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83rd year, an eminent practitioner 
of midwifery in London, and a 
valuable writer on that subject. 
29. Thomas Oliver, esq. aged 
83. He was Lieut.-gov. of the 
colony of Massachusets at the 
time of its separation from Eng- 
land. 
At Port St. Mary, Spain, Sir 
James Duff, bart. British Con- 
sul at Cadiz, in his 82nd year; 
lately the subject of parlia- 
mentary discussion. 
December. 
8. Sir Wm. Rule, knt, senior 
Surveyor of the Navy. 
&. Hon. Archib. Frazer, of Lo- 
vat, in his 80th year. 
10. Major-Gen. Michael Jacob, 
military superintendant of Hos- 
pitals. 
15. Sir John Lethbridge, bart. 
aged 69. 
16. Charles Howard, Duke of 
Norfolk, and hereditary Marshal 
of England, in his 70th year. 
This nobleman, who was at the 
head of the English peerage, and 
of the noble house of Howard, 
was educated in the Romish faith, 
which he renounced on coming of 
age, and entered into the House of 
Commons, where he joined the 
party in opposition. He succeed- 
ed to the family estates and ho- 
nours in 1786, and to the time of 
his death acted as a perfectly in- 
dependent senator, still leaning 
to the politics of the opposition, 
but supporting the government 
on occasions when it appeared to 
him to require his aid. Though 
his education had been narrow, 
and his mind was not enlarged by 
literature, he was considered to 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
possess talents for business, with 
natural quickness and sagacity. 
He was negligent in dress and 
appearance, free and familiar in 
manner, yet had a high sense of 
the dignity of the house which 
he represented. The Duke was 
twice married; first, to Miss Cop- 
pinger, an Irish heiress; second- 
ly, to Frances, the only daughter — 
and heir of James Viscount Scud- 
amore; but he had issue by 
neither of them. He is suc- 
ceeded by his second cousin’s son, 
Bernard Edward Howard, esq. 
of Farnham, in Suffolk. 
17. Rev. Thomas Zouch, D.D. 
Prebendary of Durham, and Rec- 
tor of Scrayingham, Yorkshire, 
aged 75. This respectable di- 
vine was born at Sandal, near 
Wakefield, and educated at Tri- 
nity College, Cambridge. Af- 
ter occupying different ecclesi- 
astical situations, he succeeded, 
on the death of his brother, to 
an estate at Sandal, which was 
thenceforth his residence. In 
1805 he was presented by Mr. 
Pitt to the second Prebend in 
Durham Cathedral, and the see 
of Carlisle was afterwards offered 
to him, which he declined on ac- 
count of his advanced years and 
retired habits of life. He was the 
author of various publications of 
the professional class, but is most 
known by his biographical la- 
bours. Of these were a “ Me- 
moir of the Life and Writings of 
Sir Philip Sidney,” 1808, 4to.; a 
“Memoir of the Life of John 
Sudbury, D.D. Dean of Dur- 
‘ham,” 1808, 4:to.; and an edi- 
tion, with large additions, of 
““Tsage Walton’s Lives,” 1796. 
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