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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



his estate, with the bnrorgh, was 

 sold to Mr.l.ncibrooke, in IT^'^C), tor 

 80,(XX)1. as was liis seat at Aino's 

 Vale, Soiiiligale, to Isaac ^^ alker, 

 esq. some yeais before. He «'as 

 created biiron New haven, of Car- 

 rickmayne, July 18, l//^^- 



At ftlonastereven, near Ede.n- 

 derry, in his 118th vear, » mati of 

 the name of Couolly, wlio perfectly 

 remembered the landing of kins^ 

 .James and the prince of Orangf, 

 the sieges of Dcrry and Limerick, 

 the battles of the Bcn'ne and Augli- 

 rim, and every olhtr memorable 

 occnrrence of those times. 



At Knightsbridge, lady Browne, 

 relict of the late sir James Browne. 

 Her son, sir "William, in the guards, 

 and nephew of general Browne, lia- 

 ving long been insane, and living in 

 the house with her, in the absence 

 of his keeper tcok up a coril-scuitle 

 and dashed his motl^r's brains out. 



A t her house i n Dover-street, Pic- 

 cadilly, Alicia Maria, coi:ntess-dow- 

 ager Egremont, only daughter of 

 George, lord Carpenter, and sister 

 to Gci.'rge, earl of Tyrconntl. She 

 was born in IJ'ip ; married, March 

 12, 1/51, to Chiirles, lale carl of 

 Egremont, who died in 1/03, by 

 whom she had four sons and three 

 daughters. She was, at the esta- 

 blishment of the present cjuee.n's 

 household, ITOI, appointed one of 

 the ladies of the bed chamber ; and 

 re-married, l/O'T, to count Bruiil, a 

 Saxon nobleman, envoy-extraordi- 

 nary from the court of vSaxony. 



June 2d. Aged 5(3, Adolphus 

 Frederic IV. duke of Mecklen- 

 burgh-Strelilz ; born May 5, iTiiSj 

 brother to the quern. He is suc- 

 ceeded in his ducal sovereignty by 

 hie next brother, .Charles Lewis 

 Frederic, born C)ctober 10th, 1/40, 

 who has several children. 



3d. Mrs. Vernor, wife of John 

 Vernor, esq. of Lincoln's Inn. 



Of a niorlitiiatinn in her bow- 

 els, occasioned by cold caught in 

 coming out of the Opera-house, a 

 few days before, in her 44lh year, 

 Dorothy, duchess of Portland. ^She 

 ■\\as danglttrof \^iHiam, late duke, 

 and sister to the present duke, of 

 Df\oiJshire ; was born August 

 27ih, 1750; married November 

 bth, IJiK), and had four sons and 

 two daughters. 



12ih. At her house in St. James's 

 Square,the r'ght honourable Anne, 

 lady Ravensworth, in the 82d year 

 of her age, .She was only daughter 

 , of sir Peter Delme, knight, alder- 

 man, and some time lord-mayor of 

 London ; married, 1735, to sir 

 Henry Lvddcl, bart. who, in 1/47, 

 wascreatcd lordBavensMorth (from 

 his attachment to the royal cause 

 in the preceding trc-.ubles, and by 

 pointing out disaflfcied persons 

 near l.ini), by whom she had one 

 daughter, married, 175(5, to the 

 present duke of Grafton, from 

 whom she was divorced, 17^9, and 

 married to John, earl of Upper 

 Ossor)-. She has survived her loid 

 more than ten years ; he died in 

 1784. 



At Peter.sbnrgh, count Anhalt, 

 adjutant-general of the empress, 

 lieutenant-general of the army, and 

 chief of the corps of cadets, 



Ofa mortification, in consequence 

 of a slighthmt he received in riding, 

 ag< d 7'^ the most noble Francis 

 i^eymourCon\vay,marquisbf Hert- 

 ford, earl of Yarmouth, viscount 

 Beauchamp, lord Conway, baron of 

 Raglcy, also baron Conway of Kil- 

 lultsgh in Ireland, knight of the 

 most noble order of the g2irter,lord- 

 Tk utenant and eustos rotolorum of 

 the county of Warwick and of the! 



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