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 £40 a-year to Frances, daughter of the late General Montpesson, and wife of Mr. Oliver, attorney at Manchester (also a legacy of £200, by codicil of 10th April 1790, to her daughter Frances, and £200 to John Oliver, of Beachworth).

£300 to Mrs. Hannah More, of Bristol (April 10, 1790), and ,£100 a-year to Mrs. Hannah More, now or late of Bristol (19th October 1792).

£2000 to William VVilberforce, Esq., of Old Palace Yard (19th October 1792), “requesting him to employ the same in any such benevolent purposes as he shall judge proper.”

Sir Charles Middleton’s wife, daughter, and son-in-law are noticed (10th April 1790):— £500 “to be disposed of by my friend Lady Middleton, in such charities as she shall think proper.” £100 to Gerard Noel Edwards, Esq. £100 to Mrs. Edwards. To Lady Middleton’s kinsman, Samuel Gambier (eldest son of John, deceased), she left £2000 in her will; and in the last-named codicil Captain James Gambier, R.N., received £2000, Rev. James Edward Gambier, Rector of Langley, £300, and Cornish Gambier, Esq., £300.

To public charities she made the following bequests:—

£1000 to St. George’s Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner. £500 to the Middlesex Hospital. £500 to the Westminster Infirmary. 500 to the Asylum, near Westminster Bridge. £500 to St. Luke’s Hospital, near Moorfields, established for the reception of incurable lunatics.

£500 to the Philanthropic Society (10th April 1790).

£100 to the Charity School of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields (7th June 1797).

&#42;&#8270;* On 1st May 1805, Sir Charles Middleton, Bart., First Lord of the Admiralty, was raised to the peerage as Baron Barham, of Barham Court and Teston.

Bouverie, of Delapré Abbey, county of Northampton, is the family founded by Hon. Edward Bouverie, M.P. for Salisbury, afterwards for Northampton (who died on 3rd September 1810), second son of Jacob, first Viscount Folkestone. His mother (the Viscount’s first wife) was Mary, only child and heiress of Bartholomew Clarke, Esq., of Delapré Abbey. Mr. Bouverie married, on 30th June 1764, Harriot, daughter of Sir Edward Fawkener, who was for many years ambassador at the Porte. His sons were Edward Bouverie, Esq., of Delapré Abbey (born 25th October 1767, died 14th April 1858); Rev. John Bouverie, Rector of Woolbeding, and Prebendary of Lincoln (born 13th January 1779, died, 9th June 1855), and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., Colonel of the 97th Regiment, and Governor of Malta (born 11th July 1783, died at Woolbeding House, 14th November 1852). This distinguished officer, who wore the Egyptian and Peninsular medals, was the father of Captain Hugh Montolieu Bouverie, who was killed at the battle of Inkerman. The married daughters of the Hon. Edward Bouverie, M.P., were Harriet Elizabeth, Countess of Rosslyn (died in August 1810); Mary Charlotte, Mrs. Maxwell of Carriden (died in 1816); Jane, Lady Vincent (died in 1805); and Diana Juliana, wife of Hon. George Ponsonby, of Woolbeding, Sussex (died 18th July 1808). Edward Bouverie, Esq., of Delapré Abbey, who died in 1858, aged ninety, was succeeded by his son, General Everard William Bouverie (born 1789, died 18th November 1871). Another son, Captain Francis Kenelm Bouverie, of the 62nd Foot (born 7th August 1797), had died in his father’s lifetime (19th September 1837), leaving a son (born 12th July 1836), who became the only surviving male heir of his family, and is the present John Augustus Sheil Bouverie, Esq., of Delapré Abbey, High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1877. Mr. Bouverie has two sons and five daughters.

Other Bouveries who became landed proprietors. What I have to note here is chiefly in illustration of the will of Miss Bouverie of Teston, as already condensed in this chapter.

Under this will there was founded another family of Bouverie of Betchworth in Surrey. On 5th September 1751, William Bouverie, afterwards the first Earl of Radnor (father by his first wife of the second Earl), married, secondly, a relative of Lady Pleydell, Rebecca, daughter of John Alleyne, Esq., of Barbadoes. Their eldest son, William Henry, was born 30th October 1752, and on 16th August 1777 he married Lady Bridget Douglas, daughter of James, fourteenth Earl of Morton. He sat as a member of the House of Commons for Salisbury and for Downton; he came into possession of Betchworth in 1798, and died 23d August 1806. He had become Hon. William Henry Bouverie, in 1761, on the death of his grandfather, the first Viscount Folkestone. His only son, Charles Henry, born in 1782, died, in 1836, unmarried. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, became, in 1814, the second wife of George Hay Dawkins Pennant, Esq., of Penrhyn Castle, but had no children; she died in 1859. His younger daughter, Maria Rebecca, was married, on 3d October 1808, to