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7. The hon. Georgiana de Grey, 

 eldfcst daughter of lord Walsing- 

 ham. 



8. Lady Campbell, widow of sir 

 Archibald Campbell. 



William Craig, lord Craig, for 

 twenty-one years one of the Lords 

 of Session, Scotland. 



10. Lady Tapps, widow of sir 

 Geo. T. Tapps, bart. 



1 1. Lady Charlotte Finch, in her 

 88th year,at St. James's-palace. She 

 was daughter of Thomas, first earl 

 ofPomfret, and was married in 1746 

 to the right hon. William Finch, 

 brother of Daniel, earl of Win- 

 Chelsea and Nottingham. In 1762, 

 she was nominated governess of 

 the royal nursery, and ever after 

 remained attached to the royal 

 family, by whom she was treated 

 with singular regard. 



14. The dowager lady Heath- 

 cote, relict of the late sir Gilbert 

 Heathcote. 



20. At Mount-Juliet, Kilkenny, 

 the right hon. Henry Thomas 

 Butler, earl of Carrick, aged 67. 



22. The hon. Michael deCourcy, 

 capt. R. N. third son of lord 

 Kinsale. 



At the British Museum, George 

 Shaw, M. D. F. R. S. keeperof the 

 Natural History in that repository. 

 Dr. Shaw was born in 1751, at 

 Bierton, Bucks, of which his father 

 was vicar. He was educated at 

 Magdalen-hall, Oxford, and took 

 deacon's orders for the purpose of 

 assisting his father in his clerical 

 duties. Afterwards turning his at- 

 tention to medicine, he was made 

 deputy botanical lectu'-er at Oxford 

 in the absence of Dr. Sibthorp. 

 He there graduated, and removed to 

 London to practise as a physician. 

 JJis knowledge of natural history 



caused him to be elected vice-pre- 

 sident of the Linnaean Society, to 

 the transactions of which he con- 

 tributed some papers. He gave 

 lectures at the Leverian Museum, 

 and conducted a periodical work, 

 called " The Naturalist's Miscel- 

 lany." He was elected into the 

 Royal Society in 1789 ; and being 

 afterwards appointed assistant- 

 keeper of the Natural History in the 

 British, Museum, he quitted the 

 practice of physic, and devoted 

 himself to natural science. He 

 was thenceforth assiduously en- 

 gaged as the writer of various 

 works, of which the principal was 

 " General Zoology," a valuable 

 performance, carried by him to 

 eight vols. 8vo. and a ninth left in 

 MS. Dr. Shaw was well versed 

 in general literature, and no mean 

 proficient in the politer parts of it. 

 He was estimable in the different 

 relations of life, and pure in his 

 moral character. 



23. Rev. sir Thomas Broughton, 

 bart. Doddington-hail, Cheshire. 



26. The Rev. Hugh Worthington, 

 aged 61, forty years minister of the 

 congregation of Protestant Dis- 

 senters at Salter's-hall, and a 

 much admired preacher. 



27. Mrs. Laura Keppel, relict 

 of the late bishop of Exeter, and 

 daughter of sir Robert Walpole, 

 in her 79th year. 



28. The right Rev. John Ran- 

 dolph, D. D. bishop of London, 

 aged 64. He was the son of Dr. 

 Thomas Randolph, president of 

 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a 

 zealous defender of the doctrines 

 of the church. The bishop was 

 educated in that college, and after 

 occupying diflFerent academical 

 posts and ecclesiastical preferments, 



