SIR GREGORY O. PAGE TURNER, BART. March 6. At his residence in Gloucester-place, Marylebone, Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, the fourth Bart. (1733) of Battlesden Park, Bedfordshire, and Ambrosden, Oxfordshire.

He was born Sept. 28, 1785, in Portland-place, Middlesex, the eldest son of Sir Gregory Turner, who assumed the name of Page, and was M.P. for Thirsk (the grandson of Sir Edward, the first Baronet, by Mary, daughter of Sir Gregory Page, of Blackheath), by Frances, daughter of Joseph Howell, esq. of Elm, in Norfolk,

At the death of his father in 1805 he succeeded to landed property estimated at 24,000l. per ann. and funded property amounting to 310,0007. (see the father's will in Gent. Mag. March 1805, p. 278). Old Sir Gregory had hoarded 16,700 guineas, which were found in his secre. taire, and he had destroyed the magnifi. cent family mansions at Ambrosden and Blackheath. The late Sir Gregory was educated first at a school at Greenford in Middlesex, kept by the Rev. Mr. Hooker and the Rev. M. Dodd successively, and afterwards under the tuition of the Rev. John Smith, at Eaton Bray, co. Bedford. From the latter place he was removed to Harrow, and subsequently to the Rev. W. Haggitt's at Byfleet, in Surrey. In Oct. 1805 he was entered of Brasenose college, Oxford, where he took the de.. gree of M.A. June 14, 1809, and that of D.C.L. Jan. 17, 1818. In 1810 he served the office of sheriff for the county of Bedford.

Sir Gregory Page-Turner was a general collector of pictures and curiosities, and employed artists to make drawings and collect materials illustrative of the history of Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, &c. These were dispersed by auction at Christie's, when he became weak in mind some years since. He patronized the publication of Mr. John Dunkin's History and Antiquities of the Hundreds of Bullington and Ploughley in Oxfordshire, in two vols. 4to. 1823, a very excellent work, of which 100 copies only were printed, and but seventy of them for sale.

In 1820 Sir Gregory published some topographical memorandums of the county of Oxford in a thin octavo volume, and about the same time was a frequent correspondent to the Gentleman's Magazine.

On the 19th December, 1823, an inquisition of lunacy was issued against Sir Gregory, which he traversed at Bedford in Oct. 1824, when it was thought by many present that he exhibited in open court every mark of sanity, insomuch that Mr. Storks, the counsel who opposed the

traverse, admitted that he did not oppose the gentleman who appeared before the court, but the Sir Gregory Page-Turner against whom the commission was issued in December 1823. The commission of lunacy was superseded in 1840, and, feeling extremely anxious to do justice towards his creditors, he by will directed that each should be paid twenty years' interest on the sums remaining due to them.

Sir Gregory Page-Turner married, April 28, 1818, Helen Elizabeth, only daughter of John Wolsey Bayfield, capt. in the 1st Surrey Militia. By that lady, who survives him, he had issue a son Gregory-Osborne, who died an infant in 1823, and a daughter, Helen Elizabeth, married in 1838 to the Rev. Charles Fryer, M.A.

His remains were interred on the 15th March in the family vault at Bicester, attended by his brother and successor, Sir Edward George Thomas Page-Turner, as chief mourner.

REAR-ADM. SIR JOSIAH COGHILL, BART.

April... In his 74th year, RearAdm. Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, the third Bart. of Coghill Hall, co. York (1778).

He was the younger son of Sir John the first Baronet by Maria, daughter of the Most Rev. Josiah Hart, D.D. Lord Archbishop of Tuam. He retained his paternal name of Cramer (that of Coghill having been assumed by his father) until the 7th June 1817, when, having succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his elder brother on the 21st of the preceding month, he took the name of Coghill only, by royal sign manual.

He obtained post rank Feb. 1, 1806, and in that year commanded the Concord frigate, on the East India station, from whence he returned to England in the autumn of 1807. During the Walcheren expedition he commanded the Diana frigate, and was highly spoken of by Sir Richard J. Strachan in his despatches reporting the operations of the fleet under his orders. He attained the rank of RearAdmiral Nov. 23, 1841.

Sir Josiah married, first in 1812, Miss Dobson, by whom he had issue a daughter; and secondly, Jan. 27, 1819, Anna Maria, eldest daughter of the Rt. Hon. Charles Kendal Bushe, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench in Ireland, by whom he had issue a daughter born in Dec. 1819; Sir John Jocelyn Coghill, born in 1820, who has succeeded to the title; and Kendal Josiah William, born in 1832.

SIR FRANCIS SYKES, BART. April 6. At Lennox Lodge, Hayling Island, aged 42, Sir Francis Sykes, the

third Bart. of Basildon, Berks. (1781), M.A.

He was the elder son of Sir Francis William Sykes the second Baronet, by Anne, eldest daughter of the Hon. Major Henniker, and niece to John second Lord Henniker. He succeeded when a child to the title, on the death of his father, March 7, 1804. He was a member of St. John's college, Cambridge, where he received the honorary degree of M.A. in 1819.

He married in 1821 Henrietta, eldest daughter of H. Villebois, esq., by whom he has left issue a son and heir, born in 1822, another son born in 1826, and a daughter born in 1830.

SIR PETER PAYNE, BART. Jan. 23. At Blunham House, Bedfordshire, in his 82nd year, Sir Peter Payne, Bart. formerly M.P. for that county.

Sir Charles Payne, of St. Christopher's, was created a Baronet in 1737; and his son, Sir Gillies, the second Baronet, died 1801, when, says Courthope in his Extinct Baronetage, 1835, "the title became extinct. After a lapse of 27 years the title was assumed by Peter Payne, esq. claiming to be a legitimate son of the last Baronet." Burke, in Peerage and Baronetage, states that Sir Peter "succeeded to the title in 1828, in consequence of a decree of the Court of Chancery, confirming a report, finding him the eldest son born in wedlock of his late father Sir Gillies Payne, of Tempsford, in Bedfordshire." This was in the cause Glascott v. Bridges.

Sir Peter Payne was the intimate friend of Dr. Parr and Major Cartwright, and became bail for the latter when charged with sedition.

At the period of the Reform enthusiasm in 1831 he became a Whig candidate for the county of Bedford, and succeeded in ousting the former member Mr. Stuart, the numbers being, for Marquis of Tavistock Sir Peter Payne. William Stuart, esq.

1145

1873

690

but in 1832 he was defeated in turn, the, result of the poll being,

became a widower in 1840; 2. Robert Henley and 3, the Rev. Peter-Samuel Henry Payne, M.A. Fellow of Balliol college, Oxford, who died June 30, 1841: and four daughters: 1. Maria-Mary, married to Joseph Webster, esq. of Penns, in Warwickshire; 2. Laura-Janet ; 3. Eliza beth, married to Charles Barnett, esq. of Stratton Park, Bedfordshire; and 4. Isabella-Emma.

SIR ROB. WILLIAMES VAUGHAN, BART. April 22. At Nannau, near Dolgelly, aged 75, Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, the second Bart. of Nannau and Hengwrst, co. Merioneth (1791), for 44 years M.P. for that county.

He was the eldest son of Sir Robert Howell Vaughan the first Baronet, by Anne daughter of Edward Williames, of Ystymcollwyn, esq., and succeeded his father in the title in 1796. He had previously been returned to Parliament, in 1792, for the county of Merioneth, which he continued to represent, in ten successive Parliaments, until the year 1830.

He married in Sept. 1801, AnnaMaria, daughter of Sir Roger Mostyn, Bart., and sister and coheiress to Sir Thomas Mostyn, of Mostyn, co. Flint, Bart. by whom he had issue Sir RobertWilliames Vaughan, his successor, born in 1803, and other children.

The present Baronet married in 1835 the eldest daughter of Edward Lloyd, esq. of Rhagatt.

GENERAL J. M. KERR.

April 1. At Maesmor heath, Wales, aged 74, General John Manners Kerr. General Kerr was appointed Ensign in the 111th foot the 21st Feb. 1785, which he joined at Gibraltar, and there remained till the 24th Sept. 1787, when he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the 4th battalion 60th foot; and the 10th Nov. 1790, to a company. He served with his regiment in Barbadoes until the com.. mencement of the war in 1793, when he proceeded with it to the attack of Tobago. He remained there in garrison, with the exception of a short time at St. Vincent's, until appointed Major the 29th June, 1794. He continued in the West Indies until May 1795, having on the 25th Oct. 1794 received the rank of Lieut.- Colonelin the army, with the appointment of ColonelCommandant of the Northampton Fencibles. In March 1798 he exchanged into the 62nd foot, the 1st Jan. 1801 was appointed Colonel in the army, and BrigadierGeneral in the West Indies the 5th Feb. following. He commanded the Islands of Grenada, Dominica, Barbadoes, and

St. Vincent's, until June 1804, when he returned to England on account of ill bealth.

In September of the latter year he was placed on the staff of the North West District, and had the command of the volunteer force of Manchester and its neighbourhood; he continued there till June 1806, and in July was appointed to the staff in Ireland. The 25th April, 1808, he received the rank of MajorGeneral, and on the 26th Sept. of that year he was removed from the Irish staff to that of Colchester and Woodbridge; and in. June 1809 to the Sussex district. The 25th of June, 1810, he was appointed Colonel of the late 5th Royal Veteran battalion. He attained the rank of Lieut.-General in 1813, and that of General in 1830.

CAPT. H. C. PEMBERTON, R. N. April 28. At Brompton, aged 51, Henry Charles Pemberton, esq. Commander R.N.

He was son of Dr. Christopher Robert Pemberton, Physician extraordinary to King George IV. He served as midshipman in the Pomone frigate, Capt. Robert Barrie ; and was appointed acting Lieutenant of the Hibernia 120, bearing the flag of Sir W. Sidney Smith, on the Mediterranean station, Oct. 26, 1812. His first commission bore date Jan. 25, 1813; and in Aug. following he joined the Glasgow frigate, Capt. the Hon. Henry Duncan, in which ship he continued until she was paid off, Sept. 1, 1815. He was third Lieutenant of the Minden 74, Capt. W. Paterson, at the battle of Algiers; after which he proceeded in the same ship (destined to receive the flag of Sir Richard King) to the East Indies; and from thence returned home, acting Captain of the Melville 74, in Dec. 1817. He obtained the rank of Commander, Jan. 20, 1818.

He married, Aug. 31, 1822, CarolineAnn-Augusta, daughter of the late Capt. Nixon, a veteran army officer.

C. FYSHE PALMER, ESQ. Jan. 24. At Luckley House, Wokingham, Charles Fyshe Palmer, esq. formerly M.P. for Reading.

The ancestors of Mr. Palmer had been seated at Wokingham for a considerable period. He first came forward as a candidate for Reading in 1818, and was returned after a poll which terminated as follows:

Chas. Shaw Lefevre, esq..
C. F. Palmer, esq.
John Weyland, esq.

528

379

303

In 1841 the tables were reversed, and both seats were obtained by the Tories, but Mr. Palmer did not then take part in the contest.

Mr. Palmer married Nov. 25, 1805, Lady Madelina, widow of Sir Robert Sin. clair, Bart. of Stevenston, co. Haddington, mother of the present Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Bart. Capt. R.N. second daughter of Alexander fourth Duke of Gordon, and sister to the Duchess dowager of Richmond, the late Duchess of Manchester, the Marchioness dowager Cornwallis, and the Duchess dowager of Bedford.

ROBERT LOVELL GWATKIN, Esq. April 27. In his 87th year, Robert Lovell Gwatkin, esq. M.A.

He was educated at St. John's college, Cambridge, where he resided as a Fellow Commoner, and was classed as 13th Wrangler in the examination for the degree of B. A. in the year 1778. He was shortly afterwards complimented with the honorary degree of M.A. upon the recommendation of his college. Whilst at the university he was on terms of friendship with the celebrated William Pitt; but, being always a consistent Reformer in politics, he declined following his distinguished friend into public life. Mr. Gwatkin married Miss Theophila Palmer, the niece of Sir Joshua Reynolds, who survives him; and resided for many

years on his estate at Killiou, in Cornwall, and finally at Plymouth. His ten closing years, which he spent in that town, have endeared his memory to all his neighbours, both rich and poor, by the venerable example which he has afforded of the character of a Christian gentleman. Perhaps the most conspicuous among bis many estimable qualities were sincerity, the absence of all pride, and, in its most enlarged sense, charity. He died in the full possession of all his faculties, the full exercise of every kindly sympathy, and the full enjoyment of every gospel hope. There is a good engraving pub. lished of a portrait of Mr. Gwatkin by Lonsdale.

We add the following extract from Mr. Davies Gilbert's History of Cornwall:

"Killiow is now the seat of Mr. Robert Lovell Gwatkin, where he has built an almost entirely new house, with extensive gardens and plantations, improved the land, and made the whole into a handsome modern residence.

"To this gentleman the parish is also mainly indebted for a removal of the church. Either cultivation began on the banks of the river, or a strong feeling of veneration was entertained for the spot where St. Kea landed from his granite trough; but so it happened that the church stood at one extremity of the parish, and that by far the least populous.

Mr.

Gwatkin led the way, and contributed largely towards constructing a new church much nearer to the great mass of the inhabitants; in this he was followed by other proprietors, and spacious church is now in use for divine service between Killiow and Nanceavallan. Prayers, with a sermon suited to the occasion, were first given, after reading the Bishop's licence, on the 3rd Oct. 1802, being the feasten Sunday, to a congregation so large as almost to fill the churchyard as well as the church itself, which is decorated by Mrs. Gwatkin, niece of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with paintings which that great artist could not have failed to admire. The tower alone remains to point out the site of the former church."

GEORGE HENRY CAREW, ESQ. Oct. 13, 1842. At his seat, Crowcombe Court, Somerset, George Henry Carew, esq. of that place, and of Carew Castle, co. Pembroke.

This gentleman's paternal name was Warrington, of Pentrepant in Shropshire, and he assumed that of Carew in 1811, having married in 1794 Mary, eldest daughter of John Carew, of East Antony, in Cornwall, esq. (whose Cornish estates passed to the family of Pole.)

ters.

He had issue four sons and six daughThe former are Thomas George Warrington Carew, esq. who has married the only child of the late Thomas Clarke, esq. of Furnham House; Henry, who has married Jane-Maria, only child of John Rogers, esq. of Ayshford, near Sidmouth; John-Francis, and Gerald. Of the daughters, Hester, the eldest, is the wife of Gabriel Powell, esq. eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Powell, of Peterstone Court, co. Brecon.

ROBERT HURST, ESQ.

April 13. At Horsham Park, Sussex, in his 93d year, Robert Hurst, esq. a bencher of the Middle Temple, formerly M.P. for Horsham.

Mr. Hurst was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple, Nov. 27, 1776.

He purchased Horsham Park about the year 1830 of Edmund Smith, esq. At the general election of 1802 he was returned to Parliament (on the Duke of Norfolk's nomination) as one of the members for Steyning, but made way for Lord Ossulston. In 1806 he was again elected for the same borough, and he represented it during that Parliament and the next. In 1812 he was elected for Horsham, which he continued to represent until the passing of the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act, immediately upon which he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, to make room for the Earl of Surrey (the present Duke of Norfolk).

The body of Mr. Hurst was buried on the 20th April in the family vault in the chancel of Horsham Church, of which he was the lay Rector. It was attended by his sons Robert Henry Hurst, esq. and the Rev. John Hurst, and his grandsons, with his tenantry about 120 in number.

He was born in January 1770, at Redford, a few miles west of Edinburgh-a beautiful small property to which he succeeded by the death of his grandmother, and which was afterwards sold. graduated at the University of Edinburgh as M.D. in 1791, and in 1792 he became a zealous and active member of the Association then instituted at that city to forward Parliamentary Reform, along with Thomas Muir and many other promoters of the measure, of whom Mr. Robert Forsyth, advocate, and Mr. William Moffat, solicitor, are believed to be the only survivors.

Mr. Allen gave lectures on comparative

anatomy at Edinburgh, which were of such excellence as to have induced M. Cuvier eagerly to seek his acquaintance. At the beginning of the present century he left Edinburgh, and since that time was a constant inmate, first with Lord Holland, and, after the death of that amiable and enlightened statesman, with Lady Holland. All who resorted to Holland House valued his extensive research, his accurate knowledge, his ever ready and exact memory, and his kindness in imparting information to those who sought His facility in unravelling the most intricate and obscure parts of history was remarkable. His articles in the Edin. burgh Review,* and his other works, attest his various and profound learning. His zeal for the Constitution led him to search for its foundations in the AngloSaxon laws, and to study a language com. paratively little known.

He published "An Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative, in England; "A Vindication of the Independence of Scotland;" and a Reply to Dr. Lingard, who had remonstrated upon a criticism of his History of England which Mr. Allen had contributed to the Edinburgh Review. He wrote, indeed, more than one article upon that work, at first approving Lingard, but afterwards censuring his partiality, particularly his misquotation of Strada, with regard to the massacre of St. Bartholemew.

Mr. Allen was one of the members of the late Commission on Public Records.

An inmate in Holland House for more than forty years, Mr. Allen had the opportunity of becoming acquainted with all the distinguished men of all countries, and his long life may be said to have been passed between the best reading and the best conversation. Nor in a society where Romilly, and Horner, and Mackintosh, were welcome and delightful guests, was there a single person who did not listen with respect to the voice of one with whom Lord Holland searched the records of history for the materials of his speeches, and to whose friendly eye were submitted those admirable protests in which the cause of liberty was so eloquently pleaded. In the Exhibition at the Royal Academy last year was a pleasing picture of

To Mr. Allen's article in the Edinburgh Review, XXVI. 341, Sir James Mackintosh refers as having been written by one of the most acute and learned of our constitutional antiquaries." Hist. of England, 1. 241. Mr. Allen wrote the life of Fox in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

GENT. MAG. VOL. XX.

Lord and Lady Holland and Mr. Allen, seated in the library of Holland House, painted by Leslie.

He was esteemed and loved by Lord Holland, which is eulogy in itself, and there can be no doubt that his affliction for the loss of such a friend shortened his life.

The warmth of his heart, and the steadiness of his attachment to his friends, were indeed not less remarkable than his

high intellectual qualities. He had a marked part in that circle so eloquently described by Mr. Macaulay, "in which every talent and accomplishment, every art and science, had its place."

Mr. Allen has died worth about 70007. or 80007., of which he has bequeathed 2500l. to the descendants in his mother's second marriage, named Cleghorn, and resident in the western states of America. The sum of 10007, and all his medical books and manuscripts are bequeathed to his intimate friend Dr. John Thomson, Emeritus Professor of Pathology in the University of Edinburgh. In respect to his other manuscripts his wishes are expressed in the following terms:

"I bequeath to Col. Charles Richard Fox all my manuscript journals, diaries, and letters, with the exception of such as have been already devised to Dr. Thom. son, of Edinburgh. I know that my manuscript collections, which were made for purposes that I cannot hope now to execute, are of no value to any one but myself; but I am loath to destroy them while I am still alive, and having the same confidence in Colonel Fox which I had in his father, to whom I had formerly bequeathed them, I am sure he will take care that they fall into no hands after my death where they can be used to my discredit." His Spanish and Italian books are left to Dulwich college. The will is dated Oct. 29, 1842.

HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE, ESQ.

Jan. 26. In Chester-place, Regent's Park, Henry Nelson Coleridge, esq. M.A. Barrister at Law.

Mr. Nelson Coleridge was the son of Colonel Coleridge, a brother of the poet. He married his cousin, a daughter of the poet, a very learned and accomplished lady; she published some years ago a translation of the "History of the Abipones," from the Latin of Dobrizhoffer, and more recently a beatiful fairy tale called "Phantasmion." He was educated at Eton and at King's college, Cambridge, where he was elected Fellow, and graduated B. A. 1823, M. A. 182-. He accompanied his uncle, the Bishop of Barbadoes, on his outward voyage, and

Q