1. Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, &c. &c. By 2. Letters from the Abbé Edgeworth to his friends, with Memoirs of his Life, including some Account of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork, Dr. Moylan, and Letters to him from the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, and other persons of distinction. By the Rev. Admiral Sir Robert Calder, K. B. and Bart. lonel Tatham 1745 1752 1757 1742 1741 1774 1769 1752 1740 1737 1738 1818 1818 1818 1818 1818 1818 1818 1819 1819 1819 1819 138 149 169 235 263 326 Antiquary 1761 1819 1749 371 1819 1752 NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY. Abp. of Tuam 423 1743 1819 1819 1819 1819 1819 1818 263 427 ALPHABETICAL TABLE. Page 138 85 1 20 425 169 402 326 424 112 BILLINGTON, Mrs. - tiquary 34 65 428 371 235 149 400 423 434 391 ALPHABETICAL TABLE. Page Billington, Mrs. 138 Brydone, Patrick, Esq. 85 Calder, Admiral Sir Robert, K. B. and Bart. 1 Combe, Mr. Alderman 20 Forbes, James, Esq. F. R. S. F. A. S. 425 Francis, Sir Philip, K. B. 169 Graham, Aaron, Esq. 402 Jennings, Henry Constantine, Esq. the celebrated An. tiquary 326 Lysons, Samuel, Esq. F. R. S. F. A. S. 424 Meadley, George Wilson, Esq. 112 Musgrave, Sir Richard, Bart. 34 Palmer John, Esq. 65 Peterborough, Lord Bp. of 428 Playfair, Professor . 371 Scot Waring, Major, Ex M. P. 235 Tatham, Colonel 149 Tempest, Sir Henry, Bart. 400 Tuam, His Grace the Abp. of 423 Walsingham, Lord 434 Watt, James, Esq. 391 Wolcot, Dr. (Peter Pindar) 263 Wyndham, Henry P. Esq. 427 1 а Macbeth cut off the Thane of Nairn (Buchan.) This, no doubt, was the Thane of Calder; for no history or tradition mentioneth a Thane of Nairn, distinct from the Thane of Calder, who as constable resided in that town; and Mr. Heylin, in his Geography, expressly calleth him Thane of Calder.” We leam that William, Thane of Calder, in 1450, built the tower of Calder by a royal licence; and in 1499, we find the Calders giving battle to the Campbells about the possession of the heiress of Kilravock. But the descendants of this chieftain disposed of the baronies in the counties of Nairn and Kinross, and appear to have settled at Muirton, or Muirtown, in the immediate vicinity of Elgin, in which town they built a large house, with casteliated battlements, and resided for upwards of a century. One of these was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1686. Sir Thomas Calder, of Muirtown, had three sons, the eldest of whom, Sir James, having come to England, married Alice, daughter of Rear-Admiral Robert Hughes, and by this lady had four sons. He settled at Park-House, near Maidstone, in Kent, and being patronised by, his countryman the Earl of Bute, obtained a place at court The second son is the subject of the present narrative. Robert Calder was born in the paternal mansion at Elgin, July 2. 1745. O. S., and received his education at the grammar school of that ancient town. At an early age, however, he was sent to England, and having entered a midshipman, first trod the quarter-deck of a man of war, when only fourteen. In 1766, he accompanied the Hon. George Faulkener, as Lieutenant of the Essex, to the West Indies; but it was not until many years after that he obtained the rank, first of master and commander, and then of post-captain, in the navy. The officer whose memoirs form the subject of the present article, appears to have studied his profession, and to have acquired considerable knowledge, in every thing appertaining to it. He had also the good fortune to serve under very able men, by which means he obtained a considerable degree of knowledge in all branches of naval tactics. 1 |
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