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NOTES AND QUERIES. ;ti2 s. n. AUG. 19, 1916.

Jan. 30, 1710 ; entered French army, 1730 ; served under Wade in 1745 ; left the army with rank of lieutenant-colonel, 1754 ; governor of Dukes of Gloucester and Cum- berland, 1751 to 1760; Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod; knighted April 10, 1761; d. Brough, Westmorland, Sept. 6, 1765.

A man called Lucy Weston d. Frenchbay, Devonshire, Jan. 30, 1759.

Henry de Grangues was colonel of 30th Foot, Oct. 24, 1742, to April 1, 1743 ; of 9th Light Dragoons, April 1, 1743, to Nov. 1, 1749 ; and of 4th Horse, 1749 to death ; lieutenant-general, May 3, 1754 ; d. Ireland, June 23, 1754.

Gumley, a colonel, d. 1763.

Sir Thomas Hay succeeded as 2nd Baronet, 1706 ; d. Nov. 26, 1769.

George Preston, colonel 17th Light Dra- goons, Nov. 2, 1770, to April 18, 1782 ; colonel 2nd Dragoons, April 18, 1782, to death ; lieutenant-general, Aug. 29, 1777 ; d. Feb. 4, 1785.

Philip Honywood, the first colonel of llth Light Dragoons, July 22, 1715, to May 19, 1732 ; colonel of 3rd Dragoons, May 29, 1732, to April 18, 1743 ; colonel of 1st Dragoon Guards, April 18, 1743, to death ; general, Feb. 1, 1743 ; K.B., July 12, 1743; installed, Oct. 20, 1744; d. Jan. 17, 1752.

Joshua Guest, probably entered the army, 1685, aged 23 ; closed a service of sixty years by defending Edinburgh Castle against the rebels, 1745 ; lieutenant-general, May 27, 1745 ; d. Oct. 18, 1747, aged 87 ; buried in east cloister of Westminster Abbey.

Foley, colonel Horse Guards, d. Jan. 2, 1742.

Henry Whitley, colonel of 9th Light Dragoons, April 6, 1759, to his death ; lieutenant-general, April 30, 1770; d. Jan. 14, 1771.

Daniel Leighton, b. 1694 ; major of 1st Troop of Horse Guards till June 30, 1737 ; served in Flanders, 1745 ; at Fontenoy and against rebels in Scotland, 1746 ; left the army, Feb. 4, 1747 ; M.P. for Hereford, 1747-54 ; d. end of January, 1765.

Samuel Browne, lieutenant-colonel 4th Dragoons, d. April 6, 1790, aged 76.

FREDEBIC BOASE.

Ruishe Hassell, captain in Wade's Regi- ment of Horse in 1740, was afterwards major of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue). He married firstly, in 1737, Jane, only daughter of Sir John Tynte, 2nd Bart., of Halswell, Somerset. She died in 1741. From this

marriage is descended the present Lord Wharton of Halswell. Major Ruishe Hassell married secondly the Hon. Charlotte Stawel r only daughter of Lord Stawel of Aldermas- ton, Berks, according to Collins's ' Peerage,' where no mention is made of her having contracted a previous marriage. In the Register of Marriages in Gray's Inn Chapel, however, is the following entry : " 1743/4 r March 17, Ruishe Hassell, of St. Giles in the Fields, & Charlotte Mackerly, of St. Mary le bone."

Who was she unless Lord Stawel' s daughter ? And, if the latter, who was Mackerly ? I should be glad of a solution of this apparent mystery. CURIOUS.

HYMN-TUNE ' LYDIA ' (12 S. i. 309, 377,. 434). Thomas Phillips, 1774-1841, men- tioned by your correspondent MB. A. PAYNE at the second reference as the composer of the above, is evidently the same person as Thomas Philipps (with one I), who was born in London in 1774, died Oct. 29, 1841, and was buried at St. Ann's, Soho.

This Thomas Philipps for several years held a prominent position as a singer at the principal London theatres, appearing for the first time at Covent Garden, May 16, 1796, as Philippo in O'Keeffe's opera ' The Castle of Andalusia.'

He was afterwards at Drury Lane, and the salary list of that theatre for the season 1813-14 shows that he was then in receipt of 18Z. weekly, as first singer.

When Kean made his first appearance there, as Shy lock, Philipps was the Lorenzo, a character which, like that of Jessica, it was for many years the custom to give to a singer songs and a duet, not in Shake- speare, being introduced.

The next season Philipps was replaced by T. Cooke, at a reduced salary of 132. Once assured of the great attraction of Kean, the Committee of Management which then ruled the theatre lost but little time in cutting down general expenses.

In 1831 Philipps delivered, at the Concert, Room of the Royal Academy, a course of four lectures on ' Music,' which received very favourable notice in The Literary Gazette.

Towards the end of his life he appears to have fallen upon evil times, becoming so reduced in circumstances as to accept tem- porary employment, at the time when the Greenwich Railway was projected, as an enumerator of the traffic passing through the Old Kent Road. WM. DOUGLAS.

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