216 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



also published separately some 

 miscellaneous pieces. 



27- At Paris, where he had 

 long resided, the Rev. Sir Herbert 

 Croft, hart, in his 66th year. Hewas 

 tlie autlior of a great variety of 

 publications, some of which wci"e 

 amusing and popular; as well as 

 of schemes for otliers of a more 

 solid kind, which were not brought 

 to effect. He will probably be 

 most remembered by his Life of 

 Dr. Young, adopted by Dr. .lohn- 

 son in his Lives of the English 

 Poets. Sir H. C. succeeded to the 

 baronetage by collateral descent. 



29. Charles Philip, Lord Slourton, 

 a Roman Catholic Peer. 



Sir John Stuart, bart . of Allan- 

 bank. 



May. 



1. Mrs. Cleaver, wife of the 

 archbishop of Dublin. 



2. George Greville, Earl of War- 

 wick and Brooke, aged 70. 



4. Lieut. Gen. Sontag, in his 

 C9th year. 



5. Dowager Lady Bellhaven and 

 S teuton. 



11. Sir T. Lighton, bart. 



12. The Lady of Major-Gen. 

 Sir Edward Butler. 



14. Barrington Pope Blackford, 

 esq. M. P. 



17- Dorothy Eliz. wife of Sir 

 Brook W. Bridges, bart. 



21. Rt. Hon. Lady Ribblesdale, 

 in her 44th year. 



28. At the age of 116, in Cold- 

 Bath- square, Mrs. Jane Lewson, 

 the widow of a wealthy person, 

 owner of tlxe house she lived in, 

 and as singular in her dress and 

 manner of living, as remarkable 

 for the length of her years. 



2y. James Hope Johnston, Earl 

 of Hopetoun, aged 75. 



Lately, Ann Viscountess Bar- 

 rington. 



General John Dixon, aged 76. 



The lady of Sir Henry Harvey 

 Bruce, bart. 



June. 



4. At Naples, Sign. Paesiello, 

 celebrated for his writings in 

 music and history, in his 84th 

 year. 



6. At Petersburg, Field-marshal 

 Prince Nicholas SoUikoff, aged 83. 



Dowager Lady Asgill. 



8. Lord Frederick Campbell, 

 aged 87, brother of the late Duke 

 of Argyle. 



12. Lady Eliz. Tynte, aged 86. 



14. Hon. Allan Maconochie, of 

 Meadow-bank, Lord Commis- 

 sioner of Justiciary, Edinburgh. 



15. Ellen, Countess Conyngham, 

 widow of Henry E. Conyngham, 

 aged 97- 



16. Lady Pearson, relict of Sir 

 Rich. Pearson, aged 72. 



17- Charles Pierrepont, Earl 

 Manvers, in liis 69th year. 



18. Right Hon. Lady Mary 

 Parker. 



In his 82d year, 3Ir. Thomas 

 Henry, long a much esteemed 

 practitioner of medicine at Man- 

 chester. He also obtained great 

 reputation for his scientific ac- 

 quirements, especially in practi- 

 cal chemistry. He was tlie first 

 who treated philosophically on 

 a subject highly important to 

 the improvement of the cotton 

 manufactme, the employment of 

 mordants in d3'eing, and was like- 

 wise an early promoter of the 

 new method of bleaching. His 

 character as a man of science, 

 maintained by various writings, 

 obtained for him admission to the 



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