£90 
and continued in that office until March, 
1776, when. he was fucceeded by Mr. Eden, 
now Lord Auckland. 
In Grofvenor Place, February 24, Auzne, 
Countefs of Upper Offory, daughter of the late 
_ Lord Ravenfworth, by Anne, only daughter 
of Sir Peter Delme, Lord Mayor of London. 
This lady was married on the 29th of Janu- 
ary, 1756, to the prefent Duke of Grafton, 
by whom fhe had iffue, Lady Georgiana, 
born in May, 1757, married in June, 1778, 
to John Smyth, of Heath, efq. Yorkshire, 
and who died in the month of January, 1799, 
leaving iffue, George-Henry, Earl of Eufton, 
born May 8, 1757; married, June 16, 1784, 
to Charlotte-M4ria, daughter of the fecond 
Earl of Waldegrave, by the prefent Duchefs 
of Gloucefter, and by her has iffue, four 
fons and four daughters, viz. Ipfwich, Charles, 
William, and Hugh-George; Maria, Laura, 
Elizabeth, and Ifabella ; a fon born in 1798, 
died ina few days ; Charles, born in July, 
3764, married Mifs Mundy, who died in 
Auguft, 1797, leaving one fon, Charles- 
Auguftus. His Lordfhip afterwards. married 
Lady Frances Stewart, daughter of the Earl 
of Londonderry. In the month of March, 
1769, the Duchefs of Grafton was divorced 
- from the Duke, by a& of parliament, and in 
the fame month fhe married the Earl of Upper 
Offory, by whom fhe had two daughters, 
Lady Anne, born February 24,-1770, and 
Lady Gertrude. 
irs. Lucy Cuff, a maiden lady, and 
only remaining fifter of the ‘late Mr. Jobn 
Cuft, who. was eleéted Speaker of the 
Houfe of Commons in the year 1761, upon 
the refignation of the great Arthur Onflow, 
and continued in the chair until-the year 
41770, when he was fucceeded by Sir Fletcher 
Norton. She was daughter to Sir Richard 
Cuft, bart.\by his lady, Anne, who was the 
daughter of Sir William Brownlow, bart. 
and fifter to Lord Vifcount. Tyrconnel. 
Lately, the Right Hon. Richard Pepper Ar- 
den, Lord Alwanley, Chief Juftice of the 
Court of Common Pleas. His Lordthip was 
a younger fon of an ancient family, which 
pofieffes large eftates in Yorkfhire and Che- 
fhire. He received his early education ata 
free-fthool in Yorkshire. He was fent 
thence to continue his ftudies at Trinity Col- 
~ lege, Cambridge. At that univerfity, or at 
_leaft in confequence of ftudying there, he 
obtained the private and convivial friendihip 
of the Right Hon. William Pitt. -He came 
early to the Temple,’ and, after the ufual 
ceurfe of juridical fludy, was called to the 
bar. His diligence, and the livelinefs of 
his genius, foon recommended him to prac- 
tice in the Court of Chancery... His fociety 
Was, at the fame time, the delight of his pri- 
vate friends. He had fixed his refidence in 
Lincoln’s Inn, after finithing his ftudies in 
the Middle Temple; and it is faid that he 
there lived on! the fame ftaircafe with the 
Jate prime minifter, and that they ufed 
Deaths in and near London. 
[April 1; 
there to affociate very much together. 
He had not been many years atthe bar, when 
he contracted a fuitable marriage with the 
daughter of Richard Wilbraham Bootle, efg. 
of Chefhire, an opulent member of parlia- 
ment. The influence of his own ‘and his 
Lady’s family: brought him early into the 
Houfe of Commons. He naturally attached 
himfelf to his friend Mr; Pitt, upon the 
great crifis in adminiftration after the Ameri- 
can war 5; and he is faid to have then had in- 
fluence to bring an addition of fix votes in 
the Houfe to the fide upon which he chofe 
to range himfelf. His praétice at the bar 
had, in the mean time, fo increafed, as to 
give him, though no favourite of Lord 
Thurlow in the Court of Chancery, very 
confiderable refpetability in the public efti- 
mation as a lawyer. By the zealous friend- 
fhip of Mr. Pitt, he was promoted to the ape. 
pointment of Mafter of the Rolls, upon 
the late Lord Kenyon’s elevation to prefide 
in-the Court of King’s Bench. He filled 
that important office with great credit: to 
himfelf and much fatisfa@tion to the publi¢, 
till the zra of Mr Pitt’s refignation. Among 
the changes which then enfued, he was ad~ 
vanced to the office of Chief Juftice in the 
Court of Common Pleas. He was, at the 
fame time, honoured witha peerage, by the 
title of Baron Alvanley, of Alvanley, inthe 
county-palatine of Chefter. In the Court of 
Common Pleas, his arguments and judg- 
ments have been fuch, as not a little to exe 
alt the general efteem for his talents and 
learning as a lawyer. The Court has been 
in his time filled with fuitors and with pu&- 
nefs 3 and his fentences, even in the moft 
difficult cafes, has given univerfal fatisfae- 
tion. Inthe Houfe of Commons he was dif- 
tinguifhed for fpeaking with fpirit, wit, and‘ 
intelligence, rather than with command- 
ing dignity. To his exertions as a fpeaker 
in the Houfe of Peers, everrdignity of manner 
has not been wanting. He has filled feveral 
eminent fituations ; and in all thefe, has been 
found more than equal to the duties of his 
place and to the expectations of the public. 
His condud in private life has been uniformly 
upright and amiable. His death is lamented 
as a lofs to his country. He is fucceeded in 
the peerageof Alvanley by his eldeft fon. © 
At Little Holland Houfe, the Right Hon. 
Thomas Pitt, Lord Camelferd, of a wound ‘a 
which he received in a duel with Mr. Beft:— 
He was the great grandfon of the famous 
Thomas Pitt, who in India acquired the 
greater part of an ample independent fortune 
by the advantageous purchafe of a diamond, 
~which was fotd in Europe, with great profit, 
His father | 
tothe Regent Duke of Orleans, 
was the nephew of the late Lord Chatham.— 
He himfelf was born about the year 1774. 
In his fpirit and temper, when he wasa boy, . 
there appeared fomething, that, though vi- 
gorous and manly, was, however, peculiar 
and unmanageable. He was, therefore, in 
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