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 ii s. vi. JULY 20, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Earl Canning. Charles John, Earl Can- ning (1812-62), Governor-General and first Viceroy of India 1856-62. Equestrian. Bronze. By J. H. Foley, R.A. (finished by" Sir T. Brock, R.A.). Facing south on triangular grass island plot to east of Eden Gardens and south-west of Government House Grounds. " Clemency " Canning of the Mutiny days. Foley 's ' Canning ' and ' Hardinge ' are among the masterpieces of that artist. Standing well forward to south of Wellesley's Government House, each axial to a great Lion Gateway, they add distinction to one of the most beautiful sites in European Calcutta. Representative of ' Repose ' and ' Movement ' respectively, both their horses are particularly remarkable for refinement of conception and perfection of artistry.

Another statue (Foley) is in Westminster Abbey ; and a third occupies a niche on the principal fa9ade of the India Office. Lady Canning died at Barrackpore in 1861, and her cenotaph is in St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta.

Marquess Cornwallts. Charles, Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), Governor- General of Fort William in Bengal (when Earl) 1786- 1793, and again in 1805. White marble. On the lower floor of the Town Hall. By John Bacon, jun. A lengthy inscription records its erection by the British inhabitants of Bengal in 1803. Conqueror of Mysore. After the fall of Tippoo Sultan, he was described by Napoleon at Amiens as " un tres brave homme." Author of the " Permanent (Land) Settlement." Died at Ghazipore, o Oct., 1805, in the tenth week of his second term of office, and is buried there, an elaborate monument marking his resting-place. The Marquess is attired in conventional Roman costume, and is flanked by seated allegorical female figures, the whole of fine workmanship. Owing largely to structural alterations in the hall since its erection, the memorial is now most deplorably situated, and the present writer, with others, has constantly advo- cated its early transfer elsewhere. Though earmarked in 1901 by Lord Curzon for the Victoria Memorial Hall, it should un- doubtedly be added with Westmaeott's Warren Hastings to the other sculptured glories of old St. John's Church.

Other statues are at Bombay (Bacon, jun.), Madras (Banks), on the staircase of the India Office (Bacon, sen., and Bacon, jun.), in a niche of the Inner Court of the India Office (Xicholls), and St. Paul's Cathedral, London

(Rossi). In the Madras statue a cast in the eye is shown, the result of a blow from a hockey stick wielded by a schoolfellow,. Barrington, afterwards Bishop of Durham.

WlLMOT CORFIELD.

(To be continued.)

A FLEET WOOD MISCELLANY.

FLEETWOOD of Aldwinele, cp. Northampton ~ Sir Miles Fleetwood, Receiver of the Court of Wards, was baptized at St. James's, Clerkenwell, 1 Oct., 1576 (Harl. Soc., ix. 9).

Fleetwood of Crawley, co. Southampton (10 S. v. 48, 403). Sir Gerrard Fleetwood's first wife was buried in Winchester Cathedral :

Burial.

1618. Mar. 12. The Lady Jane Fleetwood bur.

' Hampshire Parish Registers,' iv. 10,

John Fleetwood (10 S. i. 422), son of the- regicide, entered the service of the East India Company. His securities were Mr.. Samuel Cradocke of Drayton, co. Middlesex, gent., and Mr. George Scott of London gent. (East India Co., Court of Committees,. 6 March, 1667/8). There were proceedings in Chancery against him and his grand- mother, Anne Fleetwood,* to prevent them cutting timber and otherwise wasting the estate of the Vache, which had been forfeited on the attainder of the regicide - (Public Record Office, Chancery Proceed- ings, Bridges, No. 39/4, Bill of Complaint of Sir Maurice Berkeley, &c.).

George Clerke (10 S. i. 423) married Catherine Fleetwood at Acton, co. Middle- sex, 27 Aug., 1650 (Middlesex Parish Regis- ters).

Cleaver and Fenton Families (10 S. v. 23). William Fenton who married Jane Cleaver was of the island of St. Kitts, W.I. Jane Fenton, their only child, married John Roberts of London, merchant, a director of the East India Co. ; she died 30 Jan., 1806, aged 65, and was buried in Bath Abbey (M.I.).

Fleetwood of Gray's Inn. Henry Fleet- wood of Gray's Inn was buried in the south aisle of the church of St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, 14 April, 1638.

a conventicle being held in ner house. A licence >vas applied for, the meeting being described as Congregational (Prof. G. Lyon Turner's 'Original Records of Early Nonconformity')-
 * Her name figures in the Episcopal Returns, 1669,