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Lord Howth, which is now at Howth Castle ; and another 

 executed in 1738, for the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's, 

 now at the Deanery. A bust portrait of the Dean, in the 

 National Gallery, Dublin, has been ascribed to Bindon. He 

 also painted Provost Baldwin, Primate Hugh Boulter, and 

 Archbishop Cobbe. In addition, Bindon practised as an 

 architect : his chief architectural works were mansions for 

 Lord Milltown, Lord Bessborough, and Sir William Fownes. 

 He died in 1765. 



3. Henry Brooke, who is well known as the writer of 

 the Fool of Quality, and the tragedy of Gustavus Vasa, had 

 more substantial claims to membership of the Society. To 

 aid in obtaining Parliamentary grants for Inland Navigation, 

 he published the Interests of Ireland. In 1760 he became 

 secretary to an association in Dublin for registering pro- 

 posals of national utility. Brooke was the first conductor of 

 the Freeman's Journal, which was established in 1763. He 

 was born in 1703, and died in 1783. 



4. Thomas Burgh (or Bourgh), overseer of Fortifications 

 and Buildings 1700-1730. He published in 1J24. J Method 

 to determine Areas. Burgh was asked to prepare plans for the 

 new Parliament House in Dublin, but Sir Edward Pearce, 

 who succeeded him, appears in all official documents as its 

 designer. 



5. Sir Richard Cox, second baronet, succeeded his 

 grandfather, Sir Richard Cox (lord chancellor), who died 

 3 May 1733. He established a linen manufactory at 

 Dunmanway, and was writer of the letter that appeared in 

 1749, addressed to Thomas Prior, " showing from experience 

 a sure method to establish the Linen Manufacture, and the 

 beneficial effects it will immediately produce," the author- 

 ship of which has been attributed to his grandfather. 



6. Patrick Delany, born at Athy about the year 1685, 

 became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1709. When Dean 

 Swift came to reside in Dublin, Delany became one of his 

 most intimate friends, and they held the same views in 

 politics. Swift said of him that he was " the most eminent 



