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part of many of the nobility ; and, on 

 the 16th of June, the remains of the 

 deceased were interred in a vault in 

 Paddington church. A hearse and four — 

 two mourning coaches and four, with the 

 relations of the deceased — fourteen 

 mourning coaches and pair, each con- 

 taining four gentlemen mourners, be- 

 longing to the theatres — and two private 

 carriages— constituted the whole of the 

 procession. 



THE EABL or MULGKAvn. 



The Right Hon. Henry Phijjps, Earl 

 of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, Baron 

 Mulgrave, G.C.B., an elder brother of 

 the Trinity House, Lord Lieutenant 

 and Gustos Rotulorum, and Vice Ad- 

 miral of the East Riding of the county 

 of York, a General in the Army, Colo- 

 nel of the 31st regiment of foot, and 

 Governor of Scarborough Castle, F.R S., 

 and F.S.A., was a descendant from Sir 

 William Phipps, Knt., a naval officer, 

 who invented the diving-bell, by which 

 he was enabled to recover immense 

 treasure from the wreck of a Spanish 

 galleon, which had lain buried in water 

 44 years, near the banks of Bahama. 

 His son, Sir Constantine Phipps, (great- 

 grandfather of the earl,) was Lord Chan- 

 cellor of Ireland, in 1710, and father of 

 Constantine, created Baron Mulgrave, in 

 the Irish peerage, 1757. It was his son, the 

 second baron, a captain in the navy, who 

 made an attempt to discover a north- 

 east passage — held several high official 

 stations — married the Hon. Lepall Her- 

 vey, eldest daughter of Lord Hervey, 

 son of the Earlof Bristol— and was raised 

 to the English peerage in 1790. He 

 was succeeued by his brother Henry, the 

 late earl. 



His lordship was bom on the 14th of 

 February, 1755 ; he was educated at 

 Eton, and originally intended for the 

 law, but he changed his views, and en- 

 tered the army in 1775, and distin- 

 fuished himself in the American war. 

 n 177c, he served in America, as aide- 

 de-camp to General Knyphausen. By 

 purchase and otherwise, he attained the 

 rank of lieutenant-colonel. On the 

 peace with America, he returned to 

 England, and in 1781, he was elected 

 M.P. for Totness, in Devonshire. As 

 a member of the legislature, he entered 

 fully into Mr. Pitt's system of politics. 

 On the death of his elder brother, Oc- 



tober 10th, 1792, he succeeded to the 

 title and family estate. On the break- 

 ing out of the French war, he was em- 

 ployed by government in a confidential 

 mission ; he succeeded, and having now 

 the rank of colonel, he, in 1793, repaired 

 to Toulon, which had been surrendered 

 to the English, and he served there un- 

 til the place was evacuated. After his 

 return, he was created (August 13th, 

 1794,) an English baron, and appointed 

 Governor of Scarborough Castle. About 

 the same time, he was appointed colo- 

 nel of the 31st, or Huntingdonshire 

 regiment of foot, which he commanded 

 until his death. He afterwards served 

 in Holland. Subsequently to that period, 

 he devoted himself to a political life, and 

 became a principal member of the Pitt, 

 Perceval, and Liverpool administra- 

 tions. In 1804, Mr. Pitt made him 

 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; 

 and, in 1807, he was nominated First 

 Lord of the Admiralty. These appoint- 

 ments gave him admission in the privy 

 council, and the latter into the cabinet. 

 Soon afterwards, he was appointed Lord 

 Lieutenant of the East Riding of York- 

 shire. In 1812, he was removed firom 

 the Admiralty, to be Master-General 

 of the Ordnance ; and, on the 7th of 

 September, in that year, he was ad- 

 vanced to the dignity of Viscount Nor- 

 manby, of Normanby, in the county of 

 York, and Earl of Mulgrave. 



In 1818, his lordship resigned the 

 office of Master-General of the Ord- 

 nance to the Duke of Wellington ; but 

 by special agreement, he retained a seat 

 in the cabinet. 



On the 20th of October, 1795, Earl 

 Mulgrave married Sophia, daughter of 

 Christopher Thomas Mailing, of West 

 Hennington, in the county of Durham, 

 Esq. By that lady he had a son, Henry 

 Constantine, Viscount Normanby, his 

 successor — three other sons, and five 

 daughters, all of whom, we believe, with 

 the exception of one daughter, survive. 



From the time of his retirement from 

 office, in 1818, his lordship had been in 

 a declining state of health. He died 

 at his seat, Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire, 

 the 7th of April, his son. Lord Nor- 

 manby, having arrived from the conti- 

 nent two days before. By the earl's 

 death, the colonelcy of the 31st regi- 

 ment of foot, and the Governorship of 

 Scarborough Castle, became vacant. 



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