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nary instance of success and pros- 
perity in his undertakings; being 
undoubtedly immensely rich, though 
probably not to such an enormous 
degree as has been represented. 
He was a native of the west. part 
of Yorkshire, his parents in the 
humblest walk of life. But by some 
means he made his way to London, 
and after some time became clerk 
in the counting-house of a Mr. 
Dillon, an Irish Catholic merchant, 
who, ‘among the various changes 
of this mortal life,” in after-times 
himself failing, was glad to become 
clerk to his own c?-devant clerk, 
Mr. Denison. At length he en- 
tered into business for himself; and, 
by unabated industry and the most 
rigid frugality, worked himself into 
very high credit, and an increasing 
fortune. He dwelt for a conside- 
rable time in Princes-street, Loth~ 
bury, and afterwards removed to 
Jefferies-square and St. Mary-Axe. 
He became connected with the fa-- 
mily of Hay wood, bankers at Liver- 
pool, and other considerable mer- 
chants in the north of England. 
He always professed himself a dis- 
senter. .In the beginning of his 
life he married a countrywoman of 
his own, of the name of Sykes, 
distantly related to the mother of 
the well-known. antiquary Mr. 
Ralph Thoresby, who bore that 
name: she was of great service to 
him, and very assistant to his pros- 
perity, keeping his books, and 
looking after his affairs, when he 
was absent upon business ; she died 
above 40 years ago, without issue. 
He afterwards married Elizabeth, 
only child of a Mr. Butler, formerly 
2 hat-maker in’ or! near ‘Tooley. 
street, Southwark, a well-educated 
and very amiable woman, who lived 
with him only three years and a 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
half, dying, Nov. 27, 1771, aged 
32, much regretted by all her ac- 
quaintance: s»eleftason, William- 
Josep!:, member of the last parlia. 
ment but one for Camelford, and 
Jately returned for Hull, who is 
unmarried ; and two daughters ; 
Elizabeth, married to Henry earl 
Conyngham, and has issue, and 
Maria, married ‘to sir Robert Law. 
ley, bart. and has no issue. He 
bought of lord King, the estate of 
Denbies, near Dorking, in Surrey, 
formerly the property of the well- 
known Jonathan Tyres ; and after- 
wards, of the duke of Leeds, for 
above 100,000I. (as has been said), 
the estate of Seamere, near Scar- 
borough, in Yorkshire. 
17th. At Dorchester, aged 68, T 
Beach, esq. many years an eminent 
portrait-painter at Bath. He was 
a native of Milton Abbey, a village, 
since converted into the noble man- 
sion of the earl of Dorchester. 
From his earliest years, Mr. Beach 
evinced a strong desire to be an ar- 
tist ; and, under the patronage of 
the Dorchester family, he became a 
pupil to sir Joshua Reynolds, in 
1760. Hewasa good scholar, and 
exemplary in the exercises of reli-« 
gion and charity. 
19th. In the prime of life, after 
a short illness, Elizabeth, wife of — 
captain Towry, of the Royal Navy, 
daughter of George Chamberlaine, 
esq. of Devonshire-place ; a true 
pattern of all that is estimable in 
woman. 
20th. At Fregenwalden, the 
princess Wilhelmina - Frederica- 
Paulina, of Nassau-Dictz, daughter 
of the reigning prince of Fulda, 
born in 1800, and grand-daughter 
of Frederick-William IL. king of 
Prussia, : 
26th. At Chester; lady Arabella 
Rawdon, 
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