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and dying on the 10th of May, 1784, his remains were deposited in the mausoleum at Chilham with those of his wife Henrietta, leaving no issue *.

I. JAMES COLEBROOKE, of Gatton, in the county of Surry, Esq. born July 21, 1722, was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet by letters-patent, dated Oct. 12, 1759, 33 Geo. II. and, in failure of issue male, with remainder to his brother George. He married Mary, eldest daughter and coheiress of Stephen Skinner, Esq. of Walthamstow, in Essex. (Emma, the second daughter of the said Stephen, was wife of William Harvey, Esq. of Chigwell, knight of the shire for the county of Essex; and Deborah, the third daughter of Thomas Grosvenor, Esq. member for the city of Chester in several parliaments, and brother to Earl Grosvenor.) Mary, wife of Sir James Colebrooke, died in the year 1754, and her body was deposited in the mausoleum at Chilham†.

* The following inscription is on a tablet of black marble, to the memory of the said Honourable Henrietta Colebrooke:

Within this receptacle deposited, lies the body of the Honourable Henrietta, Daughter of

The Right Honourable Lord Harry Paulet, and

Wife

of Robert Colebrooke, of Chilham-Castle, Esq.
In whom the noblest birth, and most perfect beauty,
were surpassed

by sweetness of disposition, and elegance of manners.
For five long lingering years,

with humble fortitude, and devout resignation,
she sustained the gnawing pangs of an inveterate cancer.
Nevertheless,

Tho' true greatness of mind may render the soul
superior to the calamities of nature,

Life must sink under the infirmities of it;
She therefore yielded to mortality,

on the 22d day of December,

in the year of our Salvation, 1753,
in the thirty and seventh year
of her age.

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Sir James was educated at Leyden, in Holland, and was elected a burgess to sit in three parliaments for the borough of Gatton; he died May 10, 1761, aged 37, and his body was deposited at Chilham, leaving only two daughters, 1, Mary, born March 10, 1750, and married John Aubrey, Esq. of Dorton House and Borstall Tower, in Buckinghamshire, the latter descended to him by the tenure of the horn through more than thirty generations, from the reign of Edward the Confessor, without alienation or forfeiture*.

He was returned to serve in several parliaments for different boroughs, and once for the county of Bucks; he succeeded his father in the title of Baronet, and to the estate of Llantrithed, in Glamorganshire, on the 4th of September, 1786. Mary died in 1781, and having had a son who died before her, lies buried with him at Borstall.

The second daughter was Emma, who was born Dec. 22, 1752, wife of Charles, fourth Earl of Tankerville, in 1772, and by him has had four sons and eight daughters, of whom three sons and six daughters are now living. The only one married is Lady Caroline, the eldest, married, in 1795, to Sir John Wrottesley, of Wrottesley, in Staffordshire, Bart.

II. Sir GEORGE COLEBROOKE, the present Baronet, born June 14, 1729, married, July 23, 1754, Mary, only daughter and heiress of Patrick Gaynor, Esq. of Antigua, by Mary Linch, his wife, by whom he has had four sons and three daughters, whereof two daughters and three sons are living; 1, Mary, born Oct. 26, 1757, wife of the Chevalier Charles Adrien de Peyron, in the service of Gustavus, King of Sweden, and by him had one son, Charles-AdolphusMary. The chevalier was killed in a duel, in 1784, by the Count de la Marck, upon which melancholy occasion, the king, being at Paris, sent for the mother and child, and not only promised to confer upon the boy, then only three years of age, the office in his household which the father held, but graciously offered to take him into his family, and educate him with his son, the Prince Royal, now King of Sweden. His Swedish Majesty, on his return to Stockholm, ordered a grant of the office of gentleman of his bed-chamber to be transmitted, together with a certificate of the boy's parentage and birth, and of its registration in the list of the nobility, by which he, having attained the proper age, will have a right to a seat in the diet of Sweden.

In 1789, the mother took for her second husband, William Traill, Esq. by whom she has had a son, George-William, born Oct. 2, 1792, and a daughter Harriet, who is dead.

and died in childbed the 14th of May, 1754,
of the small-pox, leaving issue two daughters,
Mary and Emma, and one son James,
who survived her only six days,
and whose ashes are here
likewise deposited.

Heu! minime cum reris, in ipso flore Inventa
Mors inopina Domus Spem abripit omnem.

* Archæologia, Vol. III.

The second daughter was Louisa, born Jan. 1764, wife of Andrew Sutherland, Esq. captain in his Majesty's navy, to whom the Ardent struck on the 12th of May. He died at Gibraltar in 1795, commissioner of that port, leaving a daughter Louisa, born April 17, 1791, and a son, called James-Charles-Colebrooke Sutherland, born Nov. 6, 1792. Sir George's three sons alive are, 1, George, born Aug. 9, 1759, who is captain of the light company of the Somerset militia, and hereditary keeper of the castle of Crawford; 2, James-Edward, born July 7, 1761, who is judge of appeals at Moorshedabad, in the province of Bengal*.

* When he was Persian translator, Governor Hastings wrote in his commendation the following letter, dated Feb. 8, 1786.

"You desire my opinion of Mr. Colebrooke's capacity for the office: such an opinion given of a son to his father, must of course be favourable, and would be therefore read with distrust, or at least with deductions, on account of the delicacy required by that relation. I wish to preclude such constructions, by declaring, as I do solemnly, that I know few young men in the service, and the service may boast of many who are an honour to it, who possess superior talents, or more cultivated understandings, and few equal to him in the knowledge of the Persian language. I respect his personal character so much, that I feel a regret, almost approaching to self-reproach, in the reflection, that after so many years of official labour bestowed where I may be supposed to have had it in my power to recompence, the only return I can now make to him, is a mere acknowledgment of his merits."

An Extract of a Minute of the Governor-General of Bengal, on his presenting the Translation of the Digest of the Hindoo Law to the Supreme Council.

"I congratulate the Board on the opportunity afforded me of laying before them a translation, by Mr. H. T. Colebrooke, of a Digest of Hindoo Law, on Contracts and Successions, compiled by Native Pundits in the Sanscrit Language, under the superintendance of Sir William Jones. The whole, including the Preface of the Translator, a List of Authorities quoted in the Digest, Notes on the Orthography of Sanscrit Words, and a Table of Contents, is comprised in seven manuscript folio volumes, containing 1614 pages.

The translation has been completed in little more than two years, and has been executed most ably and faithfully, I believe, in the midst of official avocations; it is a proof of literary industry, rarely exceeded, and which zeal and a laudable hope of distinction only could have excited; and although I am persuaded that Mr. Colebrooke would not have undertaken this work without a consciousness of his ability to perform it well, I will not deny myself the satisfaction of recording the unqualified testimony of the natives (who are the most competent judges) to his proficiency in the Sanscrit language.

This work was proposed by Sir William Jones, on the grounds of public utility; I trust that his expectations from it will not be disappointed; that it will long remain a memorial of the judgment and benevolence which dictated it; that it will be received by the natives of these provinces as a proof of the respect of the British government for their jurisprudence; and that, whilst the translator enjoys the satisfaction of having so essentially contributed to promote an object of public utility, he will no less derive that reputation from his labours which they are so justly entitled to.'

The Court of Directors thought fit to return the following answer:

We have perused the Minute of the Governor-General, referred to in these paragraphs, on the subject of Mr. Colebrooke's Translation of the Digest of Hindoo Laws, on Contracts and Successions, compiled under the superintendance of the late Sir William Jones. This testimony of the zeal and abilities of Mr. Colebrooke, is highly honourable to him, and pleasing to us; and we desire he may be acquainted, that we entertain a due sense of the merits and disinterestedness of his conduct upon this occasion.

We have the further satisfaction to observe it recorded by the Governor-General, that, during the execution of this laborious work, Mr. Colebrooke continued to discharge his duties as a judge and magistrate, in a mode as creditable to himself, as beneficial to the community.

The third son was Henry-Thomas, born June 15, 1765, who is judge at Mirzapoor. Having made himself master of the Sanscrit language, he undertook, on the death of Sir William Jones, to translate a Digest of the Hindoo Law, for the use of the courts of justice: he has been engaged likewise in a private and much esteemed work, on the Agriculture and Commerce of Bengal. He is now employed in making a Grammar of the Sanscrit.

Sir George's three sons hold the office of chirographer in the court of common pleas, by letters-patent, dated March 18, 6 Geo, III.

The children who are dead were, 1, James, born Sept. 15, 1758, who died on the 26th of September, 1759; and Harriet, born Sept. 19, 1762, who died June 11, 1785: they both lie in the mausoleum at Chilham.

Lady Colebrooke's uterine sister, Sarah Gilbert, was married, in 1766, to Joshua Smith, Esq. of Stoke Park, in the county of Wilts*, and member for Devizes in three successive parliaments, and has had by him four daughters living : the eldest, Mary, wife of Charles, the ninth Earl of Northampton; and the second, Elizabeth, of William Chute, Esq. of the Vine, Hampshire, member for the county in the last and present parliament. The third daughter is Augusta, wife of Charles Smith, of Sutton, in the county of Essex, member of parliament for Saltash the only unmarried daughter is Emma.

Sir George studied at Leyden, and was chosen fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and is the author of some pieces of literature. He was elected to serve in three successive parliaments for the borough of Arundel, from 1754 to 1774, and he was appointed deputy chairman of the directors of the East India Company in 1768, chosen chairman in 1769, and was re-elected to that arduous employment in 1771 and 1772.

During the time he presided, he was greatly instrumental in preventing the newly-acquired territories in the East Indies from being annexed to the crown, and, in every respect, to preserve the independence of the company from that interference and controul which have since been established. Lord North, then minister, gave him assurances that it was not his intention that government should interfere with the patronage of the Company, or nominate, by its authority, "so much as a single writer." Lord North deviated from that engagement, by explaining, that such promise was made to the chairman, not as minister, but as a private man; probably, however, the minister was himself

over-ruled.

ARMS-Gules, a lion rampant, argent, ducally crowned, or, on a chief of the last, three Cornish choughs, proper.

CREST-On a wreath, a wyvern with wings expanded, or, resting his foot upon a plain shield, gules.

MOTTO-Sola bona quæ honesta.
SEAT-Gatton-Place, in Surry.

See View in Robertson's Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol, Vol. II.

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SAMUEL FLUDYER followed the clothing business in London, and left two sons, Sir Samuel, and Sir Thomas. Thomas Fludyer, the younger son, of the city of London, Esq. was knighted in the council-chamber of Guildhall, Nov. 9, 1761, when his present Majesty, and several of the royal family, honoured his brother, Sir Samuel (who was then lord-mayor), with their presence, at a feast provided there on the occasion. He was, first, member of parliament for Great Bedwin, and afterwards for Chippenham, in Wiltshire, and fellow of the Royal and Antiquary Societies. Sir Thomas married Mary, daughter of Sir George Champion, Knt. and alderman of London; he died March 19, 1769, aged 57,

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