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He was born April 30, 1788, the eldest son of Sir John Ramsden of Byram, co. York, Bart. by the Hon. Louisa-Susannah Ingram, 5th and youngest daughter and cobeiress of Charles ninth and last Viscount Irvine, and sister to Isabella-Anne Marchioness of Hertford. He was consequently heir presumptive to the vast property of that hon. Baronet, comprising nearly the whole of the town of Huddersfield.

Mr. Ramsden sat in Parliament for Malton from 1812 to 1831, when he was returned as one of the four members for the county of York. In the following year he was successfully opposed by E. S. Cayley, esq.; and in 1833 he again came in for Malton. His politics were of course those of the house of Fitz- William. Throughout an illness of long duration and acute suffering, he exemplified the most exalted courage and patient resignation.

He married, May 5, 1814, the Hon. Isabella Dundas, seventh and youngest daughter of Thomas first Lord Dundas, and sister to the present Lord Dundas and the late Lady Milton; and by that lady, who survives him, he had issue a daughter born in 1818, and a son John- William who died in 1830; and another son, who survives him.

GEORGE SMITH, ESQ.

Dec. 26. At his seat, Selsdon, near Croydon, aged 75, George Smith, esq. of the banking firms of Smith, Payne, and Smith, of London, and Samuel Smith, Brothers, and Co. of Hull, a Commissioner of the Lieutenancy for London, and a younger brother of Lord Carrington.

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He was the fifth son of Abel Smith, esq. of Nottingham, banker, M.P. for that town, by Mary, daughter of Thomas Bird, esq. of Coventry. He first obtained a seat in parliament in 1791, as one of the members for Lestwithiel. did not sit in the parliament of 1796 until the year 1801, when he was elected for Midhurst; he was re-chosen for that borough in 1802; and in 1806, for Wendover. For the last place he continued to sit in Parliament, in conjunction with his brother John Smith, esq. until its right to return members was extinguished by the Reform Act in 1832.

Mr. George Smith was for many years a member of the East India direction.

He married, May 12, 1792, FrancesMary, daughter of the late Sir John Parker Mosley, Bart. and had issue nine sons and six daughters, all of whom we believe survive him.

JAMES FENWICKE, ESQ.

Feb. 3. At Longwitton Hall, near Morpeth, Northumberland, in his 79th year, James Fenwicke, esq.

Mr. Fenwicke was born on the 15th Oct. 1758, the eldest son and heir of John Fenwicke, esq. who died 23d Dec. 1783, aged 61, by Mary (who died 9th Nov. 1773), youngest daughter of John Thornton, esq. eldest son and heir of Nicholas Thornton, esq. of Netherwitton Castle, Northumberland, by Anne daughter of Sir John Swinburne, Bart. of Cap heaton. He was descended from the ancient family of Fenwicke Castle, in the same county.

"I saw come merching owre the Knows
Fyve hundred Fenwickes in a flock,
With tack and spair and bowis all bent,
And warlike weapons at their will."

Ballad of Redeswire fight, 5th July, 1575.

Mr. Fenwicke's only brother, John Ralph Fenwicke, esq. M D. of Durham, married Dorothy, eldest daughter and coheir of Robert Spearman, of Old Acres, in the county of Durham, descended from the old lords of Aspramont, and has no issue.

Mr. Fenwicke had three sisters: Catharine, unmarried; Margaret, who married William Charlton, of Hesleyside, Northumberland, esq. and had one child, William-John Charlton, esq. of Hesleyside, the high sheriff for the county of Northumberland for the present year; she died at Durham, on the 12th March, 1833, in her 76th year :-and Mary married General De Martenne, of the French army, and has issue.

Mr. Fenwicke married Jane, only child and heiress of John Manners, esq. of Longframlington, Northumberland, the last of that branch of the noble house of Manners of Etal, now represented by the Duke of Rutland. By this lady, who has been dead some years, he had issue John Manners Fenwicke, esq. who succeeds to his estates; William Fenwicke, esq. a Captain in the 23d Royal Welch Fusileers; James-Thomas Fenwicke, esq. M.D.; Edward Fenwicke, esq.; and two other sons; he had also one only daughter, who died 5th December, 1835, having married Henry Montonnier Haw. kins, esq. of the Gaer, in the county of Monmouth, and left one daughter, JaneHenrietta.

It would be difficult to particularize the chief excellences of heart and mind in one who possessed them all in an eminent degree. To his friends, the loss of one so universally beloved has left a chasm which can neither be supplied nor forgot. ten, and the poor of the surrounding country, who looked up to him with re

320 OBITUARY.-Rt. Hon. Sir S. Hulse.-Sir T. B. St. George. [March,

spect and affection, have lost a valued adviser in their troubles, and a liberal sup. plier of their wants.

As a sportsman, Mr. Fenwicke was enthusiastic; for many years he kept one of the best packs of hounds in the north of England; and few they were that could live with him when his hounds were going the pace.

For some years Mr. Fenwicke has suffered from repeated attacks of illness, and the last was of such intensity and violence, that, after a few days illness, he sunk without any violent struggle, but by a gradual extinction of the vital spark. Thus concluded the long and useful life of this exemplary country gentleman, who may be well termed "The good old English gentleman, of the olden times."

FIELD-MARSHAL SIR S. HULSE. Jan. 1. At his apartments at Chelsea Hospital, aged 90, the Right Hon. Sir Samuel Hulse, G.C.H. a Privy Councillor and Field-Marshal, Governor of that establishment, Colonel of the 62d foot, and Ranger of Windsor Home Park.

He was uncle to the present Sir Charles Hulse, of Breamore in Hampshire, Bart. being the second son of Sir Edward the second Baronet, by Hannah, daughter of of Samuel Vanderplank, merchant.

This gallant veteran had been upwards of three-quarters of a century in the military service of his country, having entered the 1st foot guards as an Ensign in Dec. 1761. He was appointed Lieut.- Colonel in his regiment in 1780, and employed during the London riots of that year. In 1782 he attained the brevet of Colonel. He embarked in 1793 in command of the 1st battalion of his regiment, and landed in Holland, where he served during that campaign, including the siege of Valenciennes and the memorable action of Lincelles, under the late gallant General Lord Lake, in which the Guards were the only troops engaged, and in which they highly distinguished themselves. The subject of our memoir returned to England, with the rank of Major-General, in November of the same year. He served in the same country for a second short period in the year ensuing, and commanded the brigade of Guards. In May 1795 he was appointed Colonel of the 56th regiment, and was placed on the home staff.

In Jan. 1798 he received the rank of Lieut.-General, and was a short time in Ireland during the eventful period of the rebellion.

In 1799 he was appointed to command in the expedition to the Helder, and was present at all the engagements from September to November, when he returned

with the expedition, and was appointed to the command of the Southern district, in the room of Lord Grey, in which situation he continued until the peace of 1802.

In Sept. 1803, he received the rank of General. In Feb. 1806, he was appointed Lieut.-Governor of Chelsea Hospital; and in June, 1810, Colonel of the 62d regiment. His last appointment was that of Governor of Chelsea Hospital, in Feb. 1820, and at the brevet which took place upon the accession of his present Majesty, in July 1830, he was with the late Sir Alured Clarke, promoted to the rank of Field-Marshal. The officers of that exalted grade are now again reduced to the Duke of Wellington and the Royal Dukes.

Sir Samuel Hulse was appointed by King George the Third as one of the earliest servants on the establishment of the Prince of Wales. He was for many years his Royal Highness's Treasurer and Receiver-general; at his accession to the throne was appointed Treasurer of the Household, and received in 1821 the honour of knighthood; and finally he was appointed Vice-Chamberlain, when the Duke of Devonshire succeeded the Duke of Montrose as Lord Chamberlain May 15, 1827; and retained the last appointment until his Majesty's death. He was sworn a member of the Privy Council on the 10th of the same month.

The loss of their venerable commander is unfeignedly regretted by the aged inmates of the Hospital which he governed for so many years. Though his funeral was, by his own desire, conducted in a private manner, the corpse was dismissed from the Hospital with every mark of respect from its inhabitants. It was conveyed for interment to the family vault, situated near Erith.

Sir Samuel Hulse was never married.

MAJOR-GEN. SIR T. B. ST. GEORGE. Nov. 6. In York-street, Portman-sq. Major-General Sir Thomas Bligh St. George, C.B. K.C.H.

This officer was an Ensign in the 27th foot, and removed from that regiment to the 11th in 1783, and in 1790 he obtained a Lieutenancy in the same. During that period he served at Gibraltar, with the exception of eighteen months' leave of absence. In April 1793 he embarked with the troops for Toulon, and was present in all the actions that occurred, until the evacuation of that place in December following. He served in 1794 at the reduction of St. Fiorenza, Bastia, and Calvi, in Corsica; and in 1795 on the coast of France. In Nov. 1794 he was appointed to a company in the 90th foot. He served on the staff in Portugal from

the latter end of 1796 to 1798; from 1799 to 1802 in the Mediterranean; and from 1802 to 1805 on the staff in England and Ireland. In 1804 he was appointed Major in the 90th foot; and in 1805 Lieut.-Colonel in the 63d foot.

In March 1809 he embarked for Canada, having been appointed an Inspecting Field Officer of Militia in that country, where he continued to serve for some years. He commanded at Amherstberg, in the Upper Province, when invaded and attacked by General Hull: and he likewise commanded the militia at the taking of Detroit, in Aug. 1812, (for which he received a medal,) and at the river Raisin in the Michigan territory, when General Winchester was defeated. In this service be received six severe wounds.

He was advanced to the brevet of a Colonel in 1813, and to that of MajorGeneral in 1819. He was nominated a Companion of the Bath on the 4th of June 1815, a Knight Commander of the Guelphic order in Jan. 1835, and received the honour of knighthood at St. James's Palace on the 18th Feb. following.

VICE-ADM. M. H. SCOTT. Oct. 31. At Southampton, aged 70, Matthew Henry Scott, esq. Vice- Admiral of the Red.

This officer was a native of Jamaica, where his father was an opulent planter. He entered the Navy at an early age; and, in 1793, we find him serving in the Boyne, 98, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis, and about to proceed against the French West India islands. He was then promoted to the command of the Rattlesnake sloop, in which he served at the reduction of Martinique and St. Lucie. On the 4th of April, 1794, he was posted into the Rose, 28, which assisted at the subjugation of Guadaloupe, but, in the following summer, was wrecked at Rocky Point, Jamaica.

Capt. Scott's next appointment was to the Hebe, 38, in which he served at the re-conquest of St. Lucia in 1796, and led the first division of the fleet into the Ance la Cap with great spirit and judgment.

In the spring of 1798 he obtained the command of the Niger frigate, from which he removed to the Indefatigable of 46 guns.

Soon after the renewal of hostilities in 1803, Capt. Scott was appointed to La Diana (afterwards named the Niobe), in which frigate he continued until the close of 1805. During the ensuing three years he commanded the Dragon, of 74 guns. His promotion to the rank of Rear-Admiral took place Aug. 12, 1812; and from that period until the conclusion of the war, his flag was hoisted on board the

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Chatham, a third rate, in the North Sea fleet. At the commencement of 1814 he commanded the British and Russian seamen and marines landed on South Beveland; and in the ensuing year the naval force stationed in the Downs. He was promoted to the rank of Vice- Admiral in 1819.

Adm. Scott married, June 4, 1799, the eldest daughter of James Pinnock, of Westbury house, Hampshire, esq., and by that lady he had several children.

CAPT. CHARLES PATTON, R.N. Jan. 16. At Fareham, aged 96, Capt. Charles Patton, on the list of retired Captains R.N.

This highly-respectable and esteemed officer was a brother of the late ViceAdmiral Philip Patton, of Fareham, who died in 1815, and of Col. Patton, formerly Governor of the Island of St. Helena, when in possession of the East India Company. He was made Commander in 1782, and promoted to Post rank in 1795. For many years, during the most active part of the late war, he was resident agent for transports in Portsmouth, and no officer before or since was known to excel him in activity and management. During the campaign in the Peninsula, his duties were most arduous; but, by system and arrangement, he always contrived to forward the service, and give satisfaction to the Board of Admiralty, notwithstanding the extraordinary masters and vessels he had to deal with.

Capt. Patton was the author of "An attempt to establish the basis of Freedom on simple and unerring principles, 1793," 8vo; and of "The effects of Property upon society and government, 1797," Svo. To the latter was added, " An historical review of the Monarchy and Republic of Rome," by his brother, Admiral Philip Patton; who was one of the Lords Com. missioners of the Admiralty under Lord Barham, and who also published "The Natural Defence of an Insular Empire earnestly recommended." 4to. 1810.

SIR JOHN SOANE, R. A.

Jan. 20. At his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, aged 84, Sir John Soane, R. A. F.R.S. & S. A. Professor of Ar. chitecture in the Royal Academy, Member of the Academies of Parma and Florence, &c. &c. formerly one of the architects attached to the Board of Works, architect to the Bank of England and College of Surgeons, and Grand Superintendent of Works of the United Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons.

This eminent architect was a native of Reading, where he was born on the 10th Sept. 1752. His father was a bricklayer, 2 T

in humble circumstances:-young Soane was educated at a school kept at Reading by Mr. William Baker, father of the learned printer of that name, the author of " Peregrinations of the Mind." Mr. Soane showed an early predilection for architecture, and at fifteen years of age was placed as a pupil under the late Mr. Dance, who was justly considered to be one of the most accomplished architects of our native school in the theory and elegances of the art. Afterwards, with his approval, Soane was placed in Mr. Holland's office to acquire practical experience. In 1772, being a student of the Royal Academy, he was awarded the silver medal for the best drawing of the Banqueting House, Whitehall.

Four

years afterwards he obtained the gold medal for the best design for a triumphal bridge. He was soon afterwards introduced to King George III. by Sir William Chambers, and was sent to pursue his studies at Rome with the then Academy pension of 607. per annum for three years, and the same amount for travelling expenses out and home. Here he continued until the summer of 1780; and during his sojourn in Italy he studied and measured most assiduously the finest of the grand remains of ancient art with which that country abounds. His return to England was owing to pressing invitations from the fanciful and eccentric Hervey Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, "to come and be employed by him," as they had been upon terms of great intimacy in Rome; but the affair came to nothing, from the usual capriciousness of the Earl.

Mr. Soane, though much vexed at this disappointment, entered into many competitions for public works and private buildings, and in some cases with success; and on the death of Sir Robert Taylor, in 1788, he was appointed architect and surveyor to the Bank of England, after severe competition, in which there were thirteen competitors. To this success is attributable the superstructure of his subsequent fortunes.

În 1784 he married Elizabeth Smith, niece of Mr. George Wyatt, with whom he had eventually a considerable fortune.

In 1791 he was appointed Clerk of the
Works at St. James's Palace, the Parlia-
ment Houses, and other public buildings.
This office he resigned, after having held
it for some years. In 1795 he was ap-
pointed Architect to the Royal Woods
and Forests, &c. which he likewise held
for several years. In 1794 a Committee

of the House of Lords directed him to
consider what alterations could properly
be made to render the House, offices, &c.
more convenient and commodious.
accordingly made all the requisite surveys,

He

and a variety of Designs for that purpose, in which was first introduced the noble idea of enriching the Hall of Rufus, the Court of Requests, and the Painted Chamber, with paintings and sculpture, to commemorate great public actions and distinguished talent, to which the King gave his decided approval; and it was expected that he would have had the execution of the work; but by one of those Court intrigues which are always doing mischief to real merit, Mr. Soane was jockeyed out of the employment, in favour of the late James Wyatt, who, what-ever his general merit may have been, certainly showed any thing but taste or capacity in the works he erected there.

In 1795 Mr. Soane became a member of the Society of Antiquaries, and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1802 a Royal Academician.

In 1800, and the few subsequent years. he was engaged in enlarging the Bank of England, and giving it, so far as the situation would admit, a symmetrical and architectural unity of character.

In 1806 he was elected Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy. His predecessor, Mr. Dance, having held the appointment a long while, but never having delivered any lectures for many years, Mr. Soane determined to fulfil its duties He gave his in a more useful manner. first lecture in 1809, when it was very favourably received, as were those that followed in succession; until the fourth, in which there were some just and proper remarks made on the bad taste of some modern works recently finished, particularly the new Theatre in Covent-garden, in criticising which, as well as some other buildings of considerable extent and expense, previously erected in the metropolis, he censured the practice of decorating the principal front with columns and other architectural embellishments, and leaving all the others entirely destitute ofd ecorations. Of this practice, Uxbridge House in Old Burlington-street, Lansdowne House in Berkeleysquare, Earl Gower's house at Whitehall, and others, were instanced and commented on as examples, in which good taste was sacrificed to a miserable parsimony. The public and the profession generally were greatly pleased with those observations; but it was complained of to the Academy by one of the members, and it remains on record, not to the honour of the men of that day who composed the on the Council," that no comments works of living artists should be introduced into the lectures of the Royal Academy;" thus improperly abandoning one of the best principles of teaching, which is to detect and point out to the student im

mediately the bad taste and false principles which are in actual operation, in order that the contagion may be checked as soon as possible.

In 1807, Mr. Soane was appointed Clerk of the Works to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, where he soon after erected the new Infirmary and other buildings connected with that establishment.

In 1808, he was applied to for the purpose of furnishing a plan, &c. for the Academical Institution, Belfast. Mr. Soane furnished the Committee with the plan and drawings for the work, as it is now executed, declining at the same time to accept any fees for them. The Committee, however, elected him a LifeGovernor, with the privileges of the largest subscribers.

About this time he was employed both at Cambridge and Oxford to make alterations and improvements in some of the Colleges, particularly Brazenose. The Dulwich Gallery, and Mausoleum of Mr. and Mrs. Desenfans, and Sir F. Bourgeois, are likewise his work.

In 1818 he was chosen Grand Superintendent of Works to the Fraternity of Freemasons; in 1826 he built the New Masonic Hall, adjoining the Freemasons' Hall, in Queen-street, and gave 5007. towards the expense of its erection.

In 1815 he was appointed one of the attached architects to the Office of Works, which appointment he held until the office was abolished in 1832. In 1818 he plan ned the National Debt Redemption Office in the Old Jewry.

In 1820 he was directed by the Lords of the Treasury to propose plans for the new Law Courts adjoining Westminster Hall, being seven in number; this, from the peculiarly confined nature of the site prescribed, was a task of much difficulty, and great allowance must be made for that circumstance, when naming the inconveniences now experienced in some of the

courts.

In 1821 he made designs for a new Palace, to be constructed on Constitutionbill; the design was magnificent, and would have been, if carried into effect, a palace worthy of a British Monarch.

In 1822 and 1823, Mr. Soane was employed in improving the King's entrance to the House of Lords, in erecting the Scala Regia, Royal Gallery, &c. &c. In the same period he was engaged to erect a building to accommodate the offices of the Board of Trade and Privy Council, at Whitehall.

In 1824, he was elected architect to the Royal College of Surgeons, and a member of the Royal Society.

In 1827, he gave a subscription of 10001. to the Committee for erecting the

monument to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, and brought out another volume of his architectural works-a copy of the entire work being presented to the Emperor Nicholas, who sent a diamond ring and a letter of thanks in return.

In 1828 he gave 100 guineas to the Literary Fund, and 5007. to the British Institution.

In September 1831, he received the honour of knighthood, and in 1833 he completed the new State Paper Office, in St. James's Park. This was the last of his professional works; and on the 16th Oct. in the same year, borne down by domestic calamities, his sight much impaired, and having passed his 80th year, he retired from a profession in which he had been engaged for more than sixty years, and tendered his resignation to the Governor and Directors of the Bank of England, in whose service he had been for forty-five years, and who expressed the warmest thanks for his services.

Sir John Soane then set seriously about the magnificent idea he had long formed, of bequeathing his large and valuable collection of works of ancient and modern art, (valued at upwards of 50,0007.) in perpetuity to the nation, for the benefit of students in the arts, and especially for the advancement of architectural knowledge, and to improve the public taste generally. This noble purpose, which places him high in the class of benefactors to his country, he lived to see completed by Act of Parliament. At the same time, he placed in the hands of trustees, (Lord Farnborough, Sir Thos. Lawrence, Mr. now Sir F. Chantrey, and Col. now Sir B. C. Stephenson) for the use of the four children of his eldest son, a sum of 10,000. Three-per-Cent. Consols, and 10,000l. Three-per-Cents. Reduced.

In March 1835, the architects of Great Britain having had a splendid medal struck, presented it to him in token of their approbation of his conduct and talents. In June 1835 he gave 7501. to the Institute of British Architects, and 2501. to the Architectural Society.

In May last he had a very severe attack of erysipelas, from which it was not expected that he could recover; yet the uncommon vigour of his constitution not only brought him round, but for some months afterwards, and until within a few days of his death, his health, strength, and attention to his ordinary pursuits were

See our Vol. III. p. 524. A manuscript volume containing the proceedings and documents relative to this Medal, has been recently presented to the Institute of British Architects, by Mr. Goldicutt, the Hon. Secretary to the Committee.

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