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THE WEDGWOODS. 



Bentley married, as I have shown, Miss Stamford, of that 

 town, and Mr. Byerley married Frances, third daughter of 

 Mr. John Bruckfield, of Kirk Ireton and Derby, a lady pos- 

 sessed of every domestic virtue, and of the purest and most 

 refined tastes. By her, who survived him many years, he 

 had a family of five sons and eight daughters, more than 

 one of whom have been distinguished in the literary world. 

 They were as follows : Josiah (so named after the great 



potter), who was a magistrate and merchant at St. Mary's, 

 on the Gambia, where he died ; Thomas, who, while in the 

 East India Company's service, was commander of a fort, and 

 died of fever in India, at the age of twenty- three ; John, 

 who died at Malta ; Francis Bruckfield, who, at the early 

 age of eighteen, died on board ship while returning home 

 from Jamaica ; Samuel, now living in Indiana, where he is 



