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great poffeflions in England. He afterwards entered into 
the church, and became the chief fupport'of the king 
again ft Tliomas-a-Becket. He was archdeacon of Can¬ 
terbury while that fee was filled by Becket, who gave 
him the name of the Archdevil ofCanterbury. Galfridus 
afterwards became bifhop of Ely, and grand jufticiary 
of the realm. During the whole reign of Henry II. he 
was employed in the mod important fervices. He died 
1189, leaving immenfe wealth, which Richard I. feized, 
on account of his having died inteftate. Galfridus, by 
his firft wife, had two foils, Galfridus and Richard. The 
former, Galfridus V. fucceeded to the principality of 
Blaye, and is the celebrated troubador, whofe poetry 
and adventures are of the moft lingular nature which 
the ages of chivalry ever produced. He died of love at 
Tripoli. Richard, the fecond fon, upon his brother's 
death, fucceeded to almoft all the eftates in England. 
This Richard had re-affurned the furname of Baffet. 
Galfridus’s fecond wife was Sibil la, fifter to William 
Mauduit, lord of Hanflap, and anceftor of the earls of 
Warwick. By her he left two, fons and ai/daughter: 
Hugh, the eldeft fon, is the direCt anceftor of this fa¬ 
mily. William, the fecond fon, was high chancellor of 
Scotland, under William the Lion. He died 1214. 
Hugh Ridel obtained the principality of Blaye upon 
the death of his half-brother, Galfridus V. and married 
Margaret, daughter and heir of Peter de Sandto Me- 
dardo, or Semerc. He was a.moft.powerful baron, and 
in 1174 was one of the lmftages to Henry II. for William 
the Lion, king of Scotland, when taken prifoner at the 
battle of Alnwick. To that prince he v'as allied through 
the Anjou, Chefter, and St. Liz, families. Galfridus, 
fon of Hugh lord of Blaye, &c. was one of the barons 
who confpired againft king John, 1212. It would far 
exceed the limits of this divilion of the article Heraldry 
to particularize the feveral fucceeding perfonages of 
this family, which feems to have preferved, in a great 
meafure, its grandeur and importance, ifntil the reign 
of Henry VI. when they entirely loft their pofteflions in 
France, and much of their Englifti property. In the 
fixteenth century, John Riddell, efq. of Sallovves, then 
head of the family, removed into Scotland, where they 
have ever fince been feated. We ftiall only add, that fir 
James-Milles Riddell, the prefent baronet, is the thirty- 
third in defcent from Wulgrinus, the firft earl of Angou- 
lefihe and Perigord.—‘Motto, over the creft, De Apulia ; 
under the arms, Utile et dulce, Profitable and pleafant.— 
Family Seats, Ardnamurchan, and Sunart, Argyllfttire. 
GUNNING, of Eltham, Kent; created 061.17,1778. 
••—Sir Robert Gunning, Bart. K.B. was nominated, 
in 1765, his majefty’s envoy extraordinary at the court 
of Denmark, where he refided till 1771, when he was 
named minifter plenipotentiary to Frederic the Great, 
king of Prullia; and in the following year went in the 
fame charafter to the court of Peterlburgh, where his 
condudl meeting with the. approbation of his majefty, 
he was honoured with the enfigns of the order of the 
Bath; and, at the requeft of the king, was inverted with 
them, in the moft diftinguiflted manner, by the emprefs 
©f Rtiflia. After fome years refidence there, he, upon 
his return home, was created a baronet. He married, 
in 1767, Anne, daughter of Robert Sutton, efq. who 
left iffue, 1. Charlotte, born Jan. 5, 1759, feveral years 
maid of honour to the queen ; married, Jan. 3, 1790, to 
the Hon. Stephen Digby, brother to Henry earl Digby, 
and by her, who died in 1794, he had one fon, Robert- 
Henry, born September 1792, and one daughter, Ifabella, 
born May 1794. 2. George-William, born Feb. 15, 1763; 
married, Feb. 10, 1794, Elizabeth, fecond daughter of 
Heiiry Bridgen>an, the firft lord Bradford, by whom he 
has iffue, Robert-Henry, born Dec. 26, 1795; George, 
bdrn Dec. 18, 1796; Henry, born Dec. 17, 1797; Or¬ 
lando, born May 12, 1799 ; Spencer-Grefwold, born 
061. 27, 1800; John, born Dec. 1801 ; Elizabeth, born 
Jan. 27, 1803. 3. Ifabella, born 1766, and married, 06t. 
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15, i795> to major-general Rofs.—About the period of 
the reformation, there were two branches of the Gun¬ 
ning family, who had confiderable property in the coun¬ 
ties of Kent, Somerfet, and Gloucefter. That in So- 
merfet and Gloucefter terminated in the perfon of Ro¬ 
bert Gunning, of Cold Alhton, in Gloucefterlhire. From 
that in Kent defcended Peter bifhop of Ely, who died 
in 1684. Richard Gunning,* of this branch, fettled in 
Ireland in the reign of.James I. he left one fon, John, 
who married a daughter of Edward Malone, efq. and 
was feated in the county of Rofcommon, where he died 
poffefled of a very confiderable property. He left two 
fons, Barnaby and John. From Barnaby defcended the 
once-celebrated beauties the countefs of Coventry and 
duchefs of Hamilton (afterwards of Argyll), and the 
late major-general Gunning. John, the younger fon of 
John, married Mary, daughter of William Maron, efq. 
of the county of Dublin, by whom he had two fons, 
Robert and John, who died unmarried. Robert, the 
elder fon, married his coufin, Catharine, daughter of 
Thomas Edwards, efq. and^ dying in 1750, left two fons, 
Robert, now the baronet, arid William, who, command¬ 
ing a company in the fecond regiment of foot, highly 
diftinguiflied himfelf at the taking of Guadaloupe, where 
he bravely fell, generally regretted. — Motto, Imperio 
regit urns ttquo, One governs with equitable fway.— 
Family Seat, Horton, in Northamptonlhire. 
RUMBOLD, of Farrand, Yorkftiire ; created March 
2 3 > * 779 -—Sir Rumbold, the third baronet, fuc¬ 
ceeded his -fatter, fir G. B. who died at Memel, Dec. 
15, 1807.—The firft baronet was the well-known fir 
Thomas Rumbold, governor of Madras.—Family Seat, 
Farrand, Yorklhire. 
FARMER, of Mount Pleafant, Suffex ; created 06K 
26, 1779.—SirGEORGE-WiLi.iAM Farmer was created 
a baronet, as above, in honour to the memory of his 
gallant father, captain Farmer,, of his majefty’s Ihip 
Quebec; married, 1786-, Mils Kenrick.—Captain Far¬ 
mer, being on a cruize off Ulhant, in company with the 
Rambler.cutter, came up with and clofely engaged a 
large French frigate, called the Surveillante, mounting 
40 guns, while the Rambler was engaged with a French 
cutter, as fuperior in force as the French frigate was to 
the-Quebec. The aftion on both fides was warm and 
bloody, for fix hours,. when the French cutter bore 
away; but the Rambler was too much difabled in her 
marts and riggingto follow her with any hopes of coming 
up. The commander, therefore, feeing both the frigates 
difmafted, and the Quebec take fire, endeavoured to get 
as near the Quebec as poflible, in hopes "of faving fome 
of her men; but, there being little wind, and-a large- 
fwell, no other aftiftance could be afforded than by hold¬ 
ing out the boat, which picked up one mailer’s mate,, 
two young midftiipmen, and fourteen more of the Que¬ 
bec’s people, the enemy’s frigate at the fame time.firing 
at the boat. The Quebec continued to burn very fierce¬ 
ly for four hours, when the blew up. No language can 
exprefs the gallantry and- magnanimity difplayed ’by 
captain Farmer on this occafion,. not only in the engage¬ 
ment, but in the fatal, cataftrophe with which it was at¬ 
tended. - Having his arm broken towards the clofe o£ 
the engagement, he tied his handkerchief round the 
Ihattered part of the bone, and then addrelfed his men 
as follows: “ My lads! this is warm work; therefore 
keep up your fire with double fpirit; we will die or 
conquer!” When the Ihip took flre, the captain, the firft 
lieutenant, and many of the crew, remained on-board ; 
but moft of the men jumped into the fea, where num¬ 
bers perilhed in fight of thofe on-board the (hip. The 
fire now raging with more violence, he faw inevitable 
deftrudtion fall approaching; and, while he entreated 
the crew to jump into the lea and fave their lives by 
gaining the long-boat, he fat with a fedate and fteady 
countenance on the fluke of the fheet-anchor, waiting 
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