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was born about 1691, and married in 1748 Louisa Brae hell of Hammersmith. He was lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Foot, anc afterwards (27 Feb., 1752) colonel of the S8th Foot. On 12 May, 1756, ho was trans f erred to the 4th, or King's Own Regiment of Foot, and was promoted to be major general 24 January, 1758, lieutenant general 6 December, 1760. After fifty- seven years' service he died at Toulouse on 2 January, 1765, aged 73, and was buried on 26 March in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey. He, too, was captain of St. Mawes Castle (D. C. A. Agnew, ' Protestant Exiles from France,' vol. ii. pp. 280-81, vol. iii. p. 228; A. N. Campbell-Maclachlan, 'Wil- liam Augustus, Duke of Cumberland,' p. 216 ; S. P. Oliver, 'Castles of Pendennis and St. Mawes,' p. 100).

The widow of Alexander Duroure sur- vived him, and died at Mortlake on 10 October, 1780. Peter Brtfchell of Hammer- smith, no doubt a relation, was one of her husband's executors (Col. Chester's ' Regis- ters of Westminster Abbey, 5 p. 405). There was, apparently, no issue of the marriage.

For the following paragraph I am indebted to J. G. Alger, ' Englishmen in the French Revolution,' pp. 199-200:

" Louis Henri Scipio Beauvoir, Comte Duroure, was the grandson of Bolingbroke's [half] sister, Lady Catherlough. The name Scipio, which fitted in so conveniently with Jacobin usages and in favour of which he dropped his other names, had for several generations been a family one. A Scipio Duroure, probably his grandfather, entered the English army in 1705, and became a colonel. He himself was born at Marseilles in 1763, but was educated in England. He knew Josephine, returning with her in the same vessel from Martinique in 1791. As a * municipal ' he proposed and carried a resolution that the 3th January, the anniversary of Louis XVJ.'s death, should be styled the fete des sans-culotles. He did not, however, side with Robespierre, and was imprisoned at St. Lazare during the latter part of the Terror, nor did he again figure in politics. Under the Empire he studied juris- prudence and grammar, and translated Cobbett's English Grammar. He died in 1822 in London, whither he is said to have gone to claim an in- heritance."

This man must have been the son of the elder of Lady Luxborough's two daughters, who " married a French count " (' D.N.B.,' sub Knight, Henrietta, Lady Luxborough). A copy of the third edition of this trans- lation by Duroure is in the National Library at Paris ; it is entitled

" le maitre d' anglais ou Grammaire raisonnee pour faciliter aux francais 1'etude de la langue

anglaise. par William Cobbett 3 Edition

vue; par L. H. Scipion Duroure Paris,

loOo.

The fifth edition is at the British Museum : it was published in 1816, and the trans- lator then called himself Du Roure. In a note to p. xii of the preface he refers to Lord Bolingbroke and Lady Luxborough : " le premier de ces auteurs etait mon grand oncle, et 1'autre mon aieule maternelle."

John Duroure was in the Coldstream Guards, becoming ensign on 20 June, 1768, lieutenant 3 June, 1774, captain 15 March, 1779, and he retired from the service on 15 December, 1789. These dates are from MacKinnon's 'History of the Coldstreams,' vol. ii. pp. 490-91. The entries of his marriage and death describe him as lieu- tenant-colonel. He married at Bath on 2 June, 1790, Sarah Winn, eldest surviving daughter of the late Thomas Winn of Ack- ton, co. York (Gent. Mag., 1790, pt. i. p. 569 ; Hunter, 'Deanery of Doncaster,' ii. 216); and died at Twyford, near Winchester, on 28 February, 1801 (Gent. Mag., 1801, pt.i. p. 279). He was elected F.R.S. on 25 May, 1780, and remained a Fellow until his death (Thomson, ' History of the Royal Society,' App. iv. p. Ivii).

Francis had been elected a Fellow on 10 November, 1774, but he withdrew in 1797. He married on 15 July, 1746, Miss Crespin, of Wallbrook (Gent. Mag., 1746, p. 383).

Some communications about the family of Duroure are in the 5th Series, vol. x.

W. P. COURTNEY.

[MAJOR J. H. LESLIE also thanked for reply.]

DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS ON BRASSES

AND STONE EFFIGIES (11 S. iii. 208, 310, 376). Dogs and other animals are commonly found on brasses and stone effigies. We have some excellent examples in Devonshire. In Colyton Church there is a fine monument known as the Choke-a-Bone monument to the memory of " Margaret, daughter of William Courtenay, Earl of Devon, and the Princess Kathleen, youngest daughter of Edward IV., King of England. Died at Colcombe, choked by a fish bone. A.D. MDXII." A dog lies at the feet of a recumbent figure of a girl wearing a coronet.

In Axminster Church is an effigy of Gervase de Prestaller, who held the living of Axminster when the church of the thirteenth century was in course of erection. Here again is a dog at the feet. ,

A fine brass with figures of Sir Thomas and Lady Brooke exists in Thorncombe Church, Dorset. A dog lies at the feet of each.