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August 18, 1773, a colonel in the 
army ; 3. George, born July 1779 ; 
4. the lady Elizabeth. His lordship 
married, secondly, June 1784, the 
lady Catharine, second daughter of 
Clotworthy Skeffington, earl of 
Massereene, who died without issue 
Feb. -9,1796. The earl of Landaff 
was descended from a family of 
great antiquity, originally resident 
at Rader in Glamorganshire, and 
possessed of the town of Landaiff, 
where, in the cathedral church, are 
many ancient monuments to the 
Mathew family, particularly one 
of David Mathew the Great, stan. 
dard-bearer to Edward IV. (see 
Willis’s Landaff.) By intermarriage 
with the house of Ormond, his lord- 
ship’s ancestors became possessed of 
large estates in Ireland, where, for 
nearly two centuries, they have re- 
sided at ‘Thomas-town,in Tipperary, 
formerly reckoned the most magni- 
ficent demesne in Ireland. A curi- 
ous account of the splendid manner 
ofliving of an ancestor of this noble 
family atThomas-town, may be seen 
in Sheridan’s life of Swift. The late 
earl was a nobleman of the most 
amiable and conciliating manners, 
and possessed, in an eminent degree, 
the united advantages of captivating 
address and personal beauty. 
3ist. At his house in Wells, 
Richard Jenkyns, esq. an eminent 
attorney. 
Aug. 4th. Baroness Pfeilitzer, 
niece of Wm. Mauduit, esq. of Lin. 
coln’s-inn-fields, and only sister of 
Lucas Garvey, esq. of the island of 
St. Christopher. 
12th. At Beckenham, in Kent, 
the dowager lady Dacre, widow of 
Thomas Barrett Lennard, lord Dacre, 
of Belhouse, Issex, and sister to the 
late earl Camden. 
14th. After a long illness, at her 
Vou, XLVIV, 
house in Percy-street, aged 8@, 
Dame Elizabeth Gosling, widow of 
sir FrancisG. knt. who was ele¢ted 
alderman of the ward of Farringdon 
Without in 1756; sheriff in 1758; and 
died Dec. 29, 1768. She wasone 
of the Jadies mentioned by Mrs. 
Barbauld in her life of Richardson, 
under the name of ‘¢ Miss M. after- 
wards lady G,” 
17th. At Tunbridge-wells, Sophia 
countess of Mount - Edgecumbe, 
third daughter and coheiress of John 
earl of Buckinghamshire; born 
March 26, 1768 ; and married, Feb. 
25, 1789, to Richard earl of Mount- 
Edgecumbe, who, with five children, 
three sons and two daughters, have 
suffered, by her death, an irrepar- 
able loss. She was beautiful in her 
person.; an exemplary mother ; her 
heart was tender and benevolent ; 
her manners amiable, gentle, aud 
unassuming. 
19th. At Islington, in his 42d 
year, Mr. John Biggerstaff, many 
years joint vestry-clerk of that 
parish with his father, and who has 
since been thus honourably noticed 
on a tablet of white marble in the 
chancel of Islington church : 
‘To the memory of 
Mr. Joun Biecrrstarr, Sen. , 
Jate vestry clerk of this parish ; 
who died the 29th of Dec’. 1804, 
in the 73d year of his age ; 
After serving his office with great 
integrity and ability upwards of 37 
years, so truly esteemed and so sin- 
cerely Jamented by the parishioners, 
that they voted 
unanimously, on Easter Tuesday 
1805, 
for the erection of this tablet.” 
20th. Rev. John Weddred, vicar 
of St. John the Baptist, in Peter- 
borough, and minor canon of that 
cathedral, both of which are in the 
Nn gift 
