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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



DEATHS in the Year 1812. 



Januari/. 



2. Henry Shelley, esq. M, P. for 

 Lewes. 



W. Wyatt Dinioiid, esq. joint 

 proprietor with Mr. Palmer of the 

 theatres royal at Bath and Bristol. 

 He wasa pupil and friend of^Garrick, 

 and first appeared at Drury-lane 

 in 1772, in the character of Romeo. 



3. Bicknell Coney, esq. a director 

 of the Bank of England, and long 

 an eminent merchant in London. 



5. Admiral Sir Richard Hughes, 

 Baronet. 



11. Henry Scott, DukeofBuc- 

 cleugh and Queensberry, and Earl 

 of Doncaster in England, Knight 

 of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of 

 the counties of Edinburgh and 

 Roxburgh, and Governor of the 

 Royal Bank of Scotland, aged 66. 

 His grace married Elizabeth, only 

 daughter of the late Duke of Mon- 

 tagu, by whom he left two sons 

 and four daughters. He possessed a 

 princely fortune, of which a consi- 

 derable share was devoted to acts 

 of publicand private liberality. He 

 was extremely affable in his man- 

 ners, easy of access, humane and 

 benevolent. He possessed great 

 political influence. 



12. General Sir James Henry 

 Craig, K. B. late Governor-in- 

 •Chief of British North America. 



Sir Thomas Coxhead, formerly 

 M. P. for Bramber, aged 77. 



14. Edvtard Hasted, esq. F. R. S. 

 and S. A. aged 80, the historian 

 «f the county of Kijnt. In the 



composition of this work he em- 

 ployed 40 years, during which he 

 spared no pains or expense to bring 

 it to maturity ; at the same time he 

 acted with zeal and vigour as a ma- 

 gistrate and deputy-lieutenant of 

 the county. Mr. Hasted was the 

 son of Edw. Hasted, of Hawley, 

 in Kent, esq. and barrister-at-law, 

 descended from the noble family of 

 Clifford. His mother was of the 

 ancient family of the Dingleys in 

 the Isle of Wight. He was mar- 

 ried, -and left four sons and two 

 daughters. Having met with ad- 

 verse fortune in his latter years, he 

 quitted Kent, and for some time 

 lived in obscurity. A few years 

 ago he was presented by the Earl of 

 Radnor to the mastership of Lady 

 Hungerford's hospital at Corsham, 

 Wiltshire, a comfortable asylum, 

 to which he removed, and where 

 he died. Having also obtained a 

 decree in chancery for the recovery 

 of his estates in Kent, of which 

 he had been defrauded, he was re- 

 stored to a state of independent 

 competency. 



15. Theophilus Jones, esq. the 

 historian of Brecknockshire, a 

 gentleman much beloved for his 

 frank, benevolent, and social dis- 

 position. 



Henry Penton, esq. aged 75, a 

 native of Winchester, which city 

 he represented in several successive 

 parliaments. 



Sir Henry Parker, Bart, of Mel- 

 ford-hall, Suffolk. 



Colonel JVm. Cavendish, M. P. 



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