of E. Taylor, esq. of Bifrons, Kent.-At Burrington, Rev. J. Walter Phelps, of Blagdon, Somerset, to Sarah, dau of the Rev. C. Rigby Collins, of Sidmouth.- -At St. George's, Capt. Rawdon, of the Coldstream Guards, to the Right Hon. Lady Cremorne.- -At Trinity Church, St. Marylebone, Sir Astley Cooper, bart., to Catherine, dau. of the late John Jones, esq. of Dery Ormond, Cardiganshire. -At Kensington, James Malcolmson, esq. to Georgiana Cecilia, eldest dau. of Jas. Battye, esq. of Camden-hill, Kensing ton. At Hampstead, Fred. Joseph Keene, esq. to Emma, second dau. of Burrage Davenport, esq.-9. At Ragland, in Monmouthshire, Michael W. Hansby, esq. to Mary Anne, eldest dau, of Geo. Sharp, esq. late of Camberwell, Surrey.-At St. Mary-le-bone Church, G. C. Mos tyn, esq. of Kiddington, to Caroline, eldest dau, of Arthur Vansittart, esq. of Shottesbrooke and neice of Lord Auckland and Lord Bexley.-10. At Westerham, Alex. David Inglis, esq. to CeciJia Wolseley, eldest dau.;—and John Jones, esq. of Portland-pl. to Charlotte Eliz. 2d GENT. MAG. July, 1828. 81 dau. of Thos. Jesson, esq. of Hill Park, Westerham, Kent.-At Camberwell, J. R. Payne, esq. of the Ordnance Office, Tower, to Eliza Mary, third dau. of the late James Gay, esq. of Champion-hill. 12. At St. James's, Capt. R. F. Rowley, R.N. third son of Adm. Sir Cha. Rowley, to Eliz. Julia, youngest dau. of John Angerstein, esq.-15. At Melbury Abbas, Lewis Geo. St. Lo, of Fontmell House, Dorset, esq. to Mary Anne, dau. of the Rev. W. F. Grove.- At St. George's, Capt. Edward Saurin, R.N. son of the Right Hon. W. and Lady Mary Saurin, to Lady Mary Ryder, second dau. of the Earl of Harrowby. At St. Mary's, Cha. Brownlow, esq. M.P. of Lurgan, co. Armagh, to Jane, dau. of late Robert Mackneil, esq. of Barra, Invernessshire. -At Lewisham, Chas. Aug. Smith, esq. of Greenwich, to Mary Jane, only dau. of the late John Grayson, esq. of Crosbysquare. At Christ Church, Surrey, Capt. Geo. Hammett, of Appledore, Devon, to Frances Sarah, eldest dau. of James Bult, esq. of Great Surrey-street.- -16. At St. George's, the Rt. Hon. Henry Lord Teynham, to Sarah, youngest dau. of the late Sir Ant. Brabazon, bart. of Brabazon-park, co. Mayo. At All Souls, Mary-le-bone, Robt. Ward, esq. of Chesham Woburn Hall, Bucks, and formerly M.P. for Haslemere, to Mrs. Plumer Lewin, of Gilston Park, Herts, and Cheston Hall, Suffolk.- -At Ramsbury, the Rev. Tho. Hawkins, of Sherstone, to Sarah, dau. of the late John Nalder, esq. of Berwick Bassett.- -At Caversham, Oxfordshire, Capt. Waterfield, of the Bombay Army, to Mary, third dau. of John Pullen, esq. of Fore-street, London.- -17. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. the Earl Brownlow, to the Lady Emma Edgcumbe, dau. of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe.- -At Donnington, Herefordshire, the Rev. Wm. Borradaile, Vicar of Wandsworth, Surrey, to Agnes Sarah Blizard, eldest dau. of the Rev. Jos. Shaw, Rector of High Ham, Somerset, -At Islington, John Laurence, esq. of Birchin-lane, to Louisa Guest, only dau. of A. A. Miles, esq. of Northumberland-street. -21. At St. George's, Capt. Henry Hope, R.N. to Jane Sophia, youngest dau. of Adm. Sir Herb. Sawyer, K.C.B. of Dalby Old Hall, Leicestershire.- -22. At St. Margaret's, the Rev. Geo. Cowell, of Fitzroy-square, to Frances, fourth dau. of the Rev. Dr. Dakins, Precentor of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster.At St. George's, Tho. Mills Goodlake, esq. of Wadley House, Berks, to Emilia Maria, dau. of the late, and sister to the present Sir Edw. Baker, bart. of Ranston, Dorset, and niece to the Duke of Leinster.-23. At New Trinity Church, Mary-le-bone, Horatio Nelson Noble, esq. of the E. I. C. to Fanny, youngest dau. of Sam. Smith, esq. of Charlotte-street, Portland-place. [82] OBITUARY. COUNTESS OF LANESBOROUGH. Lately. At Florence, aged 90, the Right Hon. Jane Isabella, Dowager Countess of Lanesborough. She was born Oct. 30, 1737, the only daughter of Robert 1st Earl of Belvedere, by Mary daughter of Richard third Viscount Molesworth; and was married to Brinsley the 2d Earl of Lanesborough, June 26, 1754. She had issue by him two sons, Robert the 3d Earl, who died in 1906, (leaving Brinsley the present Earl his only surviving child,) and the Hon. Augustus Richard, who assumed his wife's name of Danvers; and six daughters, of whom the eldest is widow of the Right Hon. George Ponsonby, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland. After the death of the Earl her husband in 1779, her Ladyship married secondly, John King, esq.; he died in 1824. On the death of her brother George, the second and last Earl of Belvidere, in 1814, her Ladyship inherited, by her father's will, the estates of her paternal family the Rochforts, surrounding the mansion of Belvedere, co. Westmeath. They now devolve on her grandson, the Earl of Lanesborough. LORD FORESTER. May 22. In Belgrave-square, aged 60, the Right Hon. Cecil Weld Forester, Lord Forester of Willey Park, Shropshire; brother in-law to the Duke of Rutland. His Lordship was great-grandson of Sir William Forester of Dothill, in Shropshire, Knt. who married Lady Mary Cecil, daughter of James third Earl of Salisbury, by Lady Margaret Manners, daughter of John eighth Earl of Rutland. From hence the family derive the name of Cecil. William, M. P. for Wenlock, the offspring of this alliance, married Catharine, daughter of William Brook, esq. and had two Brook also M. P. for Wenlock, who married the heiress of Weld of Willey Park; and Cecil, father of the peer now deceased. sons, His Lordship sat for many years in the House of Commons. He was first elected for the old family borough of Wenlock at the General Election in 1790; and was returned at all the subsequent Elections till called to the House of Peers. In early life he resided at Ross Hall near Shrewsbury. On the 16th of June 1800, he married Lady Katharine Mary [July, Manners, sister to the present Duke of Rutland, K. G., and in 1811, on the death of his uncle Brook, unmarried, he succeeded to the Weld property. He was created a Baron of Great Britain, on occasion of the Coronation of his present Majesty, July 17, 1821. Lord Forester was a nobleman highly esteemed for his pleasing manners and amiability of disposition, and enjoyed from early life in an especial manner the Majesty, with whom he had frequent favour and friendship of his present interviews, and who visited him when Prince of Wales, during his residence at Ross Hall. ship held out, on all occasions, a liberal To the poor and distressed, his Lordand bounteous hand; and in every situation of public and private life, his conduct was characteristic of the real gentleman and true Christian, which latter character, severe suffering from gout, and consequent ill health for several years, borne with astonishing firmness of temper, fully demonstrated. The distinguished respect in which his Lordship was held, was evinced by the number of carriages of the nobility and gentry which followed his remains from his late residence through London. Among the carriages (of which there were upwards of forty) were those of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Portland, the Marquesses of Salisbury, Winchester, Worcester, Cleveland, Earls Powis, Shaftesbury, the Speaker of the House of Commons, &c. &c. On the arrival of the body at the family mansion, it was placed in state in the great gallery, and on the 4th of June ren oved for interment in a vault in the parish church of Willey. The procession was preceded by one hundred and eighty tenants on horseback, and the pall supported by ten gentlemen of the county, followed by fourteen mourners, and twenty-eight of the neighbouring clergy and gentry. The funeral service was performed by the Rev. Wm. Bates, M. A., his Lordships domestic chaplain, and it is considered that there were no less than 10,000 spectators assembled to witness the solemn ceremony of consigning to bis kindred dust the remains of one who was justly honoured through life, and in' death equally lamented. His Lordship left issue, 1. John-Geo.-' 1828.] OBITUARY.-Lord Mount Sandford. Hon. Mrs. Damer. S3 Weld, born in 1801, late M. P. for Wenlock, and now Lord Forester; 2. AnneElizabeth; 3. Elizabeth- Katharine, married in 1822 to the Hon. RobertJohn Smith, eldest son of Lord Carrington, and Knight in Parliament for Buckinghamshire; 4. Isabella-Elizabeth-Annabella; 5. George - Cecil - Weld; 6. Henrietta-Maria; 7. Charles - RobertWeld; 8. Orlando - Watkin - Weld; 9. Emilius-John; 10. Selina-Louisa; and 11. Henry-Townshend. All these, the youngest of whom was born in 1821, survive their father. LORD MOUNT SANDFORD. June 14. At Windsor, in consequence of an accident nine days before, aged 23, the Right Hon. Henry Sandford, 2d Lord Mount Sandford of Castlereagh, co. Roscommon. His Lordship was born March 10, 1805, the only son of the Rev. William Sandford, by Jane, second daughter of the Right Hon. Silver Oliver, of Castle Oliver, co. Limerick. He succeeded to the peerage in 1814, on the death of his uncle Henry Moore Sandford, the first Baron, who was created shortly before the Union, with remainder to bis younger brothers. His Lordship was with some friends at Windsor during the week of Ascot races, and met his death from indulging the idle curiosity of witnessing a night brawl in the streets. A party of shoemakers had been quarrelling over their liquor, and were likely to have a fight: Lord Mount Sandford joined the crowd, and innocently became the victim of an attack from a man named Brinckley, who knocked him down, and afterwards most brutally kicked him on the bead. The culprit has since been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to transportation for life; and two accomplices to imprisonment and labour for two years. was His Lordship was one of the mildest, most amiable, and best-tempered men that ever lived; of handsome and prepossessing person, nearly six feet high, and very active. His estates (about 15,000l. a-year) are chiefly in the county of Roscommon. His chief seat Castlereagh, in that county, a populous and thriving town, entirely his own property. As he has died unmarried, his uncle George, the youngest brother of the first Lord, succeeds to the title; but it is uncertain whether the estate goes with it, or to the two maiden sisters of the deceased Lord. HON. MRS. DAMER. May 28. In Upper Brook-st. in her 80th year, the Hon. Anne-Seymour Dámer, so celebrated as an amateur sculp tor, and as the legatee of Horace Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-bill. She was the only child of Field-Marshal the Right Hon. Henry Seymour Conway (brother to Francis first Marquess of Hertford) by Lady Caroline Campbell, only daughter of John, fourth Duke of Argyle, and widow of Charles Earl of Ailesbury and Elgin. She was married, June 14, 1767, to the Hon. John Damer, eldest son of Joseph, first Lord Milton, and brother to George Earl of Dorchester. Her marriage was an unhappy one. Mr. Damer was heir in expectancy to 30,000l. a year, but was of a turn too eccentric to be confined within the limits of any fortune. He shot himself at the Bedford-Arms in Covent-Garden, Aug. 15, 1776, leaving Mrs. Damer, his widow, without issue. From this period, Mrs. Damer appears to have devoted herself to the cultivation of her talents, particularly to her chisel; and became afterwards as eminent in sculpture, as her contemporaries Maria Cosway and Angelica Kauffman were in painting. In 1797, on the death of her father's intimate friend Horace Walpole (for by that name be is far better known than by the Earldom which he possessed for the last six years of his life), Mrs Damer found herself owner of his pretty toy-room, called Strawberry-hill, with a legacy of 2000l. to keep it in repair, on condition that she resided there, and did not dispose of it to any person, unless it were to his great-niece the Countess dowager of Waldegrave, on whom and ber heirs it was entailed. All his prints, books, and furniture, were made heirlooms. His niece, the Duchess of Gloucester, preferred 10,000l. to this villa; see vol. LXVII. p. 260. Mrs. Damer's portrait by Hamilton is at Strawberry-hill. Mrs. Damer resided at this celebrated house from Lord Orford's death till about the year 1810, when she gave it up to the late Countess dowager Waldegrave, who died there in January 1816. When the Duke of Richmond patronised Private Theatricals, he was glad to avail bimself of Mrs. Damer's assistance. She was the Thalia of the scene. She ap peared in the character of Violante in "The Wonder," when Lord Heury Fitzgerald supported the part of Don Felix. She also was eminent as Mrs. Lovemore in "The Way to Keep Him;" and Lady Freelove in "The Jealous Wife." At a later period, during her residence at Strawberry-hill, she herself fitted up an elegant little theatre. Here the comedy called "Fashionable Lovers," (which has been attributed to the pen of Lord $4 Sir G. B. Brograve, Bart.—Sir J. Scott, Bart, Mr. Orford) was first represented. Kemble obtained permission to transplant this comedy to Drury-lane, but there it was not successful. In the art of sculpture Mrs. Damer undoubtedly took the lead of all amateurs. In early life she received lessons from Ceracchi, and also from the elder Bacon; and she even followed the example of professional artists in taking a voyage to Italy to improve herself. Her elegant, tasteful, and classical productions are widely scattered as presents. At the suggestion of her relative Sir Alexander Johnston, with a view to aid the advancement of European arts in India, she sent a bust of Lord Nelson to the King of Tanjore; and she presented another bust of Nelson to the Corporation of London, which is placed in the Common-Council Room at Guildhall. A statue of George the Third by Mrs. Damer adorns the Register Office at Edinburgh, and her beautiful bust of Sir Joseph Banks at the British Museum is well known. But perhaps the most public of her works are the colossal heads of the Thames and Isis, on Henley Bridge. Several of her busts are in the hands of private individuals. Mrs. Damer possessed one of the best-selected and most valuable libraries that was ever formed by a female collector. She has, we hear, directed that her apron and tools should be buried with her; as also the bones of a favourite dog that died before her. SIR G. B. BROGRAVE, BART. Lately. Aged 56, Sir George Berney Brograve, second Baronet, of Worsted in Norfolk of the last creation in 1791, and the last known male descendant of that ancient family. From Sir Roger Brograve, who lived in the reign of Edward I. was descended Sir John, who was knighted in 1603, and was Attorney-general of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Hertford. His greatgrandson Thomas was the first Baronet, so created in 1662; but that creation expired with his son Sir Thomas in 1707. Sir Berney, of a younger branch, was elevated to the same dignity in 1791. The deceased was born Feb. 4, 1772, the eldest son of Sir Berney by his second wife, Jane, daughter of Matthew Hallcott, esq. He succeeded his father in 1797; and married May 7, 1800, Emma-Louisa, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Edward Whitwell, esq. which marriage was dissolved by act of Parliament in 1809, and the lady immediately re-married to Marsham Edwin, [July, esq. Sir George's brother, Capt. Roger SIR JOSEPH SCOTT, BART. June 17. At Leamington, aged 76, cester. Though the first Baronet of his name, Sir Joseph was descended from a family which has for centuries been seated at Great Barr. The Scotts of that place are no recent arrival from the North; but their first ancestor that settled in England, came as early, it is said, as in the train of John Balliol in 1296. The story is that, being forbidden to repass the Trent, Thomas the Scott settled as near that stream as the thick forest of Cannock, at present stripped of its woods, would then allow. From that period downwards, the family has lived in a substantial and honourable independence, and intermarried with several families of note, occasionally dividing itself into various heads and collateral branches. In 1690 there were not less than nine freeholders of the name; but their lands were for the most part centred in Sir Joseph Scott, whose children also now form the only branch of the family possessed of property in Staffordshire. Sir Joseph served High Sheriff for the county of Stafford in 1779; sat in the House of Commons for the City of Worcester in the Parliament which lasted from 1802 to 1806, and was created a Baronet April 1 in the latter year. He married, in 1777, Margaret, daughter and heiress of Edward Whitby of Sheet End in Staffordshire, esq. and by that lady, who died in 1822, had two sons and one daughter. His eldest son, now Sir Edward Dolman Scott, married in 1815, Catharine-Julia, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Hugh Bateman, bart, who having been created a Baronet with remainder to his daughters, died Jan. 28, 1824, and was succeeded on the 25th of the following month by his posthumous grandson, Sir Francis-Edward Scott-so that the present Sir Edward has for the last four years had a Baronet for his father, and a Baronet for his son, being himself au Esquire only. Sir Joseph's second son is the Rev. William Scott, who married, in 1818, Maria, the third daughter of the Rev. Dr. Gabell, Master of Winchester College. LIEUT.-GEN. BACKHOUSE. May 22. In Wimpole-street, Lieut.General Thomas Joseph Backhouse. 1828.] OBITUARY, Lt.-Gens. Backhouse and Stevenson. - 85 in that ship and a frigate, landed with After the evacuation of South America the deceased went to the East Indies, where he was Commandant of the garrison of Bombay, &c. He attained the rank of Colonel in 1808, of MajorGeneral in 1811, and Lieut.-General in 1821. This officer entered the army as En-mounted dragoons) as could be conveyed sign in the 13th foot in March 1780, and commenced his military career in the West Indies under Major-General (afterwards Sir John) Vaughan, with whom he served at the capture of St. Eustatius and some other islands. He was promoted in 178- to a Lieutenancy and Adjutancy in the 64th foot, and in 1788 to a company in the 47th. He obtained the brevet of Major in 1796; and the Lieut.-Colonelcy of the 47th foot in 1798. His services throughout these years were mostly in the West Indies; and being on his way thither, in command of the 47th, in August 1806, he was detained by Sir David Baird at the Cape of Good Hope, and immediately sent, with the regiment under his com mand, as part of the reinforcement intended to assist Major-Gen. Beresford in South America. On his arrival in the Rio de la Plata, he had the mortification to find that officer, together with the troops he commanded, had been overpowered by the superiority of the enemy's numbers, and made prisoners of war to the Spaniards. By this unlookedfor event, he became the senior officer at the head of a small force, (consisting of three squadrons of dismounted dragoons, with the 38th, 47th, and a company of the 54th regiments, not in the whole exceeding 1,900 men,) without artillery and without any specific instructions in a trying situation. In cooperation with Sir Home Popham, who commanded the squadron in the river Plata, a project was formed of assaulting and endeavouring to carry the town of Monte Video, on the side bounded by the river; but the ships were not able to approach sufficiently near to silence the batteries, so as to permit the troops to enter. For the troops to remain much longer in transports, when many had been several months at sea, and without the opportunity of procuring refreshments, might have been attended with unhealthy, and perhaps serious consequences. He therefore formed the resolution of immediately making himself master of some position in the ene my's country, where he might keep a communication open with the shipping, command supplies for his men, endeavour to mount his cavalry, and, if possible, to retain it until he could receive instructions from the Cape, or a reinforcement might chance to arrive from Europe. Maldonado appearing the most eligible position for these purposes, he directly proceeded with Sir Home Popham in the Diadem, and with such of the troops (a part of the 38th regiment, the 54th, Light Company, and a few of the dis LIEUT.-GEN. STEVENSON. June 22. In Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, after only two days illness, Lieut.-Gen. Charles Stevenson. This officer served almost all the American war; was in the battles of Long Island, York Island, King's Bridge, Fort Lee, White Plains, Prince Town, Delaware, subsequently at the capture of St. Lucie, and in five naval actions under Adms. Parker and Rodney, where the 5th regiment served as marines. Subsequently he served as Aid-de-Camp to the Commander-in-chief, the late Sir Henry Clinton, and brought home the dispatches of the disastrous termination of Lord Cornwallis's campaign at Yorktown. He acted as Quarter-mastergeneral to the late Gen. Simcoe, in Upper Canada, and was sent by that officer to Gen. Washington, to do away the jealousy and suspicion which the United States attached to England on the subject of Gen. St. Clair's defeat by the Indians, and our retaining the post of Upper Canada. He was Adjutant-general to His Royal Highness the late Duke of Gloucester, whilst he commanded the London dis |