May 28, I860.] OBITUARY.— LORD LONDESBOROUGH. 133 



English and foreign. He was admitted a member of the Society of 

 Dilettanti in 1814; and on the death of Lord Northwick and Mr. 

 Hamilton, in 1859, became second on the list, Lord Aberdeen only 

 being above him. In 1828 he was elected a member of the Club, 

 and at the time of his death was senior member of the Royal Society 

 Club, except one. He was a fellow of the Royal and the Royal 

 Geographical Societies, and an honorary member of the Asiatic, a 

 vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary 

 member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and a corre- 

 spondent of the Royal Institute of France. 



In 1838 Colonel Leake married Elizabeth Wray, eldest daughter 

 of the late Sir Charles Wilkins, and widow of William Marsden, 

 both of whose names are honourably known to the Oriental literary 

 world. 



On the 6th January, 1860, Colonel Leake passed from us after a 

 short and sudden illness ; his intellect never weakened, his energies 

 scarcely relaxed, notwithstanding the weight of 83 years. A very 

 striking feature of his character was his modest and retiring nature ; 

 endearing him to all who knew him intimately, but disguising from 

 others, less familiar with him, many of those eminent qualities of 

 intellect and high scholarship which he possessed. 



Colonel Leake was buried at the Kensal Green Cemetery. The 

 Greek minister, at his own desire, followed him to the grave, ex- 

 pressing thereby the gratitude of his country to one who had spared 

 no effort on behalf of the Greek nationality, and had done so much 

 by his works towards elucidating the remarkable features of the 

 land of Greece and the scenes of her glorious history. In him we 

 have lost not only a scholar and an antiquary, but one other link 

 (when so few survived) that connected us to the politics, the litera- 

 ture, and the society of the foregone generation. 



Lord LoNDESBOROUGH, the second surviving son of Henry, first 

 Marquis Conyngham, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Mr. Joseph Denison, was bom on the 21st of October, 1805. He 

 was twice married : first, July 6, 1833, to the Honourable Henrietta 

 Maria Forester, fourth daughter of the late Lord Forester, who 

 died in April, 1841 ; and secondly, in 1847, to Miss Bridgeman, 

 eldest daughter of Captain the Honourable Charles Orlando Bridge- 

 man, which lady survives her husband. His Lordship leaves issue 

 by both marriages. As Lord Albert Conyngham he served for a 

 short period in the Royal Horse Guards, but then adopted the 



