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England, and received his education at Oxford, and became an eminent 

 lawyer; made a large estate, and was a member of Parliament for many 

 years. His daughter, Fratues Moore, married the celebrated Lord 

 Chancellor of England, Erskine. "Burke" gives the following ac- 

 count of this union: 



LINEAGE. 



The Hon. Thomas Ersktne, born January 21, 1750, third son of Henry David, 

 fifth Earl of Buchan (see that dignity), having served both in the army and navy, de- 

 voted at length his talents to the l)ar, to which he was called in 1778. Gifted with the 

 most powerful eloquence, Mr. Eiskine attained at once the summit of his profession as 

 an advocate, in which capacity he continued until the year 1S06, when he was ap- 

 pointed Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and elevated to the peerage, April 8th, 

 in the same year, as Baron Erskine, of Restormel Castle. His lordship married, first, 

 May 29, 1770, Frances, daughter of Daniel Moore, Esq., M. P., by whom (who died 

 December 22, 1 805) he had issue: 



T. David Montagu, present peer. 



II. Henry David, in holy orders. Rector of Kirby Underdale, York county; mar- 

 ried May 4, 1813, Mary Harriet, third daughter of John, firit Earl of Portarlington, 

 by whom (who died December 16, 1827) he has issue: i. Henry; 2. George; 3. Har- 

 riet; 4. Louisa-Lucy, married. May 21, 1S45, to the Rev. Thomas Frederick Rudston 

 Read; 5. Caroline; 6. Fanny-Louisa, married, September 16, 1S47, to Henry Linwood 

 Strong, Esq., barrister-at-lavv ; 7. Agnes; and 8. Julia-Henrietta, married, February 17, 

 1846, to Captain Broadley Harrison, Tenth Hussars. 



III. Thomas (the Right Hon.), late one of the Judges of the Court of Common 

 Pleas, born March 12, 178S; married, December 10, 1814, Henrietta-Eliza, only 

 daughter of the late Henry Trail, Esq., and has surviving issue : 



I. Henry Trail, born December 25, 1815; 2. Thomas, born November 12, 1828; 

 3. Anne; 4. Julia. 



IV. Esme-Stewart, Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, born in 1789, married, in 1809, 

 Eliza Bland, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, and by her (who married, 

 secondly, James Norton, Esq., and died in 1833) had issue: 



I. Thomas, born March 29, 1810; 2. Esme-Stewart, born September 8, 181 1, died 

 in 1833; 3. Harry, born August 11, 1S14. 



Colonel Erskine was Deputy Adjutant-General in the battle of Waterloo, where he 

 lost an arm. He died August 26, 1817. 



V. Frances, married, in 1802, to the Rev. Dr. Holland, prebendary and ])recentcr 

 of Chichester. 



VI. Elizabeth, married, in 1798,10 Sir David Erskine, Knt., and died August 2, 

 1800. 



VII. Margaret. 



VIJI. Mary, married, in 1805, to David Morris, Esq., who died in 1815. 



Lord Erskine married, secondly. Miss Sarah Buck, by whom he also left issue. The 

 success of this eminent lawyer is, probably, the most remarkable upon record as to 

 promptitude; for almost immediately after he was called to the bar he was fortunate 

 enough to find an opportunity for the display of his extraordmary powers. Captain 

 Bailbe, who had been removed from the superintendence of Greenwich Hospital, by 

 the Earl of Sandwich, was proceeded against by that nobleman for the publication of a 



