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16 those cities as principal violoncello. To the extraordinary merits of Mr. was united considerable acquirement in the superior branches of mechanics and philosophy, and his affinity to his brother, Sir, was not less in science than in blood."

We shall learn more of the sister,, as time goes on. Now in these early years she was a silent and persistent child, growing up with a feeling that she was uncared for and neglected, and lavishing all her childish affection, as she did all that of her womanly life, on her brother. Throughout her long life, "my brother" was, "my nephew" his son.

The brothers and  were, with their father, members of the band of the Guards in 1755, when the regiment was ordered to England, and they were absent from Hanover a year.

(then seventeen years old) went as oboist, and out of his scanty pay brought back to Hanover, in 1756, only one memento of his stay—a copy of Locke On the Human Understanding.