G.

GEARY, Sir William, Bart. Di-
rector of Greenwich Hospital, and many
years Representative in Parliament for
Kent; Aug 6; at Oxenheath, Kent;
aged 70. Sir William Geary was the
second and eldest living son of Sir
Francis, first baronet, by Mary, only
child of Admiral Philip Bartholomew,
of Kent, Esq.

On the death of his father in 1796 he
succeeded to the title, and having come
into possession of a large property in
right of his mother, settled at Oxenheath
Park, one of the most delightful spots
in England, finely surrounded by woods,
interspersed with hop plantations, as
well as cherry orchards, and at no great
distance from the banks of the Medway.

In 1796 he aspired to be a member
for the county in which he had taken up
his residence; and accordingly presented
himself as a candidate, at the same time
with Sir Edward Knatchbuil, and Fil-
mer Honywood, Esq. The contest con-
tinued during nine days, at the end of
which he was second on the poll, having
4418 votes. Filmer Honywood, Esq.,
the unsuccessful candidate, and several
of the electors, petitioned against Sir
William's election. On the 5th of
May, 1797, the chairman of the com-
mittee, that tried the election, reported
to the House, that Sir William was
duly elected, and that the petition was
not frivolous or vexatious. In 1797,
when he declared his dissent from Mr.
Grey's plan of Parliamentary Reform,
"as being too nearly allied to Universal
Suffrage,' Sir William suggested a
plan of his own, which was to divide
the country into districts, each of which
might send one Member to Parliament,
who could be elected at little or no ex-
pense by those who paid poor's rates to
the amount of 10l. or 201. He con-
sidered the election by ballot "as the
only radical cure to the many evils we
experienced, more especially as it led to
a good and substantial melioration."

In 1802 he once more offered his
services, and having polled 4085 was
again returned, the books having been
kept open during the same period as
before. Filmer Honywood, Esq., the
unsuccessful candidate in the former
election, was returned with him, to the
exclusion of Sir E. Knatchbull the suc-
cessful candidate at the said election.
In 1803, when the establishment of the
Prince of Wales was brought before the
House by Mr. Calcraft, Sir William

spoke in favour of an immediate re-
sumption of the splendour of the heir ap-
parent. In the following session he op-
posed Mr. Wilberforce's proposition for
an abolition of the Slave Trade, provided
that measure was to take place imme-
diately, as it would be only a transfer of
misery to the negroes, who would be
exported by other nations. On the 15th
of Jan. 1810, he married Mrs. Dering,
daughter of Richard Neville, of Fur-
nace, co Kildare, Esq., and relict of
Edward Dering, Esq., eldest son of
Sir Edward Dering, Bart. and had
issue a son, born Nov. 20, 1810, and
another son, born in April 1815. —
Gentleman's Magazine.

His

GIDDY, Thomas, esq.; July 22,
at Penzance, in Cornwall; aged 84.
He was born on the 9th of October,
1741. (O.S.)—the youngest son of
Mr. John Giddy, of Trelayse, near
Truro, and brother of the Rev. Edw.
Giddy of St. Erth, the father of Davies
Gilbert, esq. M. P. for Bodmin.
classical education he owed to that ex-
cellent master of the grammar-school at
Truro, Mr. George Conon; and such
was his ardour in the pursuit of know-
ledge, that in running the school-boy's
race, he soon left all competitors behind
him. His early inclination was to the
church; but as one of the family was
already destined for the clerical profes-
sion, he was placed with Mr. George
Treweck, at Penzance, with whom he
acquitted himself to the entire satisfac-
tion of that eminent surgeon. Nor was
it less gratifying to observe his assiduity
in attending the hospitals, and lectures
on the different branches of medical
science, in London. Among the cele-
brated men of that day were Dr. Hugh
Smyth and Dr. William Hunter; and
of Hunter's splendid abilities, both as a
lecturer and an orator, Mr. Giddy spoke
always with pleasure. From London
returning to his native county, Mr.
Giddy commenced his medical career at
Truro, and not long after married Mary,
daughter of Mr. John Wolcot of Pen-
ryn, who was nearly related to Dr. John
Wolcot, the notorious Peter Pindar.
She is now the last lineal descendant of
the Wolcots. His professional skill
was soon appreciated and crowned with
success. About ten years he resided at
Truro; whence, owing to a pulmonary
affection, he removed, in 1774, to Pen-
zance, a climate more congenial, where
he had formerly enjoyed uninterrupted
health. When he left Truro he was ap-
parently in the last stage of pulmonary

consumption. Yet from that time even
to the age of 84, he passed his life
without the least complaint, except
slight casual attacks of gout. — In 1782
he was admitted a member of the cor-
poration of Penzance; he held the office
of chief magistrate of the town no less
than ten times, an event probably un-
precedented in a charter similarly con-
stituted, where no mayor can stand over
for two years together. During his
mayoralties two additions were made to
the chapel yard; and he had the honour
of attending Bishops Ross and Pelham
to the consecration. The recordership
of the town becoming twice vacant, it
fell to his lot to swear the late and pre-
sent Lords Falmouth into that office.
In 1792, when the country was deluged
with the effusions of Paine, Volney, and
other Deistical writers, assisted by cor-
responding societies in league with re-
publican France, with the view of in-
troducing anarchy among mankind and
all its train of evils, for the counter-
acting of which a society was established
in London at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, called "the Society for pro-
tecting Liberty and Property against
Republicans and Levellers," Mr. Giddy
came forward a champion in the cause
of sound religion and good govern-
ment; a very extensive branch was
formed at Penzance by his exertions,
and many valuable tracts obtained and
circulated through the neighbourhood.
He was a retiring, unobtrusive charac-
ter: yet he enjoyed society; and from
his comprehensive mind and literary
acquirements he was eagerly sought
after by those who were acquainted with
his social talents. In convivial meet-
ings he was lively and entertaining;
and amidst genuine wit, which was sure
to excite mirth and hilarity, he was not
so fastidious as to despise a pun, how
ever low a pun may be in the eye of
pretended wisdom. But never did he
use an expression to wound the feelings
of those with whom he conversed. His
mind was of that firm class that no
irritation could, for a moment, throw
him off his guard. In domestic life he
was an affectionate husband, a kind pa-
rent, and a friend ready to submit to
any privation to promote the welfare of
others.

To sum up the whole, he was
unaffectedly learned, unostentatiously
benevolent. Innovation he disliked in
any shape; but he was not a bigot.
And of his opinions he made no popular

display. His religion was the religion
of the heart. It was built, indeed, upon
a thorough knowledge of those sacred
truths which were sealed by the blood
of his Redeemer. Thus, then, he lived,
"doing justice, loving mercy, and walk-
ing humbly with his God." And he
died as he had lived; for he died a
Christian! Gentleman's Magazine.

GLASTONBURY, the Right Hon.
James Grenville, first baron of Butley,
Somerset, a Privy Councillor, and a
Lord of Trade and Foreign Plant-
ations; April 26; in Hill-street, Ber-
keley-square; in his 83d year. His
lordship was born July 6, 1742, the
second son of James Grenville, Esq.
by Mary, daughter and heir of James
Smyth, Esq. of Harden, Herts.
father was the third son of Richard
Grenville, Esq. of Wootton, by Hester,
Countess Temple; and was a Lord of
the Treasury, Cofferer of the House-
hold, Privy Councillor, &c.

His

Mr. James Grenville, jun. was first
elected to the House of Commons as
member for Thirsk, on a writ dated
Dec. 17, 1766, he then taking the place
of his uncle, the Hon. Henry Gren-
ville, who was made a Commissioner of
the Customs. At the general election
in 1768, the family appear to have lost
their interest in that borough, as Vice-
Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart.
then returned without contest both mem-
bers (himself and his brother), as he and
his son have ever since. Mr. James
Grenville, however, again entered the
House in 1770, as member for Buck-
ingham town, on the death of another
uncle, the Hon. George Grenville. In
1782 he was made a lord of the treasury
and a privy councillor. He was re-
chosen for Buckingham at the general
elections of 1784 and 1790; but in De-
cember that year was induced to accept
the stewardry of the Chiltern Hundreds
for the purpose of succeeding to the re-
presentation of the county, and supply-
ing the place of his first cousin the se
cretary of state, then created Baron
Grenville. He was again returned for
Buckinghamshire at the general election
of 1796, but retired in July 1797, by
again accepting the Chiltern Hundreds,
and October 20 following was himself
advanced to the peerage by the title of
Baron Glastonbury of Butley, county
Somerset, with remainder to his only
surviving brother Richard, a general in
the army, and his issue male. Neither his

lordship nor his brother was ever mar.
ried, and his brother having died before
him, April 22, 1823, the title becomes
extinct. Gentleman's Magazine.

GRAHAM, Sir James, Bart., of
Kirkstall, Yorkshire, in Portland Place,
in his 72d year. Sir James was member
of parliament for Carlisle. There had
been a visible decline in his health for
a year before his decease; but a relax-
ation from his usual attendance on pub-
lic business, and the renovating breezes
of Brighton, were thought to have ope-
rated so far favourably as to allay all
apprehension of immediate danger. This,
we believe, was also his own opinion, as
in a letter written from Brighton he ex-
pressed himself with great cheerfulness,
and described his health as much im-
proved. The character of Sir James
Graham, public or private, was as much
above the compass of hasty panegyric,
as it was above selfishness and hypocrisy.
He was an active and useful public man
in forwarding all the improvements of
the country; honest and frank, and at
all times ready to promote the well-being
of the community. Though occupying
a station which often (we had nearly
said necessarily) calls forth the rancour
of party hostility, yet he had not, per-
haps, a real enemy. In every relation
of life he was exemplary. As a public
servant, discharging the duties of a vo-
luntary and honorary trust, he was ever
ready with advice and assistance. He
never stopped to inquire to what party
the applicant belonged; to require his
aid in a just cause was to obtain it.
Every improvement of the city of Car-
lisle received his commendation, and
called forth his pecuniary aid: the pub-
lic charities liberally partook of his
bounty he neglected nothing, calcu-
lated to promote the welfare of his na-
tive county. Sir James was the second
son of Thomas Graham, Esq. of Ed-
mond Castle, near Carlisle, and born at
that place, on the 18th of November,
1753. He was created a Baronet in
October 1808. In June 1781, he mar-
ried Anne, only daughter of the Rev.
Thomas Moore, of Kirkstall, (sole heir-
ess of her only brother, Major Thomas
Moore, of the 4th regiment of cavalry,
who died, unmarried, in 1784,) heir-
general of the family of Arthington, of
Arthington, in the county of York, and
also one of the co-heiresses of the family
of Sandford (a very antient family, who
may be traced to the reign of king John,

:

and who were formerly of Sandford-
upon-Eden, county of Westmoreland),
by whom he had issue three sons and
two daughters, of whom one son and
one daughter alone survive: Sandford,
who succeeds to the title, &c.; and the
Lady of Colonel Dalrymple, M. P. for
Appleby. Lady Graham died about
three years ago. - New Monthly Maga-

zine.

GRAVES, Mr. Robert; September
2; at his house in the Hampstead-road;
aged 56. Mr. Graves was well known
for his intelligence in subjects connect-
ed with the fine arts.

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He was the son of Mr. Robert
Graves, of Catharine-street, in the
Strand, whose most curious collection
of Books and Prints were sold after his
death in 1802 by Messrs. Leigh and
Sotheby, and Mr. King, in a sale of
more than 50 days. - The subject of
the present memoir entered into the
navy in early life, and during several
years' actual service he visited various
parts of the globe; but the bias of his
mind inclining to the arts, he withdrew
from the navy, and commenced a close
application to chalcography. At the
sale of his father's extensive collection
he commenced the forming of a series
of engravings, which he continued for
several years, and rendered it nearly
complete in the finest works of the dif-
ferent schools. This Mr. Graves sold
in 1812 to Mr. Woodburn; and they
have since been dispersed among the
different great collections. After having
disposed of this, which had been the la-
bour of many years, he persevered in
his favourite pursuit, and until within
a few days of his death he continued to
add to his stores.

But his principal amusement was a
work, which at present remains unpub-
lished, a biographical catalogue of all
those illustrious foreigners who bave vi-
sited England, or are materially con-
nected with English history, extracted
from almost all possible sources of in-
formation. It was begun by the late
Joseph Gulston, Esq. who employed
continually a number of persons to ex-
tract from works in all languages the
names of those connected with this ob-
ject, and since his death continued first
by Mr. Graves's father, and then by
himself. It contains also a description
of all the engraved portraits (in the
manner of Bromley) known to exist of
such distinguished characters. He has

likewise left many other MSS. relative
to this interesting study.

Few ever equalled the deceased for
acuteness of judgment, good taste, and
deep historical knowledge; his opinion
was so universally allowed in regard to
engravings, that almost all the celebrat-
ed collections sold of late years by pub-
lic auction were submitted to him for
arrangement; amongst many others, the
catalogues of Ibbot, Townley, Bindley,
Dowdeswell, and Sir Mark Sykes, at-
test his superior intelligence, which con-
tributed greatly to the high prices ob-
tained in these sales. His great atten-
tion to portraits led his eye with certainty
to determine the resemblance, and many
hundred such original pictures have been
ascertained by his diligence and study.
His death is much regretted by his nu-
merous family and friends. - Gentle
man's Magazine.

GREEN, Thomas Esq January 6,
at Ipswich, most sincerely lamented, in
his 56th year.

Educated for the bar, but induced
by the easiness of his circumstances to
withdraw himself from its toils, Mr.
Green had acquired a professional habit
of research, which gave weight to his
opinions, especially those which had re-
ference to constitutional law. Removed
from those hopes and fears which may
have sometimes influenced the conduct
of other men, his political creed was
firm and consistent: it sprung from a
profound knowledge of events, which
had led to the establishment of the
liberties of his country, both civil and
religious, and was upheld by an ar
dent admiration of the principles on
which those liberties are founded. To
this spirit of research and steadfast de-
votion of mind, to the ennobling senti-
ments which the love of freedom inspires,
Mr. Green had united literary attain-
ments of the highest order, and an in-
timate acquaintance with the fine arts,
in the knowledge and relish of which he
had not many superiors. A polite and
refined deportment, which instinctively,
as it were, combined the gentleman
with the scholar, and above all a kind
and friendly disposition, endearing him
to those who knew him best, and giving
fervency to his charitable feelings to-
wards all mankind, were the qualities
which most of his neighbours could ap-
preciate, and therefore few mistake.

He was the author of the following
works; "The Micthodion, or a Poe-
tical Olio, London, 1788," 12mo. ;

"An Examination of the Leading Prin-
ciple of the New System of Morals, as
that principle is stated and applied in
Mr. Godwin's Enquiry concerning Poli-
tical Justice, London, 1798," 8vo.;
second edition 1799; and "Extracts
from the Diary of a Lover of Literature,
Ipswich, 1810."
4to.- Gentleman's
Magazine.

GREGSON, John Leigh, Esq. stu-
dent of Trinity College; at Cambridge:
Nov. 23d, 1824; aged 21. Mr. Greg-
son was the son of the late Matthew
Gregson, esq F.S. A. of Liverpoo!.
He returned to Cambridge about a
month since, was attacked with acute
rheumatism, fever ensued, and, touch-
ing the brain, proceeded with dreadful
rapidity, until the disease, in about ten
days from his first attack, terminated
in death. The most eminent medical
men were in attendance, but all human
means were in vain; and so short was
the period of serious indisposition, that
bis afflicted sisters did not reach Cam-
bridge till two days after his death.
He
was a most amiable and excellent young
man, very kind and attentive to his
sisters, and promised to be a comfort
and honour to his family. Their loss

is therefore proportionably great.
Gentleman's Magazine.

H.

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HALDANE, Lieut.-Col. Henry,
R. E. in February last.

This officer commenced his military
career at the Royal Military Academy
at Woolwich, March 1st, 1768, where
he was appointed cadet by the Marquess
of Granby; and April 1st, 1771, he
was appointed ensign in the corps of
Engineers. Until 1776 he continued
in Great Britain on duty as an engin-
eer; some part of the time at the forts
in the north of Scotland, and a part of
the time in the new works then erecting
for the defence of Portsmouth dock-
yard. In that year he embarked for
America, and in the autumn joined the
army in the field under the command of
Sir W. Howe, and was present in the
action of the White Plains towards the
close of the year. He continued on
duty with the armies in the field, and
was present in various military scenes.
The first day's march after the landing
of the army in the Chesapeake in 1777
being with the advanced corps of the
army, he was wounded, and obliged to

return to the ships; but he joined it
again in the Delaware, and was present
at the capture of the fort on Mud-
Island, which obstructed the passage of
the ships to Philadelphia. Part of the
years 1778 and 1779 he was garrisoned
at New York, where he acted as an
aid-de-camp to the commandant of
that place, as well as performing his
duty as an engineer.

Towards the end of 1779 he embarked
with the army from New York on the
expedition against Charlestown, where
he served as an engineer during the
whole siege; and after the surrender of
that place joined the army in the field
under Lord Cornwallis, who remained
in command of the army left in the Ca-
rolinas, and who appointed him extra
aid-de-camp in his family. After the
action of Camden, in Carolina, in Aug.
1780, his lordship made favourable
mention of this officer in his public let-
ter to the Secretary of State; and after
the severe action at Guildford Court-
House, in March 1781, in which our
small army, consisting only of 1360 in-
fantry, including a company of Yagers,
and about 200 cavalry, and being op-
posed to at least 7000 of the enemy,
had about 700 men killed and wounded
upon the ground, his lordship recom-
mended him for one of the vacant lieu-
tenancies in the Guards, that corps hav-
ing suffered considerably in the action,
and no ensign being present except
Ensign Stuart, who, being in Carolina
on his private affairs, had volunteered
his services with the detachment of
Guards serving in the Carolinas. He
continued in the same situation with
Lord Cornwallis until the unfortunate
close of the campaign at York Town,
in Virginia, in Oct. 1781, when the
British returned prisoners of war to
New York, and from thence he accom-
panied his lordship to England.

poo Sultaun, Lord Cornwallis took the
command of the army serving against
that Prince; and the deceased accom-
panied his Lordship, and was with him
in all his actions, sieges, and military
operations. Soon after Lord Corn-
wallis nominated Captain Haldane to
the office of Quarter-Master-General
of His Majesty's forces in the East
Indies, vacant by Major Grattan's death,
and his Lordship at the same time re-
quested for him the brevet rank of
Major, and his Majesty confirmed these
appointments. The war with Tippoo
Sultaun being terminated, Lord Corn-
wallis returned to Bengal, whither Ma-
jor Haldane accompanied him. In the
following year, 1793, Lord Cornwallis
embarked for England; Major Haldane
did not leave Bengal till some months
after, and did not arrive in England
till the end of. April, 1794.
He re-
ceived the brevet of Lieut. Colonel,
April 13th, 1795. In August that
year, the commanding engineer at Gib-
raltar having resigned his situation,
Lord Cornwallis made Lieut.-Colonel
Haldane an offer of it, leaving its ac-
ceptance entirely optional. For reasons
not necessary to detail here, he begged
his Lordship's permission to decline it;
but towards the latter end of 1795 he
was appointed a Member of the Com-
mittee of Engineers assembled at the
Tower.

On this duty he continued till
the end of 1796, when finding his health
much impaired, he requested his Lord-
ship would permit him to retire upon
the Invalid establishment of the corps
of Royal Engineers, to which request
his Lordship acceded. By this removal
his brevet promotion ceased. It had
hitherto been an invariable practice in
the corps under the military department
of the Ordnance, that those officers who
had either regimental or brevet rank of
field officer on the Invalid establishment,
should be continued in the future brevet
promotion of the army; but in the ge-
neral brevet promotion of April, 1802,
the name of this officer was omitted..
Royal Military Calendar.

HAMILTON, Charles Powell, Esq.,
Admiral of the Red; March 12th; at
his seat, Fir Hill, near Dronford, Hants,
aged 77.