* In an extract from "the pedigree of the an. cient knightly family of Gardiner, of Bermondsey, Peckham, and Dorking, in the county of Surrey, extracted from the visitation books of that county, and deduced down to Mary, sole surviving daughter and heir of William Gardiner, of Dorking and Croydon, in Surrey, by Anne, daughter of Richard Peck, now wife of John Douglas, of the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, gentleman, from other authentic evidences, by John Warburton, Somerset Herald, A°. 1754.' It is noticed that the said William Gardiner fell heir to, and possessed the family seat of Haling, near Croydon, which was built by Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, and lord chancellor of England, temp. HENRY VIII. and MARY, and that he was the last survivor of his family in the male line. Queen Elizabeth, when young and much out of health, was sent there for change of air, and deriving great benefit, said its name should be changed to Healing, or All-heal, from its salubrious effect upon her.

+ His life was singularly chequered. His first youthful outset was with an eminent manufacturer, at Middleton, near the seat of Sir Ashton Lever, in Lancashire, who was then forming his famous Museum. Here, instead of attending to business, he was assiduously assisting Sir Ashton in the stuffing of birds; he was, therefore, removed and placed more suitably to his genius, at a military college in Flanders, where he gained reputation by the translation of the work of a celebrated French engineer, on fortification. He afterwards entered the Austrian army as a cadet, at the time when there was a menace of war with the Turks, and at Vienna he became intimate with the noted Baron Trenck. Being sent by Prince John of Lichterstein, to purchase horses in England, and jocosely observing, that he thought his head grinning on the gates of Constantinople would not be a very becoming sight, he did not return, and exchanged the Austrian for the British service. He obtained a lieutenant's commission in the Leicester militia, during the heat of the general war

JOHN.

Archibald, who entered the army, married, and went with his regiment to the West Indies, where he died very young, and left one daughter.

Harriett, m. to the Lord Bloomfield.

Louisa, m. to John Norris, esq. of Hawley House, Hants. Mary, m. to Colonel Robert M'Donald of the royal artillery. Juliet, m. to the Rev. Robert Hall, of Westborough, Lincolnshire. 11. WILLIAM, his seventh child, of whom presently.

11. JAMES, his youngest, b. in 1753, m. Margaret, daughter of John Oldershaw, M.D. of Leicester, and died at Brighton in 1819, † leaving two sons and one daughter.

The seventh child,

WILLIAM DOUGLAS, esq. b. 28th February,

then raging, and was put on the staff of Colonel Delbeig, of the engineers, engaged in fortifying Chatham lines on the threatened invasion.

After the peace of 1783, he married, and determined to enter the church. He accordingly kept collegiate terms, and graduated at Oxford; was ordained, got moderate preferment, and became a chaplain to the Prince of Wales.

He had naturally great taste and talent for the fine arts, which had been matured by the study of some of the principal galleries of painting and sculpture in Europe, over a good portion of which he had travelled he produced some excellent portraits of his friends, both in oil and miniature, as an amateur; but his favourite and lasting study was antiquarian research, in which he attained great eminence. He associated much with the literary and scientific men of his day, and having opened some hundred sepulchres of the Celtic, British, Roman, and Danish inhabitants of Britain, he formed a large museum of their contents, and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

His publications were numerous, and like his life, varied. Besides his "Translations," he wrote 'Travelling Anecdotes through various parts of Europe," much in the manner of Sterne, (with characteristic and humorous plates, drawn and etched by himself,) which went through three editions from 1782 to 1786.

Various novels.

A Dissertation on the Antiquity of the Earth. Two Dissertations on the Brass Instruments called Celts, and other Arms of the Ancients.

His principal work was the "Nenia Britannica," in folio, to illustrate the history of Britain in the 5th century, with numerous plates (of his own execution) of arms, coins, shields, weapons, gold, silver, and other female decorations and ornaments, with a variety of implements and curious relics deposited with the dead in the many barrows he had opened.

His literary life closed with the publication of

some sermons.

Mary.

Helen.

Eliza.

ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, the first ancestor of this family who settled in England, was of the MORTON line of the house of DOUGLAS,* and came in the retinue of JAMES I. in 1603, on his accession to the English throne. The

The first grant of lands on record to this family was anno 1150, on Duglas Water, in Duglasdale, in Lanarkshire, and William, who inherited the estate, was the first to assume the name of Duglas in several charters which he witnessed between the years 1170 and 1190, during an age when it was the practice of landowners to designate themselves from the names of their possessions. The Celtic, or Galic name Duglas, signifies black water, an appropriate appellation for the river, which is of a black colour, having its sources and supplies from a moorish country. The same word, Dulas or Duglas, in the Welch language, (another dialect of the Celtic,) is literally black and blue, and the river Dulas means dark blue

water.

The distinguished house of Douglas had divided into four principal branches, viz. Angus, Hamilton, Queensberry, and Morton, and has been celebrated throughout the historic records of Scotland, as well as in the annals of border warfare, principally against the Percys, in which it had been always successful, and made one Percy prisoner.

But in the last fatal rencounter between the two

rival chiefs, so beautifully described in the affecting popular ballad of Chevy Chase, the Douglas fell. In the year 1329, Sir James de Douglas received a grant from Edward III. to repair with the HEART of King Robert Bruce to Jerusalem, and deposit it in the Holy Sepulchre, which has been the principal bearing in the Douglas arms ever since.

king granted him possessions near Reath, in the county of York, where he m. a daughter of Sir Marmaduke Langdale, and was succeeded by his son,

ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, who lived temp. CHARLES I. at Townend Hall, in Arkendale. During the civil wars, he raised and equipped a body of horsemen for the king's service, chiefly from among his own tenantry, On his route to and at his own expense. join the royal forces, with this troop of which he was captain, he was intercepted and taken prisoner by a detachment of Cromwell's army. He escaped, however, and was secreted for a long time in a cave in a neighbouring wood, where he was sustained by a faithful servant. From this circumstance it acquired the name of “ Douglas Wood," which it still bears. Tradition says there was a passage to the cave from the opposite side, under the river. From his adherence to the house of Stuart, his estates were confiscated, and all applications to CHARLES II., after his Restoration, for their restitution, were fruitless. He m. Mary, daughter of Edward Gregson, esq. of Reath, in Yorkshire, and was father of

THOMAS DOUGLAS, esq. barrister-at-law, temp. CHARLES II. who m. Martha, daughter of James Kirton, esq. of Reath aforesaid, but of a family originally from Westmorland, and had issue, several children, viz.

Marmaduke,
Symond,
Samuel,

Cholmondeley,
Thomas,

who were dispersed in Holland, Jamaica, and other parts abroad and at home, with various

success.

and

The fourth son,

JOHN DOUGLAS, esq. settled in London, and lived in the parish of St. George, Hanover Square. He possessed the estate of Caldicott Hill, near Harrow, where he died in 1762. He m. 29th April, 1731, Mary, daughter of William Gardiner, esq. of Haling, near Croydon, and Send Place, near Dorking, Surrey,* by whom he had nine children, (most of whom died young and without issue,) of these,

1. THOMAS, his eldest son, b. 26th April, 1732, was originally engaged in mercantile pursuits, and afterwards resided at Grantham, where, and in other parts of Lincolnshire, he possessed property, and served as high sheriff' of that county in the year 1776. He was well known on the turf, and entered a "Confederate" with Earl Grosvenor, in the match book at Newmarket, from 1780 to 1785. He d. in London in 1787, and left issue,

In an extract from "the pedigree of the an. cient knightly family of Gardiner, of Bermondsey, Peckham, and Dorking, in the county of Surrey, extracted from the visitation books of that county, and deduced down to Mary, sole surviving daughter and heir of William Gardiner, of Dorking and Croydon, in Surrey, by Anne, daughter of Richard Peck, now wife of John Douglas, of the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, gentleman, from other authentic evidences, by John Warburton, Somerset Herald, Ao. 1754." It is noticed that the said William Gardiner fell heir to, and possessed the family seat of Haling, near Croydon, which was built by Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, and lord chancellor of England, temp. HENRY VIII. and MARY, and that he was the last survivor of his family in the male line. Queen Elizabeth, when young and much out of health, was sent there for change of air, and deriving great benefit, said its name should be changed to Healing, or All-heal, from its salubrious effect upon her.

+ His life was singularly chequered. His first youthful outset was with an eminent manufacturer, at Middleton, near the seat of Sir Ashton Lever, in Lancashire, who was then forming his famous Museum. Here, instead of attending to business, he was assiduously assisting Sir Ashton in the stuffing of birds; he was, therefore, removed and placed more suitably to his genius, at a military college in Flanders, where he gained reputation by the translation of the work of a celebrated French engineer, on fortification. He afterwards entered the Austrian army as a cadet, at the time when there was a menace of war with the Turks, and at Vienna he became intimate with the noted Baron Trenck. Being sent by Prince John of Lichterstein, to purchase horses in England, and jocosely observing, that he thought his head grinning on the gates of Constantinople would not be a very becoming sight, he did not return, and exchanged the Austrian for the British service. He obtained a lieutenant's commission in the Leicester militia, during the heat of the general war

JOHN.

Archibald, who entered the army, married, and went with his regiment to the West Indies, where he died very young, and left one daughter.

Harriett, m. to the Lord Bloomfield.

Louisa, m. to John Norris, esq. of Hawley House, Hants. Mary, m. to Colonel Robert M'Donald of the royal artillery. Juliet, m. to the Rev. Robert Hall, of Westborough, Lincolnshire. 11. WILLIAM, his seventh child, of whom presently.

III. JAMES, his youngest, b. in 1753, m.
Margaret, daughter of John Older-
shaw, M.D. of Leicester, and died at
Brighton in 1819, † leaving two sons
and one daughter.

The seventh child,
WILLIAM DOUGLAS, esq. b. 28th February,

then raging, and was put on the staff of Colonel Delbeig, of the engineers, engaged in fortifying Chatham lines on the threatened invasion.

After the peace of 1783, he married, and determined to enter the church. He accordingly kept collegiate terms, and graduated at Oxford; was ordained, got moderate preferment, and became a chaplain to the Prince of Wales.

He had naturally great taste and talent for the fine arts, which had been matured by the study of some of the principal galleries of painting and sculpture in Europe, over a good portion of which he had travelled he produced some excellent portraits of his friends, both in oil and miniature, as an amateur; but his favourite and lasting study was antiquarian research, in which he attained great eminence. He associated much with the literary and scientific men of his day, and having opened some hundred sepulchres of the Celtic, British, Roman, and Danish inhabitants of Britain, he formed a large museum of their contents, and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

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His publications were numerous, and like his life, varied. Besides his "Translations," he wrote Travelling Anecdotes through various parts of Europe," much in the manner of Sterne, (with characteristic and humorous plates, drawn and etched by himself,) which went through three editions from 1782 to 1786.

Various novels.

A Dissertation on the Antiquity of the Earth. Two Dissertations on the Brass Instruments called Celts, and other Arms of the Ancients.

His principal work was the "Nenia Britannica," in folio, to illustrate the history of Britain in the 5th century, with numerous plates (of his own execution) of arms, coins, shields, weapons, gold, silver, and other female decorations and ornaments, with a variety of implements and curious relics deposited with the dead in the many barrows he had opened.

His literary life closed with the publication of

some sermons.