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 of the Bedchamber to George IV in 1829-30, and to William IV from 1830-37. In 1834 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Order. In 1835 he was appointed Governor-General of Canada, but the Government changing, he never took up the appointment. Suitably enough, the appointment was gazetted on April 1! Having lost his wife in 1837, he married in 1839 the widow of the sixth Earl of Plymouth. In the beautiful park of Montreal he found abundant opportunity of gratifying his taste for trees and flowers, and the many friendships he had formed during his long and varied career gave him the society he loved. His manner was animated: his features, as we see them in the portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, were calm, gracious, and regular. 'A statesmanlike face' would be no bad description. He came of a long-lived stock. After his second marriage he spent a good deal of his time at Knole, and there he died on March 13, 1857. In the year of the Mutiny, but, before the tidings of horror came, the veteran passed away, at the ripe age of eighty-four.