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Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 



assistant editor. Mr. Reid had been 

 employed on a new edition of Baker's 

 Biographia Draraatica. When he died, 

 his papers were put into the hands of Mr. 

 Jones, who, in 1812, published a new and 

 much enlarged edition of the work, in four 

 volumes 8vo. in consequence of its hav- 

 ing been treated somewhat harshly by the 

 (Quarterly Review, Mr. Jones retorted, in 

 a pamphlet entitled Hypercriticism Ex- 

 posed, in a letter to the readers of the 

 (Quarterly Review. 



Mr. Jones died on the 26th of Decem- 

 ber. 



PROFESSOR WOODIIOUSE. 



Mr. Woodhouse, Plumian Professor of 

 Mathematics in Cambridge University, 

 was a Fellow of Caius College, and one of 

 the Members of the Royal Society. In 

 1795, he gained one of Smith's mathe- 

 matical prizes, was Senior Wrangler, and 

 proceeded to his Bachelor of Arts' degree. 

 ftt 1820, he was elected Eucasian Professor 

 of Mathematics ; and, on the death of 

 Professor Vince, he succeeded to the Plu- 

 mian Professorship. He was appointed 

 by the University, in 1824, to conduct the 

 observatory, then newly erected. 



Amongst the professor's published works 

 were The Principles of Analytical Calcu- 

 lation, in 4to., in 1803; A Treatise on 

 Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, in 

 1809 ; A Treatise on Isoperimetrical 

 Problems, in 1811 ; A Treatise on Astro- 

 nomy, in 1812; Several papers in the 

 Philosophical Transactions, &c. 



Professor Woodhouse died on the 23d of 

 December, after an illness of four months. 



COUNSELLOR NOLAN. 



The Hon. Michael Nolan, who died to- 

 wards the close of December, King's Coun- 

 sel, and Chief Justice of the Brecon cir- 

 cuit, was a native of Ireland. Having stu- 

 died the law, and been called to the English 

 . bar, he soon made considerable progress in 

 the profession. He was a man of close 

 study, as well as of great oratorical power. 

 Amongst other subjects, he was particu- 

 larly conversant with every thing relating 

 to the poor-laws, tithes, &c. In 1793, Mr. 

 Nolan published, in two parts, Reports of 

 Cases relating to the Duty and Office of a 

 Justice of the Peace ; in 1796 he edited the 

 third edition of Strange's Reports, with 

 Notes, in three volumes ; and, in 1797, he 

 published a Syllabus of a Course of Lec- 

 tures on the Laws of England. Mr. No- 

 lan's Treatise on the Laws of England, re- 

 specting the Poor, a valuable and well- 

 known work, in two volumes, octavo, is 

 now in its second or third edition. 



THE EARL OF HADDINGTON. 



Charles Hamilton, eighth Earl of Hacl- 

 dington, Baron of Binning and Byres, and 

 Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hadding- 

 ton, in North Britain, was a descendant 



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from the Hamiltons of Innerwich, a branch 

 of the ancient family of Hamilton, Duke 

 of Hamilton. One of his ancestors, Thonuw 

 Hamilton, a Senator in the College of Jus- 

 tice, Secretary of State, and Lord Advocate 

 and Register, in the reign of James VI. ; 

 was, in 1613, created Baron Binning and 

 Earl of Melross, which he afterwards 

 changed to the title of Haddington. His 

 eldest son, and successor, was governor of 

 the castle of Dunglas, where he was, in 

 1640, unfortunately blown up, with one of 

 his brothers, a natural brother, several other 

 relations, &c. " A report prevailed, that 

 Dunglas was treacherously blown up by 

 Edward Paris, an English boy, page to the 

 Earl of Haddington, on account of his 

 master's jestingly telling him, that his 

 countrymen were a pack of cowards, to 

 suffer themselves to be beaten, and to run 

 away at Newburn ; which so much en- 

 raged him, that he took a hot iron, and 

 thrust it into one of the powder barrels, 

 perishing himself with the rest." 



On account of his lady a woman cele- 

 brated for her beauty, her wit, and her 

 romantic adventures it may be worth 

 while to mention, that Thomas, the third 

 Earl of Haddington, married Henrietta de 

 Coligny, eldest daughter cf Gaspard, Comte 

 de Coligny, Marshal of France (by Anne 

 de Polignac, daughter of Gabriel, Sieur dc 

 St. Germain), sister of the Duke de Chatil- 

 lon, and great grand-daughter of the cele- 

 brated Admiral de Coligny. The lady, 

 surviving her husband, married Gaspard de 

 Champagne, Comte de la Su2e, a Hugonot 

 nobleman ; from whom she was divorced, 

 and turned Catholic; "in order," said 

 Christina, queen of Sweden, ''that she 

 might never more see him either in this 

 world or the next." Charles, Earl of Had- 

 dington, the subject of this sketch, was the 

 eldest son of Thomas, the preceding Earl, 

 by his first Countess, Mary, daughter of 

 Rowland Holt, of Redgrave, in the county 

 of Suffolk, Esq. His Lordship was born in 

 1753, and he succeeded his father on the 

 19th of May, 1794; having married in 

 April, 1779, Sophia Hope, daughter of 

 John, second Earl of Hopetoun. By that 

 lady, who died in 1813, he had a son, his 

 successor, Thomas, Lord Binning, late 

 M.P. for the city of Rochester, and one of 

 his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coun- 

 cil. Lord Haddington died at Tynning- 

 hame, N. B., on the 17th of March. 



His successor, the present Earl, born in 

 1780, married in 1802, Maria Parker, only 

 daughter of George, present Earl of Mac- 

 clesfield. 



THE EARL OF CARYSFORT. 



John Joshua Proby, Earl of Carysfort, 

 Baron of Carysfort in the County of Wick- 

 low, Baron Carysfort, of Norman Cross, in 

 the county of Huntingdon, K.P., F.R.S., 

 F.S.A., &c., AVUS the descendant of a family 

 long seated at Elton, in Huntingdonshire. 

 The bulk of their fortune was obtained in 



