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then took the name of Campbell. Their son, Sir James Livingstone Campbell, was governor of Stirling Castle, and died in 1788. He was the third Livingstone baronet. His son was Sir Alexander Campbell. On his death in 1810 the Livingstone baronetcy be- came extinct, and the estate went to his cousin, Col. James Callander. His father, the antiquary, was Mr., not Sir, John Cal- lander of Craigforth. Col. Callander (after- wards Campbell) was married four times, and had a family by each wife. Craigforth and Ardkinglass are now in the possession of his great-grandson.

It may be of interest to add that "The Three Graces," Tom Sheridan's daughters, who became Lady Dufferin, Hon. Mrs. Nor- ton, and the Duchess of Somerset, were grandchildren of Col. Callander, their mother being Caroline Callander, her mother being Lady Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Antrim.

After his succession Col. Campbell called himself, in error, "Sir" James Campbell, both the baronetcies, however, as above mentioned, having become extinct.

LOUISA WALLACE-JAMES.

Tyne House, Haddington, N.B.

SHIPS OF WAR ON LAND (9 th S. vii. 147, 235, 296). Tarbert or Tarbat is a common Scotch name which is used for places where vessels could be drawn across the land. The best known are those that cross the islands of Jura and Harris, and one near Tarbat Ness in Ross-shire, from the Moray Firth to the German Ocean. Popular etymology explains it as a contraction of tarruing-bdta, meaning literally a boat -draught place, but the real derivation is from the Gaelic tairbeart, a peninsula. ISAAC TAYLOR.

DR. FORBES WATSON (9 th S. vii. 247). The full name of this writer was John Forbes Watson. There is some biographical infor- mation respecting him in the Journal of the Society of Arts, 12 August, 1892 ; Allibone, in., and Supplement ii. ; 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' Ix. 15; 'Men and Women of the Time,' 1891 and probably in literary and scientific paper* for August and September, 1892. ' Flo wen, and Gardens ' was published about January 1872, by Strahan. J. p. B.

THE BULLER PEDIGREE (9 th S. vi. 487). It may be difficult to arrive at exact facts con- cerning early origins, partly from primitive obscurity, but enhanced by change of loca- tion ; " there was a man, unnoted at the time, but his descendants ran with note through every clime." So the real rise ol

the Buller family dates from the marriage of Richard Buller, from Somersetshire, who died in 1556, with Margaret Trethurffe (as her third husband), whose grandmother was a Courtenay. This seems a slender foundation
 * or representation, yet hereon is founded the

jasis for " De Redvers," one of the general's Baptismal names. For this authority we work back to about 1216, when Robert Courtenay, of Okehampton, married Mary de Rivers, of Plympton, for Redvers is an Anglicized form of Riviers or Riparis, of Gorman origin, who were Earls of Brionne.

A. HALL.

OLD LONDON TAVERNS (9 th S. vii. 69, 154, 236). The exact position of the " Five Bells Tavern" is marked in Rocque's maps of London of 1746 and 1761. It lay between the Strand and Wych Street, opposite the eastern end of St. Mary's Church. Seymour says that the back door opened into Wych Street ('History of London,' 1734, vol. ii. p. 688). According to Diprose ('Account of St. Clement Danes,' i. 180) it was, with many neighbouring houses, destroyed by fire in 1781 ; and in 1782 a new street, Newcastle Street, was formed on the site. A comparison of maps would seem to show that the site of the northern part of the tavern is occupied by the houses on the west of Newcastle Street, and that the site of the southern part is occupied by the street itself. It might be difficult to obtain a print of the tavern, as in the views of this portion of the Strand taken in the eighteenth century (such as Kip's large bird's-eye view of 1710) the church of St. Mary-le-Strand hides the tavern from sight. The passage referred to by MR. MAC- MICHAEL as quoted by Diprose from Seymour is not in Seymour, but in Strype's ' Stow ' (ed. 1755, vol. ii. p. 113). The "Bell Inn" and yard lay a little further east, between the " Five Bells Tavern " and Little Drury Lane (now Drury Court). With regard to the "Griffin" or "Golden Griffin" in Ful- wood's Rents, it may be interesting to note that the arms of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn are "Azure, an Indian Griffon proper Segreant," or "Sables, a Griffyn Rampant Gould " (see Douthwaite's 'Gray's Inn,' pp. 247, 249). H. A. HARBEN.

Although, strictly speaking, it is not an old London tavern, it would be interesting to know when the so-called " D. D." or " Dirty Dick Tavern " gave the name to a public-house in Bishopsgate Street. The original ' ' Dirty Dick's House " was in Leadenhall Street. There are in existence prints which prove this. The old house was