66] ANNUAL 
the north aisle of Westminster- 
abbey. His heatt is carried to 
Kumlington, the family seat of 
his lureship, in the county of Dum. 
fries.—On the arfival of the caval- 
cade at the cnurch, two of the 
bearérs having got the coffin on 
their shoulders, the horses of the 
hearse to-k fmght by the pressure 
of the ss isleil de | ; by which means, 
the other men not been prepared, 
the weight becdme (oo prepondee 
rant fer those in front, and the 
coffin fell with great violence on 
the ground ; the foot part of which 
bilged, part fell out with a number 
of the tiails and embellishments, 
and the concussion was so great 
that the leaded receptacle was much 
shattered, and a quantity of water 
issued from it.—His lordship was 
twice married ; first to -a Saxon 
lady, Henrietta, countess of Bunan, 
at Warsaw, in 1759, by whom 
there is now no issue living but lady — 
Elizabeth, married to Geo. Finch 
Hatton, esq. in 1785; secondly, 
to Louisa, third daughter'to the late 
lord Catheart, in 1776, by whom 
he has left four sons and a daugh- 
ter, He is succeeded in his ho- 
nours and estates by his eldest son, 
David-William, born March 7, 
1777, the present earl, who but 
lately sét out on his travels, ‘and is 
now at the university of Leipsic. 
17. Mr. J. W. Dodd, of Drury- 
lane theatre, an excellent actor. 
He began his theatrical career in 
the North of England, afterwards 
was the principal performer on the 
Norwich stage, and an 3d October, 
1765, appeared the first time at 
Drury-lane, in the character of 
Faddle, in The Foundling. Since 
that period he had uniformly been 
engaged at the same theatre. 
21. At Bath, sir John Danvers, 
REGISTER, 1796. 
of Swithland, in the county of 
Leicester, bart. He has bequeathed 
his immense landed estates and per- 
sonal property to his only child, 
the Hon, Mrs. Butler, wife of the 
Hon. Augustus Butler (second son 
of the countess of Lanesborough) 
who bas taken the name of Dan- 
vers, Sir John’s real estates in Lei- 
cestershire and other counties, 
amount inold rents to near 10,0001, 
per ann. in which the property of 
timber is immense: the persona] 
estate consists of near 200,000). 
in funded money, cash, and bank 
bills. By a former will, the family 
of the male branch of the Danvers 
were made sole heirs; but this was 
lately revoked svon after the birth 
of his daughter’s son. 
22. At Fareham, the Right Hon, 
James lord Cranston, His lord. 
ship was lately appointed governor 
of Grenada, and was preparing to 
take his departure for his govern- 
ment, 
Rev. and right hon. John earl of 
Terao 
. At Edinburgh, in his 76th 
yea Mr. John Medina, limnery 
grandson to sir John Medina, an 
eminent histori¢al and portrait 
painter of Scotland, in the last 
and beginning of this century. 
His peculiar talent was the rescu- 
ing from decay and ruin some of 
the best collections: of pictures in 
Scotland; a recemt instance of 
which was afforded in the collecs 
tion of Kings in the palace of Hoe 
lyrood-house; the renovation of 
which will long appear a monu- 
ment of his merit, if it be merito- 
Tious to restore fictitious likenesses. 
Oct. 6. After a long and severe 
illness, lady Dashwood, the lady of 
sir Henry Dashwood, bart. of Kirt~ 
bps yas park, co. Oxford, lady of 
the 
