By the Rev. J. Ward. 



313 



A.D. 



1792. Edward Hyde East, Esq. loco Lord Doime, deceased. The 

 new writ was ordered 1 Feb. 1792. 



1793. James George, Viscount Stopford having been made 

 Treasurer of His Majesty's Household, and a new writ 

 ordered 21 June 1793, was re-elected. 



John, Lord Doune, second, but eldest surviving son of Francis, 

 eighth Earl of Moray, by Jane, eldest daughter of John, twelfth 

 Lord Gray, was born in Edinburgh 11 Feb. 1768, and died, un- 

 married, in his father's life time, 6 July 1791. He was buried at 

 Dunibrisal, on the coast of Fife, N.B. 



James George, Viscount Stopford, eldest son of James, second 

 Earl of Courtown, succeeded to the Earldom in 1810, and died in 

 1835. 



Edward Hyde East, son of Edward East, Esq. of Whitehall, 

 Jamaica, was born in 1764. He was an eminent lawyer and 

 the author of the celebrated "Term Reports," "East's Reports," 



I and of a work entitled " Pleas of the Crown." He was knighted 

 in 1812, on being appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 

 of Judicature at Calcutta, where he will be long remembered as 

 the founder of the Hindoo College. After his return to England, 

 he was created a Baronet, his patent bearing date, 25 April 1823. 

 He was a Privy Councillor and a Fellow of the Royal Society, and 

 died in 1847. 



1796. 36 Geo. III. Sept. 27. The Hon. Thomas Bruce. John 



Wodehouse, Esq. 



1797. Robert John Buxton, Esq. loco the Hon. Thomas Bruce, 

 deceased. The new writ was ordered 15 Dec. 1797. 



The Hon. Thomas Bruce was third son of William, eighth Earl of 

 Kincardine; brother to Charles the ninth Earl, who inherited the 

 Earldom of Elgin on the death of Charles, Earl of Ailesbury and 

 Elgin ; uncle to William Robert, and Thomas, the tenth and 

 eleventh Earls, the latter of whom was the celebrated collector of 

 the Elgin marbles, whilst Ambassador in Turkey. Thomas Bruce 

 was a Lieut. General in the Army and Colonel of the 16th regi- 

 ment of Foot. 



John Wodehouse, Esq. was son of Sir John Wodehouse, the 

 seventh Baronet of Kimberley, co. Norfolk, who was elevated to 

 the Peerage as Baron Wodehouse of Kimberley, on the 26 Oct. 

 1797. He succeeded his father in 1834, was appointed Lord 

 Lieutenant of the county, and Yice Admiral of the Coast, of Nor- 

 folk, Colonel of the East Norfolk Militia, and Lord Steward of 

 Norwich Cathedral. He died in 1846. 



