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For this he was made Lieutenant-Colonel and given the command of the 1st Ca9adores He was slightly wounded 11 Dec., 1813 'and severely wounded in attacking the heights above Orthes. He was made C.B, 4 June, 1815, and died on the Hunter River N.S.W., 14 Oct., 1853.

His son John was born in Portugal in May, 1815. He became Major of the 96th Regiment 15 June, 1815. He married 23 Feb., 1843, at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Rachel only dau. of his great-uncle Sir K. M Douglas, and died at the Curragh, 27 Jan. 1856. She died 15 Jan., 1877.

Kenneth John Mackenzie Snodgrass, son of Peter Snodgrass, M.L.A. of Melbourne, was probably related to this family. He became a Winchester Commoner in the autumn of 1858. Is anything further known of him ? ^ ... 4 ^ '.J, J

3. John James Snodgrass, captain 91st Foot, received the brevet ranks of major and lieutenant-colonel on 13 Nov., 1826, and 28 Dec., 1826, respectively. He became major 94th Foot, 3 Aug., 1830 ; lieutenant- colonel unattached, 28 June, 1833 ; and D.Q.M.G. to the troops in Nova Scotia and its dependencies, 12 Sept., 1834. He married 3 Nov., 1823, Maria Macdonald, e.dau. of General Sir Archibald Campbell, Bt., G.C.B. Their son Archibald Campbell Snodgrass was born at Government House, Fredericton, New Brunswick, in the spring of 1832. He became captain 38th Regiment 29 Dec., 1854, and major 17 July, 1855, having acted as A.D.C. to his uncle Major-General Sir John Campbell, Bt., at the unsuccessful attack on the Redan, 18 June, 1855. He died at Milbank, near Southampton, 26 Nov., 1863. MJN^

4. Thomas Snodgrass, Esq., F.R.S., formerly of the Madras Civil Service, died at 10, Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, 28 Aug., 1834. The Gentleman's Magazine^Tecords that

" returning from India many years ago with a large fortune, he fitted up a house in Chesterfield-st., with extraordinary splendour, but never received company in it more than once. He has left the sum of 175,000/. to the daughter of a widow lady named Russell, residing in Beaumont-st., Mary-le-bone : entirely because her father was kind to him when he first went to India."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Dickens did not require to go beyond the City of London to come across the name of Snodgrass. In the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, there is a clock presented to that society by a Thomas Snodgrass who

was a benefactor and member of committee of the Hospital. His name is inscribed on the clock. I understand he resided in Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, and died about 1834. The Secretary* of the Hospital wrote to me some time ago, asking if I could give him any information about this Thomas Snodgrass ; but I could not, nor have I been able to trace any of his connexions. If any of your readers can supply me with information about him, I shall be much obliged.

I have in my possession the last will and testament of a William Snodgrass of the parish of Christchurch, London, dated 5 Feb., 1775, who appears to have had two brothers, James and John ; but whether they were relations of Thomas Snodgrass or not I do not know. I should also like to have some information about Gabriel Snodgrass, shipbuilder of Chatham, men- tioned in ' N. & Q.' of 26 July, 1902.

The name Snodgrass has been fairly common in Renfrewshire for four hundred years, as the local records show. The Ren- frewshire Poll Tax Roll of 1695 gives 36 persons of the name. An Adam Snodgrass was one of the Friars Preachers and a Baillie of Ayr in 1372. ' W. G. SNODGRASS.

Riversdale, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.

This name had appeared in well-known fiction some time before the publication of ' Pickwick,' for the Rev. Charles Snodgrass figures frequently in ' The Ayrshire Lega- tees,' published anonymously in 1821 by- John Gait. NEL MEZZO.

Perhaps this name was, or is, not so vastly uncommon. There was certainly a cadet at the R.M. Academy, Woolwich, in 1861-2, bearing that patronymic. H. P. L.

Exeter's Finance Clerk is Mr. Sidney Herbert Snodgrass ; and a cousin of my own, resident in Brighton, bears the same surname. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

THE TREATY OF TILSIT: COLIN A MACKENZIE (10 S. viii. 469, 510 ; ix. 31, 96, 135, 154, 171, 237). The writer of a very able article in The Quarterly Review on ' Recent Napoleonic Literature ' (April, 1908, see p. 425 to p. 431) refers to the British Agent at Tilsit, and remarks that the subject has " called forth a spirited joints out that the statement of Dr. Rose and of a correspondent in * N. & Q.' that
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