of Digby, Lord Gerrard of Bromley;
his mother was Mary, daughter and sole
heir of
Powell, Esq.
This officer obtained post rank May
18th, 1779, and commanded the Apollo
frigate at the close of the American war.
In 1793 he was appointed to the Ca-
nada, of 74 guns; on the 6th November
in the following year, that ship, in com.
pany with the Alexander of the same
force, commanded by the late Sir Richard
Rodney Bligh, having escorted the Lis-
bon and Mediterranean convoys to a
certain distance, and being on their
return to port, fell in with a French
squadron under Rear Admiral Neuilly.
By the superior sailing of the Canada,
Captain Hamilton, after sustaining a
running fight with two ships of the line
and a frigate, was enabled to effect his
escape; but the Alexander had the mis-
fortune to be captured after a most
gallant defence of three hours duration
against thrice her own force.
Some time after this event, Captain
Hamilton removed into the Prince of
98 guns, and was attached to Lord
Bridport's fleet, when that nobleman
took two French line-of-battle ships and
re-captured the Alexander off l'Orient,
June 23d, 1795. On this occasion,
however, the Prince was not fortunate
enough to get into action.
Our officer was promoted to the rank
of rear-admiral, Feb. 20th, 1797; vice-
admiral, Jan. 1st, 1801, and full ad-
miral, April 28th, 1808.
His son married, April 2d, 1805, a
daughter of the late Judge Hyde, and
great-grand-daughter of Edward, eighth
Duke of Somerset. · Marshall's Royal
Naval Biography.
HARGADON, the Rev. Raymond,
parish priest of Annadown, county Gal-
way, aged 70. For 36 years that he
resided in this parish, he was unremit-
tingly devoted to the dearest interests
of his flock, in performing, with edify-
ing fidelity and exactness, the sacred
functions and arduous duties of a good
pastor. His frugal habits, as well as
the singular kindness of the very re-
spectable family in which he lived for
many years, enabled him to be always
attentive to the wants of his indigent
parishioners. He established a school
in the parish chapel, to the masters of
which he bequeathed, in perpetuity, the
interest of 2001. for giving moral and
religious instruction gratuitously to 50
of the most indigent and destitute
children of the parish, and for giving
catechetical instruction to the youths in
general every Sunday. When pre-
vented by debility from visiting the
abodes of distress, during the last sum-
mer, he invited the poor, and distribut-
ed in person amongst them upwards of
2001. In addition to these highly com-
mendable instances of pure and disin-
terested charity, he bequeathed 401. to
the poor of his parish; 40l. to forward
the interests of the Catholic education;
and 100l. to be applied to various cha-
ritable purposes.
The inconsiderable
residue of his effects he bequeathed to
his poorer relatives.- Gentleman's Ma-
gazine.
HEATHCOTE, C. Esq. of What-
Mr. Heathcote was descended
from an ancient family in the county of
Nottingham, where, and also in the
county of Derby, considerable estates
are yet appendages to the family man-
sion. He was the eldest of a numerous
family, born at the family mansion at
East Bridgford, ten miles from Notting-
ham. He seems to have inherited the
genius and eccentricities of his paternal
uncle, the celebrated Dr. Heathcote,
author of "Sylva," &c. His youthful
pranks were the talk of the village;
and his rapid advances in learning,
while yet under the tuition of his father,
obtained him great praise. Afterwards,
he was sent to a grammar-school at
Northampton, where he soon became
pre-eminent among his fellows. Having
finished his preparatory studies, he was
entered at one of the Universities, with
a design of taking holy orders.
pears to have been the unanimous wish
of both his paternal uncle and his father,
that this should be his final destination;
but he became impatient of control,
launched into the labyrinth of dissip-
ation, and left his college without a de-
gree; and though he afterwards, by
persuasion, submitted himself to be ex-
amined for ordination, conscious of his
own superior attainments, he became
disgusted with the ordeal, and after-
wards could never be prevailed upon to
present himself to the bishop. At the
summit of life he entered into the mar
riage state, and became the father of a
numerous family. In all situations he
supported the dignity of his birth and
character, uniformly evincing the dispo
sition and habits of a gentleman.
Heathcote's scholastic attainments were
not of an ordinary degree. Possessed
of a daring mind, it seized on its own
speculations with avidity; the laws of
language were familiar to him; he
studied the constitution and politics of
his country, and became a proficient in
the common and statute law. He com-
menced as an author by contributing,
though anonymously, to some of the pe-
riodical publications of his time. He
published in 8vo. 1794, "Remarks on
the Corporation and Test Acts;" he
translated the various charters granted
to the town and county of the town of
Nottingham, and to the corporate body,
by our sovereigns of the earliest day.
He also opposed some statements made
by the truly learned Gilbert Wakefield,
in the Nottingham Journal, with con-
siderable success. His conversation to
his friends was familiar and open, in-
telligent and sincere. In politics, he
was a Tory; in religion, a member of
the Church of England.-Gentleman's
Magazine.
HENNIKER, Sir Frederic, Bart.
of Newton Hall, Essex, B. A. of St.
John's College, Cambridge, and Colonel
of a battalion of the Essex local mili-
tia, Aug. 6, at his chambers in the Al-
bany, in his 32nd year; after a severe
and painful illness of a fortnight, the
acute sufferings of which he sustained
with becoming resignation.
born November 1. 1793, and was the
eldest son of the late Hon. Lieut.-Ge-
neral Sir Brydges Trecothick Henniker,
Bart. who died July 3. 1816, and like
his other connexions, received his edu-
cation at Eton, where he made no incon-
siderable progress in classical literature,
and the beauties of which were ever pre-
sent to his mind. He subsequently pur-
sued his studies at St. John's College,
Cambridge, and on quitting the universi-
ty, impelled by a desire of visiting foreign
countries, directed his course through
France and Italy, to Malta, and thence
to Alexandria and Upper Egypt, Nu.
bia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and through
Palestine, to Jerusalem, making his re
turn by Smyrna, Athens, Constantino-
ple, to Vienna. The result of his ob-
servations was published in 1822, in an
Svo. volume, entitled, "Notes during
a Visit to Egypt, Jerusalem, &c." and
which in an easy and familiar style
contains many amusing particulars of his
travels, adventures, and perilous escape,
being severely wounded by banditti,
and left for dead, when descending from
Jerusalem to Jericho.
Sir Frederick Henniker, in the spring
of 1824, had canvassed the borough
of Reading, in the event of a dissolution
of the present parliament; but from a
difference of opinion on the vital ques-
tion of Catholic Emancipation (to which
he was strongly opposed), he withdrew
his pretensions a few days anterior to
his death.
His remains were removed on the
12th, and, attended by his afflicted re-
latives. tenantry, and friends, interred
with due solemnity on the following
day, in the vault with his respected fa-
ther and family at Great Dunmow,
Essex, in which parish Newton Hall
is situated.- Gentleman's Magazine.
HESLOP, the Rev. Luke, D.D.
23d June. Dr. Heslop was Archdeacon
of Bucks, Rector of St. Marylebone,
&c. &c., the oldest senior wrangler,
and the oldest archdeacon of all his con-
temporaries. He was born about the
year 1738, the youngest of a numerous
family, at Middleham, in the north of
Yorkshire. He did not go to Cam-
bridge until he had passed by some years
the age at which students usually repair
to the university. His name first ap-
pears in the Cambridge Calendar, 1764,
when he took his degree of B. A. as
Senior Wrangler of Bene't College. The
celebrated Paley, a north countryman
also, had distinguished himself by the
same honour the preceding year. Hes-
lop afterwards became fellow of his
college. In 1772 and 1773 he filled
the office of moderator in the public
schools, in the former of which years,
Pretyman, (now Tomline) the present
Bishop of Winchester, took his B. A.
degree, and attained the same highest
university honour. The master of Bene't
was at this time, Dr. Greene, Bishop
of Lincoln. He had himself been Senior
Wrangler in 1749, and appreciating the
active talents and persevering industry
of Heslop, made him first his examining
chaplain, and almost immediately after-
wards, that office falling vacant, raised
him to the dignity of Archdeacon of
Bucks. On the various duties of this
latter charge, Mr. Heslop immediately
entered with uncompromising firmness
and resolution, ; -a line of conduct
which he laid down to himself and pur-
sued throughout. To the archdeaconry
was attached a stall in Lincoln. The
bishop becoming Dean of St. Paul's,
next conferred on him the prebendal
stall of Holborn in that cathedral, to-
gether with the vicarage of St. Peter le
Poor in the city of London. This vi-
carage was resigned for the rectory of
Adstock in Bucks, the last preferment
bestowed on him by his early and con-
stant patron. On this living Mr. Hes-
lop resided upwards of 25 years as an
active parish pastor and useful magi-
strate; during the latter part of this
period he held also the small rectory of
Addington. His residence in Buck-
inghamshire introduced him to the ac-
quaintance of the late Duke of Portland,
to whose interests in the county he at-
tached himself, and to whom he was in-
debted for the preferment he afterwards
attained. In 1803 he was presented by
his Grace of Portland, then prime mi-
nister, to the valuable rectory of Bothall
in Northumberland, with which he also
held the small rectory of Fulmer in
Bucks. These livings, however, he
shortly afterwards gave up, and was ap-
pointed by the Duke of Portland, mi-
nister of St. Marylebone, and also, as
a make-weight compensation for the
resignation of Bothall (which was con-
ferred on the tutor of the present duke)
to the vicarage of St. Augustine's in
Bristol, the presentation to which at that
time chanced to be in the Crown; the
Dean of Bristol, the former incumbent,
having been raised to the bench. In
St. Marylebone Dr. Heslop finally settled
himself in December, 1809, when he had
already passed the threescore years and
ten allotted to mortal vigour. His ad-
vanced age, however, by no means pre-
vented a most assdiuous attention to all
the various concerns of that vast and
overgrown parish. In matters of public
business, whoever is called by his situ-
ation or office, not only to do his own
duty, but to make others do theirs, must
often find many to oppose, and will
have but a thankless and an irksome
task; such may, in some cases, have
been the lot of the venerable Archdeacon
of Bucks and aged minister of St. Mary-
lebone. To his firmness, principally, is
owing that the enormous spiritual evil
in the parish of Marylebone, that of
committing more than one hundred
thousand souls to the charge of one
pastor, was not perpetuated, as it had
heretofore been palliated for the moment,
by the erection of additional proprietory
chapels, instead of the only effectual
remedy being applied, viz. a division
into separate parishes. This remcdy his
suggestions chiefly pointed cut, and this
his ready yielding up his own lights,
enabled the Crown to begin during his
incumbency. By one of the last acts
of the last session of Parliament, this
long-called-for division has been carried
of the ministerial duties of Marylebone,
Dr. Heslop was ever ready to do more
than could be looked for, either from
his age or his station. His heart was
ever kind, and his ear ever open, to the
calls of distress when brought before
him; and the poor who went to him
with their own little tales of want or
difficulty will bear their testimony, that
they always found him attentive to their
complaints, and ready both himself to
give and also to procure for them pro-
per relief. In private life, whoever knew
him, will recollect the perfect urbanity
and affability of his manners. In per-
son tall and commanding, his appear-
ance was that of a highly dignified and
venerable clergyman. Such was the
extraordinary vigour of his constitution,
that for the first eighty years of his life,
he was never confined a single day by
sickness, nor ever had recourse to me-
dica! remedies or advice: a rare exemp-
tion this from the ills which flesh is
generally heir to; yet such an unin-
terrupted enjoyment of health, through-
out so extended a period, must be attri-
buted in part, at least, to his own proper
and temperate use of the blessing itself:
he never knew what it was to have an
head-ache. During this long archdea-
conship he published several charges to
his clergy, marked by sound practical
advice: whilst resident in his living in
Bucks, two short "Exhortations to
habitual and devout Communicants;"
and whilst at Bothall, two sermons
preached at the assizes, and at the visi-
tation of the Bishop of Durham.
different periods he also published some
pamphlets on the prices of corn, the
value of land, &c. &c. To the very
end of his life he continued extremely
fond of all matters relating to calcula-
tion, and was constantly employing him-
self with a pen in his hand. He was
throughout life indefatigable. In 1773
Mr. Heslop married Dorothy, a daugh-
ter of Dr. Reeve, a physician of emi-
nence in the city. This lady, one son,
and a daughter, married to Henry Par-
tridge, Esq. of Hockham Hall, Nor-
folk, survive him. His remains were
accompanied on foot (by the parochial
clergy) to the new church of St. Mary-
lebone. Few men, even during a long
life, have held successively more various
church preferment than Dr. Heslop.
But the emoluments of all of them to-
gether did not allow him to amass
wealth. Instead of having to record of
Dr. Heslop, as was once said of a certain
church dignitary, and may perchance
be said of another that he died
"shamefully rich,”.
-to the surprise of
all who misjudged his public means, and
knew not the private demands upon it,
the late Rector of Marylebone died
poor. New Monthly Magazine.
HIPPISLEY, Sir John Coxe, Bart,
of Warfield Grove, Berks, recorder of
Sudbury; T. C. L., F. R. and A. S.; May
3; in Grovesnor-street; in his 80th year.
The Hippisleys are a Somersetshire
family, which has been traced to an
early period. Sir John was the only
surviving son of William Hippisley, Esq.
of Yatton, Somerset, by Anne, eldest
daughter of Robert Webb, Esq. of
Cromhall, county of Gloucester (the
representative of the ancient family of
Clyfford House, Somerset); he was
named Coxe, from his paternal grand-
nother Dorothy, only daughter of Wil-
liam Coxe, Esq. of East Harptree, So-
He was a student of Hertford Col-
lege, Oxford, and created D. C. L.
July 3, 1776; he was early entered as
a student, and became a Bencher of
the honourable society of the Inner
Temple. In 1779 and 1780, being in
Italy, he was engaged in many commu-
nications to government. At Rome,
early in the latter year, he married
Margaret, second daughter of Sir John
Stuart, Bart. of Allanbank, county of
Berwick. By this lady, who died at
Brompton, September 24, 1799, aged
44, he had one son, John Stuart (born
August 16, 1790), who has succeeded
to his title, and three daughters, Mar-
garet Frances, married (July 6, 1805)
to Thomas Strangeways Horner, Esq.
of Mells Park, Somerset, Windham-
Barbara, and Louisa-Anne. On his
return, in the following year, he was re-
commended by Lord North, then at the
head of the Treasury, to the Court of
Directors of the East India Company,
by whom he was appointed to that ser-
vice with the advanced rank of four
years. He resigned this employment
in 1789, having held offices of great
trust and importance in the kingdom of
Tanjore during the war with Hyder
Ally, and his son Tippoo Sultaun.
Soon after his return to England he
was appointed recorder of Sudbury, and
he was thereby introduced, at the gene-
ral election of 1790, into the represent-
ation of that borough. At the two fol-
lowing general elections, in 1796 and
1801, Sir James Marriot and William
Smith, Esq. were returned, but at that
of 1802 (Mr. Crespigny having trans-
ferred to Sir John his interest in the
borough, which, though it had been fre-
quently defeated, was of great power),
he was again elected, and continued to
sit for Sudbury till 1819, when, having
represented it in five parliaments, he
retired.
In 1792 he returned to Italy, where
he continued till 1796, employed in
many important negociations, the bene-
ficial results of which were acknow-
ledged in the most flattering manner by
his majesty's ministers.
In 1796, at the instance of the late
king of Wirtemburg, he was engaged
in the negociation of that prince's mar-
riage with the Princess Royal of Great
Britain, an alliance considered at the
time as likely to be of great importance,
his Serene Highness being the brother-
in-law of the Emperors of Germany and
Russia. In consequence of the success
of that negociation, Sir John Coxe Hip-
pisley was created a baronet of Warfield
Grove, Berks, April 30, 1796. The
reigning Duke of Wirtemburg, by let-
ters patent, granted to Sir John and his
posterity the right of bearing his ducal
arms, with the motto of the Great Order
of Wirtemburg, " Amicitiæ virtutisque
foedus." This grant was confirmed by
the King of Great Britain's sign ma-
nual, July 7, 1797, and commanded to
be registered in the College of Arms.
The arms of Wirtemburg are borne on
the breasts of the baronet's supporters,
which are eagles regardant rising sable.
On the alliance taking place, Sir John
was appointed, together with the Duke
of Portland, Lord Grenville, and Mr.
Chancellor Pitt, a commissioner and
trustee of her Royal Highness's mar-
riage settlement.
The benevolent and munificent act
of his late Majesty towards the unfor-
tunate representative of the house of
Stuart, and the expressive feelings of
dignified gratitude with which the boon
was accepted and acknowledged, are
facts generally known and applauded.
The distresses of the Cardinal of York
were originally notified to his Majesty,
in consequence of the letters addressed
to Sir J. Hippisley by the Cardinal
Borgia; and the transaction may well
be considered as an interesting feature
in the reign of George the Good.
Sir John served as High Sheriff of
Buckinghamshire in 1800. In the
same year he was named in the charter
of the Royal Institution of Great Bri-
tain one of the first managers of that
corporation.
Sir John Hippisley married, secondly
(February 16, 1801), at Whattley, So-
merset, Elizabeth, daughter of the late
Thomas Horner, of Mells Park, Esq.
and relict of Henry Hippisley Coxe,
Esq. M. P. for Somersetshire (who
was very distantly related to our Ba-
ronet, being descended from the heiress
of the elder branch of the Hippisley
family, seated at Camely, who, by a
remarkable coincidence, bad, by mar-
riage with a Coxe, associated the two
names in her family also). By his
second marriage Sir John acquired the
mansion-house of Stone Easton, but
had no issue.
On the installation of the Duke of
Gloucester as Chancellor of the Uni-
versity of Cambridge, in 1811, he re-
ceived the honorary degree of M. A. as
of Trinity College. In 1816 he was
treasurer of the Inner Temple. He
was also a vice-president and constant
supporter of the Literary Fund Society,
one of the principal promoters of the
literary institutions at Bath and Bris-
tol, a member of the Government Com-
mittee of the Turkey Company, and a
vice-president and efficient member
of the West of England Agricultural
Society. He was for many years an
active magistrate for Somersetshire, and
none exceeded him in the zealous dis-
charge of his judicial duties.
In his senatorial capacity he bestowed
considerable attention on the state of
Ireland, and the question of Catholic
emancipation, in favour of which he
published "Observations on the Roman
Catholics of Ireland," 1806, 8vo.-
Substance of additional Observations
intended to have been delivered in the
House of Commons on the Petition of
the Roman Catholics of Ireland," 1806,
8vo." Substance of his Speech in
the House of Commons on the motion
of the Right Hon. H. Grattan, re-
specting the Penal Laws against the
Catholics of Ireland, April 24, 1812,"
8vo." Letters to the Earl of Fin-
gal on the Catholic Claims," 1813,
8vo.
Sir John was also much interested on
the Tread-Mill question, and in 1823,
published an octavo volume, recom-
mending the Hand Crank-Mill as
substitute for that machine. The work
consisted of correspondence and com-
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.
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.
HOLMES, Sir Leonard Thomas
Worsley, Bart. Member and Recorder
for the borough of Newport in the Isle
of Wight, Commandant of the Isle of
Wight Yeomanry Cavalry, and an act-
ing magistrate for the county of Hants;
Jan. 10; at his mother's, Dowager Lady
Holmes; after a lingering illness; aged
He was the eldest son of the Rev.
Sir Henry-Worsley Holmes, LL. D.
by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Leo-
nard Lord Holmes; born July, 1787.
On the death of his father, the eighth
baronet, April 7, 1811, he succeeded to
the title; and June 5, 1813, married
Ann, daughter of John Delgarno, Esq.
and niece of Leonard Troughear,
Lord Holmes (which title became ex-
tinct in 1801); by whom he had issue
three daughters and no son; in conse-
quence, this ancient baronetcy (one of
the earliest creations of James I. in
1611) becomes extinct.
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