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Will of George Fleeticood, 1728 (P.C.C. Brook'
 * 289). His ancestry- has been traced with cer-

tainty to the year" 1638, bnt no connexion with -the Lancashire stock has yet been discovered.

Will of James Fleetn-ood, 1808 (should be 1810 : P.C.C. Collingwood, 130). Of Laurence Lane, -Cheapside, Manchester warehouseman. Died Feb. 7, 1810 ; in-burgess of Preston, 1802. His brother Roger was a bailiff of Preston before 1802 ; in-burgess 1802 and 1822, later of Goos- nargh, co. Lanes. Another brother Thomas was also a burgess of Preston. Sister Jane was wife of [? George] Dewhurst of Chprley, co. Lanes. Testator's mother Ann and sister Betsy were Jiving at Preston in 1810.

The notification of the death of Mr. Fleetwood in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1764, p. 450, is an error. The reference is to Anne Fleetwood, niece of Bishop William ; see London Magazine, p. 485, and Lloyd's Evening Post, Sept. 12-14, 1764.

The claims of several families to a descent from the Protector, through the marriage of his daughter Bridget with General Charles Fleetwood, have been examined, but not a -ingle one has been substantiated. All the evidence so far discovered points to the complete failure of the male line of descen- dants from the General at the death of his grandsons by his first marriage. The late Sir Edmund T. Bewley, LL.D., F.S.A., made an independent investigation of this subject in connexion with his paper on ' An Irish Branch of the Fleetwood Family,' printed in The Genealogist for April, 1908, N.S., xxiv. 217-41, and the reader's attention is particularly directed to pp. 229-33, where the claim of the Berry family is discussed .and completely disproved. R. W. B.

JOHN PHILLIP, R.A. : PORTRAITS BY HIM <(12 S. iiL 272). Phillip and my father were intimate friends. Phillip painted a large picture of the marriage of H.R.H. the Princess Royal in 1858, all portraits. I a-ecollect going with my father to Phillip's studio one Sunday, at the time he was engaged on the picture, and his telling us iow much he disliked the work. He re- sembled my friend W. G. Wills in feeling like a fish out of water at Buckingham Palace. Wills eased his position there by going to the housekeeper's room, where he smoked his long clay pipe at his ease.

One particular dislike of Phillip's was painting the uniforms. The face and hands .he considered his work, but when it came ' to the coats, trousers, &c., he " abhorred the drudgery." Although only 41, he was grey, and seemed to be about 60. Pro- bably he looked older than he would have

done if he had kept to his native " Bonnie Scotland," and not spent so many years in Spain. From his long sojourn there he was commonly called " Phillip of Spain." However, it was his Spanish pictures that made his fortune, for, whereas he had originally a namby-pamby style, when he returned he painted in a bold style with gorgeous colouring.

His large Spanish picture of ' Gathering the Offerings ' was painted in London. In it the priest who is stooping down, gathering the offerings, is an exact portrait of my father, who sat to him for that figure, and no doubt put on the expression which Phillip caught so well. This picture is now in the Sydney Art Gallery. My younger sister, Mrs. J. Chapman-Taylor, who lives in New Zealand, went to visit my elder sister, Mrs. Alfred Leader Williams, who lived at Sydney. Visiting the Art Gallery, she at once recognized the likeness to our father, though she had never heard of the picture. A woodcut engraving of it was published in The Illustrated London News of June 1, 1867. RALPH THOMAS.

The ' Diet. Xat. Biog.,' xlv. 189, men- tion^ various portraits by Phillip, but not that of the Misses Meigh. He frequently painted his own. In 1858 he was com- missioned by the Queen to paint ' The Marriage of the Princess Royal with the Crown Prince of Germany [sic],' " a harass- ing ceremonial work, which he undertook reluctantly, and carried through in a manner much more artistic and successful than is usual in productions of this class." In 1863 he had completed and exhibited ' The House of Commons, 1860, during the Debate on the French Treaty,' " a work firmly handled, and successful in the portraiture that it contains." Among Phillip's other portraits are : Sir J. E. Millais, R.A., 1843 ; Richard Ansdell, R.A., 1856 ; Samuel Bough, R.S.A., 1856 ; T. Oldham Barlow, A.R.A., 1856 ; the Prince Consort, 1858 ; Princess Beatrice, 1860 ; and W. B. Johnstone, R.S.A., and his wife, in the Xational Gallery of Scotland. A. R. BAYLEY.

John Phillip in early years received some instruction from a local portrait painter at Aberdeen, and one of his first R.A. exhibits was a portrait in 1837. The year after was exhibited a ' Portrait of a Young Lady,' and in 1839 ' W. Clerihew ' ; ' Lady Cosmo Russell' in 1854; 'Sir John Bent, late Mayor of Liverpool,' in 1855 ; and in 1858 a portrait of John Thomas, Esq., and ' The Prince Consort,' painted for the City of