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Horse Guards, and of other regiments of the household brigade." King William gave her 51., and Queen Adelaide an annuity of

In 1836, on Easter Monday, 4 April, Col. Hill, on behalf of the Royal Horse Guards, presented her with a copy of the ' Historical Account ' of the regiment (by Capt. Packe). In it was a long inscription, which is given in the text.

The expenses of her funeral were defrayed by Colonel, now (1838) General Hill.

Touching the visits of the Marquis of Granby's sons to the public-house called after him, I find that the name " Mr. Man- ners " appears frequently (1763-71) in ' Eton College Lists, 1678-1790,' edited by R. A. Austen Leigh, 1907. " Mr. Manners " means at Eton " The Hon. Manners."

The questions whether there are in or near Windsor any descendants of " the old campaigner Sarah Walker " ; whether the presentation copy of Capt. Packe' s ' His- torical Account ' of the Blues is in existence ; and whether Sumpter's public-house was the first " Marquis of Granby," are perhaps interesting. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

SIR WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL'S PARENT- AGE. As none of the obituary notices of Sir William Howard Russell, so far as I am aware, gave any particulars of his parents beyond their names, it is as well to place on record in ' N. & Q.' some facts which I have already communicated to the Liverpool papers.

Facing the Huskisson monument in St. James's Cemetery, Liverpool, at the foot of St. James's Mount, is a headstone bearing the following inscription to the memory of Russell's parents and younger brother :

In memoriam

Marise, Johannis Russell uxoris dilectissimae,

Filise Pref : Joh 8 Kelly,

de Lily- Vale in Com : Dublin.

Obiit Maii xxx. 1840, ^Etat 36.

Atque Joh 8 Howard,

Filii sec : Johannis et Marine Russell,

Div : Joh : Evang : Coll : Cantab : alumni.

apud Claughton, Maii xxiv. 1847,

Obiit. ^Etat 24.

Atque supra diet : Joh 8 Russell, qui apud Londinum, Obiit Junii xxix. 1867.

Et in Coemeterio apud Mortlake sepultus est.

John Russell, who was a jeweller by trade lived for many years in Liverpool, where he was shopwalker or manager at " Promoli's Bazaar," a shop on the south side of Church Street, belonging to Mr. F. L. Hausburg,

devoted to the sale of jewellery and mis- cellaneous articles. " Many who are now living," wrote Mr. Arthur Earle, of Child- wall Lodge, to The Liverpool Daily Post of 13 February last, in reference to my letter of the day before,

"must remember how Mr. Russell used to delight the boys and girls coming into the shop by starting ot the musical boxes which were sold there. He was a charmingly courteous old gentleman, with a rubicund face, and a good supply of fine white hair, always well kept, and by some means inclined to curl at the bottom. Knowing that my late brother, General Earle, was serving in the Crimea, he iised to send my father, Sir Hardman Earle, his private letters from his son, which were most interesting."

John Russell lived for some time in Windsor View, off Lodge Lane, a spot in those days quite out of the town. He and his family are well remembered by relatives of my own who lived in Lodge Lane over sixty years ago. In 1849 he was living at Manor View, Claughton, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, and the inscription above suggests that he had removed there in 1847 or earlier. He had a third son, Fred Russell, born about 1827, remembered as an expert thrower of stones, who died while at school in Germany.

The beginnings of men who achieve eminence are so often misrepresented that it is well to demonstrate Sir William Howard Russell's very respectable middle-class deri- vation. The biographers of the future may thus know that the most distinguished of British war correspondents neither was born to the advantages of wealth and position, nor had to combat the disad- vantages of poverty and lowly birth.

ALEYN LYELL READE.

Park Corner, Blundellsands, near Liverpool.

THE KEEPER or NEWGATE. In none of the standard works upon the recently demolished Newgate Prison is there a com- plete list of its Governors or Keepers. During the greater part of the eighteenth century the two Akermans father and son held the office. According to Knapp and Baldwin's ' Newgate Calendar ' (1824), vol. i. p. 88, the elder Akerman occupied the position in 1729, and he was succeeded by his son, who remained the Governor of the prison until his death on 19 Nov., 1792 (Gent. Mag., vol. Ixii. pt. ii. pp. 1062, 1150). This is the Mr. Akerman whose praises are chronicled by Boswell, and whose kindness and humanity to the prisoners under his care are often spoken of in the literature of crime.