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1831.] OBITUARY.-Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton.-R. P. Jodrell, Esq. 271

his profound knowledge of seamanship. During the night, he found himself with a single ship, and that very old and of very small dimensions for her rate, in the midst of the Rochfort squadron, off Cape Finisterre. He well knew the value to Lord Nelson of every additional ship, uninjured and without delay; therefore, by his superior seamanship and skill, he contrived to get away from them uninjured, and joined Lord Nelson a short time before the great battle of Trafalgar; and he had the satisfaction of knowing that his Lordship and the Lords of the Admiralty highly commended his conduct on this occasion.

He continued in the command of the Agamemnon at the battle off St. Domingo, under Sir John Duckworth, on which occasion, having silenced a 74 gun-ship, and caused her to strike her colours, he hastened to attack another ship, when to his great surprise the first ship re-boisted her colours and was again captured, which circumstance caused some unpleasant altercation after the action. Soon after this, the Committee of the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's presented Sir Edward with a sword, value 100 guineas, also with three silver vases, commemorative of the three great battles in which he had been engaged. And at the close of the same year he was created a Baronet, by patent, dated Dec. 12, 1806.

In 1812, Sir Edward commanded the Barfleur, 98, under Lord Exmouth, and His Majesty gave him the command of two Royal yachts in succession. At the enlargement of the order of the Bath in 1812, he was nominated a Knight Companion; he was appointed a Colonel of Marines in 1819, and a Rear-Admiral in 1821.

Sir Edward Berry was remarkable for his coolness and intrepidity in carrying into action his ship, which was at all times well disciplined, but without undue severity and coercion. He was of the school of Earl St. Vincent and Lord Nelson, and had the honour to enjoy the personal friendship of both through life. In private life he was exemplary for strict integrity, and was a sincere friend.

Sir Edward married in 1797 his first cousin Louisa, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Forster, D.D., Rector of Shotley, in Suffolk; he died without issue, and the Baronetcy has consequently become extinct.

His funeral, which took place at Bath, was attended by upwards of 60 officers of the Navy and Army, who volunteered to pay this last token of respect to the memory of one who had served his country with such distinguished honour;

and the pall was supported by Vice-Admirals Sir Henry Bayntun, K.C.B., Sir William Hargood, K.C.B., and Richard Dacres, and Rear-Admirals Joseph Fuller, Charles Cunningham, and Robert R. Fitzgerald.

There are several engraved portraits of Sir Edward Berry; two of them are from a miniature by Grimaldi, and another was drawn and engraved by Orme.

CAPTAIN SIR WILLIAM BOLTON.

Dec. 16. At Cossey, Norfolk, Sir William Bolton, Knight, a Captain in the Royal Navy, nephew by marriage to the immortal Nelson.

He was the eldest son of the Rev. William Bolton, Rector of Hollesby in Suffolk and Brancaster in Norfolk, a brother of Thomas Bolton, Esq., who married Lord Nelson's eldest sister. He commenced his naval career under the auspices of his illustrious kinsman at the commencement of 1793, and continued to serve with him, as a Midshipman and Lieutenant, during the greater part of the French revolutionary war. He was advanced to the rank of Commander in 1801, appointed to the Childers sloop of war in 1803, and posted April 10, 1805.

Captain Bolton subsequently commanded the Eurydice, Druid, Endymion, and Forth frigates, on the Mediterranean, Irish, Channel, and North American stations. Among the captures made by him in those ships were, le Basque, French national brig of 16 guns and 112 men, laden with flour, &c. for the relief of Guadaloupe; le Milan, privateer, of 14 guns and 80 men ; and the Regent, American letter-of-marque, of 5 guns and 35 men.

Captain Bolton was knighted May 18, 1803, in consequence of being appointed by Lord Nelson to be installed as bis proxy at the installation of the Knights of the Bath, which took place on the following day. He married his first Cousin Catharine, second daughter of the before-mentioned Thomas Bolton, Esq. of Cranwick, in Norfolk, whose son is the heir presumptive to the Nelson Earldom.

R. P. JODRELL, ESQ.

Jan. 26. At his house in Portlandplace, aged 85, Richard Paul Jodrell, Esq. D.C.L., F. R.S. and S. A. Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the counties of Oxford, Derby, Norfolk, and Middlesex; father of Sir Richard Paul Jodrell, Bart.

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OBITUARY.-R. P. Jodrell, Esq.

Mr. Jodrell was descended from an ancient family, originally of Derbyshire, and afterwards of Staffordshire. His great-grandfather, Paul Jodrell, Esq. who died in 1728, was for forty-three years Clerk of the House of Commons. His father, of the same name, was Solicitor-general to Frederick Prince of Wales; and married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Warner of North Elmham, in Norfolk, Esq. They had three sons: the subject of this memoir; Sir Paul Jodrell, M. D., who was knighted in 1787, and, having been physician to the Nabob of Arcot, died at Madras in 1803; and Henry Jodrell, Esq. a Commissioner of Bankrupts, and M.P., who died in 1814.

Mr. Jodrell was born Nov. 13, 1745, and, having lost his father in 1751, had lived in possession of his paternal estates for nearly eighty years. He was educated at Eton and at Hertford College, Oxford; and his attachment to his clas sical studies was evinced by his compositions in the Musa Etonenses and by subsequent more laborious publications. To the supplementary Notes of Potter's Eschylus, printed in 1778, he was a contributor; in 1781 he published in two volumes 8vo, "Illustrations of Euripides, on the Ion and Bacchæ ;" and in 1790, another volume "On the Alcestis" (see Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. viii. p. 102, vol. ix. p. 68; and a Review in our vol. LX. p. 547; and also in Cradock's Memoirs, vol. iv. will be found four letters of Mr. Jodrell relating to the copy of Euripides, formerly belonging to Milton, which was in Mr. Cradock's possession). The modern drama, also, as well as the ancient, shared Mr. Jodrell's attention. "A Widow and no Widow, a dramatic piece of three acts" by him, was acted at the Haymarket in 1779, and printed in 1780, 8vo. It appears from the Monthly Review, (vol. lxv. p. 233) that living characters were depicted among the dramatis personæ; "the artist is a coarse painter, but commonly hits off a striking likeness." At the same theatre, in 1783, was performed with success his "Seeing is Believing," in one act, printed in 1786. His tragedy, called "The Persiau Heroine," having been rejected by the managers of the two great theatres, (the particulars of which transactions are given in the Literary Anecdotes, vol. ix. p. 2.) was printed in 1786, 8vo. and 4to. In the following year he published "Select Dramatic Pieces; some of which have been acted on provincial theatres, others have been written for private performance and country amusement ;" and con

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sisting of, Who's Afraid? a farce; the
Boarding School Miss, a comedy, One
and All, a farce; the Disguise, a comedy;
the Musico, a farce; and the Bulse, a
dramatic piece.* He also published in
4to. 1785, "The Knight and Friars," an
historic tale, from Heywood's Toy
"the work of three mornings in the
Christmas holidays."

In 1784 Mr. Jodrell became a member
of the club founded at the Essex Head,
for the purpose of cheering the declining
days of Dr. Johnson, and, it is believed,
that he and the late Mr. Chamberlain.
Clark, who died a few days before him,
were positively the last" survivors;
of that celebrated literary fraternity.
Mr. Jodrell was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society in 1772, and of the So-
ciety of Antiquaries in 1784. He was
created D.C.L. at Oxford, July 4, 1793.

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At the general election 1790, Mr. Jodrell was returned one of the barons in Parliament for Seaford; but by the decision of a committee, which was not given until the second session, he was declared not duly elected on the 19th of March 1792. However, when Mr. Sargent was made Clerk of the Ordnance in Jan. 1794, he was re-elected for the same place; but after the dissolution in 1796 he did not again sit in the House.

With advancing years, the mind of Mr. Jodrell had become obscured, and from the year 1822 he gradually sunk, until he reached total and absolute incapacity. It became necessary, from insidious attempts made on his impaired understanding, to throw legal protection over his person and property, which was effected, after the proper investigation, before a commission de lunatico inquirendo.

Mr. Jodrell married May 19, 1772, his second cousin Vertue, eldest daughter and co-beiress of Edward Hase, of Sall, in Norfolk, Esq., who was the second son of John Hase, of Great Melton, in Norfolk, Esq., by Mary, daughter of Edward Lombe, of Weston, Esq., and aunt to Mr. Jodrell's mother. By this lady, who died May 23, 1806, he had five sons and

In the Biographia Dramatica, edited by Stephen Jones, there is very great confusion respecting Mr. Jodrell. He is divided into two, and yet under both heads it is his brother who is described instead of himself. This arose in some measure from his bearing the name of Paul and his brother being known as Sir Paul Jodrell; but common

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not taken. His brother, however, (as
we learn from a private letter) was
author of a farce acted at Colman's
Theatre; but the title does not appear.

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1831.] OBITUARY.-T. S. W. Samwell, Esq.-T. G. Bramston, Esq. 273

two daughters: 1. Paul and 2. Paul, who both died in infancy; 3. Sir Richard Paul Jodrell, Bart. of Magdalen hall, Oxford, M.A. 1806, who succeeded to his baronetcy in 1817, on the death of his great uncle Sir John Lombe, who took that name instead of Hase in 1762, and was created a Baronet in 1784; be married in 1814, Amelia Caroline King, daughter of the Earl of Kingston, and has several children; 4. Edward Jodrell, Esq. of Trin. coll. Oxford, M. A. 1811; he inarried in 1812, Mary, 4th daughter of Wm. Lowndes Stone, of Brightwell, in Oxfordshire, Esq. and has issue; 5. the Rev. Sheldon Jodrell, of Trin. coll. Camb. M. A. 1815, Rector of Saxlingham in Norfolk; 6. Sophia; and 7. Louisa (twin with Sophia), who was married to Rich. Jennings, Esq. and died in 1826.

T. S. W. SAMWELL, ESQ. Jan. 15. At Upton Hall, near Northampton, Thomas Samwell Watson Samwell, Esq. for upwards of forty years one of His Majesty's acting Justices of the Peace for the county, a Deputy-Lieut., and Verdurer of Whittlebury Forest.

He was the eldest son of Thos. Atberton Watson, Esq. of Bedlington in Northumberland, by Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Samwell, the second Baronet of Upton, (and his second wife Mary, daughter of Sir Gilbert Clarke, of Chilcot in Derbyshire), and sister and heiress to Sir Wenman Samwell, the 4th and last Baronet. On the decease of Sir Wenman in 1789, the family estates devolved, under the limitations of the will of Sir Thomas the third Baronet, to his nephew Mr. Watson, who adopted the name and arms of Samwell, by Act of Parliament in the following year.-A pedigree of the family will be found in Baker's History of Northamptonshire, vol. I. p. 224.

In the early part of his life Mr. Samwell was in the army, and for several years in active service in America and the West Indies. Whilst attached to the 15th Foot, he was taken prisoner at St. Eustatia. After his return to England, he was, in 1803, appointed Lieut.-Col. of the old Northamptonshire militia, and in 1813 Lieut.-Col. commandant of the central regiment of Northamptonshire Local Militia.

Few persons have passed a more active and useful life, being always ready to afford bis services at the call of his country and bis friends, and ever accessible to persons of all ranks.

He married at St. Kitt's, April 15, 1780, Frances, second daughter of the Rev. Hen. Seymour Perfect; but, having had no issue, is succeeded in his estates GENT. MAG. March, 1831.

by his next brother, Wenman Langham Watson Samwell, Esq. His remains were deposited in the family vault at Upton, on the 27th of January,

T. G. BRAMSTON, ESQ.

Feb. 3. At Skreens, near Chelmsford, Thomas Gardiner Bramston, Esq., late M.P. for Essex.

He was the eldest son of Thomas Berney Bramston, Esq., who was Knight in Parliament for that county from 1779 to 1802, and who died in 1813, at the age of 80. The gentleman now deceased came forward only on the death of Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, in March 1830. He then declared that "his political principles, which had been adopted in his early youth, would ever remain the same. He looked to the Bill of Rights alone for the privileges and the rights of the people. He looked to the time of the Revolution, and avowed him. self of those principles which, in confer. mity with the coronation oath, declared that a sovereign of these realms should be a Protestant; and that the bishops, clergy, and the church were to be maintained in their rights and privileges."

After a contest of five days, he was declared duly elected, having polled 1,840 votes, and Henry John Conyers, Esq. the opposing candidate, 661.

The fatigues of his Parliamentary duties, however, proved too great for him. The late hours of the House were illsuited to the regularity of his domestic habits; this, and his anxiety to serve his constituents, added to the sudden transitions from heat to cold on the breaking up of the House, produced indisposition, accompanied by inflammation. Under these circumstances he declined his honourable post at the general election in August. He was supposed to be recovering from his tedious illness, when his life was suddenly closed by the bursting of a blood-vessel.

As a private gentleman, he was beloved for the benevolence of his disposition, which rendered him accessible to the humblest class: and in his public character as a magistrate he distinguished himself by his unwearied vigilance and anxious exertions for the public benefit. He was a liberal patron of all charitable institutions, and by his conduct through life he has secured a lasting respect to his memory.

Mr. Bramston married, Feb, 6, 1796, Miss Blaauw, daughter of Wm. Blaauw, Esq., of Queen Anne-street, by whom he had a numerous family. His son, Thomas William Bramston, Esq. married Aug. 12, 1830, Eliza, daughter of the late Adm. Sir Eliab Harvey, G.C.B.

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OBITUARY.-J. T. Batt, Esq.-Captain Stone.

JOHN THOMAS BATT, ESQ.

March 8. At his seat, New Hall, Wiltshire, John Thomas Batt, Esq. M.A., Barrister at Law, and one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace and DeputyLieuts. for that county.

He was descended from a respectable family long resident in the parish of Downton, being the son of John Thomas Batt, M.D., and grandson of William Batt, Esq., by Martha, daughter and heiress of Jonathan Clarke, of NuntonHouse, Esq. whose ancestors were settled there, and at Falston in the same county, as early as the reign of Elizabeth. Educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, Mr. Batt early acquired and cultivated the acquaintance and friendship of many of the most prominent characters which distinguished the latter part of the last century. Having been called to the bar, he for some time went the western circuit, where be obtained the confidence of the future premier William Pitt, and when that statesman came into power, he soon gratified his own feelings of friendship by placing

Mr. Batt in an honourable and lucrative office, we believe that of Auditor for the Irish Accounts. In this situation be remained many years, enjoying the society of Archbishop Markham, Bishop Barrington, Brown, Skinner, Gibbon the Historian (who chose him for an executor), Lord Sheffield, and many others equally eminent in public life.

On the death of his uncle, Wm. Batt, of Nunton and New Hall, without ebildren, the subject of this memoir (who Jan. 14, 1794, married Susan, daughter of James Neave of Nunton, Esq.) succeeded to the family property; when he exercised bis taste by architectural improvements on his mansion-house, and ornamented it by a valuable collection of paintings. The grounds he adorned with plantations, which he had the rare hap piness of enjoying in their maturity. "Ingentem meminit parco qui germine

quercum,

Equævumque videt consenuisse senem."

In this elegant retirement, which was exchanged in the season for the society of London, he passed the latter years of his life; and those who enjoyed his acquaintance, will bear witness with the writer, how truly the reality of that delightful picture of cultivated and dignified old age, represented by his favourite Cicero, was exemplified in his person. His classical stores, the fruit of a sound and early scholarship, were ever at hand, to illustrate those varied anecdotes of times past with which be delighted the visitors at his hospitable and elegant

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entertainments; and bis mind, refreshed by daily converse with the best authors of ancient and modern literature, remained fresh and vivid amidst the increasing infirmities which pressed, though with a gentle hand, on his green old age. Equally ready to discuss the merits of the classics, the characters of his contemporaries, or the politics and general topics of the day, the least observing could scarcely fail to remark the peculiar vigour and versatility of intellect, which at his age would rapidly pass from subjects of grave research to enter with ease into the pursuits and amusements of the young, or adapt itself to the spirit and vivacity of female con versation. Perhaps no one more thoroughly possessed the art of aptly accommodating his discourse to his different companions, without forgetting what was due to himself; and the comitate condita gravitas" which marked his address, was in him not the effort of affectation, but the expression of a dignified feeling in his mind. His observations were aided by a diction and voice which a Greek would have called mellifluous. "Tertiam enim jam ætatem hominum vivebat: nec erat ei verendum, ne vera de se prædicans, nimis videretur aut iusolens, aut loquax. Etenim (ut ait Homerus,) ex ejus linguâ melle dulcior fluebat oratio."

To these minor qualifications were added the more important features of unobtrusive piety, active benevolence, and domestic worth. He saw the gradual approach of dissolution with a reflecting but fortified mind, and, though acknow ledging his enjoyment in those comforts and rational recreations which the unwearied attentions of his amiable family still afforded him, he nevertheless professed a submissive and christian resignation to the universal law of our nature, and a humble confidence in the mercy of that Providence in another state, which in this bad happily conducted him so far beyond the usual term allotted to our existence.

CAPTAIN STONE.

Feb. 27. At the Royal Military College, near Bagshot, aged 84, Captain Charles Stone, formerly of the 16th regiment of Light Dragoons, and many years Paymaster of that Institution.

Captain Stone was actively employed in America during the war of the Revolution, and was present with a patrol of his regiment, commanded by the laté Earl Harcourt, when it intercepted and made prisoner Gen. Lee, of the American army, (see the memoir of Earl Harcourt,

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in our last volume, pt. ii. p. 177), while the English troops lay at Pennington in 1776. During his passage home to England, he was taken in the English Channel by a privateer, and detained a prisoner in France for about a year. He acted against the "No Popery" rioters in London, in the year 1780, at the bead of a small party of his regi ment, with great prudence and firmness; and his exertions materially tended to repress the popular frenzy, then so prevalent in the metropolis. He also served on the Staff of the Army in Holland at different times, under some of the best officers in the British Army, of whom it may be sufficient to mention the names of the gallant and lamented Sir Ralph Abercrombie and General Sir David Dundas, the celebrated tactician. Capt. Stone was esteemed a brave and excellent officer, and was partly instrumental in the introduction of the sword exercise into the British Cavalry in 1795 and 1796. In private life, his conduct was irreproachable, and always marked by strict and inflexible integrity,

WILLIAM JONES, Esq.

Feb. 17. At his house in Brighton, aged 68, William Jones, Esq. of Islington, and of the firm of W. & S. Jones, Opticians, Holborn.

He was brought forward under his father John Jones, an optician of some eminence, and early discovered an extraordinary force of understanding, with à disposition to cultivate it to the utmost, in mathematical and philosophical research, which was much assisted by his frequent intercourse with that very eminent optician and voluminous writer Mr. Benjamin Martin, of Fleet-street. He also employed his leisure hours in privately teaching Astronomy, Mathe matics, and Practical Surveying, and in a few instances gave public lectures on Astronomy.

These circumstances introduced him to the society of the most eminent mathematical and astronomical professors of the time, Drs. Priestley, Hutton, Maskelyne, Professor Vince, and others. But during these pursuits, his industry and attention, in conjunction with his brother and surviving partner Samuel Jones, were constantly exercised in an extensive practical execution of his profession, which proved the means of introducing many skilful workmen as manufacturers of optical and mathematical instruments.

Mr. W. Jones published Descriptions of the Orrery; of a Case of Mathematical Instruments; and of Hadley's Quadrant. The whole of the late

George Adams's Works were re-published by him, with additions and improvements. To the Encyclopedia Britannica and Rees's Encyclopedia he was a considerable contributor.

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In the latter period of his life he was obliged by illness to withdraw from the anxiety of business, and chiefly resided at Brighton, where he was never so pleasingly engaged as in imparting his knowledge to his young and scientifiè friends. In society he was cheerful and interesting, full of philosophical and literary anecdotes, which he often dealt but with great good humour. He has left the entire of his property (excepting a few legacies), including an extensive library of scarce mathematical books, to his brother Samuel Jones.

THOMAS PAYNE, ESQ. 1March 15. In his 79th year, Thomas Payne, esq. many years an eminent bookseller in Pall-mall, and so highly respected in the literary world, that perhaps it would be difficult to mention a gentleman of his profession, whose loss will be more generally and deeply regretted.

Mr. Payne inherited the character as well as the name of his excellent father. The epithet of honest, it has been ob served, was so entirely hereditary, as to be allowed, not by common but by universal consent, to descend, without any bar, from father to son.

Mr. Payne, senior, died in 1799, after having been, for more than forty years, a bookseller of the highest reputation, at the Mews-gate. He was a native of Brackley in Northamptonshire, and began his career in Round-court in the Strand. Here, after being for some time an assistant to his elder brother Olive Payne (with whom the scheme of printing catalogues is said to have ori ginated), he commenced bookseller on his own account, and issued a miscella neous catalogue, dated Feb. 29, 1740, which was almost the first of its kind.

From this situation he removed to the Mews-gate, in 1750, whence he issued an almost annual succession of catalogues, beginning in 1755, and conti nued till the year 1790, when he resigned business to his eldest son, the more immediate subject of this memoir, who had for nearly twenty years been his partner, and now opened a new literary channel by a correspondence with Paris, whence he brought, in 1793, the library of the celebrated Lamoignon. Before his time, the little shop at the Mews-gate had become the constant resort of men of rank and literature, and is often mentioned in the correspondence of scholars and antiquaries as

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