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THE ADVENTURES

OF

A MAN OF
OF FAMILY.

VOL. I.

OF

A MAN OF FAMILY.

BY

LORD WILLIAM PITT LENNOX,

AUTHOR OF

"FIFTY YEARS' BIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCES."

"Ficta voluptatis causâ sint proxima veris."

HORACE.

"Fictions to please should wear the face of truth."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

THECA

LONDON:

HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,
SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1864.

The right of Translation is reserved.

250. S. 209.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY MACDONALD AND TUGWELL, BLENHEIM HOUSE, BLENHEIM STREET, OXFORD STREET.

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THE ADVENTURES

OF

A MAN OF FAMILY.

CHAPTER I.

"A child is man in a small letter, yet the best copy of Adam, before he tasted of Eve or the apple."

BISHOP EARLE.

"The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd—

The child is born."

ROGERS.

IN referring to Lodge's Peerage and Baronetage, the following record appears:

“2nd George, born January 1, 1800.”

Previous to the above will be found the genealogical history of the Carlton family, from the period of the Norman Conquest to the latest day, describing how the first Baronet received his honours

VOL. I.

B

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