APPENDIX. 



NOTE 1. 



OBITUARY NOTICE OF JAMES SMITHSON. 



(From the Gentleman's Magazine.) 



" Oct. 1829. — Died : In the south of France, James Smithson, esq., M. 

 A., F. R. S. 



"The birth of this gentleman is thus described by himself at the com- 

 mencement of his will : ' I, James Smithson, son of Hush, first Duke of 

 Northumberland, aud Elizabeth, heiress of the Hungerfords of Studley, 

 and niece to Charles, the proud Duke of Somerset.' 



"It is well known that the wife of Hugh, first Duke of Northumber- 

 land, was Lady Elizabeth Seymour, grand-daughter of the same 'proud 

 Duke of Somerset.' It was the Hon. Frances Seymour, daughter of 

 Charles, Lord Seymour, of Troubridge, by his first marriage with Mary, 

 daughter and heiress of Thomas Smith, esq.— and thus half sister to the 

 fifth and sixth Dukes of Somerset, the latter of whom was ' the proud 

 duke' — that was married to Sir George Hungerford; but in the ac- 

 count of the family in Sir It. C. Hoare's Huugerfordiana we find no 

 Elizabeth, nor the name of Macie, which was that which Mr. Smithson 

 originally bore. The family of Macie resided at Weston, near Bath. 



" James Louis Macie, esq. [the subject of the present notice], was a 

 member of Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was created M. A. 

 May 20, 178G. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787, 

 and appears under the same name in the Philosophical Transactions for 

 1791 ; but between that date and 1803 he chose to change his name to 

 Smithson, although he continued to enjoy the property of the Macies. 

 He was, we believe, at one time a vice-president of the Royal Society."* 



NOTE 2. 



ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



(Father of James Smithson.) 



"Sir Hugh Smithson was one of the handsomest men in England. 

 He possessed much talent, a highly-cultured intellect, and more learn- 

 ing than is generally found among the nobility. His parents, though 

 of gentle blood, did not belong to the nobility. He had raised himself 

 by his marriage with the heiress to the name and fortune of the house 

 of Percy, and he showed that he was worthy of both." 



[His matrimonial alliance had somewhat of a romantic origin. Sir 



* Gentleman's Magazine, March, 1830, vol. c, p. 275. 



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