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1744, on half-pay till major-general, Feb. 3, 1757 ; lieutenant-general, April 5, 1759 ; brevet-colonel (as deputy adjutant- general), April 16, 1747. M. Dec. 23, 1745, Lady Rachel (Russell), daughter of 2nd Duke of Bedford, widow of 1st Duke of Bridgwater ; was M.P. Brackley, 1747 to 1154; Poole, 1754 to 1761 ; K.B., August, 1753 ; Master of the Jewel Office, December, 1756, to 1762 ; Governor of Minorca, Decem- ber, 1762 ; of Guernsey, March, 1766, till he d., s.p., Oct. 1, 1770. Horace Walpole described him and his wife as " the best- humcured people in the world."

John Whitwell, first son of William Whit- well of Oundle, Northants, b. there March 13, 1719 ; lieutenant and captain Coldstream 'Guardsi March 17, 1744 ; captain and ueutenant-colonel 3rd Foot Guards (as J. Griffin. Whitwell), Feb. 18, 1747 ; first major thereof, May 2, 1758, to 1759 ; A.D.C. to the King (and brevet-coloneij, May 29, 1756 ; adjutant-general, April, 1778, to 1780 ; colonel 50th Foot, Oct. 23, 1759 : -of 33rd Foot, May 5, 1760 ; of 1st Horse Grenadier Guards, March 21, 1766, till he d., s.p., at Audley End, May 25, 1797, aged 78 ; major-general, June 25, 1759 ; lieutenant- general, Jan. 19, 1761 ; general, April 2, 1778 ; Field -Marshal, July 30, 1796. Took "by Act of Parliament, 1749, the surname and -arms of Griffin on receiving from his aunt, Elizabeth, Countess of Portsmouth, her share in. the Saffron Walden estate, and succeeded at her death, July, 1762, to Audley End House ; was created K.B., March (and installed by proxy, May 26), 1761 ; better known as Sir John Griffin Griffin. He was M.P. Andover, November, 1749, till 1784 ; summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Howard de Walden, Oct. 3, 1784 ; created Lord Braybrooke, Sept. 5, 1788 ; Recorder -of Saffron Walden in 1775 ; Lord Lieutenant, Custos Rotulorum, and Vice- Admiral of Essex, all till death.

Hon. John Barrington, A.D.C. to the King (and brevet-colonel), May 25, 1756 ; served several campaigns in Flanders, and took Guadeloupe, 1758 ; general and Com- mander- in-Chief in the West Indies, May 12, 1759 ; colonel 8th Foot, Oct. 24, 1759, till he d. at Paris, April 2, 1764 ; major-general, June 25, 1759 ; Lieut enant-Governor of Berwick (182Z. 10s.) in 1761. Third son of 1st Viscount Barrington ; m. Elizabeth, daughter of Florentius Vassal.

John Prideaux, captain and lieutenant- colonel, Feb. 24, 1748 ; second major thereof, .May 2, 1758 ; colonel 55th Foot, Oct. 28, 1768, till he was accidentally " killed by the

bursting of a cohorn," July 20, 1759, while in command of the forces in the trenches before Fort Niagara ; local brigadier-general in North America, Oct. 28, 1758. Second son of Sir John Prideaux, 6th Bart., of Netherton, Devon wrongly said in Burke's ' Peerage and Baronetage ' to have been " a colonel in the 55th Regiment," which des- cription, of course, applied to his son, of whom Burke proceeds to say :

" This gallant officer, the friend and companion in arms of Wolfe and Amherst, was one of the three young generals selected by the Earl of Chatham to restore the credit of the British arms, which had suffered by a series of reverses in North America. He led the forces under his command with uninterrupted success to Niagara, where he lost his life through the awkwardness of an artilleryman while besieging that fortress in 1759."

He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Rolt,and sister of Sir Edward Baynton Rolt, Bart., of Spye Park, and d. v.p. His eldest son John Wilmot succeeded his grandfather as 7th Bart., 1766. W. R. WILLIAMS.

GEOBGE BORROW : LIEUT. PARRY (12 S. v. 95, 333). The court martial referred to by W. B. H. at the last reference arose out of a " ragging " case that took place in the 46th Regiment. This regiment, the old South Devonshire, was quartered at Windsor in the summer of 1854, and some of the junior officers appear to have taken a dislike to one of the subalterns, Lieut. Perry (not Parry), and evidently determined to make the regiment " too hot for him." They seem, however, to have carried things too far, with the result that the matter was inquired into by a court martial. The proceedings before this tribunal, and the finding of the court, gave rise to a good deal of comment, public opinion as not unusual being expressed in the pages of Punch. In the issue for Aug. 12, 1854, a set of verses appeared, entitled ' A Court Martial for me,' the tone of which can be gathered from the two concluding lines :

A court martial the rarest of courts in my eyes is ; No such other we've had since JUDGE JEFFERIES

died.

the refrain being :

Sing, over the left, boys, and like a whale, very. And " Where are your witnesses," eh, MR. PERRY ? In the next number (Aug. 19, 1854) there is an article professing to give extracts from ' The Officer's Own Book ' :

1. Drawing the Badger.

2. Sing a song of sixpence or the Forty-Sixth Undress.

3. Bolstering.