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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. NOV. 27, 1920.

Coll. Theologici subregens et logicae in Academia Lugduno Bat. professor," as well as "Medieinae Doctor." The other portrait, by G. Virtue, has no clue beyond the name printed below it. Any biographical details would be appreciated.

D. A. H. MOSES. 78 Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill, W.ll.

' LOTHAIB. ' At what page and in which volume of the first edition of ' Lothair ' is to be found the name of Monsignore Capel printed in mistake for that of Monsignore Catesby ? Does the error occur in all copies of the first edition ? L. A. W.

'THE BRIDE OF SIENA.' A poem of this title was anonymously published in London by Saunders and Otley (2nd ed., 1838 : preface dated London, Jan. 15, 1835). The British Museum Catalogue assigns it to "Henrietta Maria Gordon." Is this the prolific Harriet Maria Gordon (died 1883), who married the Rev. William Yorick Smythies ? Though she wrote a long list of novels and is in Allibone, Mrs. Yorick Smythies is not in the 'D.N.B.'

J. M. BULLOCH.

37 Bedford Square, W.C.I.

IRISH FAMILY HISTORY ; TONE OF BODENSTOWN, Co. KILDARE.

(12 S. vi. 288, 321.)

THEOBALD WOLFE TONE had twenty-eight descendants, twenty of whom are now living. His eldest child, Maria, died of consumption in Paris in 1803 at the age of 16: the second child, Richard, died an infant at Bodenstown : the third, Francis Rawdon, also died of consumption at 13 in Paris in 1806. The surviving child, William Theobald, after the fall of Napoleon in whose army he was a Captain of Chas- seurs (he was also a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour), came with his mother and his stepfather, Thomas Wilson, in 1816 to the United States. He studied law in the office of William Sampson for a time, but finally entered the cavalry of the United States army as a second lieutenant. On Sept. 17, 1825, he married, in New York, Catherine Anne, the daughter of that same well- known counsellor-at-law and Irish exile, William Sampson. They lived with his mother, Mrs. Tone-Wilson in Georgetown

D.C. Here their only child, Grace Georg- iana, was born May 28, 1827. On Oct. 11^, 1828, William Theobald Wolfe Tone died of an intestinal disorder in Georgetown, and was buried there in the Marbury Burying Ground. Grace Georgiana Tone an infant was taken by her mother to reside in New York with her Sampson grandparents.

On June 19, 1851, she married in New York Lascelles Edward Maxwell, a native of Belfast, Ireland. They had seven child- children ;

1. Katherine Anne Maxwell, now of Ossin-

ing, N.Y.

2. Matilda Tone Banks, deceased Aug. 6,..

1900, who m. Willard Neal Banks.

(a) Malcolm Sterling Banks m. I. Marie- Lowe.

(b} Margery Castleman Banks.

(c) Lascelles Maxwell Banks.

3. Lascelles Chester Maxwell, who m. Mary

Elizabeth Hogg, Rye, N.Y.

(a) Grace Maxwell Greer, m. George Greer ..

(b) Katherine Hogg Maxwell.

4. Florence Maxwell Overton, deceased

Jan.l, 1920, who m. Thomas Chalmers Overtoil. (a) Florence Luray Crane m. Albert Eli

Crane ;

(i.) Florence Maxwell Crane, (ii.) Robert Birnie Crane. (b} Chalmers Wolfe Tone Overton m. Lillian M. Fawcett.

(c) Alan Maxwell Overton m. Helen

Moeller.

(d) Katherine Lascelles Fawcett m. Thos,.

R. Fawcett. (i.) Thomas Reginald Fawcett, Jr.

(e) Penelope Witherington Overton.

5. William Sampson Maxwell, who m. Helen

Barlow, Los Angeles, California.

(a) Kathleen Worthington Maxwell.

(b) Richard Barlow Maxwell.

6. Theobald Wolfe Tone Maxwell, who m,

Mary W. Cook, Detroit, Michigan, (a) Emily Louise Maxwell, deceased May 6,. 1900.

7. Richard Witherington Maxwell, Meredith,

New Hampshire.

The committee in charge of the Wolfe- Tone Memorial in Stephen's Green, Dublin, cabled to Wolfe Tone's eldest grand- daughter, Katherine Anne Maxwell, at her summer home, New London, Conn., in- viting her to lay the foundation stone, but her mother's ill health made it impossible to accept the honour. She, however, fur- nished the matter for the document placed