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STONHOUSE, Silt JAMES. 



STORAGE, STEPHEN. 



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actions there : " July 1616, 1 was sent to Scotland, where I undertook 

 to do work in the King's Chappie and for the King's Clossett, and the 

 organ, so much as came to 4.501. of wainscot-worke, the which I 

 performed and had my money well-payed, and 501. was given to 

 drink, whereof I had 20?. given me by the king's command." He 

 mentions drink-money on other occasions. Stone made several 

 monuments for Westminster Abbey ; among them one to Spenser, 

 the poet, for which the Countess of Dorset paid him 40Z. In 1625, he 

 made for the old Exchange of London four statues Edward V., 

 Richard HI., Henry VII., and Queen Elizabeth, which was afterwards 

 removed to Guildhall-gate. For the three kings he received 25/. 

 each, for the queen, SOL ; 251. appears to have been Stone's ordinary 

 charge for a statue, including the pedestal. 



The various sums received by Stone for monuments erected by him, 

 noted in his pocket-book, amount altogether, according to his kinsman, 

 Charles Stoakes, from whom Vertue acquired his information concern- 

 ing Stone's family, to 10.889L Walpole has given a list of the 

 principal monuments, and mentions some architectural works by 

 Stone. He died August 24, 1647, aged sixty-one, and was buried in 

 St. Martin's Church, where there is a slab to his memory with an 

 inscription and his profile. His wife and his son Nicholas are buried 

 in the same grave : they both died in the same year a few months 

 after him. Stone had three sons, Henry, Nicholas, and John. 



HENRY STONE, known as Old Stone, probably because he was the 

 eldest, was a statuary and painter, but he was chiefly engaged in 

 painting. He studied in Italy and the Netherlands, and made many 

 excellent copies of celebrated Italian and Flemish pictures ; there is a 

 large copy at Hampton Court of the celebrated picture, by Titian, of 

 the Coruaro Family, now in the possession of the Duke of Northum- 

 berland. He lived in Long Acre in the same house that was his 

 father's, which he rented of the crown for 10?. per aunum. He died 

 in 1653, and was buried near his father; and the following inscription 

 to his memory was placed in the church by his brother John : " To 

 the memory of Henry Stone of Long Acre, painter and statuary, who, 

 having passed the greatest part of thirty-seven years in Holland, 

 France, and Italy, achieved a fair renown for his excellency in arts 

 and languages, and departed this life on the 24th day of August, A.D. 

 1653, and lyeth buried near the pulpit in this church." Here follows 

 some laudatory verses. Old Stone wrote a book, entitled the ' Third 

 i Part of the Art of Painting,' taken mostly from the ancients. Vertue, 

 who saw this book, was uncertain whether the two former parts were 

 composed by Stone, or by some other author. 



NICHOLAS STONE, the second sou, who was a statuary, also studied 

 abroad and modelled many excellent copies of celebrated works. 

 Mr. Bird, the statuary, says Walpole, had the 'Laocoon' and Bernini's 

 ' Apollo and Daphne ' in terra-cotta by him. He returned to England 

 in 1642, and died in the same year as his father, as noticed above. 

 Vertue saw a book of drawings by him of many buildings in Italy. 



JOHN STONE, the youngest, was also a statuary, though he was 

 originally designed for the church, and was educated at Oxford. In 

 the civil war he entered the king's army, and narrowly escaped beiug 

 taken. He concealed himself for a year in his father's house without 

 his father's knowledge, and at length contrived to escape to France, 

 where he probably took to the arts, as he was afterwards engaged in 

 partnership with his brother Henry. He wrote a manual on Fortifi- 

 cation, which he called ' Enchiridion ;' it contained many small cuts 

 etched by himself, but without his name. He died soon after the 

 Restoration. In St. Martin's Church, below the inscription to Henry 

 Stone, is the following addition, with the date June 1699 : 



" Four rare Stones are gone, 

 The father and three sons. 



In memory of whom their near kinsman, Charles Stoakes, repaired 

 this monument." 



STONHOUSE, SIR JAMES, who was originally a physician, after- 

 wards a clergyman, and who became a baronet late in life, on the death 

 of a distant relation, was born July 20, 17lb', at Tubney, near Abingdon. 

 His father was a country gentleman, and died when his sou was only 

 ten years old. He was educated at Winchester School, and after- 

 wards at St. John's College, Oxford, where he took his degree of M.A. 

 in 1739, that of M.B. in 1742, and that of M.D. in 1745. He was 

 indebted for much of his medical knowledge to Dr. Frank Nicholls, 

 with whom he resided for two years in his house in Lincoln's-inn- 

 fields. He attended St. Thomas's Hospital for two years under Sir 

 Edward Wilmot, Dr. Hall, and Dr. Letherland, and carried on his 

 medical studies for two years more at Paris, Lyon, Montpellier, and 

 Marseille. On his return he settled at Coventry, where he married 

 the eldest daughter of John Neale, Esq., member of parliament for 

 that city. This lady, who died in 1747, soon after their marriage, in 

 the twenty-fifth year of her age, is introduced as one of the examples 

 of frail mortality in Hervey's 'Meditations,' and is further comme- 

 morated there in a note. lu 1743 Dr. Stonhouse removed to North- 

 ampton, where his practice became very extensive. He was in all 

 respects a great benefactor to the poor, and, among other schemes for 

 their relief, founded the County Infirmary. During his residence at 

 Northampton the celebrated Dr. Akenside in vain attempted to get a 

 footing, for he found that Dr. Stonhouse, as Johnson observes, in his 

 Life of Akenside, " practised with such reputation and success, that 



a stranger was not likely to gain ground upon him." After twenty 

 years' practice in Northampton, Dr. Stonhouse quitted his profession, 

 assigning as his reason that his practice was too great for his time and 

 health ; but neither the natural activity of his mind nor his unceasing 

 wish to do good would permit him to remain unemployed. As he was 

 particularly fond of the study of divinity, he determined to take 

 orders, and was ordained deacon by the special favour of the Bishop 

 of Hereford in Hereford cathedral, and priest the week after, by letters 

 dismissory to the Bishop of Bristol, in Bristol cathedral. In May 1764 

 he was presented to the living of Little Chevrel, and in December 

 1779 to that of Great Chevrel, where he applied himself to the duties 

 of his station with fervour and assiduity, and became very popular as 

 a preacher. About ten years before this, he had married his second 

 wife. Dr. Stonhouse's piety, for which he was most admired, had not 

 always been uniform. He tells us that he imbibed erroneous notions 

 from Dr. Nicholls, and that he was for seven years a confirmed infidel, 

 and did all he could to subvert Christianity. He went so far as to 

 write a keen pamphlet against it ; the ' third ' edition of which he 

 burnt. He adds, " for writing and spreading of which, I humbly hope, 

 as I have deeply repented of it, God has forgiven me, though I never 

 can forgive myself." His conversion to Christianity (which he attri- 

 butes to some of Dr. Doddridge's writings), and the various circum- 

 stances attending it, were such, that he was persuaded to write the 

 history of his life. This he intended for publication after his death, 

 but, in consequence of the suggestion of a friend, and his own suspi- 

 cions lest a bad use might be made of it, he was induced to destroy it. 

 He died at Bristol- Wells, December 8, 1795, in the eightieth year of 

 his age. Among other ways of doing good, Sir James Stonhouse was 

 convinced that the dispersion of plain and familiar tracts on important 

 subjects was one of the most important; and he accordingly wrote 

 several of these, some of which have been adopted by the Society for 

 Promoting Christian Knowledge. Much of his general character and 

 conduct, his sentiments, and the vicissitudes of his professional em- 

 ployment, may be learned from his correspondence, published in 

 2 vols, 12mo, 1805, with the title, 'Letters from the Rev. Job Orton 

 and the Rev. Sir James Stonhouse,' &c. (See also Gent. Mag., Ixv., 

 Ixvi., and Ixxxi. ; and Chalmers, Biog, Diet.) 



STORAGE, STEPHEN, a composer, whose brilliant career was 

 arrested by death just as he had attained the age when most of those 

 who are destined to distinguish themselves are but beginning to be 

 generally known, was born in London, in 1763. His father, a Nea- 

 politan (who added a t to his name on his coming to England), played 

 the double-base at Drury Lane Theatre, and married a sister of the 

 well-known Dr. Trusler (who was famous by her manufacture of 

 plum-cakes at Marylebone Gardens), the fruits of which union were, 

 the subject of the present sketch, and Anna, the justly celebrated 

 siuger. 



When about twelve years old Stephen was placed by his father in 

 the Conservatorio St. Onofrio, at Naples, where his progress fully 

 justified the sanguine expectations excited in London by the budding 

 of bis genius. After completing his studies, he visited the different 

 cities of Italy, giving various proofs of his talents, accompanied by 

 his sister, a pupil of Sacchini, who at once was recognised as a first-rate 

 vocalist. They then proceeded to Vienna, and reached the imperial 

 city at the time that the Duke of York tthen Bishop of Osnaburg) 

 arrived there, who immediately honoured them by his notice, and 

 never after withdrew his patronage. Signora Storace was speedily 

 engaged at the emperor's Italian theatre, at a salary then thought pro- 

 digious 5001. ; and her brother composed for the same an opera, 

 ' Gl' Equivoci,' the substance borrowed from SLakspere's ' Comedy of 

 Errors.' Portions of the music he afterwards used in his ' Pirates,' 

 and in ' No Song, no Supper.' 



In March 1787 Storace and his sister returned to England, and 

 were immediately engaged at the King's Theatre, the lady as first 

 comic singer, and her brother as director of the music. Her success 

 was most decided ; but the intrigues of the Italian performers were 

 too harassing for his sensitive nature, and he withdrew in disgust to 

 Bath, devoting his time to drawing an art for which he had much 

 talent. In 1789 he produced his first opera at Drury Lane, ' The 

 Haunted Tower,' his sister appearing in the principal character, and 

 this was performed no less than fifty times during the season. In 

 1790 he brought out ' No Song, no Supper,' written by Prince Hoare. 

 In 1791 appeared ' The Siege of Belgrade,' altered by Cobb from ' La 

 Cosa Kara,' in which much of Martini's music is mixed up with 

 Storace's. 'The Pirates' was given for the first time in November 

 1792; the performers were Kelly, Dignum, Sedgwick, Suett, John 

 Bannister, Parsons, Mrs. Crouch, Miss de Camp (afterwards Mrs. C. 

 Kemble), Mrs. Bland, and Signora Storace. The picturesque scenery 

 was from designs made at Naples by the composer himself. ' Thg 

 Prize" was brought out in 1793 ; ' Lodoiska,' translated from the 

 French by John Kemble, the music selected from the rival operas of 

 the same name by Kreutzer and Cherubini, with additions by Stcrace, 

 in 1794 ; and the same year also produced ' The Iron Chest,' by 

 George Colman the younger, the incidental music by Storace. The 

 composer's attendance on the first rehearsal of this, while under the 

 influence of a severe attack of gout and fever, cost him his life. He 

 returned from the theatre to his bed, whence he never rose again, 

 dying on the 19th of March, in the thirty-third year of his age. 



