50 Maria Riddell, the Friend of Burns. 



Fletcher99 of Gwernhaylod, in Flintshire. Writing of this 

 marriage to Lady Abercorn, Sir Walter Scott says : — " Have 

 you heard, by the bye, that little Mrs. Riddell of Hampton 

 Court (Burns' Mrs. Riddell) has married a young officer of 

 Dragoons? My friend Mathias^oo (the author of the Pursuits 

 of Literature) will in all probability break his heart upon this 

 melancholy occasion. i^i At the time of her second marriage, 

 Maria Riddell is described as " of Hampton Court " in papers 

 belonging to the Lloyd Fletcher family, ^^^ go that it seems 

 probable that after Walter Riddell's death, though how soon 

 after is not known, she went to live with her relative, Lady 

 Lavington,!*'^ who had been granted apartments by the Crown 

 in Hampton Court Palace, in consideration of Lord Laving- 

 ton's distinguished services. Maria's second marriage was 

 of but short duration, for she died on December 15th, 1808.1^ 



99 B. June 25th, 1782, served in the 16th Lancers (Light 

 Dragoons), afterwards commanded Royal Flintshire Militia, d. 

 .April 13th, 1863, and was buried in Overton-on-Dee Churchyard 

 (Parish Registers of Overton-on-Dee Church, Flintshire, and 

 Correspondence with Mr. LI. W. H. Tringham, grand-nephew of 

 Colonel Phillips Lloyd Fletcher). 



100 Thomas James Mathias, h. 1794? Satirist and Italian 

 scholar, d. 1835. 



101 Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott, vol. i. (1894), p. 113. 



102 Avct. Mr. LI. W. H. Tringham (vide supra note 99). 



103 Francoise Lambertine de Kolbel (daughter of Frederick 

 MaximiHan, Baron de Kolbel, Major-General in Imperial Service), 

 m. September 1st, 1767, at St. George's, Hanover Square, Ralph 

 Payne, who was created Baron Lavington, October 1st, 1795, and 

 who was Governor of the Leeward Isles 1771-1775, and from 1801 

 till his death in August, 1807, when Lady Lavington was granted 

 a suite of apartments in " The Principal Seci'etary of State's 

 Lodgings" in Hampton Court Palace, where she died May 2nd, 

 1830. (The History of the Island of Antigua, by Vere Langford 

 Oliver, vol. iii. (1899), pp. 7-9, and History of Hampton Court 

 Palace, by Ernest Law, vol. iii. (1891), p. 455.) Maria Riddell'* 

 mother, Frances Payne, who married AVilliam Woodley, was a- 

 second cousin of Ralph Payne, who was created Baron Lavington. 

 An amusing account of Sir Ralph and Lady Payne is given in Sir 

 P. WraxaU's Posthumous Memoirs of my own Time, ed. by 

 Wheatley, vol. iii., p. 410. 



104 She was buried in Overton-on-Dee Churchyard on December 

 20th, 1808 (Overton-on-Dee Burial Registers). 



