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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. MAY so, 191*.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

JOHN RUSH, Inspector-General of Regi- mental Hospitals, 1798, died in London, 1802. In The Gentleman's Magazine, Ixxi. 1158, he is stated to have been " attached to the guards " [sic] in North .America before his promotion, in 1782, to the post of Apothecary in the Army. In The London Gazette of 16 July, 1782, he is shown promoted to Apothecary " from the Brigade of Guards."

I can, however, trace no such early con- nexion between him and [any Guards' regi- ment, although later he was appointed surgeon to the 2nd Horse Grenadier Guards (14 June, 1782).

I should be glad to learn what his exact connexion was with the Brigade of Guards before 14 May, 1782.

According to the inscription on a small stipple engraving in my possession, dated 1802, his nephew was Mr. Brook, Seal En- graver to His Majesty and the Duke of Kent. The engraving was published by R. Brook, the Strand. A. PETERKIN, Col.

Dunbarney, Putney Common.

DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL. I possess a tiny medal of the first Duke of Wellington, given me by Harriet, Lady Cope. The medal, by Gibbons, was one of thirteen struck, the die breaking after that number. The second Duke pronounced it a very fine likeness ; it corresponds exactly with the head and shoulders of the marble bust in the Bodleian Library. My medal was purchased in a second-hand shop in London, set in a locket.

I shall be glad to learn more about the medal, and especially the whereabouts of the other twelve. (Mrs.) E. E. COPE.

Finchampstead Place, Finchampstead, Berks.

CLACK SURNAME. Can any of your corre- spondents offer me any solution or suggestion as to the origin and meaning of the surname " Clack " ? Bardsley suggests that it is a variant of Clark, but this, I think, is a ran- dom shot not supported by evidence ; while Lower would give it a territorial derivation from " Clack, a hamlet in Wiltshire."

The latter seems improbable, since the name of the hamlet is of comparatively recent date, while the personal name, as " Clac " and " Haket films Clac," occurs in Domesday Book and the Rolls of the Pipe

respectively. It is a family indigenous to the borders of Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and, according to Guppy, occurs in the pro- portion of 1 in 30,000 population.

I have my own ideas on the subject, but I should be extremely grateful for others from your more erudite readers. T. S. C.

WHITBY'S LIBRARY OF LONDON BOOKS. On Tuesday, 15 May, 1838, and the three following days, there was sold by W. & C. Pugh at Red Lion Wharf, Upper Thames Street, the library of Thomas W T hitby.

The little -known catalogue inadequately describes 1,012 lots of books, MSS., papers, &c., mostly relating to London history and topography ; and although its descriptions- are difficult to identify and frequently in- correct, it affords very many interesting indications of books that are now not known to exist or are of great rarity.

Thomas Whitby was a coal merchant, and resided at this wharf, and for many years was a friend of Lambert -Jones, well known in connexion with the Guildhall Library. I have not been able to ascertain the origin of Whitby's library. He was not, so far as I can learn, a frequenter of the sale-rooms or of the literary booksellers' shops, so I assume he inherited or acquired the collections of S. T. Whitby possibly a relation. Other than, the fact that he owned some very interesting books on London, I have very little to say of the latter. Milch is suggested, however, by his book label : a woodcut of the City arms above his name in heavy black letters. If his name is cut from this label, what is left is identical in style and size with the ex-libris used in the books of the Guildhall Library. The inference is obvious.

There is also some connexion between the library of S. T. Whitby and that of William Flower (c. 174048), who possessed a con- siderable number of interesting books and MSS. on London which ultimately formed part of the Whitby collections.

Is anything else known of these useful London book-collectors ?

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

RAWDON FAMILY. This family is of Norman extraction, but the English pedi- gree is deduced from Paulinus Roydon, or Paulyn de Rawdon, who is said to have commanded a body of archers at the Battle of Hastings in William's army, for which he received grants of land near Leeds. Mr. Robert Davies in his Introduction to ' Life of Marmaduke Rawdon of York ' (published- by Camden Society in 1863) refers to a