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many useful and ingenious inven- 
tions, and lived to see, besides other 
works, five editions of his valuable 
institutes of physics. 
~ 16. In his 56th year, Henry- 
William Portman, esq. of Bryan- 
stone-place, co, Durset; whose 
large estates in the west of Eng- 
land, and inthe county of Middle~ 
sex (comprising the ground-rents of 
Portman-square, and several streets 
in its neighbourhood), devolve to 
his only son, Henry Berkley P, 
esq: M. P. for the city of Wells. 
Mr. Chas. Leving, bart. 
18. Hon. Robert Fitzmaurice 
Deare. 
19. Wm. lord Belhaven 
Sir William Burrell, bart. LL. D. 
chancellor to the bishop of Worces- 
ter, 1764; F,R.and A.SS. 1754; 
and commissioner of excise, 1774. 
He was third son of Peter Burrell, 
esq. of Beckenham, Kent; admit- 
ted of St. John’s college, Cam- 
bridge,-where he studied the civil 
law and proceeded LL. B. 1775, 
and LL. D. 1780. He married, 
April 13, 1773, Sophia, daughter 
of Charles Raymond, esa. of Vay 
lentine-house, Kssex, who was 
created a baronet May 3, 1774, 
with remainder, in default of male- 
issue, to-William Burrell, esq. of 
Beckenham, and his heirs-male by 
Sophia his wife, by whom he has 
left two sons and two daughters. 
27. At Limerick, in-Ireland, in 
his 30th year, Samuel Crumpe, 
M.D. M.R.1. A. He was gifted 
with talents, and possessed of infor- 
mation, that promised to raise him to 
an high degree of eminence in his 
profession, and inthe literary world, 
He had acquired no small celebrj- 
ty, asan author, by the publica- 
tion of “ An inquiry into the Na- 
ture and Properties of Opium,” and 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
of An Essay on the best Means 
of providing Employment for the 
People ;”? which last was honoured 
with a prize-medal by the royal 
Irish accademy, and procured him 
admission among the members of 
that body. 
27. Sophia Maria Josepha, vise 
countess Southwell, of Ireland. 
29. Dowager lady Throckmorton. 
Lately, in his 80th year, Mr, 
John Fyfield, of Stanbridge, near 
Romsey, a man of a most eccentric 
turn of wind and great singularity of 
conduct; the manor of Stanbridge he 
inherited from his ancestors, and it 
had been many generations in his 
family. He was of a penurious dis, 
position, yet would scarcely ever 
suffer any of the timber on his es- 
tate to be felled, though it abound- 
ed with the finest in the country, a 
great deal of which was yearly 
perishing ; the price of 50 guineas 
had indeed once tempted him to 
part with his far-famed oak-tree, 
but he repented of his bargain, and 
was happy to repurchase it, almost 
immediately after, ata higher price, 
All repairs of his mansion were 
prohibited, as an useless extrava- 
gance that would bring him to po- 
verty ; and whilst such a superflui- 
ty of materials as would amply 
have repaid the expences, and ren- 
dered his habitation comfortable, 
_ were rotting at his door, he chose 
rather to reside in it with the roof 
open in many places to the heavens, 
with hardly an apartment that af- 
forded shelter from the weather, 
and with the joist and floors rot- 
ting with the wet that entered : 
the out-buildings were in a similar 
state of decay, and their repair was 
alike prohibited. He was totally 
blind for many of the latter years | 
of hislife, when his chief enjoy- 
ment 
