ROBERT UVEDALE. 11 
Doister ranks as the earliest of English comic dramatists. The 
John de Uvedale who married Sybilla de Scures had a grandson, 
Sir Thomas, who died in 1474, leaving two ne oe ere Uve- 
dale, of Wickham, who died in 1524, and Tho whose > oe 
Henry Uvedale, described as of More Grichel, Dorset, died i in » 1518. 
This Sir Henry had a son, Sir William, who died in 1542, leaving 
a son Francis, of Horton, who died in 1590. His son Thomas ied 
in 1612, leaving a son, Sir William, and another, Richard, who 
died in 1656 or 1658, and was buried at Horton. This Richard 
married Johanna, daughter of pie White, of Weymouth and 
Melcombe Regis, whose name seems to account for the introdue- 
tion of the name Robert, not hitherto a family name, into the 
Uvedale pedigree. Their son Robert is described as of St. Mar- 
garet’s, Westminster, and died in 1683, having had three sons: 
homas, born in 1641, who died young; Robert, the botanist ; and 
another, Thomas, born in 1650. This branch of the family 
belonging to Dorsetshire, a great-grandson and namesake of the 
botanist scented a fairly full account of his ancestors, with a 
pedigree, to Hutchins’ History ae the County.* 
Robert Uvedale, son of Robert Uvedale, was born in the parish 
of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, May 25th, 1642, and was baptized 
may very ceonas have had Locke and Dryden, "with the latter of 
whom he afterwards collaborated, as senior pega er and it 
was piobably with lone Ee havi e r 
Beret that Plukenet speaks Pe Uvedale ak of renee as ‘* con- 
isci his school-days the only incident ree 
at the funeral of Oliver Cromwell, in 1658, he snatched one of the 
OuCleore from the bier of the Protector, which was preserved in 
his family at least until 1794.§ Copies of his Oratio Valedictoria, 
habita in Schola Westmonasteriensi, 1659; of his Epistole ad Elec- 
tores; and of Verses read after Dinner at the Feast, Westminster 
College, May 4, 1659, were in the possession of his great-grandson, 
Rev. Robert Uvedale. They were addressed, according to custom, 
to Dr. Wilkins, Master of Trinity College; Dr. Owen, Dean of 
Christ Church; Mr. Linet, Senior Fellow of Trinity, &e. || 
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April, 1659, his name being then registered as Robert Udall"; but 
* Ed. iii. vol. 3. p. 144 e 
As eomriain of RN ae Rev. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A., Lond. 1851, 
p. 1 
t cis tab. xxxii. sub fig. 6 (1691), and Almagestum, p. 3 
a, § ee s Magazine (letters from his great-grandson), vol. 2 114 and 
ll Botnson, History of Enfield, p. 110. 
{ List of the Queen’s Scholars of - ——. be Westminster. Collected 
by Jos. “Welch. New ed. By d King’s Scholar [R. J. Phillimore] 
Lond. 1852, it 152. Uvedale is gation weicarortean described as “an eminen 
Fulham.” 
