78 Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate, 



Cheveley. 



George Vis- 

 count Howe. 



General 



Sir William 



Draper. 



Colonel 

 Townshend. 



his lordship having been a clever amateur actor. He died, greatly 

 lamented, in i 792. 



George Augustus, third Viscount Howe, eldest son of 

 Emanuel Scrope, second Viscount, by his wife Maria Sophia 

 (Countess of Darlington) daughter of Baron Keilmansegge, 

 Master of the Horse in Hanover to George I. — who did not 

 appoint a Master of the Horse or a Master of the Buckhounds 

 during his reign as King of England — succeeded to the title 

 and family estates on the death of his father in 1 735. Seven 

 years after he played for Eton in this cricket match at Newmarket 

 he was killed in the American war, at the battle of Ticonderago, 

 on the 5th July, 1758, when the title devolved on his brother 

 Richard, the famous admiral. 



Captain (Sir William) Draper was born in i72i,at Bristol, 

 where his father was an officer of customs. His grandfather was 

 William Draper, of Beswick, near Beverley, a famous Yorkshire 

 foxhunting squire. He was also an Eton boy ; scholar of King's 

 College, Cambridge, and subsequently a fellow of his college and 

 M.A. in 1749. But, instead of taking Holy Orders, as his friends 

 had intended, he became addicted to cricket, was famous at 

 bowling, and played for his school at the great match at New- 

 market, against All England in 1751, as before mentioned. Some 

 years before this time he obtained an ensigncy in a regiment 

 of foot (now 1st Northampton), was present at the battle of 

 Culloden, and became a captain in the ist Foot Guards April 29th, 

 1 749. His subsequent career was associated with many military 

 achievements in the East Indies and America, and in 1779 he 

 was appointed Lieut. -Governor of Minorca, where he served 

 through the famous defence of Fort Philip, against an over- 

 whelming force of French and Spaniards. During the remainder 

 of his life Sir William lived chiefly at Bath, where he died 

 January 8th, 1787. 



Henry Townshend, second son of the Hon. Thomas Towns- 

 hend, one of the Tellers of the Exchequer, M.P. for the 



