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Biographical Memoirs of Ethinent Persons. 



Galmoye, in the county of Kilkenny, the 

 branch of the ancient and illustrious house 

 of De Montmorenci, of France, which ac- 

 companied the renowned Richard de Clare, 

 surnamed Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, 

 -to Ireland, in the years 1169 and 1172. 

 Born in the year 1778, he entered the army 

 at the early age of 15, and has served his 

 country, as a cavalry officer, in every quar- 

 ter of the globe where his services were 

 required. He was an accomplished officer, 

 both in theory and practice. In 1816, he pre- 

 sented to His late Royal Highness the Duke 

 of York, a M.S. work on the exercise and 

 manoeuvre of the lance. It was received 

 with much approbation ; and subsequently, 

 four regiments of British Lancers were 

 formed. 



Colonel de Montmorency died at Naples 

 on the 4th of October. His death was 

 caused by a feve\*, caught in the celebrated 

 castle of Otranto, where it had become 

 necessary for him to perform a sort of qua- 

 rantine of nineteen days after his return 

 from Greece. In private as well as in pub- 

 lic, Colonel de Montmorency was, in every 

 sense of the word, a most exemplary cha- 

 racter. His eldest son was one of the com- 

 missioners, on the part of the East India 

 Company, who lately ratified the treaty of 

 peace between the Company and the King 

 of Ava. 



SIR JOHN MURRAY, BART. 

 General Sir John Murray, was a native 

 and a baronet of Scotland. He entered the 

 army in 1788 ; and, during the campaigns 

 in the Netherlands, in 1793 or 1794, he 

 was present in various engagements, and 

 served as aid-de-camp, first to Marshal 

 Freytag, and afterwards to the Duke of 

 York. In May, 1794, he obtained a colo- 

 nelcy. He was afterwards at the capture 

 of the Cape of Good Hope ; was at the head 

 of a division of troops in the Red Sea, in 

 1799 ; and, in 1800, was promoted to be a 

 colonel in the army, and appointed quarter- 

 master-general to Sir David Baird's army, 

 in the Red Sea and in Egypt. Subsequently 

 he was employed in India, where he com- 

 manded the Bombay division at Poonah. 

 He also commanded the British army du- 

 ring the war with Scindeah, and during a 

 great part of the war with Holkar. In 

 1805, he rose to the rank of major-general, 

 and, from that year till 1808, he was on 

 the staff cf the Eastern District in Great 

 Britain. In 1808 and 1809, he commanded 

 the King's German Legion, under Sir John 

 Moore and Sir Arthur Wellcsley, and par- 

 ticipated in all the actions wliich led to the 

 expulsion of Soult from Portugal. In May, 

 1809, he was made colonel of the Third 

 West India regiment ; from which he was 

 removed in 1818 to the colonelcy of the 

 56th Foot, which he retained till his death. 

 In 1811, he became a lieutenant-general ; 

 in 1813, he was employed on the staff 

 under Lord William Bcntinck ; and, subse- 



of the Anglo-Sicilian army in Catalonia. 

 In that command, he found himself com- 

 pelled to raise the siege of Tarragona, and 

 to retreat with the loss of part of his artil- 

 lery. He was, in conseqnence, tried by a 

 court-martial, and found guilty of an error 

 in judgment. 



In 1819, Sir John Murray attained that 

 rank of general in the army. He was a 

 knight of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of St. 

 Januarius and of the Guelphic Order of 

 Hanover. Sir John died at Frankfort-on- 

 the-Maine on the 15th of October. 



THE EARL OF PEMBROKE. 



George Augustus Herbert, eleventh Earl 

 of Pembroke and Montgomery, Baron 

 Herbert of Cardiff, and Baron Herbert of 

 Shurland, K.G. Governor of Guernsey, ge- 

 neral in the army, colonel of the 6th regi- 

 ment of Dragoons, lord lieutenant of the 

 county of Wilts, high steward of Salisbury, 

 and visitor of Jesus College, Oxford, was 

 born on the llth of September, 1759 ; and 

 he succeeded his father, Henry, the tenth 

 earl, on the 26th of January, 1794. His 

 mother was the Lady Elizabeth Spencer, 

 second daughter of Charles, second duke 

 of Marlborough. 



This nobleman was descended from a 

 family of the highest antiquity. One of 

 his ancestors, Sir William Herbert, first 

 earl of Pembroke, was, in the year 1552, 

 commissioned to view the fortifications of 

 Berwick ; and, on the 17th of February, 

 1552-3, " he rode into London to his man- 

 sion of Baynard Castle, with three hundred 

 horse in his retinue, of which, one hundred 

 of them were gentlemen in plain blue cloth, 

 with chains of gold and badges of a dragon 

 on their sleeves." 



The nobleman to whom this sketch re- 

 fers, was educated at Oxford ; after which, 

 he was sent on his travels, under the care 

 of the Rev. William Coxe, who conducted 

 him through Poland, Russia, and other 

 parts of Europe. On his return, Mr. Coxe 

 published a full account of his travels, de- 

 dicating them to his pupil. His lordship 

 entered into the army when young. While 

 Loi'd Herbert, he sat in Parliament for the 

 borough of Wilton ; and, in 1784, he was 

 made vice-chamberlain of His Majesty's 

 household. On the 8th of April, 1787, his 

 lordship married his cousin Elizabeth, 

 youngest daughter of the honourable Top- 

 ham Beauclerk, son of Lord Sydney Beau- 

 clerk. By that Lady, who died in 1793, 

 he had a son, George, who died a few 

 months after his mother ; a daughter, the 

 present Countess of Normanton, and ano- 

 ther son, Robert Henry, his successor. 



In the year 1807, the Earl of Pembroke 

 was sent as ambassador extraordinary to 

 the court of Vienna, whence he returned 

 in 1808. In the same year, he married 

 Catharine, the daughter of Count Woron- 

 zo\v, many years ambassador from the Em ; - 



