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the other in the army; and five 
daughters, of which one only was 
unmarried. 
30th. At Tarporley, in Cheshire, 
ina very advanced age, Mrs. Frances 
Fitzherbert, a lady of exemplary 
virtue aud piety. She was unmar- 
ried, and the only surviving sister of 
the late Richard F. esq. of Somer- 
sal-Herbert, im Derbyshire ; who 
was the last representative, in the 
male line, of the eldest protestant 
branch of that ancient family ; which 
has been settled in Derbyshire since 
the beginning of the 12th century, 
and was allied to the Baronial fa. 
mily of the Fifzherberts of Deane: 
two of whom made a conspicuous 
figure in king John’s wars ; and are 
amongst the subscribers to Magna 
Charta. The Fitzherberts of Tis- 
sington, in Derbyshire, now repre- 
sented by sir Henry Fitzherbert, 
bart. were a younger branch of this 
family of Somersal-Herbert ; from 
which they separated in the reign of 
king Henry VI. 
In his 76th year, at Hatley St. 
George, co. Cambridge, Thomas 
Quintin, esq. in the commission of 
the peace for that county, for which 
he served the office of hich sheriff'a 
few years ago. He was originally 
of Neweastle, and one of the agents 
in the glass-works belonsing to the 
late John Williams, esq. whence he 
went to London, where, by industry 
and attention, he acquired a fortune 
of nearly 200,000/. which he has be- 
queathed to his only son by his first 
wife, the daughter of the late capt. 
Whitby, of Newcastle. 
At his‘ house’ in St. Andrew’s 
square, Edinburgh, the hon. David 
Smith, of Methven, one of the 
senators of the college of justice. 
3ist. John Sikes, esq. of Little 
Distaif-lane, svgar-refiuer, and one 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
of the common council of Bread. 
street ward. 
At Hailsham barracks, major 
Hansard, of the royal Glamorgan 
militia. 
Aged 113, John Tucker, fishers 
man, at Itching ferry, Soufhampton; 
who followed his usual occupation 
till within afew weeks of his death. 
Lately, at S€ Petersburg, count 
Alexander Woronzoff. ‘This emi-. 
nent statesman was in the possession 
of shinmg talents, and distinguishing 
pecularities, not generally uander- 
stood. During the reign of fhe 
great Catherine, he was president of 
the college of commerce ; and in this 
important department evinced a su- 
perior knowledge, not only in the 
trading interest of Russia, but of 
Europe in general. Assiduous and 
indefatigable in business, he was casy 
of access ; but could not divest him. 
self of a certain stiffness of deport- 
ment, which in the eyes of strangers 
gave him the appearance of haughti- 
ness. Though ardent in friendship, 
his enmity was remote from impla- 
cability ; and amongst his greatest 
enjoyments he estimated an accis 
dental meeting with an old acquaint. 
ance, to whom he could familiarly 
discourse of past occurrences. His 
negociations with lord St. Helen’s 
and lord Whitworth, upon the sub- 
ject of a commercial treaty, infused 
a suspicion that he was rather inimi- 
cal to the interests of this country, 
a prejudice which was reported to 
have originated from some personal 
offence he had formerly experienced 
during a residence here. ‘This bias, 
however, by no means operated 
unfavourably ; for when count 
Woronzoff became chancellor of the 
empire, and prime minister, under 
Alexander, his mind rose to its na- 
tural elevation ; he discarded all per- 
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