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i746, Mifs Sarah Brent, of Horfley-down, 
a fenibyg and agreeable lady, by whom 
he had two fons; one ‘died an infant, the 
other furvives. She died, aged 50, May 7, 
1778, fincerely lamented by him. He was 
buried with her, Dec. 10, in Bunhill-fields, 
when the Rev. Mr. Ketlo, of Bethnal-green, 
delivered an appropriate addrefs over the grave; 
and on the following Sunday a Funeral Ser- 
mon was preached in his Meeting-houfe by the 
Rev. Mr, Kingfbury of Southampton, to a 
crowded. auditory. i 
{ Further particulars of Sir Roger Newdigate, 
whofe death is mentioned at p. 598 of our taft 
wvolume,——He was the feventh child, and young- 
eft fon, of Sir Richard N. bart. by his fecond 
lady, El zabeth, daughter of Sir Roger Twilden, 
bart. Sir Richard died in 17275 and. was 
fucceeded in title and eftate by his fifth (then 
the oldeft furviving) fon, Sir Edward Newdi- 
gate, who died in 1734, and was fucceeded 
by his youngeft fon, Roger, who was as that 
time a King’s fcholar at Weftminfter-fchool, 
where, by his own choice, he continued three 
years, and became a member of Univerfity- 
college, Oxford, and made the tour of France 
and Italy. Soon after his return, he had the 
honour to be unanimoufly eleéted knight of 
the fhire for the county of Middlefex, upon 
a vacancy by the creation of the Right Hon. 
William Pulteney Earl of Bath, in 1742; 
and in 1743 he married Sophia, daughter of 
Edward Conyers, ‘of Copt-hall, in the county 
of Effex, efq.; who, after a long-continued 
ftate of ill-heaith, died in i774, and was 
buried at Harefield, where is her monument, 
a white marble vafe, with a female figure in 
baflo relievo recumbent; on the top an angel 
leaning on an extinguifhed torch; on the 
plinth are thefe lines from Petrarch: . 
«* Per me non pianger piu ch’ miei di ferfi 
Morendo eterni e nel eterno lume 
Quando moftrai chiuder gl’ occhi gli afperfi.” 
Ona tablet underneath: | | 
‘< Tn memory 
of his moft truly amiable, 
much and long-loved wifey 
Sophia, Ladv Newdigate, 
daughter ot Edward Conyers, 
ef Copped-hall, Effex, Efquiré, 
by Matilda, daughter of 
William Baron Lempfter, 
born Dec. 20th, 1718, 
married May 21ft, 1743, 
died July 9th, 1774. 
Sir Roger Newdigate, Baronet, 
. ‘with many tears, erected this monument.” 
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“Aceount of Sir Roger Newdicate. 
[Feb. 1, 
In 1749, Sir Roger Newdigate was admitted 
to the degree of LL.D. at Oxford;-and, on the: 
31% of January, 1750, upon a vacancy made 
by Lord Cornbury’s being called to the Houfe 
of Peers, he had the honour to be returned 
the firft upon the poll for a burgefs for the 
Univerfity of Oxford. Such is the noble ex- - 
ample of independence in eleétions, fet to all 
electors by that learned and refpectable body, 
thet to declare, to canvafs, to treat, or even 
to be feen within the limits of the Univerfity, 
during a vacancy, would be, in any candidate, 
a forfeiture of all favour, and an utter exclu~ 
‘fion. By this diftinguifhed condu@, invaria- 
bly purfued, by the honour they confer on 
the objeét of their choice, they reflect the 
higheft honour on themfelves. Thus honoured 
was Sir Roger Newdigate, not knowing that 
he was propofed, fupported, and elected, till 
he received a letter from the vice-chancellor 
by one of the efquire beadies ; and inthe fame _- 
manner, without application or expence what- 
foever, he was re-eleted in 1754, and again 
in 1761, and in 1768; and for-the fifth time 
in 1774, being then abfent in Italy, which he 
had re-vifited that fummer. On the diffolu- 
tion of that parliament, in 1780, after 35 years . 
fervice in parliament, advanced in years, and 
his health affected by a town life, much ill- 
health of his family, and withing for repofe, 
he folicited his difmiffion, and retired from. 
public life. In 1776, he married his fecond 
lady, Hefter, daughter of Edward Mundy, of 
Shipley, in Derbyfliire, efq. and fifter to Ed- 
ward Miller Mundy, efy. knight of the fhire 
for that county, who ‘died Sept. 30, 1800. In 
1786 he built a villa, in a beautiful fituation, 
which overlooks the valley of the river Col- 
ney, within‘a mile of Uxbridge. ‘Two royal 
vifits to the Lord Keeper Egerton at Hare- 
- field, the manfion of the late baronet, are 
' recorded in the 3d volume of “* Queen Eliza- 
beth’s Progreffes,” 1601 and 16025 where we’ 
find alfo that Sir Roger was once poflefied of 
an account in MS. of this vifit, with a col- 
leétion of the complimentary fpeeches with. 
which, as was cuftomary on theie occafions, 
the was addreffed.. The MS. is unfertunately 
loft ; but Sir Roger Newdigate recollected that 
the Queen was firft welcomed to a farm-houle, 
now called Dew’s farm, by feveral allegorical 
perfons, who attended her to a long avenue 
of trees leading to the houfe, which obtained 
from this circumftance the name of The Queen’s 
walk. Four trees of this avenue itill’remaing ~ 
and the greater-part were ftanding not many 
years ago. 10K 
Saag ERRATA. \ 
In the Remarks on Earl Stanhope’s Theory of Tuning, the title in ‘the Table of ‘Contents, 
inftead of ** Defence of,” thould have run, ‘* Remarks on Earl Stanbope’s Syftem,” Be. 
Allo, in the Remarks, page 350, col. 2, line 23, for “ thee,” read © then. 
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