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Ciirzon, who represented the county 

 ot Derby in two successiTe parlia- 

 ments. 



Sth. At Edinburgh, Miss Char- 

 lotte Augusta Colquhoun, daughter 

 of the late Sir George C bart, of 

 Tillycjuhoun. 



At her house in Upper Sloane- 

 •treet, Lady Caroline Leinh. daugh- 

 ter of Henr}- Duke of Chaudos, by 

 his first wife Lady Mary Bruce, 

 daughter of Charles Earl of Ayles- 

 bury ; and married to John Leigh, 

 esq. of Addlcsthorpe, co. Glouces- 

 ter, ill 1755. 



10th. At Stonchouse, near Ply- 

 mouth, Miss Elizabeth Langton, 

 daughter of the late Bcnnet L. esq. 

 of Langton, co. Lincoln, and the 

 dowager countess of Rothes. 



11th. Sir Edward Nightingale, 

 l)art. of Ivnecsworth, co. Cambridge. 

 , He was only son of Gamaliel N. 

 captain in the royal navy, by Maria, 

 daughter of Peter Clossen, merchant 

 at Hamburgh, who died in 1789. 

 Sir Edward proved his claim to the 

 title, 1797, as heir male of sir Tho. 

 the first baronet. He married Elea- 

 nor, daughter and heiress of Robert 

 .\. of Kncesworth, his uncle, by 

 whom he had six sons and four 

 daughters. 



At his house in Cheapside, aged 

 86, John Roydell, esq. alderman 

 of Cheap ward ; to which he was 

 cleded in 17S2: sherirt'17«5; lord 

 mayor 1790. He attended his duty 

 as alderman at the Old Railey ses- 

 sions on the Sth, when it is sup- 

 posed he caught cold. On the 10th 

 lie fuund himself much indisposed ; 

 on tho 11th he was pronounced by 

 the physician to be in danger, and 

 the next morning expired without a 

 groan. The history of this worthy 

 alderman affords an extraordinary 

 instance of what a life of spi(ite4 



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exertions is able to accomplish. It 

 appears almost impossible that an 

 individual, who began the world in 

 humble circumstances, could have 

 etlc(5ted so much for the improve- 

 ment of the arts, and of the nation- 

 al taste. When more than 20, he 

 Mas j)ut apprentice to a Mr. Tomms, 

 an engraver, at a time when there 

 were no eminent engravers in Eng- 

 land. He saw the necessity of forc- 

 ing the art of engraving, by stimu- 

 lating men of genitis M'ith suitable 

 rewards. H(; himself mentioned, 

 that the first means which enabled 

 him to encourage other engravers, 

 were the profits he derived from the 

 sale of a book of 152 prints, en- 

 graved by himself; and he verj- mo- 

 destly allowed, that he himself had 

 not at that time arrived at any emi- 

 nence in the art of engraving, and 

 that those prints arc now principal- 

 ly valuabkifrom the comparison of 

 them with the improved state of the 

 art within th^> last 50 years. With 

 the profits of this book, however, 

 he was enabled to pay very liberally 

 the best engravers then in the coun- 

 try, and presented tlic public with 

 English engravings of the works of 

 the best masters. The encourage- 

 ment he experienced from the pub- 

 lic was equal to the spirit and pa- 

 triotism of the undertaking, and 

 soon laid the foundation of an ample 

 fortune. The alderman had the 

 salisfattion to see in his life-time 

 the cflert of his labours : though he 

 never himself made great progress 

 as an engraver, yet he was the 

 greatest cncquragcr of the art that 

 this country ever saw. The English 

 engravings, which Mere before con- 

 sidered much inferior to those of 

 forolgn nations, began from that 

 time to be highly prized; and tho 

 exportation of them became a va- 

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