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 12 s. vii. JULY 17, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 55 Dunwedy, called gait-fut goat-foot convicted of resetting Adam Corry, common thief, in his theftuous deeds hanged. In 1543, Alexander Dinwoodie of that ilk was forfeited for. joining A. R. BAYLEY. A branch of this family was at one time well known in Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Robert Dinwiddie, merchant in Glasgow, a native of Dumfriesshire, and said to be 'of the family of Dinwiddie of that ilk, bought Germiston (a small property in the neigh- bourhood of Glasgow) in 1690. His descen- dants continued to reside there for more than a century. One of them, Laurence Dinwiddie, was a bailie of Glasgow in 1734, 1738 and 1741, Provost in 1742 and 1743. Another, Robert Dinwiddie, was Governor of Virginia, and is mentioned by Thackeray in ' The Virginians.' The last of the Diii- widdies of Germiston was Laurence, who died at Rome in 1819. He was succeeded in Germiston by his first cousin, the late "William Lockhart of Milton Lockhart, half- brother to John Gibson Lockhart, the editor of The Quarterly Review, and uncle of the late Sir William Lockhart, who died when ^Commander-in-chief in India. Germiston itself has long ago been swal- lowed up in the city of Glasgow, though the writer can remember it as a suburban residence. T. F. D. In the Merchant Taylors' School Register there are two boys so-named : William, son of Gilbert H. Dinwiddie, Assistant Com- missary-General of Gibraltar, born Apr. 20, 1841, and second, Robert, son of G. W. Hamilton Dinwiddie, Dep. Commissary- General, born Apr. 24, 1844. The first named entered the School in 1851, and was gazetted to 24th Regt. in 1860. Of the second who entered the School in 1853, nothing js said as to his subsequent career. My impression is that Gilbert and pro- bably also Hamilton Dinwiddie were sons of 'Commissary- General Dinwiddie who had served in Spain during the Peninsular War. L. G. R. A good deal of information about this family will be found in the 6th Series of ' N. & Q.,' vol. vii. p. 164, and vol. viii. p. 13. H. J. B. CLEMENTS. OLD SEMAPHORE TOWERS (12 S. vi. 335 ; ^vii. 14, 32). Hampstead possesses a trea- sured landmark as reminder of a once existing telegraph station. This is Telegraph Hill, an eminence charmingly situated between the northern end of Platt's Lane and Redington Road. Being private pro- perty, the place is little known, even to residents. The following excerpts from ' Random Recollections of Hampstead,' by the late Mr. G. W. Potter, who was quite a walking encyclopaedia anent that historic suburb, may interest readers of 'N. & Q.' : " This was clearly the reason why about 1794, or possibly a little later, the spot was chosen as a telegraph station, the first* on the line north of London, viz. from Chelsea Hospital to Yarmouth. . . . The earlier form of telegraph consisted of six movable shutters arranged in frames. . . The apparatus was fixed in the cottage on the top of the hill and the framework which supported the apvfcua'iu^ above the roof is even now to be seen there. The shutter form of telegraph was soon abandoned for the semaphore, or upright post, with movable arms." Mr. Potter's book was published in 1907. Telegraph Hill, with its picturesque cottage, remains as then. ^ CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. ALLEGED REPRINTS OF ' THE TIMES ' (12 S. vi. 247). The interesting note by X. at the above reference brings together much valuable information. I venture to add to the list of Times reprints there given a photolithographic facsimile of The Times dated Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1796, being number 3736. The text of Washington's Farewell Address probably furnishes the reason for this facsimile, as the first portion of this address is given in columns 1, 2 and a part of 3 on p. 3. The facsimiles of the issue of June 22, 1815, are, so far as I have seen, type repro- ductions so poorly done as not to deceive any one. There are at least three different issues, differing among themselves, though obviously from a common source, and none of them agreeing with the original. The original is printed in five 18-em columns. The facsimiles appear in four 15-em columns. The original has The Times in open text letter of about the size we should call to-day 54 or 60 point. One of the facsimiles has tho heading in plain text letter of about 48 point ; another, in an open text letter of about 42 point. In the original the price is given as 6|rf. In the facsimiles the price is given as 6d. The centre device on the top of p. 1 differs in each of the facsimiles and in nono of them is it an accurate reproduction of the original. In the original p. 1 is entirely given to advertisements, 120 in number. The fac- similes have 46 advertisements in three arid