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 COLERAINE 369 1 780-84. (*) He d. unm., aged 70, at 81 Gloucester Place, Midx., 11, and was bur. 19 Dec. 18 14, at Kempsford, co. Gloucester. M.I.C") Will pr. 1 7 Dec. 1 8 14 by William Vansittart, clerk, the nephew and residuary legatee. VII. 1814 4. George (Hanger), Baron Coleraine [I.], br. and to h., b. 13, and bap. 23 Oct. 1751, at Driffield. Ed. at 1824. Reading school, at Eton, and at Gsttingen; Ensign ist Foot Guards Jan. 1771; Lieut, and Capt. Feb. 1776; retired Mar. il']6.(^) He served as a Capt. in the Hessian Jager corps in America, and was wounded at Charlottetown, North Carolina, Sep. 1780; Major in Tarleton's Light Dragoons 1782-83. A prisoner in the King's Bench for debt, June 1798 to Apr. 1799. He m., before Jan. 1823, at Wap- ping, his cook or housekeeper, Mary Anne Katherine,() da. of ( — ). He d. i./>.,3i Mar. 1824, of a convulsive fit,() near Regent's Park, Midx., aged 72, (*) He was one of those, for the most part Whigs, who, having supported the Coalition of North and Fox, were turned out of their seats at the Gen. Election of 1784, when Pitt swept the board, and were known as "Fox's Martyrs." For a list of them see vol. iv. Appendix A. V.G. ('')He paid 35 guineas in 1771 forhisportrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which has since been sold for a large sum. It is now ( 1 9 1 3) penes Col. Shuttleworth of Old Warden Park. He paid the same sum to the same artist for the portrait of his mistress, Mrs. Baddesley (see note "e "on preceding p.); they appear in 1772 as "Capt. H . . . and Mrs. B . . . y" in the notorious tete-a-tete portraits in Town and Country Mag., vol. iv, p. 233, for a list of which see Appendix B in the last volume of this work. In Raikes's Diary he is described as "a beau of the first water, always beautifully powdered, in a light green coat, with a rose in his buttonhole." In the Retrospections of Humphrey Wickham, of Strood, vol. iii, p. 90, as also in The History of Strood, by Henry Smetham (1899), will be found the story of an ostler who d. 20 Sep. 1830, at Strood, nnd who claimed to be Charles Parrott Hanger, Lord Coleraine, nephew of Col. Hanger [i.e. the last Lord Coleraine]. Presumably the claimant was an illegit. son of the 6th or 7th Lord. V.G. (') He was better known as Col. Hanger or "Blue Hanger," for he resolutely refused to assume the peerage title, and was always rather peevish when he was ad- dressed by it. In 1800 he traded as a coal merchant. He lived for some time in Paris to avoid his creditors. V.G. if) She was an illiterate person, and writes in one of her letters of the Colonel being "hill." Her maiden name may have been Greenwood, and the John Green- wood Hanger to whom she left her money was very possibly her illegit. s. by the Colonel. V.G. (') The Times says he d. on Thursday, I Apr. " He was formerly admitted among the convivial companions of his present Majesty [George IV], but as the Prince advanced in life the eccentric manners of the Colonel became somewhat too free and coarse for the Royal taste ... He was well acquainted with military duty ... He is generally acknowledged to have been a very handsome man in early life, but his person was disguised by the singularity of his dress. Tho' disposed to partici- pate in all the dissipations of higher life, he yet contrived to devote much of his time to reading, and published several whimsical pamphlets as well as his Life Adventures and Opinions." {Gent. Mag. 1824). There is constant reference to him in con- temporary memoirs, and he was caricatured by Gillray, Dighton, Rowlandson, and 47