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Title: Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Lodge, Edmund, 1756-1839
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Publisher: London : London Print. and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of Great Britain, by thestyle and title of Baron Hawke of Towton, in the County of York. By his marriage with Catherine,daughter and sole heiress of Walter Brooke, Esq., of Burton Hall, Yorkshire, and co-heiress of WilliamHammond, Esq., of Scarthingwell Hall, in the same county, he had three sons and one daughter. HisLordship died at his seat at Sunbury, in Middlesex, on the fourteenth of October, 1781, and wassucceeded in his title by Martin Bladen, his eldest son. His reputation for skill and courage in thearduous profession to which his life was devoted entitle him to be placed in the first rank of Britishwarriors, and his greatest success, perhaps his greatest merit, is to be ascribed to the accurate judgmentand intrepidity which induced him not only to disregard danger, but to break through, when the occasionrequired, those formal rules of attack, which had been before considered indispensable, and theobservance of which had occasioned the failure of so many former leaders i ii i
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ARLE S WE^TWORTH. iLVRQUI S OF RO CKTNGHAM. FROM THE OHIGINAL 01 S/P J I\ THE COU^ECTKXN OF THE KK.HT HO.V! THE EARL OF 111/\\ 11 .l.I.\.\l CII VIMJIS WATSON WENTWORTH, SECOND M LEQUIfl OF EtOCKINOH \ \i Cm u; i is Wi.Tion W i s i woi,-rn, was bhe only son of Thomas Wal oo Wentworth (who bad been createdMarquii of Rockingham in L740), bj Mary, fourth daughter of Daniel Finch, sixth BarlofWincand was born on the thirteenth of M.t\, L780, to the inheritance of a verj great revenue) for thatof tlu> Mails of Strafford, of the Brat oreation, with their lurnatne of Wentworth, had ; to nil paternal grandfather, Thomas Watson, who had alreadj a splendid patrimony on the death of William,the second Earl, He suooeeded to those joint possessions, and to vast personal propi (ether with abundance of dignities, upon the death of his father, on the fourteenth of December, 17)<). On :ninth of July, L761, he was constituted Lord Lieutenanl and Gustos Hotulorum of the North and WKillings of Yorks

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