66 He every description found in him a prompt, a of his character, that he was universally feared by the bad, and as universally loved by the good of all parties.” ever clear honour and open heart of him to whom they address themselves. For Duncan Forbes no descendant will ever have cause to blush or feel ashamed; and the perusal of this book will prove, that Scotland, even since she ceased to be a separate kingdom, has had at least one statesman whose principles were as pure as his understand-all in one word, such was the sterling worth ing was enlightened, and whose concern for his country was not so much as suspected to be quickened by any regard to his own power or emolument." "His natural ta- The ingratitude of GEORGE II. to Forbes, lents," says another respectable authority, whose gigantic efforts during the Rebellion were of the very first order, enlarged by of 1745, can never be forgotten, to whose an excellent education, completely disci- diversion in the north, it was owing that the plined and fully matured by habits of in- whole of the disaffected clans did not pour tense study, and of minute, and at the same down their forces on the south, and to whom time extensive observation; and they were that monarch therefore probably owed his all employed most honourably and con- continuance on the throne; an ingratitude scientiously in the real business of life. which preyed on the warm and generous His learning was profound and extensive Forbes, and brought him to an untimely beyond that of his compeers, and in forci- grave, has been often alluded to. He had ble, manly, and persuasive eloquence at the spent several years rents of his estates in Scottish bar, he had no competitor. Yet the public service in 1745. His brother had with all this vast and visible superiority, he expended large sums in the same cause in was never dogmatical. Every thing like 1715. Of this, amounting to about thirty artifice he held in abhorrence; and truth thousand pounds sterling, not one sixpence and justice, being at all times the objects he was ever repaid. "The mere money, (says aimed at, the law of kindness was ever on the Edinburgh Review, in the able article his lips, and an impress of candour and sin- from which we have already quoted) he cerity gave an oracular dignity to every probably never thought of, but the sentisentiment which he uttered. Of the volume ment conveyed in the refusal was somewhat of inspiration which he could consult with hard to bear. On this subject he was silent. advantage in the original tongue, he was a But he had induced others, on his credit, to diligent student. Being called upon rather advance funds for the exigence of the day, for active personal exertion than for those and he openly remonstrated against not efforts of mind which can be well and suc- being enabled to do justice to them. He cessfully made only in the seclusion of the was thanked by his majesty, but this is closet, and through the medium of the press, sometimes the coldest form in which an old of course his writings are not numerous, servant can be discarded. No cause was but they exhibit strong traces of a pure, a ever found sufficiently plausible to be openly pious, and an original mind. In the infant stated in defence of this conduct, but when manufactures of his country he took un- we recollect the characters of the Duke of ceasing interest, and his upright and pure Cumberland and of Forbes, we cannot doubt spirit breathed into her tribunals of justice that one of the popular accounts is the true an order and an equitable impartiality to one, which ascribes it all to his having which they were before total strangers, and plainly, and even in the king's presence, which to this day happily never has for- expressed his decided disapprobation of the saken them. Besides the new order of violence of the royal army, after the battle court, as to the hearing of causes, which he of Culloden. Generous men are peculiarly had the merit of introducing, he wrought liable to be hurt by ungenerous treatment, great and happy changes in the manner of and it is said that his sense of the ingratithe judges. By the candour, the strict in-tude which had been testified towards him, tegrity, and the nice discernment, combined with that admirable command of temper which marked his character, he was enabled to introduce a dignified urbanity and a gentlemanly deference among the members of court to the opinions of each other, which succeeding lord presidents have found no difficulty to sustain. In private life he was every thing that is amiable; as a husband and a father affectionately tender, as a friend, generous in the extreme. His neighbours he was always ready to oblige, and merit of 66 never left Forbes till it was buried two years afterwards in the untimely grave towards which it hastened him." To a mind so pure and so gentle, as was that of President Forbes, this ingratitude, on the part of the government, must," says Mr. Chambers, 66 have been exceedingly painful, but we do not believe that it was the only or the principal thing that weighed down his spirit. The care of the Highlands had been imposed on him for many years; he had been a father and a friend to almost every principal fa mily they contained, and with few exceptions, these families had in return made the strongest professions of loyalty to the government, and of friendship and affection to himself. How must he have felt to see the very men he had saved from total destruction, procured them the favourable notice of the government, and even high and honourable situations, rushing, from mistaken views of their own or country's interests, upon the ruin of both! It was this, we have no doubt, gave the secret but incurable wound which, though he continued to perform the duties of his station with inflexible firmness and with imperturbable patience, brought him by slow degrees to an untimely grave." To these remarks we will add an extract from a letter found among some old papers in Culloden House. It was written by the president a short period before his death to his son, John Forbes, afterwards of Culloden. "I am very sorry for you, my dear John, the great charges and expenses I have been at in supporting his majesty in the rebellion, have far exceeded the sum I thought it would have cost when I saw you last. I would advise you to go to London, where I believe I may have some friends yet. Mr. Scroope, Mr. Littleton, and Mr. Mitchell, (afterwards Lord Littleton and Sir Andrew Mitchell,) are kind-hearted affectionate men, and they will tell the king that his faithful servant, Duncan Forbes, has left you a very poor man. Farewell, may the God of heaven and earth bless you. Duncan Forbes." The poet Thomson thus speaks of the president: Thee, Forbes, too, whom every worth attends, As truth sincere, as weeping friendship kind; Thee truly generous, and in silence great, Thy country feels through her reviving arts, Plann'd by thy wisdom, by thy soul inform'd; And seldom has she known a friend like thee." Duncan Forbes, who was born at Bunchrew, one of the family seats, near Inverness, 10th November, 1685, m. Mary, daughter of Hugh Rose, of the ancient family of Kilravock, in Nairnshire, and dying 10th December, 1747, was succeeded by his only child, JOHN FORBES, esq. of Culloden, the intimate friend of Thomson, Armstrong, and the other wits and literati of his day. He served with great distinction at the battles of Fontenoy and Culloden. At the former, his horse was shot under him. By economy and judicious management, he succeeded in retrieving the fortunes of his family, which had received a severe and well nigh fatal shock from the serious extent of his father, the president's losses and advances, in the cause of government, during the rebellion of 1745-6, losses and advances never suitably acknowledged in the proper quarter, an ingratitude still the wonder and reproach of the age. He married first, Jane, daughter of Sir Arthur Forbes, bart. of Craigievar, by whom he had two sons, Duncan who died in youth, and ARTHUR, his heir; and secondly, in 1772, Jane, daughter of Captain Forbes, of New, by whom (who wedded afterwards, Grant, of Drumminner, Aberdeenshire,) he had no issue. John Forbes d. 26th September, 1772, and was s. by his only surviving son, ARTHUR FORBES, esq. of Culloden, b. 15th February, 1760, who m. first in 1779, Sarah, daughter and sole heir of Edward Stratton, esq. of Kent, and of Ripley, in Surrey. By this lady, who died at Culloden House, 19th November, 1793, aged thirty-six, he had one son and one daughter, viz. DUNCAN-GEORGE, his heir. Sarah-Louisa, m. in 1798, to Hugh Robert Duff, esq. of Muirtown, Inverness-shire, and died in 1829, leaving issue. Her only surviving son is Huntly George Gordon Duff, of Muirtown. Mr. Forbes wedded, secondly, in 1800, Mary Wardlaw Cumming, daughter of Admiral Sir William Cumming, but by that lady (who m. afterwards, Joseph Egerton, esq. of Gray's Inn, and survives his widow,) had no issue. He died 26th May, 1803, and was s. by his only son, the present DUNCANGEORGE FORBES, esq. of Culloden House. Arms-Az. on a chev. between three bears' heads couped arg. muzzled gu. as many unicorns heads erased sa. Crest—An eagle displayed. Motto-Salus per Christum, or Spernet humum. Estates-In the counties of Inverness, Nairn, and Ross. Seats-Culloden House, Inverness-shire, and Ryefield Lodges, Ross-shire. ROGERS, OF YARLINGTON LODGE. ROGERS, FRANCIS, esq. of Yarlington Lodge, in the county of Somerset, b. 13th August, 1784, m. 6th July, 1815, Catharine-Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Benjamin Bickley, esq. of Ettingshall * Lodge, in Staffordshire, and has issue, THOMAS-ENGLESBY, b. 24th May, 1817, B.A. and scholar Catharine-Anne-Bickley. Caroline-Anna. Marianne-Robinson. Anna-Latty. Mr. Rogers, who is a Governor of Christ's Hospital, s. to the representation of the family at the death of his father 28th February, 1821. Lineage. Mr. Rogers died at Besford Court, 11th April, 1773, and was buried at All Saints Church, Worcester, where a neat marble monument has been erected to his memory. He was succeeded by his only son, JOHN ROGERS, esq. b. 14th April, 1743, m. 10th November, 1774, Anne Reynolds, daughter and sole heiress of PICKERING ROBINSON, esq. of Rawcliffe, in the county of York, and eventually heiress to her greatuncle, Samuel Lloyd, esq. of Friday Hill, in the parish of Chinkford, Essex, who d. 12th July, 1775, and was buried on the east side of St. Paul's Churchyard, where is erected a handsome monument to his memory. By this lady he has left issue, besides daughters, FRANCIS, his heir, the present represen- m. 21st February, 1834, Mary-Theodora, eldest daughter of the Rev. John Johnson, L.L.D. (see vol. iv. p. 550.) rector of Yaxham-cum-Welbourne, county of Norfolk, the intimate friend and kinsman † of the poet Cowper, who died in his house at East Dereham, 25th April, 1800. By this lady, who died 6th May, 1836, he had no issue. Mr. Rogers, who was the first of the family who settled in Somersetshire, purchased the manor and living of Yarlington in 1783, when he erected the present mansion, Yarlington Lodge. He was governor of Christ's Hospital, and served the office of high sheriff for the county of Somerset, in 1804. He died at Yarlington Lodge 28th February, 1821, aged seventy-eight years. a Family of Robinson, of Hull. WILLIAM ROBINSON, esq. b. at Nottingham in 1625, of an ancient family in the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, of which place he was sheriff in 1682, m. Margaret Wellfit, Robert-Green, b. 6th November, 1800, | his fourth wife, 26th October, 1690, and had in holy orders, rector of Yarlington, | by her, The family of Bickley has been long established at this place. Mr. Bickley is likewise of the city of Bristol, where he has four times served the office of sheriff. + Dr. (then Mr.) Johnson, was grandson of the Rev. Roger Donne, rector of Catfield, Norfolk, who was the brother of the poet's mother. "A shred of my own mother," as Cowper himself expressed it. SOUTHEY's Cowper, vol. vi. p. 296. THOMAS, his heir. Mr. Robinson, who was a warm adherent of the disaffected or ultra-protestant party, was ordered in 1685, together with seven others, all the principal men of Hull, to give security for good behaviour, upon suspicion of aiding in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, (see Hadley's Records of Hull, &c.) He d. in 1707, in the eighty-second year of his age, and was succeeded by his eldest son, THOMAS ROBINSON, esq. b. at Hull, 4th February, 1693. He took up his freedom in the corporations of Headon, and of Kingston-upon-Hull, and was also a freeman of the county of York. Hadley mentions, that in 1738, a petition was headed by Thomas Robinson," master and mariner," and undersigned by five others, " all masters and mariners," which was sent to the bench of justices, praying for leave "to station their ships southward of the Hand, on account of the crowded state of the harbour." He died at Rawcliffe, 15th February, 1777, at the advanced age of eighty-five, having m. 17th July, 1717, Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Pickering, esq. of the Pickerings of Yorkshire, by whom he had issue an only son, PICKERING ROBINSON, esq. b. at Rawcliffe 11th July, 1726, m. 21st August, 1753, MaryAnne, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, esq. at Walthamstowe Church, county of Essex They resided many years at Savannah, in the province of Georgia, North America, where their only child, ANNE-REYNOLDS, was b. 5th January, 1755; Mary-Anne, his wife, d. 27th October, 1761, at Vale-Royal Plantation, and was interred in the burialground at Savannah, where a monument was erected to her memory by his Excellency the Governor, John Reynolds, esq. Mr. Robinson d. at Bauliah, in Bengal, 21st June, 1775, where he was buried, at his own desire, in a vault built by himself, leaving ANNE-REYNOLDS, relict of John Rogers, esq. of Yarlington Lodge, the last representative of this branch of the widely extended family of Robinson. Arms-Quarterly, 1stermine, three bucks trippant, sa. on a chief wavy az. as many acorns slipped or, for ROGERS; 2nd vert, a chevron between three bucks trippant or, for ROBINSON; 3rd sa. three nags' heads erased arg. for LLOYD; 4th ermine, a lion rampant azure, langued, crowned or, for Pick ERING. Crest-A buck's head erased sa. attired or, on the neck a bendlet wavy of the last, charged with three acorns vert, in the mouth a slip of oak fructed ppr. Motto-Justum perficito nihil timeto. Estates In Somersetshire, with the manors of Yarlington and Galhampton. Seat-Yarlington Lodge, Somersetshire. FAGAN, OF FELTRIM. FAGAN, WILLIAM, esq. of Cork, chief, in Ireland, of the ancient family of Fagan of Feltrim, m. in 1827, Mary, daughter of Charles Addis, esq. of Westminster, and has issue. Lineage. PATRICK O'HAGAN, alias FAGAN, second son of John O'Hagan, Baron of Tullagh-Og in Tyrone, by Catherine, his wife, daughter of Hugh Mac Mahon, Baron of Furney, and second brother of Bryan More Mac Mahon, Dynast of Monagan, accompanied his father in 1180, in his expedition at the head of the forces of Tyrone, to the assistance of O'Melaghlin, prince of Meath, in order to repel the encroachments of the English settlers in his principality. So soon as the object of the expedition was fulfilled, the troops returned to their respective homes; but Patrick O'Hagan remained in Meath, where he married Dorothea, daughter of Cormac or Charles O'Melaghlin, son to the last reigning prince of that name, and acquired with her a large territory, which was confirmed to him by charter in 1210, by Walter de Lacy, lord of Meath, in obedience to the command of King JOHN, then in Ireland. From that period Patrick assumed the English costume and an English name, and served his lord paramount with attachment and fidelity. In 1233, he accompanied William de Lacy on an incursion into O'Reilly's country, bordering on the province of Meath, and was slain with William de Lacy, and others of the English and Irish chiefs. His son, JOHN FAGAN, of Derry Fagan, Faganston, | Fagan, escaped the slaughter and fled to Monrath, &c. in Meath, also supported the the city of Cork, then holding out in the English interest until his death in 1248. He most formidable manner for Perkin. His dem. Ann, daughter of Sir Alexander Plun-luded zeal for the cause he espoused was kett, knt. and was father of such, that he got the title of Archrebel from the English writers of the history of the times. PATRICK FAGAN, of Derry Fagau, Faganston, Monrath, &c. who m. Susanna, daughter of Sir John Barnewall, knt. of Crickstown, and dying in 1274, was s. by his son, RICHARD FAGAN, of Derry Fagan, Faganston, &c. who got a librate of 20 marks upon the treasury of Ireland, in considera-kenny, and was father of tion of his good services against O'Reilly and Bermingham, and in 1343, a further grant of part of the lands forfeited by his father-in-law Sir Hugo de Lacy. He m. Margaret, daughter of the said Sir Hugo de Lacy, and died in 1348, leaving a son and The eldest son of Christopher, RICHARD FAGAN, esq. m. Anastasia, dau. of John Rochford, esq. of Killadown, in Meath, and of Carrick in the county of Kil successor, JOHN FAGAN, of Derry Fagan, Faganston, &c. constituted high sheriff of the liberties of Meath by letters patent, dated 32 EDWARD III. and governor of the castle of Trim for life, in the 47th of the same reign. He m. Ann, daughter of Hugh Mac Canna, baron of Trucha, in the county of Monaghan, and was s. by his son, SIR HUGH FAGAN, knt. of Derry Fagan, Faganston, &c. who, with his son and heir John Fagan, then of full age, attended the court of RICHARD II. in Dublin, in 1399, and did homage, surrendering all their lordships, but the King not only gave them a new grant of the possessions to hold them from the crown of England by knights services and fealty, but also created them knights. Sir Hugh m. Eleanora, daughter of Sir Robert Tuite, knt. and was father of SIR JOHN FAGAN, of Derry Fagan, Faganston, &c. constituted high sheriff of the liberties of Meath by letters patent in 1423. He m. More, or Morelin, daughter of James White, by Margaret, his wife, daughter of Conn O'Neill, and was s. by his son, RICHARD FAGAN, esq. of Derry Fagan, high sheriff of the liberties of Meath in 1457. This gentleman, in liquidation of the great disbursements made by him in the king's service, obtained in 1458, a librate of 20 marks on the treasury of Ireland. He m. Cecily, daughter of Sir Rowland Fitz Eustace, knt. baron Porchester, and had a son and successor, CHRISTOPHER FAGAN, esq. of Derry Fagan, Faganston, Monrath, &c. who m. Catherine, daughter of James Fitzgerald, third son of Thomas, seventh Earl of Kildare, and had issue, RICHARD, Thomas, Hugh, James, and JOHN. Christopher Fagan, taking part in the insurrection of Perkin Warbeck was attainted, and his lands granted to Aylmer of Lyons, to the Barnewalls, and others. He fell at the siege of Carlow in 1494, together with four of his sons. His youngest child however, John THOMAS FAGAN, esq. of Dublin, who was left, in 1494, an infant at his mother's breast, and brought by her, in the calamity of the times, to Dublin to her father's house, where especial care was taken of the orphan, and Mr. Rochford providing for his education, eventually made ample provision for him. He married in 1524, Amy Nangle, daughter of the Baron of Navan, with whom he acquired considerable estates in the city and county of Dublin, as well as in the counties of Meath, Wexford, and Sligo, as appears by the several grants and pardons of alienation made thereof to his male descendants by JAMES I. CHARLES I. and CHARLES II. styled him from Feltrim in the said county. He left two sons, 1. CHRISTOPHER, high sheriff of the county and city of Dublin in 1565, and lord mayor in 1573. He m. Joan, daughter of Sir James Fitz Simonds, knt. also lord mayor of Dublin, and had one son, and seven daughters, viz. THOMAS, of Castle Fagan and Palmerston, in the county of Dublin, who bequeathed by his will, tested 10th July, 1599, all his estate real and personal to his only child, ELINOR, m. to her cousin RI- Cecily, m. to D'Arcy of Platten. son and heir of Christopher Segrave, lord mayor of Dublin. Mary, m. to Thomas Nangle, Baron of Navan. Mable, d. unmarried. II. RICHARD, of whose descendants we have to treat. |