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Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 



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early age, in the year 1822, was his eldest 

 daughter. Site was one of the finest pionists 

 :ind orchestral singers of this country. IMr. 

 Parke has left an amiable widow, one other 

 daughter, and a son, who, for his improve- 

 ment as an architect, has traversed all the 

 classic and interesting regions of the globe. 

 This eminent professor died on the 2d of 

 August. It should be mentioned that lie 

 has left behind an interesting ]MS. sketch 

 of tlie General State of JMusic in England 

 during the last Forty Years. 



THE EAnL OF BLESSIXGTON. 



The Right Hon. Charles John Garduier, 

 Earl of Blessington, in the county of 

 AVicklow, ^'iscount and Baron Mountjoy 

 in the county of Tyrone, Governor of 

 the county of Tyrone, and one of the 

 representative peers of Ireland, was born on 

 the l!)th of July, 17!j2. His Lordship was 

 maternally descended from the Stewarts, 

 Viscounts ]\Iountj(Jy and Earls of Blessing- 

 ton. His paternal ancestor, the Right 

 Hon. Luke Gardiner, was successively re- 

 presentative in parliament for the boroughs 

 of Tralee and Humastown ; appointed De- 

 puty A'ice Treasurer of Ireland, and sworn 

 of the Privy Council. This gentleman, 

 mentioned by the Lord Primate Boulter, 

 as eminent for his abilities in the service of 

 his country, married, in 1711, Anne Stew- 

 art, only daugliter and sole heiress of the 

 Hon. Alexander Stewart, second son of 

 AV^iUiam, first Viscomit Jlountjoy, whose 

 male line terminated, in IT^O, in the per- 

 son of AVilliam Stewart, third A'^iscount 

 Mountjoy, and first Earl of Blessington. 



Luke Gardiner, created Viscoimt ?.Iount- 

 joy, in 1 7!)o, was the father of the noble- 

 man to whom this brief notice refers. He 

 was killed at the head of his regiment, in an 

 engagement with the rebels, at Ross, in 

 Ireland, on the 5th of June, 1700, and a 

 monument was ordered by Parhament to be 

 erected to his memory. His son was created 

 Earl of Blessington on the 22d of January, 

 181(>. His Lordship married, first, in 

 1812, Mrs. Browne, relict of Major Wil- 

 liam Browne, who died in 1814. His 

 Lordslijp married, secondly, in 1818, Mrs. 

 Farmer, relict of M. S*^. Leger Farmer, 

 Esq. eldest son of Captain Farmer, of Pop- 

 lar Farm and Laurel Grove, in the county 

 of Kildare. His Lordship, who was distin- 

 gvushed by his literary taste and pursuits, 

 died at Paris, in the last week of May, or 



first of June. Hi* only son, by his first 

 lady, (lied in 1823; but, we believe, his 

 Lordship had a son and heir by his second 

 wife. 



LORD CREWE. 



The Right Hon. John Crewe, Baron 

 Crewe, of Crewe, in the county of Chester, 

 descended maternally from the Crewes, an 

 ancient Cheshire famOy, who were advanced 

 by the law, in the time of James I. There 

 were then two brothers. Sir Randolph and 

 Sir Thomas Crewe, both eminent lawyers. 

 The younger was ancestor to the Lords 

 (Jrewe, of Stene, in Northamptonshire, 

 whose title became extinct in 1772. Sir 

 Randolph Crewe, appointed Chief Justice 

 of the Court of King's Bench, in 1G24, 

 was one of the Judges who opposed the 

 affair of sliip money, for which he was dis- 

 missed from his office in 1026. Of this 

 gentleman, Fuller, in his Arorthies, says, — 

 " Sir Randolph first brought the model of 

 excellent building into these remoter parts ; 

 yea, brought London into Cheshire, in the 

 loftiness, sightliness, and pleasantness of 

 their structures." 



Lord Crewe's grandfather, John Ofllley, 

 of iMaidley, in the county of Strffbrd, one 

 of whose ancestors had married the heiress 

 of the Crewe family, took the name and 

 arms of Crewe, by Act of Parliament. John 

 Crewe, Esq. born in the year 17-42, was one 

 of tlie representatives in Parliament for the 

 county of Chester, from 1768 to 1790. He 

 was raised to the peerage on the 25th of 

 February, 1806. This nobleman was fami- 

 liarly known by the name of " Fox's Lord " 

 This arose from his having been an old 

 Foxite, and advanced to the peerage at the 

 time Mr. Fox was Secretarj' of State for 

 Foreign Affairs, when the administration 

 was formed at the decease of Mr. Pitt, 

 under Lord GrenviUe, which acquired the 

 appellation of " AU the Talents," and the 

 " Broadbottomed Administration." 



liOrd Crewe married in 1776, Frances 

 Anne, only daughter of Fulke GreviUe, 

 Esq. son of the Hon. Algernon Greville, 

 second son of Fulke, fifth I^ord Broke, by 

 JMary, daughter of Lord Arthur Somerset, 

 son of Henry, Duke of Beaufort. By that 

 lady, he had a son, John, a major general in 

 the army, who has succeeded him ; and a 

 daughter, married to tlie son of Sir Foster 

 CunlilFe, Bart. His Lordship died on the 

 29th of April. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



The weather, since our last Report, has continued in the same' micertain state, still 

 exhibiting the predominant feature of the year, a superfluity of moistiure. We ventured, 

 perliaps too hastily, to annoimce a nearly general period to the liarvest ; wiiich, how- 

 ever, we find nmst be understood as referring to our best lands, and to districts and 

 soils favourably circumstanced. Tliose fortunately fonn tlie majority. The northern 

 parts of England, from the nature of the climate always tlie latest in their harvest, are 

 pcculinrly so in the present season ; and a late letter from an old correspondent in the 



