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THE ARCHBISHOP OF YO Not. 5. At Bistopthorpe palace, aged 90, the Higut Hon and Most Rev. EGward Harcourt, DC L., Lord Archbishop of York. Primate of England. Lord High Almoner to her Majesty; a Privy Coun cillor; Visitor of Queen's courge Ox ford; Governor of the Charter House and of King's College, London, &c. &c.

This truly venerabie preiate was born at Sudbury hall, Derbyshire, on the 10th Oct. 1757, and was the youngest son of George first Lord Vernon, by his third wife Martha, sister of Simon first Earl Harcourt. He was educated at Westminster School, from whence he removed to Christ church, Oxford, where the degree of B C.L. was conferred upon him April 27, 1786, and that of D.C.L. on the 4th of the following month. He had previously been instituted to the family living of Sudbury in Derbyshire; been appointed a Prebendary of Gloucester, and a Canon of Christ church in 1785.

In 1791 he was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle, and in 1807 he was translated to the see of York, on the death of Archbishop Markham. We believe he had far outstripped any former bishop of the church of England in his long occupancy of the episcopal office; and he had also considerably exceeded every former archbishop of York in his tenure of the archiepiscopal see.*

Without using the language of panegyrle, it may be said that the deceased prefate bore his high dignities with meekness, exercised the large powers with which the law invested him with as much usefulness and justion as might fairly be expected from a man of moderate learning and average intellect, and dispensed the great patronage with which a long episcopal life hurnished him in a manner which, if it calls for no very extraordinary applause, ought certainly to escape from any kind of consure beyond that which attaches to a little more nepotism than in modern times is sanctioned by the practice of meu In high places. It was universally felt that ho was kind and affectionate to his family connections, and that, on the whole, he was a "good easy man" yet it would be wjust to his memory to say that, with all The quietude of his administration, he was

by ary means deficient in that moral courage and firmness which has important position in the Church occasionally demanded. The deceased preiste was not inattentive to his parliamentary duties, and even when his age had gone greatly beyond fourscore years he was to be seen as frequently in the House of Peers as any other of the lords spiritual. Though he occasionally raised his voice to vindicate the interests of religion or support the rights of his order, he practised that abstinence from mere political contention which best became his sacred cailing, and, having lived under five successive monarchs, he now descends into the tomb, not only with the reputation of a blameless life, but the still higher fame of benevolence and simplicity of character."-Times.

The following passage is from the "Northern Tour" of the late Dr. Dibdin, who visited Bishopthorpe in 1836:

"Whoever is acquainted with the present tenant of Bishopthorpe palace, needs not my testimony to the hearty suavity of his manners and the generous hospitality of his disposition. Every neighbouring gentleman, clerical or laical, has constant evidence of these virtues-for virtues they are, and of no mean calibre, in their way: and, although his Grace may not, like his predecessor Bowett, cause the spigots and faucets of eighty tuns of claret to be drawn in a year, yet at his table you shall see abundance without profusion, and variety without vulgarity. Going and returning I was thrice (twice with my daughter) an invited guest to his table; and more generous fare and more enlivening and congenial discourse could not have been partaken of. His Grace now lives in the bosom of his family, as an affectionate father and their best earthly friend. Totally divested of all frigidity and hauteur, he mixes in the most frank and gentlemanly manner possible with his company; and if a and well-beloved Queen, with her illussecond visit were paid him by our gracious trious mother, he would still be an attentive host to the humblest individual at table. His Grace has been thirty years at the head of this archiepiscopal table; and an octogenarian of nobler aspect and of firmer tread you shall not see on this side the Tweed."

The only archbishops of York for thirty years or longer are, 1. Thomas, from 10- to 1100, @ Walter de Grey from 1216 to 1255; and 3. William Markham 1 Hay from 134 401151, and . John Kempe from 1426 to 1451 (afterwards The only other archbishops for more than twenty-five years, achbloge of Canterbury to 1484)

It was formerly remarked that the two archbishops (himself and Dr. MannersSutton) were the two tallest members of the episcopal bench. His portrait, by Hoppner, was engraved in 1804 by C. Turner in a large folio size. Another picture, by J. Jackson, R.A. which is in the possession of the Earl of Carlisle, is engraved also in a large size by H. Meyer. The only publications of the Archbishop of York were such as he was expected to publish, namely, a Sermon preached before the House of Lords, Jan. 30, 1794; a Sermon before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel of Foreign Parts, 1799; and a Sermon preached at the Coronation of George the Fourth, 1821.

The Archbishop preached a valedictory
sermon in the pulpit of York minster on
the 13th Nov. 1838. He continued how-
ever to enjoy good health, and so recently
as the 12th of Oct. last, on receiving at
Bishopsthorpe a deputation of the Diocesan
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
in Foreign Parts, presenting him with
an address of respect and affection for his
advanced years and distinguished charac-
ter, he immediately replied in the follow-
ing words:" It is a great gratification
and comfort to me to receive this kind ex-
pression of feeling on the part of the meet-
ing which assembled yesterday. Those
meetings I always attended and presided
over when I was able, and I have never
ceased to feel the warmest interest in the pro-
ceedings of the society. I am very thankful
for the good wishes expressed for my health.
I am at the close of a life unusually ex-
tended, and blessed with health, strength,
kind friends, and an affectionate family-
every comfort this world can afford; and
I should be very ungrateful if I did not, as
it is my duty to do, assist every exertion
for the extension of the Gospel of our
blessed Saviour." His Grace conversed
with great animation and kindness with
In the
each gentleman in succession.

course of his remarks he assured the com-
pany he was in perfect health, with the
exception of not having so free a use of
"In other re-
his hands and lower limbs.
spects," he said "I am as well as when I
was 25."

He visited York and inspected the repairs of the Chapter-house on Monday the 1st Nov. only four days before his death. On Wednesday morning he was taken seriously ill, and he died on the evening of Friday. His body was conveyed to the vault of the Harcourt family at Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxford.

After the death of his cousin FieldMarshal William third and last Earl Harcourt, G.C.B. (whose will will be found noticed in our Magazine for August 1830,

p. 178) his Grace relinquished the names
of Venables-Vernon, and took that of
Harcourt only, by royal sign manual, in
Jan. 1831.

The Archbishop married, on the 5th
Feb. 1784, Lady Anne Leveson-Gower,
third daughter of Granville first Marquess
of Stafford, and by her ladyship, who died
on the 16th Nov. 1832, he had issue
eleven sons and three daughters, the whole
of whom (with one exception) survive
him, viz. 1. George Granville Vernon-
Harcourt, esq. M.P. for Oxfordshire, who
married first, in 1815, Lady Elizabeth
Bingham, eldest daughter of Richard se-
cond Earl of Lucan, by whom he had one
child, the Right Hon. Elizabeth-Lavinia
Lady Norreys (wife of the heir-apparent
of the Earl of Abingdon), who has a nu-
merous family; and secondly, on the 30th
September last, Frances Countess dowager
Waldegrave, daughter of Mr. Braham;
2. Edward-Harcourt, who died in 1806,
in his 20th year; 3. the Rev. Leveson
Vernon-Harcourt, Chancellor of York,
and Rector of Stokesley, (formerly Arch-
deacon of Cleveland,) and author of
"The Doctrine of the Deluge," who
married in 1815 the Hon. Caroline Mary
Peachey, only surviving daughter of
John second Lord Selsey, but has no
issue; 4. the Rev. William Vernon-Har-
court, Canon of York, and Rector of
Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, who married in
1829 Matilda Mary, daughter of Lieut.-
Colonel William Gooch, and has issue;
5. Capt. Frederick Edward Vernon-Har-
court, R.N., who married Marcia, daughter
of the late Vice-Adm. John Richard Delap
Tollemache, and cousin to the Earls of
Dysart and Aldborough, and has issue;
6. Henry Vernon-Harcourt, esq. who mar-
ried in 1835 Lady Frances Harley, fourth
daughter of the Earl of Oxford and Mor-
timer; 7. Granville Vernon-Harcourt, esq.
Chancellor of the province of York, who
married first in 1814 Frances-Julia, daugh-
ter of the late Anthony Hardolph Eyre,
esq. of Grove Park, Notts; and secondly
in 1845 Pyne-Jessy, widow of John Henry
Cotterell, esq. and daughter of Lieut.-
Gen. the Hon. Henry Otway Trevor, and
has issue by the former lady; 8. Capt.
Octavius Henry Cyril Vernon-Harcourt,
R.N., who married in 1838 Anne-Holwell,
widow of William Danby, of Swinton Park,
Yorkshire, esq. and second daughter of
William Gater, esq.; 9. Anne; 10. the
Rev. Charles Vernon-Harcourt, a Preben-
dary of Carlisle, Rector of Rothbury,
Northumberland, and of Headon, Notts,
who is unmarried; 11. Colonel Francis
Vernon-Harcourt, Equerry to H.R.H. the
Duchess of Kent, who married in 1837
Lady Catharine Julia Jenkinson, eldest

daughter of the Earl of Liverpoci: 12 Egerton Vernon-Harcourt, esq. Registrar of York: 1. Lonisa-Aigista, marmed a 1-25 to Sir John Vanden Bempoe Jianstone, Bar. M.P. for Yorkshire; and 14. Georgiana, marned in 1845 to Lient-ci George Aletander Malosim, C.B.

REV. SIR WM. NIGEL GREALLY. BART.
No. 3. At Nether Sexe Hi.. Lease
tershire, in his 42nd year, the Rev. Sur
Willam Nigel Gresley, Barcnet, Recror

of seale.

Sir Nigel was born March 25, 1806. In 1×25 he entered the university of Oxford, as an undergraduate at Christ church. and proceeded to the degree of B.A. in 1829. In the following year he was instituted by the Bishop of Lincoin to the rectory of Seale, vacant by the death of his father, the Rev. William Gresley. Upon the demise of his cousin, the late Sir Roger, Sir Nigel succeeded to the baronetcy of Gresley, one of the most ancient in the kingdom, it having been conferred upon his ancestor, George Gresley, of Drakelowe, Derbyshire, esq. by King James the First, June 29, 1611.

Sir Nigel married, in 1831, Georgina Anne, daughter of the late George Reid, esq. and grand-daughter of the late Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart., Governor of Madras, by whom he has left a numerous family to deplore his loss. His eldest son, now Sir Thomas, who succeeds to the title The and estates, is in his sixteenth year. mortal remains of Sir Nigel were buried in the church yard at Nether Seale, where extrial generations of his ancestors rest.

The Family of Gresley, of which Sir Nigel was the representative, is of great enguty, fraving their descent from the Pak of Naumandy, to whom they were At the po yalipay standard-bearers. Tome of the Conquest, Nigel, son of Roger by Aveny with his brothers Robert, afterwaida Iord Ntafford, and Ralph, ancestor v the Cliffords, accompanied Duke Wilhan to England, and was rewarded for his services by grants of numerous lordalips in the counties of Derby, Leicester, and Stafford. His son, Sir William, fixed les residence at Castle Gresley, in Derbywhite, and founded there the priory of St. May and St. George. About three centuries afterwards they removed to Drakelowe in the same lordship, which has since It is coutmued to be the family seat. How occupied by Lady Sophia Des Voeux, w fow of the late Sir Roger Gresley.

WAR FITZROY MACLEAN, BART.
In Cadogan-place, Sir Fitzroy
dehafton Maclean, the 8th Ba-
AME Abovern, eo Argyll (1632), the

effe Macents, 1 General in the

mune de Sta Foot.

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K: WILL some time Secretary to the King of Spain. Es elder brother. Sir Hete Micean, succeeded to the representation sé the hmly, mi the attendant bar cetry to the death of a distant cou$2 a 1783 and fed a 1914,

S: Famay brained his commission as Ensure a the No. Rags 24th Sept. 1787. and a lie was promoted to a Lieute nancy in the same regment, then under the command of the Earl of Harrington. In 1793 he received a company in the 60th. and was with his regiment at the capture of the island of Tobage, and in the attack on Martinique. In Sept. 1794 he was promoted to a majority in the 110th regiment, and in 1795 to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the 828. In 1803 he obtained the brevet rask of Colonel, and was appointed to the command of the Batavian troops, who were received into the British service on the surrender of the Dutch West India colonies. In the expedition for the capture of Surinam, under General Sir Charles Green, he commanded the advanced corps of the army, composed of the flank companies. In 1805 he was appointed Brigadier-General, and served with General Boyer at the capture of the Danish Islands of St. Thomas and St. John, the government of which was conferred upon him by his Majesty's commission in 1808. In this government (except for a brief period, during which he was with Gen. Sir George Beckwith at the taking of Guadaloupe, for which he received a medal,) he continued until the peace in 1815, when the islands were restored to the crown of Denmark.

During his administration of the affairs of those islands, so much did his impartial conduct, mild sway, and the kindness of his disposition endear him to all classes of the inhabitants, that he took his departure amidst sincere and universal regret. While the higher classes esteemed and revered him for his indefatigable zeal to improve their condition and promote their happiness, the humble portion of the community, especially the coloured population, had by his retirement to regret the loss of a benefactor, to whose humane care and philanthropic policy they owed blessings to which, until then, they were strangers. These sentiments were not felt in silence only, but were loudly expressed on their kind governor bidding his farewell to the grateful inhabitants of Saint Thomas and St. John's.

During the period of Sir Fitzroy Maclean's government he received the respective promotions of Major-General (July 1810) and Lieutenant-General (4th June, 1814). In June 1815 he returned to Europe, after passing, with very little interval, a period of twenty-eight years on active service in the hot and unhealthy climate of the West Indies.

Sir Fitzroy succeeded to the title of Baronet on the death of his brother Sir Hector Maclean, unmarried, Nov. 2, 1818. On the 28th July, 1823, he was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 84th Foot; and in Jan. 1837, he received the rank of General in the army. On the 30th Dec. 1840, he was removed to the Colonelcy of the 45th regiment.

He was twice married; first, in 1794, to Mrs. Bishop, widow of John Bishop, esq. of Barbados, and only child of Charles Kidd, esq. of the ancient family of Woodhill and Cragie, co. Fife, and had issue by her, who died Sept. 13, 1832, several children, all of whom died in childhood except two sons: viz. 1. Sir Charles Fitzroy Maclean, who has succeeded to the Baronetcy; and 2. Donald Maclean, esq. barrister-at-law, and late M.P. for Oxford, who married in 1827, Harriet, daughter of General Frederick Maitland, and cousin to the Earl of Lauderdale. Sir Fitzroy married secondly, Sept. 17, 1838, Frances, widow of Henry Campion, esq. of Malling Deanery, Sussex, and daughter of the Rev. H. Watkins. She died June 12, 1843.

The present Baronet was born in 1798, and married, in 1831, Emily-Eleanor, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Jacob Marsham, D.D., Canon of Windsor, and cousin to the Earl of Romney; and by that lady, who died in 1831, he has issue one son, Fitzroy Donald, and four daughters.

REAR-ADM. SHIRREFF.

Nov. 30. At his official residence at Portsmouth, aged 62, William Henry Shirreff, esq. Rear-Admiral of the Blue, and Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard.

He was son of General Shirreff. He entered the royal navy, as a volunteer of the first class, on board La Juste, on the 1st Jan. 1796, and, having been discharged from that ship during the mutiny, served successively in the Princess Royal, Nep. tune, Circe, Stag, Romney, Magnificent, and Reynard, up to March, 1804, when he was made a Lieutenant. He thus served seven years and a half as volunteer and midshipman, during which time he was blockading Brest, L'Orient, and the Texel; was at the blowing up of the sluices at Ostend, under Sir Home Popham and

Sir Eyre Coote, in the expedition to Holland, landing troops, and was afterwards employed on shore with them, under Sir Ralph Abercromby. In a fishing-boat he was at the cutting out the Lynx sloop of war, from under the batteries of Delfzyl, in the river Emms, and at the cutting out of many small vessels; at the destruction of the batteries in Sheryminocoog, on the coast of Holland; in the expedition to Ferrol; and shortly after was cast away in the Stag, in Vigo Bay. He was employed on shore at Cosir, in the Red Sea, digging wells for and assisting to transport Sir David Baird's army across the Desert, exposed to a sun which, under canvass, created a heat of 120 degrees, his party having no tents. He assisted the master of the Franchise in surveying the Sea of Suez, and in the same year commanded the barge of the Romney, which, with the launch of that ship, saved the whole of the 80th Regiment and the crew of a country ship, in a gale of wind. He was appointed Lieutenant of the Reynard in 1814, and as first Lieutenaut of that ship (the Captain having died) received the thanks of the merchants of Jamaica for saving two valuable ships, by sending the boats to attack a notorious privateer, on which occasion the second Lieutenant was killed, and seventeen men were killed and wounded. He removed to the Hornet for a passage home, and in Nov. 1804, was appointed to the Circe, in the West Indies. When Lieutenant of this ship he was sent with important despatches to Lisbon, in a captured privateer schooner, La Fama, and then off Cadiz, to Sir John Orde; returning to the West Indies, he was captured by a schooner of superior force, having 18 guns and 140 men, whilst La Fama had only 4 guns and 20 men. He was carried into Guadaloupe, and thrown into the common gaol, where he remained for some time. rejoining the Circe he was employed constantly, for twelve months, cruising in a boat and a small tender of 20 tons, to intercept the trade from Porto Rico to St. Thomas's.

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In March, 1806, he was promoted to the rank of Commander, and on the 21st of April was appointed to command the Lily. He was four years in the West Indies, where he was at the capture of the Danish islands and the city of San Domingo. He commanded the seamen and marines at the capture of Desiada, the plan for which he had submitted to Sir A. Cochrane, the commander-in-chief. Subsequently he was several times engaged with the batteries of Guadaloupe when in chase of vessels, &c.

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etastation of a commercial treaty.
He was Capta Superintendent of Dept-
find from April, 1838, to August, 1841;
and of Chatham from that time to Nov.
1844, when he obtained his flag-rank. He
was appointed to Portsmouth dockyard on
the 30th of September last.

His remains were honoured with a public
funeral on the 8th Dec. and were interred
in the Military Garrison Chapel, Ports-
mouth. In the procession appeared a bri-
gade of guns,furnished by the Royal Marine
Artillery, a brigade of the Royal Marines,
her Majesty's 52d Regiment, the civil offi-
cers of the Dockyard, 200 seamen and offi-
cers from her Majesty's ship Excellent, the
flag-ship of the deceased, a number of half-
pay officers of the Royal Navy, and the
full-pay officers from the ships in com-
mission. The Commanders-in-chief of the
Army and Navy followed, with their staff;
and, lastly, the Mayor of the borough of
Portsmouth, with the town clerk, and the
Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet. The
chief mourners were Mr. Gray, the Admi-
ral's nephew, Capt. Yates of the Blen-
heim, Mr. Hervey his secretary, and Mr.
Jones his flag-Lieutenant.
The pall-
bearers were:-Capt. Sir E. Parry, R.N.,
Lieut. Col. Gordon, R.M., Major-Gen.
Jones, R.M., Lieut.-Gen. Sir D. Xime-
nes, K.H., Captain the Right Hon. Lord
A. Fitzclarence, G.C.H., Capt. P. P.
Was R.N., Capt. P. Douglas, R.N.,
Rear-Adm. Purvis, C.B. On the proces-
sion leaving the dockyard, minute guns
were fired from H.M.S. Excellent, and
continued until sunset. A round of 33
guas, by a park of artillery, concluded the

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LIST-COL. GEORGE HIBBERT, C.B.

Ne 12. At the house of his friend John Taylor, esq. St. George's-place, Hyde Park Corner, aged 57, Lieut.-Col. George Hibbert, C.B., late Commanding her Majesty's 40th Regiment.

He entered that regiment as Ensign, by purchase, Feb. 25, 1×13; was promoted ea Leutenancy, June 14, 1815, on a Vacancy occasioned on the field of Water, in which he was engaged; purchased aupaay, March 6, 1823; and a maNov. 13, 1835. He became Lieut.celead in 184.

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