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Hon. James Stuart, junior, of Bailliewhirr, Barvennan, and Auckland, second son of James, 5th Earl of Galloway, d. unm. at Calley, April 27, 1768 ; second major of the regiment (and brevet-colonel), July 18, 1744 ; first major, May 27, 1745 ; lieutenant-colonel thereof, Feb. 25 1747 /8, till Col. 37th Foot, Nov. 17, 1752, till death; major-general, May 1, 1754; lieutenant-general, Jan. 20, 1758 ; M.P. Wigtown Burghs, 1734 to 1741, and 1747 to 1754 ; and co. Wigtown, 1741 to 1747, and 1754 to 1761.

Hon. Charles Ingram, fourth son of 5th Viscount Irwin, matriculated Oriel College, Oxford, April 29, 1714, aged 16 ; adjutant- general (and brevet-colonel), April 3, 1743 ; and also M.P. Horsham, February, 1737, both till he d. Nov. 28, 1748, having resigned his company in the regiment, February, 1748.

John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, A.D.C. to the King (and brevet-colonel), July, 1743 ; colonel (new) 64th Foot, April 25, 1745, till broke, Jan. 4, 1749 ; colonel 30th Foot, Nov. 1, 1749, till 1770 ; major-general, Feb. 17, 1755 ; lieutenant-general, Jan. 22, 1758 ; general, April 13, 1770 ; Governor of Stirling Castle (300Z.), April, 1731, to 1763 ; then of Edinburgh Castle (500Z.), March, 1763, till he d. unm. April 27, 1782 ; a Scotch Representative Peer, 1734 till death ; Governor of Virginia, February, 1756, to September, 1759 ; Commander of the Forces in America, March, 1756, to December, 1757 ; colonel 3rd Foot Guards, April 30, 1770, till death ; served in Scotland, 1745, America, and Portugal. Only son of Hugh, 3rd Earl of Loudoun, whom he succeeded Nov. 20, 1731 ; b. May 5, 1705 ; formed at Loudoun Castle the largest then existing collection of willows, gathered from all parts of the world.

Lord John Murray of Pitnacree, M.P. co. Perth, 1734 to 1741 ; A.D.C. to the King (and brevet-colonel), July, 1743 ; colonel 42nd Royal Highlanders, April 25, 1745, till he d. May 18, 1787, then senior general ; major-general, Feb. 16, 1755 ; lieutenant- general, Jan. 21, 1758 ; general, April 13, 1770. Sixth son (first by second wife) of 1st Duke of Atholl, b. April 14, 1711 ; m. Sept. 13, 1758, Miss Dalton of Banner Cross, Yorks.

George Ogilvie, d. 1745 (presumably father of the George Ogilvie, lieutenant and captain in the regiment Feb. 19, 1757 ; captain and lieutenant-colonel, Jan. 14, 1763, till first major, Aug. 7, 1777 ; brevet-colonel, Oct, 4. 1776 ; major-general, Feb. 19, 1779 ; d. 1779).

R. W. WILLIAMS. (To be continued.)

THOMAS SHEPARD (12 S. v. 179). There- was an inquiry about Thomas Shepard, who* was the minister in Cambridge, Mass., after the Rev. Thomas Hooker left in 1635.

John Nicholas, Topographer and Genea- logist, London, 1846, in vol. i. p. 229 et seq. r has an account of the Harlakenden family of Harlakenden, Kent. On p. 255 he quotes from Richard Baxter's ' Certainty of t he- World of Spirits fully Evinced,' 1691, and gives two ghost stories from Richard Harlakenden.

Mr. Thomas Shepard (who afterwards went to New England), with some other ministers, prayed and cast out the devil ! This devil had been ringing bells and never afterwards made a noise.

The Rev. Thomas Shepard, according to- his autobiography, laid a ghost in England,.

Ralph Josselyn succeeded Shepard as vicar to Harlakenden (see ' Diary of Ralph Josselyn,' edited for Royal Hist. Soc. by E. Hockcliffe, M.A., at office of that society r published at London, 1908).

There is, of course, a great amount of matter here in Massachusetts about Sheparct in this country.

A life of Thomas Shepard should be in the- British Museum, and he left plenty of" sermons, and there are letters of his in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections. See ' Thomas Shepard ' in the ' D.N.B.'

M. J. CANAVAN. 133 West Springfield Street, Boston, Mass.

CHEVALIER PETER DILLON (12 S. v. 206). Interesting particulars of Peter Dillon arer given in w Sea Life Sixty Years Ago,' by Capt. George Bayly of Trinity House r published in 1885 by Kegan Paul, Trench. Dillon was a herculean Irishman, self- educated but a fine navigator, who spent many years as a sandalwood trader in the South Pacific in the days when the vessels had to be heavily armed to guard against attacks by the natives. He was a man of dauntless courage, great powers of command,- but of violent and tyrannical temper. Irt- 1813 he was about 28 years of age. In 1825 he sailed as captain and owner of a vessel he re-named the St. Patrick under Chilian colours, from Valparaiso to New Zealand to load spars for Calcutta. At the island of Tucopia he met an old shipmate, a Prussian named Buchert, who had been living among the natives for thirteen years, and who gave him news of native stories that long years before two French ships had been wrecked on the Santa Cruz island of Vanikoro. Capt. Bayly, then a young man, was trading officer or supercargo oil