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 490 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.ix.DBc.i7.i92i. LONDON INSTITUTIONS circa 1830. Can anyone suggest a work of reference that would give a list of societies and institu- tions existing in London in 1830 ? I am trying to find particulars of one, spoken of in 1830 as a "novel institution," and bearing the name " Nursing Mothers " or some equivalent title. Sir Anthony Car- lisle was interested in it. G. A. ANDERSON. COLONEL ROGER WHITLEY. I should be grateful if any reader could inform me as to the present whereabouts of a painting of Colonel Roger Whitley a prominent Cheshire worthy during the reigns of Charles I. and II. and William III. The painting was in Glutton Rectory in 1878, but I cannot trace it since that date. DEINIOL. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. After the publi- cation of Godwin's ' Memoirs of the Author of " A Vindication of the Rights of Woman " (London, 1798), a scurrilous review appeared in The European Magazine and London Review (vol. xxxiii., April, 1798, p. 246). From this review I quote : She then [October, 1787], as a temporary situation, accepted the office of Governess to the daughters of Lord Viscount Kingsborough, eldest son to the Earl of Kingston in the kingdom of Ireland, and wonders are told of the salutary effects of her system of education ; but when we reflect on what Mr. Godwin is silent about, the misconduct of one of her pupils, who has lately brought disgrace on herself, death on her para- mour, risk to the life of her brother and father, and misery to all her relatives ; when we consider also Mrs. Godwin's own subsequent conduct ; we hesitate in giving implicit credit to the eulo- fium. We fear the pupil was too much influenced y deference to the example of the Governess. Robert King, Viscount Kingsborough, 1754-1799, married, at the age of 15, his cousin, Caroline Fitzgerald, and succeeded his father as second Earl of Kingston in 1797. They had seven children : George, third Earl, 1771-1839, married, 1794, Helena Moore, daughter of the first Earl of Mount- cashell ; Robert Edward, born 1773 ; Margaret Jane (Mary Wollstonecraft's " dear Margaret ") ; Caroline ; Mary Elizabeth ; Jane Diana ; and Louisa Eleanora. The two sons were 16 and 14 years of age when Mary Wollstonecraft came to the Castle, Mitchelstown, Ireland, as governess to the daughters. Mary's favourite was Margaret, the eldest daughter. Margaret Jane King (ob. Switzerland, 1835) married, 1791, Stephen Moore, second Earl of Mountcashell, born 1770, ob. Moore Park, 1822 ; brother of Helena Moore, who married Margaret's brother George. Margaret, Countess Mountcashell, enter- tained Godwin while he was in Dublin in 1800. After the Union she and her husband went abroad ; she afterwards separated from him and lived as the wife of George William Tighe, M.P., of Co. Wicklow, cousin of Mary Tighe, the celebrated authoress of ' Psyche ; or The Legend of Love ' (London, 1805). They assumed the name of " Mr. and Mrs. Mason." They were living together at Pisa, with their two attractive daughters, in 1820, when Shelley and his wife were there (Dowden's 'Life of Shelley'). Mr. Thomas U. Sadleir, editor of ' An Irish Peer on the Continent ? (London, 1920), in an account of Lord and Lady Mountcashell's European journey in 1801-03, thus deftly avoids the above awkward facts : She [Lady Mountcashell] was content to share her husband's retirement at Moore Park, where she lived till his death. Two years later she found a second husband in Mr. George William Tighe, a member of a well-known Irish family. As regards her remaining years, there appears to be some obscurity. We know, however, that she once more visited the Continent, her death occurring in Switzerland in 1835. Besides this, perhaps excusable, irre- gularity on Lady Mountcashell's part, which " occurred several years after the appearance of the quoted review, I have learned of no other " misconduct " on the part of any of Mary's Irish pupils. Can any correspondent supply the incident which brought disgrace on one of Mary's youthful charges, " death on her paramour, risk to the life of her brother and father, and misery to all her relatives " ? These successive allegations are possible of explana- tion by an Irish duel, in which the vile seducer fell before the fatal blade or bullet of Robert, George or Robert Edward. W. CLARK DURANT. BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS OF ARTISTS SOUGHT. Information is sought as to bio- graphical details of the following water- colour artists, samples of whose work occur 1. G. H. Ashburnham (architectural). 2. T. Allom (buildings). 3. W. Bennett (seascape). 4. T. Barker. 5. J. D. Barnett (ancient buildings). 6. E. Byrne. 7. F, Boisseree (landscape).
 * in my collection.