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The Derby Ram was also the title of an intermittent illustrated periodical which -appeared at election times in the sixth and seventh decades of the last century ; and the phrase had such a vogue generally that a a*ana was adopted as the mascot of the 95th ^Derbyshire) Regiment.

Warrington. CHABLES MADELEY.

LIEUT.-COL. LEWIS (BAYLY) WALLIS (12 S. >ii. 474 ; iii. 28, 74). I have pleasure in supply- ing the following information in answer to MB. ALECK ABRAHAMS, as, owing to the 'change of name, which is always a source of trouble- to inquirers, I had experienced much difficulty in identifying this personage. He was M.P. Ilchester/May, 1799, to 1802, being then styled of that place and Pall Mall. The 'Gentleman's Magazine, 1800, part ii. pp. 908, 917, 1000, contains an account of Albany Wallis, a solicitor in Norfolk Street, Strand, -who died Sept. 3, 1800, aged 86, leaving a ^fortune of between 70,0002. and 80,OOOZ. to .Lady Bayly for her life, " and then to her .-son Col. Bayly, who has taken her name." This he promptly did on Sept. 17, 1800.

Born in 1775, Lewis Bayly (so called after his ancestor the Bishop of Bangor, 1616 to 1631) became cornet 3rd Dragoon Guards, Dec. 28, 1791 ; raised the 9th (new) Inde- pendent Company of Foot and was made its captain, March 7, 1793 ; captain in Col. . : Edineston's (new) 95th Foot, Oct. 30, 1793 ; major thereof, Nov. 18, 1794 ; junior lieu- tenant-colonel thereof, Feb. 2, 1795. When that regiment was reduced, 1796, he was on 'its full-pay till 1798, and on its half-pay 1798 till 1814; brevet-colonel (as Lewis Bayly Wallis), Jan. 1, 1805 ; major-general, -July 25, 1810; lieutenant-general, Aug. 12, 1819 ; general, Jan. 10, 1837. As Col. Bayly Wallis he married, June 3, 1802, the sister (who died in Paris, October, 1819) of "that dashing sabreur Sir Robert Thomas 'Wilson, M.P., and widow of Lieut.-Col. Thomas Blacket Bosville, Coldstream <jruards, of Gunthwaite, Yorks :

~" one of the tallest officers in the three regiments

of Guards, being six feet four inches high who

'was killed in the action at the fort of Lincelles. in

.Flanders, 18 Aug., 1793, being shot through the

mouth, the bullet having passed over the head of the

Hon. Captain Fitzroy, who was standing within a


 * t footof him." Gent. Mag., quoted in 'Old Wales,'

vols. ii. and iii., where there is an account of

General Bayly Wallis.

Albany Wallis's only son was drowned in the Thames when at Westminster School about 1780. In George Eyre Evans's ' Lampeter,' 1905, there is a chapter, pp. 102-5, on Albany Wallis, who purchased

the estate of Peterwell, in the parish of Lam- peter, co. Cardigan, its owner, John Adams, M.P., (who inherited it from his uncle Sir Herbert Lloyd, Bart., M.P.), having " spent the whole property " (' Parl. Hist, of Wales'). Mr. Evans said that "both father and son " owned Peterwell, but, of course, he was in error in assuming any relationship between them. The general served as High Sheriff of Cardiganshire from Feb. 1, 1806, to Feb. 4, 1807, being described as of Peterwell (Record Office List, quoted in ' Old Wales,' where the mistake in J. R. Phillips's ' Sheriffs of Cardiganshire,' 1868, p. 33, in calling him John Baily Wallis, is rectified). General Bayly Wallis died Aug. 10, 1848, aged 73. w R w

HANS-TOWN OB CADOGAN-LAND (12 S. iii. 70). It is not easy to fix the exact dates on which each of the modern streets and squares to say nothing of single houses were built on the Cadogan estate, but, speaking generally, all those mentioned at the above reference were erected in the later eighties or in the nineties of the last century, when the late Earl Cadogan com- pletely transformed the district in question.

He rebuilt his own house, Chelsea House between Lowndes Square and Cadogan Place, in 1874. This was the beginning. His Lordship then obtained powers to clear away several narrow streets of small houses, many dating back two hundred years ; and on their site he, with the help of the late Mr. Willett and others, substituted broad, airy thoroughfares, streets and squares, as we see them now.

The lease of the Racquet Court and -of the greater part of the Prince's Cricket Club ground fell in in 1886, and the land was at once laid out and built upon. Cado- gan Square, Lennox Gardens, and the western part of Pont Street were erected thereon in the next few years. The modern Hans Place, Hans Crescent, and other buildings followed in the nineties, much of it being built by the Belgravian Land Company, who made extensive improve- ments, widening streets and erecting fine houses of good design.

Blacklands House stood a little to the west of, but close to, St. Mary's R.C. Church, and once was the residence of a former Lord Cheyne. It became in more modern times a French boarding-school, and afterwards a private lunatic asylum. In 1890 Lord Cadogan gave the site, valued at 40,OOOZ., to the Trustees of the Guinness