of the celebrated Dr. Radcliffe. (In case of the death of hisson, William Hunter Baillie, without issue, he has also left. to the college a further bequest of four thousand pounds.) He has directed his two Introductory Lectures to his Courses of Morbid Anatomy, his Lectures upon the Nervous System, delivered before the College of Physicians, and a short Account of his Medical Practice, to be printed, but not published; remarking that, though not sufficiently important for publication, they may yet contain matter too useful to be altogether lost. The various articles of plate presented to him in the course of his professional practice are left to his son, to be preserved in the family. Three hundred pounds are left to the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men; to Mrs. Baillie he has left his house, furniture, &c., a sum of two thousand pounds, and one thousand per annum; to his sisters, Agnes and Joanna Baillie, one hundred and fifty pounds per annum each; and there is further provision, to a considerable amount, for these and other legatees, in case of his son dying without issue, to whom is given the residuary personal estate, as well as the freeholds in the county of Gloucester and elsewhere. Thomas Denman and Thomas William Carr, Esqrs., are the executors, and have a legacy of 100%. each as a compliment for their trouble. The will was proved in the Prerogative Court on the 21st of October, 1823, and the effects were sworn under 80,000%. It is dated the 21st of May, 1819. LORD GLENBERVIE was the eldest son of John Douglas, Esq. of Fechil, in the parish of Ellon, county of Aberdeen. The said John Douglas was tenth in lineal male descent from William Douglas, first Earl of Douglas; which William was paternal nephew and successor, as heir male, to James, eighth Lord Douglas, (called by the Scottish historians the good Sir James,) who flourished in the time of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, and Edward I., King of England. The said William was seventh in male descent from William de Douglas, first Lord Douglas, who was descended from Sholto Douglas, said to have flourished in 700. John Douglas was the great-great-grandson, and became (in consequence of the death of his elder brother George, and of Robert and James, the only sons of George, who both died unmarried,) lineal heir male of the body of the Reverend James Douglas, of Glenbervie; which James was brother to William the ninth Earl of Angus, the said ninth earl being the sixth in lineal male descent from the above-named William, the first Earl of Douglas, and great-grandson to Archibald, the fifth Earl of Angus, (styled the Great Earl,) whose second son was Gawin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, author of the celebrated translation of Virgil. The said Archibald was the common ancestor of the Lady Margaret Douglas, maternal sister of James V. of Scotland, niece of Henry VIII., grand-daughter of Henry VII., and grandmother of James the first of England and sixth of Scotland; being the mother of Lord Darnley, and of the present Archibald Lord Douglas; of the Duke of Hamilton; of the Earl of Selkirk; of Sir William Hamilton, K. B.; of Sir Alexander Douglas, Bart. (styled of Glenbervie); and of the late Lord Glenbervie. John Douglas, Esq., Lord Glenbervie's father, who was born in 1714, and died in 1762, married Catharine, the second of the three daughters and co-heirs of James Gordon of Fechil, great-grandson to the celebrated geographer, Robert Gordon of Straloch, author of the Geography of Scotland, inserted in Bleau's Atlas. The said Catharine Gordon was second cousin to the last Earl Marischal, George Keith; they being grandchildren of George Hay, second Earl of Kinnoul, by his two daughters, the Ladies Mary and Catharine. By her Mr. Douglas had issue Sylvester, the late Lord Glenbervie, and Catharine, who married James Mercer, of Sunny Bank, Aberdeenshire, Esq., and died in 1802. Lord Glenbervie was born May 24. 1743. He received the rudiments of his education near the place of his nativity, whence he went to the University of Aberdeen; and, after prosecuting his studies there for two or three years, travelled with the present Lord Douglas over the Continent. While abroad, and particularly during his residence at Paris and Vienna, Mr. Douglas mixed in gay and expensive society to an extent which led to the sale of his paternal property at an early period of his life, and happily forced upon him the necessity of applying his mind and talents to some profession, by which he might obtain the means of honourable independence. His situation and feeling at this period are well expressed in the following "Ode to Poverty," written by himself at the time: The profession of the law was that to which Mr. Douglas determined to devote himself. At the age of thirty-one, he entered at Lincoln's Inn; and, notwithstanding his former long-continued habits of indulgence, — habits so destructive in general of all inclination for laborious study, he applied with such earnestness and industry to his new pursuit, and especially to the law of controverted elections, that he soon became highly and justly celebrated for his legal acquirements, and for several years was in possession of the principal practice in that very lucrative branch of the profession, the election-law. He was also selected by the House of Commons as one of their counsel to assist the managers of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq. Having thus obtained considerable eminence as a professional man, Mr. Douglas, on the 26th September, 1789, married the Honourable Katharine Anne North, eldest daughter of Frederic Lord North, afterwards Earl of Guilford; an amiable and excellent woman; who, besides many more valuable qualities, possessed, to use Lord Glenbervie's own words*, "the most prompt, genuine, and brilliantwit,” which, however, "was always vigilantly checked and reined in by a proportionate share of tact, good nature, and delicacy." The admirable character of this lady is fully and touchingly painted in the following inscription on a tablet, which, after her decease in January, 1817, was placed in Hampton church: "Near this place are deposited The mortal remains of Lady Katharine Anne North, LADY GLENBERVIE. "Those who knew her while she sojourned on earth, and who knew how to form a just estimate of that rare union of the soundest understanding, the kindest, tenderest heart, the happiest temper, and the most lively yet innocent wit, by which she was so eminently distinguished: those who had opportunities of contemplating the steady firmness and edifying tenour of her principles, affections, and conduct as a daughter, a sister, a mother, and a wife; as a Christian, a friend, and a member of society: those who can bear testimony to the severity with *Notes to "Ricciardetto." |