sions discarded, and the standard of
truth applied alike to persons and things
with promptness and decision. No won-
der, then, that, possessed of such acknow-
ledged powers of discrimination, she
was frequently consulted by her ac-
quaintances, and that the knowledge
which she had laid up in store for her-
self should have become highly profita-
ble to her friends. The science to which
she had devoted the most part of her
time and attention was Botany, in which
she was a very considerable proficient.
Several folio volumes of British plants,
drawn in water colours with great spirit
and fidelity, and with close regard to the
individual character of the subjects de-
picted, attest her skill and industry, and
would prove a valuable acquisition to
science if published to the world. Her
religion was unaffected and pure; her
conduct throughout life guided by the
most steady and uncompromising prin
ciples of moral rectitude. Equally
guarded against the misrepresentations
of fraud and the aspersions of malice,
her heart was ever tenderly .ve to the
impulses of charity. An injury arising
from a severe fall in her youth, gra-
dually, in its consequences, deprived
her of many of the resources which
might have been the ornament aud so-
lace of her maturer age. Her arms be-
came paralysed and her sight impaired.
In consequence of long-protracted ill-
ness she was chiefly confined to her
couch, and rendered dependent upon
others for some years previous to her
death. Still, however, were her spirits
unsubdued, her conversation animated,
and her example truly edifying. The
warm interest which she continued to
take in passing events was devoid of that
morbid curiosity which seeks for amuse-
ment from the retail of news.
It was
for the most part excited by circum-
stances which led her to think, and
compare, and draw conclusions which
often escaped the sagacity of less cool
reasoners. It was delightful to observe
how she sympathised, with a sort of
youthful ardour, in the pains or plea-
sures of her friends, the satisfaction she
evinced in their welfare, and the eager
ness with which she would caution them
against any project which might lead to
their prejudice. Her resignation to the
will of God was conspicuous; yet her
sufferings and her patience under them
were topics from which she herself
always carefully abstained, but which it

becomes therefore more incumbent in us

Roger, Esq.,

F.R. S. and F. S. A. in Stratton Street,
Piccadilly; February, 1829; aged 86.

This gentleman, who has long been
well known as a patron of literature
and science, was the second and young-
est surviving son of Roger Wilbraham,
of Nantwich, Esq,. and uncle to the
present George Wilbraham, of Dela-
mere Lodge, Cheshire, Esq. His own
uncles, who were of some eminence,
were Randle Wilbraham, Esq. LL. D.
Deputy-Steward of the University of
Oxford; Thomas Wilbraham, M.D. and
F. R. S., Fellow of All Souls' College,
Oxford, and of the College of Phy-
sicians; and the Rev. Henry William
Wilbraham, Fellow of Brazenose, and
Rector of Shelford, Oxfordshire.
The family is descended from Rich-
ard Wilbraham, who died Common-
Serjeant of London in 1601, and
whose brother, Sir Roger*, was Soli-
citor-general for Ireland. (See the pedi-
gree in Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. 11.
p. 65). Mr. Wilbraham's mother was
Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Hunt,
of Mollington, in Cheshire, Esq. by
Mary-Vere Robartes, sister and heiress
to Henry Earl of Radnor.

Mr. Wilbraham proceeded B. A.
1765, and M. A. 1768, at Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, and was elected a
Fellow of that Society. He was elected
F. R. S. in 1732, and F. S. A. in 17...

Being desirous of a seat in Parlia-
ment, Mr. Wilbraham, at the general
election in 1784, was a candidate for
the borough of St. Michael's, and in
a double return was first named; but
the other candidate, Sir Christopher
Hawkins, was successful in his opposi-
tion. However, on a vacancy in 1786,
Mr. Wilbraham was elected for the
borough of Helston. At the general
election in 1790 he was returned for
Bodmin, for which he sat till the disso-
lution in 1796.

Mr. Wilbraham was an active member
of the Horticultural Society. In the se-
cond volume of their Transactions, pp.
58-63, is a "Report of the Fruit Com-
mittee," in 1812, drawn up by him. In

Sir Roger's residence was in St.
John's Gate, Clarkenwell, in the very
rooms in which, at a subsequent period,
the "Gentleman's Magazine" was first
produced.

was a Cornet in the 11th Dragoons, but
died at the age of fifteen in 1805: 2.
Sir Mark, who has succeeded to the
Baronetcy, and has sat in Parliament for
Gatton 3. Eliza-Georgiana, deceased;
and, 4. Rachael, married June 13.1816,
to William Joseph Lockwood, Esq. of
Dews Hall, Essex.

The remains of the deceased Baronet
were interred in Gatton church on the
13th of February.

His will has been proved in Doctors'
Commons, his personal property being
returned as under 60,000l. He has left
Gatton and his other freehold estates,
and the bulk of his fortune, to the pre-
sent Baronet. Gentleman's Magazine.
WOOD, Mr. George, for some
years proprietor, editor, and publisher
of the Kent Herald Newspaper, at Can-
terbury; August 5. 1829; of an attack
of gout in the stomach. In private life
he had many estimable qualities;-his
charities were extensive without osten-
tation — his friendship was sincere-his
hostility open and manly. In his death
the poor man has lost a friend. That he
was not free from faults must be ad-
mitted; but they were errors that his
relatives may regret, yet not feel ashamed
of.

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"De mortuis nil nisi bonum." Be
it not forgotten, that his life was emi-
nently useful to his native place, and
advantageous to the general cause of
mankind. There is reason to fear that
his decease was hastened by the embar-
rassed state of his affairs, but he had
long been a martyr to the gout. Alas!

"He was but born to to try
The lot of man-to suffer and to die!"
-Monthly Magazine.

Z.

ZOUCHE, the Right Hon. Sir Ce..
cil Bisshopp, Baron of Haryngworth,
by writ of summons to Parliament in
1308, eighth Baronet of Parham, D. C. L.
and F. R. S.; at Parham, in Sussex; Nov.
11. 1829; aged nearly 75.

His Lordship was born Dec. 29. 1758;
the eldest son of Sir Cecil Bisshopp, the
sixth Baronet, by Susanna, eldest daugh-
ter of John Hedges, of Finchley in
Middlesex, Esq. He succeeded his fa-
ther in the Baronetcy in September,
1779; and in 1782 married Harriot-
Anne, only child and heiress of William
Southwell, of Bampton in Gloucester-
shire, Esq. uncle to Lord de Clifford.

By this lady, who survives him, Lord
Zouche had two sons and three daugh-
ters, who will be noticed hereafter.

At the general election in 1780 Sir
Cecil was elected to Parliament as Mem-
ber for Shoreham in Sussex; and he was
also returned by that borough on four
other occasions, in 1784, 1796, 1801, and
1802.

Sir Cecil was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society in 1791; and created
D. C. L. at the Encænia at Oxford in
1810.

In

At what time Sir Cecil first conceived
the idea of advancing his claims to the
ancient Barony of Zouche we are not
exactly informed. His claim was in
some degree strengthened in 1802.
that year, by the death of his maternal
aunt the Hon. Mrs. William Bateman,
without issue, he became (his mother
having died before in 1796) the cole re-
presentative of his grandmother Cathe-
rine Tate, the elder coheiress of her great
grandfather Zouche Tate, who again
was son of the elder daughter and co-
heiress of Edward the eleventh Lord
Zouche, the last who had sat in that Ba-
rony, and who died in 1625. Of that
Baron's younger daughter no descend-
ants could be traced after the time of the
Commonwealth; and the claims of Mary,
the younger sister of Catherine Tate, had
subdivided into three portions, in the
persons of her three grandaughters and
coheiresses, the daughters of Robert
Long, Esq., who died in 1772, and the
wives respectively of John Oliver, Esq.,
Samuel Scudamore Heming, Esq., and
Thomas Bayley Howell, Esq. After
the proofs of the pedigree had been re-
ferred to a Committee of Privileges in
the House of Peers, they came to a de-
cision April 24. 1807; when it was re-
solved that the Barony was in abeyance
between Sir Cecil Bisshopp and Mrs.
Oliver, Mrs. Howell and Samuel-
George Heming, Esq., son of Mrs. He-
ming, as co-representatives of the eldest
daughter of the last Lord Zouche; and
the descendants, if any should be found
to exist, of Mary Zouche, his youngest
daughter. At length by writ of sum-
mons dated August 27. 1815, the Prince
Regent was graciously pleased to ter-
minate the abeyance, and Sir Cecil Bis-
shopp was called to the House of Peers
to sit in the place of the ancient Barons
Zouche of Haryngworth. It should be
added that, by the same descent, Sir Ce-
cil was equally entitled to the Baronies

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of St. Maur and Lovel of Kari, of the
respective dates of 1314 and 1348, and
to one moiety of the Barony of Grey of
Codnor, created by writ in 1299.
The children of Lord Zouche were
as follows: 1. Cecil, an officer in the
1st foot guards, who was slain at the
Black Rock, in Upper Canada, in 1813.
He had married in 1805 Lady Charlotte
Townshend, but she died without issue,
in 1807 2. Charles-Cecil, of the Royal
Navy, who died unmarried in Jamaica,
in 1808, of the yellow fever, brought on
by the fatigue he had undergone on
board the Muros frigate, which was
wrecked whilst endeavouring to destroy
some batteries in the neighbourhood of
the Havannah: 3. the Hon. Harriot-
Anne, who was married in 1808 to the
Hon. Robert Curzon, uncle to the pre-
sent Earl Howe: 4. the Hon. Catha-
rine Annabella, married in 1826 to Cap-
tain George-Richard Pechell, R. N.,
brother to the present Sir S. J. Brooke-

Pechell, Captain R. N. and C.B.: 5.
Caroline, who died an infant in 1798.

By Lord Zouche's death the Barony
again fell into abeyance, between his two
surviving daughters; but the King has
already been graciously pleased to ter-
minate the same in favour of the elder,
the Hon. Mrs. Curzon, to whom the ti-
tle is confirmed by letters-patent, and
who is consequently now Baroness
Zouche. This was announced in the
London Gazette of the 13th of January,
1829. Her Ladyship has two sons, born
in 1810 and 1812.

His Lordship's Baronetcy, conferred
on the family of Bisshopp in 1620, has
devolved on his first cousin and heir
male, the Rev. George Bisshopp, Arch-
deacon of Aghadoe in Ireland, the son
of his Lordship's uncle, Edward Bis.
shopp, Esq. an army agent, who died,
leaving a very large fortune, in 1792.-
Gentleman's Magazine.