1905.] Account of the late Francis Eyre, efg.—Lord Chedworth. 553 
who had the felicity of being reckoned 
among his friends. He will long furvive in 
the memories of thofe whom he valued and 
efteemed; and, ‘while unaffefted piety, in- 
flexible integrity, difinterefted generofity, and 
manly grace, are recollected by them, they 
will never want an example in whom thefe 
Virtues,were tempered, with every ple:fing 
and attra¢tive quality ] 
[ Further particulars of Francis Eyre, ef. 
whofe death is noticed at p. 354.—Mr. Eyre 
married Lady Mary Radcliffe, daughter of 
Charles Radcliffe, efq. beheaded on Tower 
Hill, in the year 17465 and by her had three 
fons, and one daughter, who was married to 
Serjeant Onflow. Lady Mary Eyre died in 
17995 and two years afterwards, Mr. Eyre 
Married. Mifs Hernon, who furvives him: 
He was the author of the following works: 
1. A few Remarks on the Hiftory of the 
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, re- 
lative chiefly to the Two laft Chapters. By 
a Gentleman. London,1778, 8vo. 154 pages. 
2. A Short Appeal to the Public. By the 
Gentleman who js particularly addrefled in 
the Pofticript of the Vindication of fome 
Paffages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chap- 
ters of the Decline and Fall of the Koman 
Empire. _ London, 1799, 8vo. 41 pages. 
3. A thort Efflay on the Chriftian Religion, 
é&c. 3 the whole propofed as a Prefervative 
ayaiait the pernicious Doctrines which have 
overwhelmed France with Mifery and Defo- 
lation, By a fincere Friend of Mankind. 
London, 1795, 3vo. 140 pages—On Mr. 
Churton, Rector of Middleton-Cheney, to 
which parifh that of Warkworth adjoins, 
addretiing to his parithioners, at his firft com- 
ing among them, A Defence of the Church 
of England, Mr. Eyre, feeling the ftrength 
of his arguments againft the religion of the 
Church of Rome, which he profeffed, pub- 
lifhed, 4, A Letter to the.Rev. Mr. Ralph 
Churton, &¢. from Francis Eyre, of Wark- 
worth, efg. London, 1795.—This was an- 
{wered by Mr. Churton; and Mr. Eyre pub- 
lifhed, 5. A Reply to the Rev. Ralph Chur- 
ton, &c. London, 17983 which occafioned 
afhore Pofttcript by Mr. Churton, and there 
the controverly ended.— The eftate at Wark- 
worth was bequeathed by —— Holman, efq. 
to his nephews, the late Mr. Eyre, and his 
bro:her, who fold his moiety many years ago. 
Patt of the other moiety, conifting of the 
manor o, Upper Middleton-Cheney, and cer- 
tain eftates in that parish, was lately fold 
to Mr. Hulton, a holier, in Newgate-ftreet 5 
andit is faid the remainder, with the fine 
‘old manfion, called Warkworth Caftle, will 
how come under the hammer. | , 
[further particulars of Lord Chedworth, 
whofe death was announced in our lafi number.— 
Lora Chedworth fucceeded his uncle Frede- 
rick, Henry, OStober 6, 1781. oe! Lord- 
fhip’s granufather, john Howe, efq. of Wilt- 
hire, was a zealous fupporter of Sir, Robert 
Mof®tury Mae, No. 123. 
Walpole’s adminiftration, and was raifed to 
the peerage in 1741. He was fucceeded, in 
1742, by his eldeft fon, John Thynne Howe, 
who married the daughter of Sir P. P. Long, 
of Suffolk, but dying without iffue in 1762, 
was fucceeded by his next brother, Frederick - 
Henry, who died unmarriedin 1731. Lord 
Chedworth’s father, Thomas, the third fon 
(and the only one that had iffue), was a cler- 
gyman, and marriedin 1746, the daughter of 
Thomas White, efq. of Tattingftone Place, 
near Ipfwich. After his deceafe, in 1776, 
his widow refided at Ip{wich, where the died. 
Lord Chedworth was born Auguft 22, 1754, 
and was educated at Harrow fchvol, where 
he gave a very early proof of his inclination 
tothe ftage and the turf, to both of which 
he continued always exceedingly attached. 
At the age of fixteen he played, at fchool, 
the charaéters of Colonel Feignwell and 
Midas. From Harrow he went to Queen’s 
College at Oxford, and having ftayed the. 
ufual time at the univerfity, he returned to 
his mother’s houfe at Ipiwich, lived with 
her till her deceafe, and always made Ipf- 
wich his general place of refidence. ‘To the 
flage and dramatic compofitions Lord Ched- 
worth was critically attentive; and hence 
arofe his grcat acquaintance with fome of the 
performers on the Ip{wich theatre. He ftu- 
died Shak{fpeare intimately, and has left a 
volume of MSS. notes, which contains fome 
obdfervations and illuftrations of his own, but 
more generally his opinions upon thofe of 
otker commentators. With the claffics, and 
particalarly the Latin ones, as well as with 
the be& compofitions of the Englifh poets, he 
wes well acquainted, and was extremely ex- 
pert in quoting and applying them: he was 
alfo very fond of, and well read in, the 
ftudy of the laws; and as a magiftrate and 
chairman at the Ipfwich Seffions, he dif- — 
played great legal information and judgment. 
Fils attachment to horfe-racing, which ap- 
peared when he was at fchool, prevailed 
through life ; and though he never kept any 
running horfes, nor betted to any amount, 
he conftantly attended Newmarket, where 
his fkill and integrity were held in fuch high 
eftimation, that he was frequently confulted 
upon the niceft calculations of theturf. He 
was of a very religious caft of mind, had 
read much of religious controverfy, was a 
firm believer in the truth of Chriftianity, and 
ftrongly attached to the eftablifhment in 
Church and State. From his boyhood, Lord 
Chedworth’s manners were fhy and referved 3 
and to this circumftance, and to a peculiarity 
of appearance and manner, it was poffibly 
owing, that at Epfom races, in the year 
1731, a gentleman received an unfavourable 
impreflion, and, under the influence of a foul 
fulpicion, bag him. To wipe away any un- 
“juft imputation, Lord Chedworth, then Mr. 
Howe, appealed to the laws of his country. 
A timidity of temper, and {till more, the in- 
aC Auence, 
