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 8H ERBROOKE — PHirKEOOK. BROOKE («) of Sherbrooke, in co. Surrey ; G.C.B., 30 May 1885. He m. firstly (when at Oxford 1, 26 March lS:iti, Qeorgjana, 2d da. of George Orhkd, t)£ Tranniorc, co. Chester, by Frances, da. of William Wdodvillk, of Edge Hill, co. Lancaster. She <i. 3 Nov. 1SS4, after some months illness, at 34 Lowndes square, aud was hur. nt Woking cemetery. Her will dat. 1 Jan. 1882, pr. 21 Dec. IS92, over i'12.000. He m. secondly, 3 Feb. 1885, at St. Matthias', Torquay, Caroline Anue, 2d da. of Thomas Sjjktd, of Sidbury manor, co. Devon, and of the Ashes, co. .Stafford, by Emma, da. of George Whitley, of Norley Hall, co. Chester. He ii. s.p. at Sherbrooke Lodge, in Warliugham, co. Surrey. 27 July 1892, in his 81st year, and was bur. at Woking cemetery, ( b ) wlieu tie peerage became extinct. Will ]>r. at £16,261, His widow living 1895. SHINGAY. i.e., "Siiixgav, co. Cambridge,," Barony (Russell), cr. 1 GOT, with the Earldom Of Oriorp, which see ; ex. 1727. SIIIPBROOK OF NEWRY, Earldom [I-] J. Fkaxcis Verxon, of Orwell Park, eo. Suffolk, 2.1 I 1777 s ' ^' l,ut ' s VkunoN/ c ) of Great Thurlow, in that county, some £ Q * time Envoy to the Court of Denmark, by Arethusa, da. of 1783. Charles I'oVLE, styleil Lord ClJKl'HRI) («. ami h. ap. of Richard, Karl of Burlington), was h. about 1715 ; was M.P. for Ipswich, and was cr. 7 April 17HJ. HAHON ORWELL OK NK.WRV, co. Down [I.] being er. 21 July 1776, VISCOUNT OKWELL [I.], and finally, 8 Feb. 1777 (") Sherbrooke, save as far as the name given to the resilience at Warliiighain, Has in eo. Notts. The grantee's eldest br. took the name i.f SAtrtreokr, in lieu of thut of Lour, on inheriting the estate of Oxton in Notts, in 1S47. Their father, Robert Lowe, of Southwell, Notts (who it. 1S22, aged 76), was s. of Samuel Lowe, by Elizabeth, <k and coheir of Henry Sherbrooke, of Oxton afsd. ( b ) He was a clever but not successful politician, and was latterly much hindered by the failure of his eyesight, which (as that of an Albino), had never been good ; one of his last speeches ('28 March 1S79), was abruptly broken off, from his having lost the thread and not being able to consult his notes, but a more damaging exhibition was his having to retract, 4 May 1870, a statement he had made that the Qm'en was personally responsible for the introduction of the "Royal Titles Bill.'' His power of epigram and sarcasm made him many enemies. The following epitaph uii him, tho' severe, is, on the whole, fairly .just — " Here lie the bones of Robert Lowe, A faithless friend, a bitter foe,— Whither his restless spirit's (led, Is guess-work ; one thing's sure — he's dead. Should he hove gone to realms aljove, Farewell to peace and heavenly love, — But if he's sought a lower level, The Lord have mercy on the Devil." These have been rendered several times in Latin and even in Greek (see letter of H. H. Gibbs in " The Times," August, 1892), a brilliant version, said to have beeu written by himself, is as under— "Kobertus Humilis hie jacet, Qui nobis, mortuus, valde placet, QuiL'uam conditio sit futura Ambigitur, sed spero dura ; Amicus ininime lidelis, Hostis, amarus et crudelis ; Si eielcim scandet ista pestis, Vale, concordia ctelestis ; — Si apud inferos jacebit, Diaboluni ejus pujuitebit." (•) This James was elder br. of Admiral Edward Vernon who in 1739 captured Poitobello, iu the West Indies, and who was the " brave but happy Vernon " mentioned