270 Sir C. J. Smith, Bart.-Rear-Adm. Sir E. Berry. [March, Bulkeley Williams Bulkeley, who has succeeded to the title; he was born in 1801; took the name of Bulkeley in addition to that of Williams, by royal sign manual, in 1826; married in 1828, Charlotte Mary, eldest daughter of William Lewis Hughes, of Llewenny Hall in Kent, and Kinmel Park, co. Denbigh, esq. M. P. for Wallingford, and has since his father's death been elected in his place as knight in Parliament for Carmarthenshire; 3. Emma; 4. Robert; 5. Arthur-Wellesley; 6. Anne-Susanna; 7. CharlotteJemima; 8. Eliza-Martha; 9. SelinaMary; and 10. Amelia-Jane. SIR C. J. SMITH, Bart. Jan. 14. In Portland-place, aged 30, Sir Charles Joshua Smith, the second Baronet, of Suttons in Essex. He was born May 31, 1800, the eldest son of Charles Smith, of Suttons, Esq. by Augusta, 3d daughter of Joshua Smith, of Stoke Park, in Wiltshire, Esq. and sister to the dowager Marchioness of Northampton and the late Lady Dunsany. He succeeded to his Baronetcy Jan. 22, 1816, on the death of his mother's uncle Sir Drummond Smith, of Tring Park, in Hertfordshire, on whom the title had been conferred in 1804, with remainder to the issue male of Charles Smith, of Suttons, Esq. Sir C. J. Smith was twice married; 1st. Oct. 28, 1823, to Belinda, daughter of George Colebrooke, Esq. and grandson of Sir George Colebrooke, Bart. who died in childbed, Jan. 22, 1825, having given birth to a daughter, who also did not survive; 2dly, July 20, 1826, to Mary, second daughter of William Gosling, of Portland-place and Roehampton, Esq. by whom he has left a son and successor, Sir Charles Cunliffe Smith, born Sept. 13, 1827. REAR-ADM. SIR E. BERRY, Bart. K.C.B. Feb. 13. At his residence in Bath, aged 62, Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Berry, Bart., K.C.B. This distinguished officer had been several years suffering under severe illness and extreme debility, the effect of paralysis, which rendered him totally incapable of taking upon himself the active duties for which bis distinguished talents in his profession, and his high character, so eminently qualified him. Sir Edward Berry was the only officer in His Majesty's Navy who had the honour of three medals, having commanded a line-of-battle ship in the battles of the Nile, Trafalgar, and St. Domingo. Being First Lieutenant of His Majesty's ship Captain, at Porto Feraijo, Sir Horatio Nelson recommended him for promotion for "the masterly style in which he brought that ship to bear on the batteries.' Next be particularly distinguished himself in the same ship in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, 14th February, 1797, with Sir Horatio Nelson, and was the first man who boarded the San Nicholas, 20 guns, and the San Josef, 112 guns. For this heroic conduct he was made a Post Captain, March 16, 1797. He next commanded His Majesty's ship Vanguard, at the battle of the Nile, under Lord Nelson, whose estimate of his valuable services was thus expressed in his dispatches to the Admiralty: "The support and assistance I have received from Captain Berry cannot be sufficiently expressed; I was wounded in the head, and obliged to be carried off the deck; but the service suffered no loss by that event; Captain Berry was fully equal to the important service then going on." Being charged with dispatches to the Admiralty on this occasion, he was returning home as a passenger in the Leander, 50 guns, commanded by the late Sir T. B. Thompson, when that ship, after a desperate resistance, was captured by the Genereux, a French 74. Captain Thompson particularly mentioned the great assistance be received from Captain Berry on this occasion, and the Court Martial on Captain Thompson expressed their approbation to Captain Berry" for the gallant and active zeal be manifested by giving his assistance in the combat." He received the honour of knighthood, December 12, 1798, and was presented with the freedom of the City of London in a gold box, value 100 guineas. Sir Edward afterwards commanded the Foudroyant, 80 guns, at the capture of the said Genereux, and of the Guillaume Tell, 84 guns. In this conflict, the Foudroyant expended 162 barrels of gunpowder, and 2,749 cannon shot of various sizes; the loss of the Guillaume Tell was upwards of 400 men killed and wounded. In 1798, Sir Edward Berry conveyed the Royal Family of Naples from Palermo to Leghorn, for which he had the honour of receiving a gold box set with brilliants, inclosing a diamond ring with a letter of thanks (in her own hand-writing) from the Queen of Naples, sister of the unfortunate Maria Antoinette, Queen of France. In 1805, Sir Edward Berry commanded the old Agamemnon, 64 guns, appointed to join Lord Nelson's fleet, and on his : passage out, most conspicuously evinced 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 bighly commended bis 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 anothe ship, when to his great surprise the first ship re hoisted 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 bis 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 be was exemplary for strict integrity, and was a sincere friend. Sir Edward married in 1797 bis first cousin Louisa, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Forster, D.D., Rector of Shotley, in Suffolk; be 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 Satfolk and Brancaster in Norfolk, a brother of Thomas Bolton, Esq., who married Lord Nelson's eldest sister. He commenced bis 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 his 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. 272 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 classical 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 Persian 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 [March, 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 Tuvion; "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 Society of Antiquaries in 1784. He was created D.C.L. at Oxford, July 4, 1793. 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, bis second cousin Vertue, eldest daughter and co-heiress 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. Jodreli'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 beads 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 care was 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. 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; be married in 1812, Mary, 4th daughter of Wm. Lowndes Stone, of Brightwell, in Oxfordshire, Esq. and has issue; 5. the Rev. Sheldon Jødrell, 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. Atherton 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 his services at the call of his country and his 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, baving 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 himself 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 vigi lance 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. 274 OBITUARY.-J. T. Batt, Esq.-Captain Stone. JOHN THOMAS BATT, ESQ. Lieuts. 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 children, 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 his 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 happiness 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 he delighted the visitors at his hospitable and elegant [March, entertainments; and his mind, refreshed by daily converse with the best authors of ancient and modern literature, rémained fresh and vivid amidst the though with a gentle hand, on his green increasing infirmities which pressed, 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 conversation. Perhaps no one more thoroughly possessed the art of aptly accommodating his discourse to his different companions, without forgetting what was due to bimself; and the "comitate condita gravitas" which marked bis 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 insolens, aut loquax. Etenim (ut ait Homerus,) ex ejus lingua 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 acknowledging 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 had 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 late Earl Harcourt, when it intercepted and made prisoner Gen. Lee, of the American army, (see the memoir of Earl Harcourt, |