able Privy Council in the kingdom of Ireland.

The King has been pleased to order letters patent to be paffed under the great feal of Ireland, containing his Majefty's grants of the dignity of a baronet of that kingdom unto the following gentlemen, and their heirs male, viz. John Stuart Hamilton, Efq; of Dunnamana, in the county of Tyrone; John Tottenham, Efq; of Tottenham-green, in the county of Wexford; and Neal O'Donnell, Efq; of Newport, in the county of Mayo.

The Right Hon. Thomas Lord Grantham, Lord Robert Spencer, the Right Hon. William Eden, the Hon. Thomas De Grey, Andrew Stuart, Edward Gibbon, Hans Sloane, and Benjamin Lang. lois, Efqrs. to be his Majefty's Commiffioners for Trade and Plantations.

Charles Middleton, Efq; Sir John Williams, Knt. Edmund Hunt, George Marth, Timothy Brett, William Palmer, and William Bateman, Efqrs; Sir Richard Temple, Bart. Edward Le Cras, Samuel Wallis, Paul Henry Ourry, Henry Martin, and Charles Proby, Efqrs. and Sir Andrew Snape Hammond, Knt. to be his Majelty's Commiffioners, in quality of principal officers of his Majesty's navy.

The Duke of Montague, to be his Majesty's Matter of the horse. The Right Hon. the Earl of Aylesbury, to be Chamberlain of her Majelty's Houfhold.

DEATH S, 1780.

JANUARY.

Mifs Martha Abdy, daughter of Sir Anthony, Bart.

Her Royal Highness Louifa Amelia of Brunfwick, Princefs Dowager of Prutha, and mother to the Hereditary Prince of Pruffia, and to the fpoufe of the Prince Stadtholder.

The lady of Sir Alexander Gilmour, Bart. at Alnwick.

Sir William Sharp, Bart. in Great Titchfield - ftreet, Major General in the Portuguefe fervice, and Governor of the province of Minho.

FEBRUARY. Lady Fowlis, relict of Sir William, Bart.

Dr. Richard Richmond, Bishop of Sodor and Man.

Lady Davers, mother of Sir

Lady

Lady Lucy Douglas, daughter of the Duke of Montrofe.

Samuel Egerton, Efq; of Tatton: he was the only furviving fon of John Egerton, grandfon of John Earl of Bridgewater by Lady Eliz. Cavendish, daughter to John Duke of Newcastle.

Sir William Blackftone, Knt. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.

Dowager Countess of Kildare. Lady Catherine Pelham, ranger of Greenwich Park. She was fitter of the late Duke of Leeds, and married, 1726, to the late Hon. Henry Pelham, by whom he had two fons, who died young of an epidemical fever.

Countess Dowager of Eglin

toun.

Lady Jenkinson, mother of Sir Banks, Bart.

His Serene Highness the Duke of Modena.

His Serene Highnefs the Duke of Brunswick.

MARCH.

The Right Rev. Doctor John Ofwald, Bishop of Raphoe. Right Hon. Lady Mulgrave. Lord Fortefcue Aland. Mrs. Gulfton, wife of Jofeph Gulton, Efq; and fifter of the prefent Sir S. Stepney, Bart.

Mifs Letitia Beauchamp, daugh. ter of Sir W. Beauchamp Proctor, Bart.

General Defaguliers, of the artillery.

Hon. Topham Beauclerk, only fon of Lord Sidney Beauclerk.

Charlotte, relict of the late Sir William Sanderfon, Bart. and daughter of Sir R. Gough, of Edgebafton.

Right Hon. Lady Anne Sophia

Egerton, wife of the Bishop of Durham. Her ladyfhip was the daughter of Henry, late Duke of Kent, by the Lady Sophia Bentinck, daughter of the Earl of Portland.

Lady Gooch, relict of the Right Rev. Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart. late Lord Bishop of Ely. Her ladyfhip was the daughter of Compton, Efq; and nearly related to the prefent Earl of Northamp

ton.

Sir Francis Blake, Bart.
APRIL.

Lady Ifabella Douglafs, daughter of William, firft Earl of March. Sir Adolphus Oughton, Lieut. Gen. and K. B.

George Earl of Granard, one of his Majefty's most honourable Privy Council in Ireland, and a Baronet of Nova Scotia; by whose death the title and eftate have de

volved on his eldest fon, Lord George Forbes, now Earl of Granard.

Rev. Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart. Hon. Henry St. John, fon of the late, and uncle to the prefent, Lord St. John of Bletfoe, captain of the Intrepid man of war, on board which he was killed, with his 1ft and zd lieutenants, by the fame cannon ball, in the fight with the French fleet off Guada loupe. He married Mary Schuyler of New York, by whom he has left iffue one fon Henry.

Lady Anne Hope, daughter of the Earl of Hopetoun.

MAY.

Hon. Thomas Townfhend, one of the oldeft Tellers of the Exchequer.

Sir Charles Hardy, Admiral of the White, and commander of the fleet.

Hon.

Hon. Richard Naffau, brother to the Earl of Rochford.

Mifs Elizabeth Eden, daughter of Sir John Eden, Bart.

Lady Sophia Neville, daughter of the late, and fifter to the present Earl of Gainsborough.

Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart. of Battle Abbey in Suffex. His title defcends to his eldest fon, now Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart.

Sir Charlton Leighton, Bart. He is fucceeded by his fon, now Sir Charlton.

Lady Mary Lyon, daughter of the late Earl of Strathmore.

Sir Hen. Englefield, Bart. Sir Anthony Buchannan, Bart. Sir Thomas Cave, Bart. Lady Standifh, mother of Sir Frank, Bart.

JUNE.

Dame Rachael Morgan, relict of Sir William Morgan, of Tredegar, K. B. and daughter of William fecond Duke of Devonshire, by Rachael daughter of William Lord Ruffel.

Lady Jane Strickland.
Sir T. Gerrard, Bart.
Sir John Turner, Bart.
JULY.

In the 71ft year of his age, at his houfe in Woolwich Warren, William Belford, Efq; colonel of the 1ft battalion of the royal reg. of artillery, and a general in the army.

Sir J. Hobby Mill, Bart. Mils Frances Blake, youngest daughter of Sir Patrick Blake.

Lady Goring, wife of Sir Harry, Bart.

Sir Andrew Middleton, Bart. John Moreton, Efq; Chief Juftice of Chefter, Attorney-general to the Queen, deputy High-iteward

of the univerfity of Oxford, and member for Wigan in Lancashire. Lady Viscountess Dowager Tyr

connel.

Sir Charles Halford, Bart. Lady Viscountefs Mahon, daughter of the late Earl of Chatham.

The lady of the Right Hon. the Earl of Hillsborough, at his lordfhip's house in Hanover-fquare. Her ladyship was only daughter of Edward Stawell, 4th and laft Lord Stawell, first married to the late Right Hon. Henry Bilfon Legge, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and was created a peerefs by the title of Baronefs Stawell, which title defcends to her fon, "Mr. Legge, now Lord Stawell.

Hon. Lady Sufanna Houfton, relict of Sir Thomas, Bart.

The Hon. Mrs. Page, relict of the late Thomas Page, Efq; and aunt to Lord Viscount Howe.

His Royal Highness Charles Alexander, Duke of Lorrain and Bar, &c. Grand Mafter of the Teutonic Order, &c. and Governor and Captain-general of the Auftrian Netherlands.

The Right Rev. Dr. George Chinnery, Lord Bishop of Cloyne. Thomas George Lord Vifcount and Baron Southwell. His lordfhip was born May 4, 1721, and fucceeded his father in 1760. He married Mifs Hamilton in 1741, by whom he has left iffue three fons and a daughter.

At Lyons in France, the Hon. John Roper, fecond fon to Lord Teynham.

The Hon. Mrs. Clarges, fifter to Lord Barrington, and mother of Sir T. Clarges, Bart.

Right Hon. John Drummond, commonly called Lord Drummond, eldest fon to the Earl of Perth.

At Knutsford, Lady Betty Warburton, relict of the late Sir Peter Warburton, and daughter of the late Earl of Derby.

Sir Theod. Boughton, Bart. Lady Afhburnham, wife of the Bishop of Chichefter.

Lord Viscount Afhbrook, of the kingdom of Ireland.

SEPTEMBER. Hon. Lady Camilla Wallop. Sir Thomas Dyer, Bart. Sir John Fielding, Knt. one of his Majefty's Justices of the Peace for the counties of Middlesex, Ef. fex, Herts, Kent, Surry, and the city and liberty of Westminster.

Mrs. Wingfield, mother to Lady St. Aubin, and relict of the late William Wingfield, Efq. She was daughter of the late Sir William Williamson, and fifter to the prefent Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart.

Moft noble the Marchioness of Lothian.

Right Hon. Peter Earl of Altamont, Viscount Weltport, Baron Mounteagle, &c.

Right Hon. Countefs of Donnegal.

Sir James Stewart Denham, Bt. Sir Saville Slingsby, Bart. Her Imperial Majesty departed this life at Vienna on Nov. 29, about nine o'clock in the evening. Her illness, though but of fhort duration, was exceedingly painful.

The Hon. William Boyd, youngeft brother to the late Earl of Errol.

Right Hon. Thomas Willoughby, Lord Middleton, and Baronet, His lordship was born Jan. 26, 1728, and fucceeded his brother Francis, the late lord, Dec. 15, 1774. He married April 14, 1770, Mifs Chadwick, by whom he has left no iffue, on which account the title is fuppofed to be extinct. Mrs. Hellen Duffy, Lady Braco. DECEMBER. Right Hon. Countess Dowager of Shelburne,

Sir Chriftopher Traes, Bart, colonel of the Cornish militia.

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