THE AUSTEN FAMILY. xxxix 



December, 1802, aged 80 years, has a monument 

 to his memory in the church of St. Martin's. 



John, the eldest son, resided at the Old Park, 

 and was an extremely popular and agreeable man, 

 of whom honourable mention is made in Halstead's 

 History of Kent (folio edition). 



Nathaniel, the youngest son, named after his 

 maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Hulse, was born at 

 St. Martin's 1754, and became a highly-esteemed 

 solicitor, first in London, and on his marriage to 

 Frances Honor Lawrence he removed to Union 

 Crescent, Margate, where he died, scarcely fifty years 

 of age, in October, 1804. His wife survived his 

 loss scarcely seven months, dying in May, 1805. 



MAJOE AUSTEN, OF CROYDON. 



Their eldest son (the Father of the subject of this 

 memoir), then very young, was offered a cadetship 

 by one of his maternal uncles, and ere completing 

 his fifteenth year, sailed for India in September, 1807, 

 where he was posted to the 10th regiment Madras 

 Native Infantry. Being severely wounded at the 

 assault of a Mahratta hill fort, he returned home 



