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GEORGE GASCOIGNE, POET, AND HIS SON WILLIAM. The ' D.N.B.' says of Gascoigne, " He seems to have left a son William " ; and Schelling, ' Life and Writings of G. Gascoigne.' Boston, 1893, says, " We know nothing of this son. . . .except that his name was William,* and that he and his mother both survived the poet.t " These statements hardly do justice to our information.

The Hervy pedigree in the ' Visita- tion of Bedfordshire, 1634 ' (Harl. Soc. Pub. xix.), does not give the name of George Gascoigne's wife, but gives him a son " William Gascoigne, who died in the voiage w th S r Francis Drake to S 1 Domingo of [and ?] Carthagen s.p."

Similarly, Lansdowne MS. 887, fol. 40 b (Warburton and Pomfret Collections), in- cludes " William, who died in the voyage with S r Francis Drake to S l Domingo of Carthagina. ' ' This pedigree, however, makf s this William a son of the poet's son William. It is clear that this is an error. The expedi- tion referred to is that which, under Drake's command, left England in the autumn of 1585. Martin Frobisher was vice-admiral in the Primrose, and as he was a cousin of the Gascoignes. no doubt William Gascoigne was with him. San Domingo was captured early in 1586, after which Drake proceeded to Carthagena. He arrived at Portsmouth on his return on 28 July, 1586. The his- torian of the expedition was one Bigges, whose posthumous ' Siunmarie Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage ' appeared in 1589. He does not mention W. Gascoigne, who was only a boy, but after recounting the " men of name that died and were slaine in this voiage," he adds, " With some other, who for hast I can not so suddenly thinke on."

The poet's son, who had been born probably in 1567, or later, died therefore in 1585 or 1586 without issue.

The poet's wife was Elizabeth,, widow of William Breton and daughter of John Bacon. We learn her father's name from the will of William Breton, printed by Grosart in the ' Works of N. Breton.' She is described in

Harl. MSS. 2146 and 5131." t "Whetstone's ' Remembrance.'

Harl. MS. 1178, fol. Ill b, as " Elizabethan! filiam Bacon de Suff." ; in Harl. MS. 2146 r fol. 12 (without name), as " dau. bacon of London merchant." If the London merchant came from Suffolk, he may have been con- nected with the illustrious family to which Sir Nicholas and his son Sir Francis Bacon belonged, as that emanated from " Drinkes- ton in com. Suff." A pedigree of this family from the ' Visitation of London, 1568,' is given in Harl. Soc. Publ. i., but it throws no light on John Bacon, merchant of London-

G. C. MOORE SMITH. The University, Sheffield.

VETERINARY COLLEGE : PROF. COLEMAN. I do not find that Coleman is noticed in the ' D.N.B.,' although it is stated in ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica ' (llth ed., vol. xxviii. p. 4) that

" Coleman, by his scientific researches and energetic management, in a few years raised the college to a high standard of usefulness ; under his care the progress of the veterinary art was such as to qualify its practitioners to hold com- missions in the army, and he himself was ap- pointed veterinary surgeon-general to the British cavalry."

Edward Coleman was born in June, 1765,* in Kent, apprenticed to a surgeon at Graves- end, and proceeded to London under the guidance of Cline, having as fellow-students Astley Cooper, Taylor, &c., attending Hun- ter's lectures.

On the death of M. St. Bel in 1793, Hunter and Cline recommended Coleman and William Moorcroft (see ' D.N.B.') to succeed him as Professors of the Veterinary College ; but, Moorcroft soon after going to the Indies, Coleman became sole Professor :

" His acute and active mind was immediately devoted to the formation of a good course of lectures on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Patho- logy of the Horse."

In 1831 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and died 14 July, 1839.

He is alluded to in ' The Death or Glory Boys,' by D. H. Parry, p. 140 :

" Mr. Edward Coleman, Professor of the Veterinary College, and Inspector of the Hon. Board of Ordnance, was gazetted veterinary general to the army, with the patronage of appointing surgeons to the different regiments."

This appointment was made in 1796.

R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate, Kent.

Church, near Hythe, but cm referring to the parish register I find under baptisms, "1767, Edward, son of Edward and Sarah Coleman, June 28" ; and for 1765, "Richaid son of Edward and Sarah, Jan- v
 * 28 June, 1765, is on the memorial in Burmarsh