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He was born on the 22d of February, 
1735-6. He was the fecend fon, and te- 
venth child; but his two elder brothers 
dying while infants, he, of courfe, be- 
eame keir both to the titles and fortuue. 
Gonfiderable attention was paid to his 
education; but, when he was only fix- 
teen years of ave, he fet out on his tra- 
vels for foreign parts, and remained fome 
time abroad. 
~ Ie being determined that, like his fa- 
ther, who had attaired a high rank in the 
army, and was pre‘eut at the battle of 
Dettingen, he fhould follow the military 
profeffien, he accordingly obtained a 
commillion, aud, in June 1756, was ap- 
pointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 35d 
Regiment of Foot. ‘Two: years atter, he 
received the commaud of the 72d5 and 
en Mareh 9, 1761, he attained the rank 
ef « Major General. Posterior to. this, 
he rofe, by feniority, tobe firtt a Lieu- 
tenant General, and then a Field-Mar- 
fhal. 
Nor were the fervices of this noble: 
man confined to the parade at the Horfe 
Gaurds, or a campaign in St. James’s 
Street; for he carried arms in Germany, 
under Prince Ferdinand of Brunfwick, 
and was prefent at the battle of Minden. 
On this occafion he was ih near the 
Commander in Chief; and when. Lord 
George Sackville received orders to ad- 
vance, and charge the French with the 
Britifh cavalry, he held his watch in his 
hand, and noted the time exact ctly between 
the deliv ery of the meflage and the exe- 
cution, or rather von-execution, of the 
command. He was afterwards fummon- 
ed as a witnefls to the Court-Martial 
which fat on this officer, but did not hap- 
pen to be examined. 
At the early age of fifteen, his Grace 
fucceeded bis father * ; and on the iff 
ef April, 1757, married Mary, daughter 
of Charles Bruce, Earl of Aylefbury, by 
Lady Carcline Campbell, dauchter ot 
the Jate Duke of Areyle. 
Vhile on the Continent, the Duke of 
Richmond appears te have imbibed a 
taite for the fme arts; and there is but 
little doubt that the encouragement firt 
aflorded by him to the Britith artifts, fi- 
nally led to the eftabhihment of the pre- 
fent Royal Academy. In Mareh 1738, 
\ he opened a large apartment at his houfe 
in Whitehall, in which was difpluyed a 
larce colleétion of original platier-catis, 
taken from the beit ancient ftatues and 
bufts both ot Rome and Florence. Every 
painter, fculptor, or ftudent, was treely 
adinitted ; and, for the further encourage- 
-* Aug. 1, 1750. 
Memorrs of ine ite Duke of Richmond. 
reba; 
ment of genius, his Grace beftowed two 
medals annually on fuch as had exhibited 
the two beft models... 
At the coronation of his prefent Ma~ 
jetty, (Sept. 22, 1761), the Duke carried 
the iceney and the dove, while his fitter, 
Lady Sarah: Lenox, (afterwards Lady Sa- 
rali Bunbury, and Lady Sarah. Napier, in 
fuccellion), was one of the ten ae a 
daughters of Dukes and Earls, who fup- 
ported the train of Queen Charlotte at 
her nuptials, September 6, 1761. 
A little anterior to this, he had been 
nominated a Lord of the Bedchamher* to 
George ILL; and in 1763, was appointed 
Lord Lieutenant and C ultos . Rotulorum 
of the county of Sullex, 1 in the room of 
Lord Abergavenny : the latter was re- 
tained until his death, bat be foon after 
.Teficued the former of fits a offices. 
The Duke of Richmond took his feat 
in the Houfe of. Peers in 1756, immedi- 
ately on his coming of age, and, as we 
have been given to ‘underfiand, ageacted 
himfelf to the Duke of Newez file, a no- 
bleman whofe family had. always been 
fuppoted friendly to Whig principles, 
while he himfeli appears to have been 
extremely detirous of power. But, al- 
though he neither did any good to hunfelf 
nor his country, vet he pollefied futiicient 
magnanimity, w hen he bad retired with 
a broken coniiitution and a rained. for- 
tune, to reject a pention, aad to exclaim, 
with a noble {pirit of indignation, * that 
if he could no longer ferve thedtate, he 
was, at leaft, determined not to be a 
roa Sy hide to it.’ 
At the commencement of the new 
reign, the Duke of courfe took part with 
the favourite. who had. placed him about 
the perfon of the young Monarch; and 
he is faid foon aiter, with what degree of 
truth we know nek to have given. per- 
fonal ‘offence ‘to his Sovereign, by the 
manner in which he remontir ated, rela- 
tive to. a point that nearly pea Seca his 
own honour, avd that of his family t. 
* The Duke of Richmond, in 1761, was 
appointed to this office, through the influ- ~ 
ence of the Earl of Rute. He fucteeded 
the. Duke of Manchefter, and was. one of 
*¢ the additional Lords of the Bedchamber,” 
appointed at the acceflion of his prefent Ma- 
jetty, for the exprefs purpofe, as was then’ 
fuppofed, of extending the influence of the 
Crowa, 1 bri. 
+ It has been faid, that a great perfon- 
age paid particular attention to Lady Sarah 
Lenox, then the moit beautiful woman of 
the Court, and that_her brother, with the 
{pirit- becoming a man of honour, remon- 
ftrated on the occation, during an audience 
in the clofer, 
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