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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



college of surgeons, at Edinburgh. 

 While on a shooting-pafty, at 

 Weinyss-castlc, in the act of firing, 

 his fowling-piece burst, and killed 

 him. 



nth. Aged 77, Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Patmore, widow of Mr. James P. 

 farmer, of Birchanger, Essex, at the 

 time of whose death 18 children 

 followed him to the grave. There 

 is a singular coincidence of circum- 

 stances between the above Mrs. 

 Patmore and her husband's niece, 

 Mrs. Trott: they have each had 18 

 children ; Mrs. P. 10 girls and 8 

 boys, Mrs, T. 10 boys and 8 girls. 

 They brought them all up to be 

 men and women before any of them 

 died : they were both widow s many 

 years, living in the same parish, and 

 both their husbands were farmers. 



At Perth, after a few days illness, 

 in liis 52d year, George Kinnaird, 

 baron Kinnaird of Insture, in Scot- 

 land ; whose loss will be lortg and 

 deeply felt by those who were ho- 

 noured with his friendship, lie is 

 succeeded in titles and estates by 

 his eldest son, the hon. Charles 

 Kinnaird, M. P. for Leominster. 

 At the general election in 1790, his 

 lordship was thrown out of the 

 Scotch representative peerage, and 

 never again re-elected. 



13th. At Barachny-house, in 

 Scotland, in her 75th year, Char- 

 lotte duchess dowager of Athol, and 

 Baroness Strange, in her own right, 

 lady of Man, and sole heiress of the 

 Jsle of Mail. She was daughter of 

 James second duke of Athol, wi- 

 dow of John the late duke, and 

 mother of the present duke, besides 

 "whom, she has left six younger chil- 

 dren. By her death the Irish an- 

 nuity of 20001. per annum is exfin- 

 guished : that annuity was granted 

 in 1765. In addition to the sum of 

 70,0001. In purchase of the sove- 



reignty of the Isle of Man, to John 

 the late duke, her grace Charlotte 

 his wife, or the survivor of them. 

 Her remains were deposited in the 

 family vault at Dunkeld. 



14th. Suddenly, at his house in 

 York-street, much lamented, Fr. A. 

 F. Beckwith, jesq. third son of the 

 late major-general B. a brigadier- 

 general of his rnajesty's forces, ma- 

 jor of the 37th foot, and one of the 

 commissioners for military enquiry, 

 w hich appointment he had recently 

 received, while acting as assistant 

 adjutant-general of the southera 

 district. 



At his scat, Nostell park, near 

 Pontcfract, aged 30, sir Rowland 

 Wynne, bart. He succeeded his 

 father, sir Rowland, in 1795, and 

 served the office of sheriff of York- 

 shire in 1799. On the 21st inst. 

 his body was deposited in the family 

 vault at VVragby. A large con- 

 course of people attended on this 

 solemn occasion, which was con- 

 ducted with uncommon regularity, 

 and in a style of magnificence seldom 

 seen in that neighbourhood, John 

 Williamson, esq. Shepley Watbon, 

 esq. Miss Williamson, Mrs. Wdtson, 

 and the stewards, appeared as chief 

 mourners. AI! his tenantry were 

 invited to pay this last tribute to his 

 memory ; and every one who had in 

 any way been engaged in rendering 

 services to the family received a to. 

 ken of mournful remembrance of 

 the loss of a patron. His nephew, 

 John Williamson, esq. a youth in 

 his 12th year, succeeds to his valua- 

 ble estates. 



t6th. In the neighbourhood of Ne- 

 nagh, CO. Tippcrary, in Ireland, aS 

 Miss Archer, second daughter of J. 

 A. esq. M. D. and Miss Poe, daugh- 

 ter of W^illiam P. esq. of Donny- 

 brook, were taking an airing in a 

 jaunting-carj the horse took fright, 



and 



