Dr. Heslop, as was once said of a certain 1801, Sir James Marriot and William
church dignitary, and may perchance Smith, Esq. were returned, but at that
be said of another -- that he died of 1802 (Mr. Crespigny having trans-
“ shamefully rich," -- to the surprise of ferred to Sir John his interest in the
all who misjudged his public means, and borouglı, which, though it had been fre-
knew not the private demands upon it, quently defeated, was of great power
the late Rector of Marylebone died he was again elected, and continued to
poor. - New Monthly Magazine. sit for Sudbury till 1819, when, having
HIPPISLEY, Sir John Coxe, Bart, represented it in five parliaments, he
of Warfield Grove, Berks, recorder of retired.
Sudbury; T. C.L., F. R. and A.S.; May In 1792 he returned to Italy, where
3 ; in Grovesnor-street; in his 80th year. he continued till 1796, employed in
The Hippisleys are a Somersetshire many important negociations, the bene,
family, which has been traced to an ficial results of which were acknow.
early period. Sir John was the only ledged in the most flattering manner by
surviving son of William Hippisley, Esq. his majesty's ministers.
of Yatton, Somerset, by Anne, eldest In 1796, at the instance of the late
daughter of Robert Webb, Esq. of king of Wirtemburg, he was engaged
Cromhall, county of Gloucester (the in the negociation of that prince's mar-
representative of the ancient family of riage with the Princess Royal of Great
Clyfford House, Somerset); he was Britain, an alliance considered at the
named Coxe, from his paternal grand- time as likely to be of great importance,
inother Dorothy, only daughter of Wil. his Serene Highness being the brother-
liam Coxe, Esq. of East Harptree, So- in-law of the Emperors of Germany and
merset.
Russia. In consequence of the success
He was a student of Hertford Col- of that negociation, Sir John Coxe Hip-
lege, Oxford, and created D. C. L. pisley was created a baronet of Warfield
July 3, 1776 ; he was early entered as Grove, Berks, April 30, 1796. The
a student, and became a Bencher of reigning Duke of Wirtemburg, by let-
the honourable society of the Inner ters patent, granted to Sir John and his
Temple. In 1779 and 1780, being in posterity the right of bearing his ducal
Italy, he was engaged in many commu- arms, with the motto of the Great Order
nications to government. At Rome, of Wirtemburg, “ Amicitiæ virtutisque
early in the latter year, he married fædus. This grant was confirmed by
Margaret, second daughter of Sir John the King of Great Britain's sign ma-
Stuart, Bart. of Allanbank, county of nual, July 7, 1797, and commanded to
Berwick. By this lady, who died at be registered in the College of Arms.
Brompton, September 24, 1799, aged The arms of Wirtemburg are borne on
44, he had one son, John Stuart (born the breasts of the baronet's supporters,
August 16, 1790), who has succeeded which are eagles regardant rising sable.
to his title, and three daughters, Mar- On the alliance taking place, Sir John
garet Frances, married (July 6, 1805) was appointed, together with the Duke
to Thomas Strangeways Horner, Esq. of Portland, Lord Grenville, and Mr.
of Mells Park, Somerset, Windham- Chancellor Pitt, a commissioner and
Barbara, and Louisa-Apne. On his trustee of her Royal Highness's mar-
return, in the following year, he was re- riage settlement.
commended by Lord North, then at the The benevolent and munificent act
head of the Treasury, to the Court of of his late Majesty towards the unfor-
Directors of the East India Company, tunate representative of the house of
by whom he was appointed to that ser. Stuart, and the expressive feelings of
vice with the advanced rank of four dignified gratitude with which the boon
years. He resigned this employment was accepted and acknowledged, are
in 1789, having held offices of great facts generally known and applauded.
trust and importance in the kingdom of The distresses of the Cardinal of York
Tanjore during the war with Hyder were originally notified to his Majesty,
Ally, and his son Tippoo Sultaun. in consequence of the letters addressed
Soon after his return to England he to Sir J. Hippisley by the Cardinal
was appointed recorder of Sudbury, and Borgia ; and the transaction may well
he was thereby introduced, at the gene- be considered as an interesting feature
ral election of 1790, into the represent- in the reign of George the Good.
ation of that borough. At the two fol- Sir John served as High Sheriff of
lowing general elections, in 1796 and Buckinghamshire in 1800. In the
munications on Prison Discipline, ad-
dressed to His Majesty's Secretary for
the Home Department.
The particulars here related refer
chiefly to the public life of Sir J. C.
Hippisley, but if the moral portrait of
the deceased be sketched from his con-
duct as a husband, a father, a friend,
and a neighbour, it forms the best
estimate of his worth. Gentleman's
Magazine.
81.
HOLLIS, John, Esq. Nov. 26th,
1824; at High Wycombe, Bucks; aged
He was the last descendant in the
male line of an opulent dissenting fa-
mily, well known in other counties, as
well as in Buckinghamshire, for their
zealous attachment to the cause of civil
and religious liberty, and for their li
beral support of it. The Hollis family
left Yorkshire about the middle of the
seventeenth century, and established in
the Minories, London, a trade in what
is called hardware, by which they ac-
quired very considerable property.
Of
this family was the celebrated republican
Thomas Hollis. The late Mr. Hollis
was himself distinguished by his inge-
nuous love of truth, and eager and
anxious search after it, by his zeal in the
cause of freedom, and by his kindness
and beneficence. Those who knew him
well, the poor in his neighbourhood, and
many persons in various situations, who
received his benefactions without know-
ing their benefactor, will long expect in
vain, if they should expect that his place
in society will be supplied to them.-
Gentleman's Magazine.
He was a man who, whether his cha-
racter be contemplated in the relations
of private life, as a son, a husband, and
a father; in social life, as a friend and
a gentleman; or in public life, as a
member of parliament and a magi-
strate; has not left his superior on this
side the grave. His urbanity of man-
ners, and kindness of heart, conciliated
towards him the affection and esteem of
all men and all parties, however differ-
ing in worldly views, or divided in reli-
gious or political opinion; whilst his
ample fortune, and great political weight,
enabled him to second the kind affec-
tions of his nature, and to be a friend
to all around him.
On the 19th his remains were re-
moved from Newport, for interment in
the family vault at Arreton. The Isle
of Wight never before witnessed such a
scene as Newport then presented. All
the shops were closed during the day,
and business of every kind suspended,
and each individual, from the nobleman
to the cottager, appeared to vie with each
other in showing respect to his memory.
The funeral procession, which com-
menced precisely at twelve o'clock,
and extended nearly a mile in length,
was composed of the male relatives, ser.
vants, and tenants of the deceased, the
heads of all the families of distinc-
tion in the island, the members of the
Philosophical Society, and Isle of Wight
and Vectis institutions in Newport, every
respectable tradesmen in the town, and
the members of the several Masonic
lodges in the island. Twenty-six car-
riages were counted, and in them many
persons of distinction. Gentleman's
Magazine.
J
JERMYN, Edmund, Gent., Dec. 28,
1824, at Harwich, greatly respected,
and in his 72d year. Mr. Jermyn was
the senior Capital Burgess, and Cham-
berlain of that borough. He was de-
scended from the Depden branch of the
very ancient family of the Jermyns,
which was long seated at Rishbrook,
now called Rushbrook, in Suffolk, which
was possessed of land in that parish as
early as the commencement of the 13th
century; and one of whom was the
erector of the venerable hall, a fine
specimen of the Elizabethan æra, The
elder branch of this family ended in
heirs general, coheiresses on the decease
of Thomas Lerd Jermyn, Baron of St.
Edmund's Bury, in 1703, who was the
nephew of Henry Jermyn, Earl of St.
Alban's, and the eldest brother of Henry
Lord Jermyn, Baron of Dover. The
Editors of The Magna Britannia"
state in their account of this noble family
that "there is hardly a man in England
of the name of Jermyn." The ances-
tors of the late Mr. Jermyn were for-
merly seated at Great Welnetham, and
Hesset, in Suffolk.-Gentleman's Ma-
gazine.
JERNINGHAM, Lady Frances,
relict of Sir William Jerningham, sixth
Baronet, of Cossey, Norfolk; March 2;
at her house in Bolton-Row; aged 77.
She was the eldest daughter of Henry,
eleventh Viscount Dillon, by Lady
Charlotte Lee, daughter of George, first
Earl of Lichfield (and grand-daughter
of Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, daughter of
King Charles II.) She was married
to Sir William Jerningham, in June
1767. He was the representative of
one of the few remaining families of
English gentry, prior in date to the
Conquest, and was descended, on his
mother's side, from King Edward III.
Sir William died in 1809, leaving by
his widow, the present Baron Stafford,
and Frances Georgiana, lady of Sir
Richard Bedingfield, besides two sons,
since cut off in the flower of their age;
viz. William, who signalized himself by
his distinguished bravery in the Austrian
service; and Edward, an English bar-
rister, and Secretary of the late British
Catholic Board, whose memory is af-
fectionately cherished by all who knew
him, and whose death was an irreparable
loss to the members of his communion.
The venerable lady whose decease we
now record, had been declining in health
for the last twelve months, and breathed
her last without a struggle. Her dig-
nified person, courteous manners, and
undissembled piety, had long rendered
her an object of veneration and respect
to the friends of the family, and to the
numerous individuals who participated
in its hospitality.-Gentleman's Maga-
zine.
JOHNSTON, Lieut.-Col. Arthur;
formerly in the 19th reg. foot, and 2d
Ceylon battalion; late in His Majesty's
regiment of Royal Corsican Rangers,
and Assistant Commandant at the
Senior Department of the Royal Mili-
tary College, Farnham; June 8, 1824;
at Sholden Lodge, Hants.
As a military man, Col. Johnston
will be long remembered in India,
especially for his seizure of the capital eighty-seventh year of his age, univer-
of Ceylon in 1804, which
sally respected by an extensive circle of
achievement in oriental warfare not to friends. At the early part of his life
be surpassed. With a detachment of he was surgeon in the Oxford Blue re-
70 European and 305 Native troops giment, which he resigned, and settled
he penetrated nearly 200 miles through in the profession at Northampton at the
a mountainous and most unhealthy age of twenty-six. In the year 1763
part of the Island, to the heart of the was elected surgeon to the Northamp-
kingdom of Candy, and in spite of the ton County Infirmary, which was esta.
destructive mode of warfare practised blished in 1743, under the superin-
by the natives of that country, suc-
tendence of the late Dr. Stonehouse.
ceeded in gaining possession of their From the general benefit which con-
capital town; but which, being dis- tinued to be derived by the afflicted, it
appointed in his expectation of support was resolved by the governors in 1790,
from other detachments of the govern- that a voluntary subscription should be
ment forces, he was compelled to eva- immediately opened, to provide a more
cuate, and under difficulties and suf- eligible situation, which also received
ferings the most appalling, his ammu- the most ardent support of the clergy,
nition all spent, and his men sinking with the benevolence of their parishion-
under disease, and harrassed day and ers throughout the county.
tertained of the beneficial effects of
those waters, induced him to become a
warm patron in promoting the interest
of the inhabitants; and the magnificence
of the place owes its fame chiefly to the
recommendation of the venerable Dr.
Kerr, and the public spirit of others.
On the 10th of September his remains
were interred in a vault within St. Se-
pulchre's church, attended by upwards
of forty governors of the Infirmary,
who all sympathized in the loss of their
revered friend.-Gentleman's Magazine.
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