his fellow citizens, and was always indefatigable in his magisterial capacity as one of the justices.

"His philanthropy and charity were unbounded; and his feelings towards the brute creation extended to so great a degree, that he left in his will one guinea per annum for an annual sermon, to enforce the practice of humanity to brute animals.

"The Bath Humane Society, whether considered in point of rank or number of its members, is confessedly the first institution of the kind at present in this kingdom. The Doctor was the father and founder of this society; and his health is one of the only three toasts which are given in the

room.

"Continually busied, either in useful, or pleasant avocations, the life of the subject of this memoir passed agreeably away, until he had attained to an extraordinary degree of longevity. At length he died, or rather passed insensibly as it were, and without pain, to another and a better world, in the existence of which he was a firm believer, in the 89th year of his age. This event occurred on January 15th, 1816, at his residence in Bath, a city in which he greatly delighted, and indeed preferred above all others.

"A few years since, he was plunged into deep affliction by the death of his eldest son, Sir Edward, who was knighted in consequence of presenting a loyal address from the corporation.

"The friends of Dr. Harrington have resolved to erect a monument to his memory, in the Abbey Church, Bath. The subscribers on this occasion have with appropriate delicacy resolved, that every thing relative to the sculpture and epitaph, shall be placed under the immediate superintendence and direction of a committee, nominated by his nearest relatives."

List of the works of the late Henry Harrington, M. D.

1. Nuga Antiquæ, being a miscellaneous collection of Letters and Papers, in prose and verse, written by his ancestors, and

their correspondents, in the reigns of Henry VIII. Edward VI. James 1. and Charles I. in 4 vols. 8vo. Two editions; first edition, 1769; second edition, 2 vols. 1775.

2. An Ode to Harmony.

3. An Ode to Discord.

4. The Witch of Wokey.

5. Many Songs, Anthems, Prologues, Epilogues, &c.

6. The Geometrical Analogy of the Doctrine of the Trinity consonant to human reason.

No. XXI.

THE RIGHT Hon. GEORGE GREVILLE, F. R.S.

EARL BROOKE AND WARWICK; BARON BROOKE OF BEAUCHAMP COURT, IN WARWICKSHIRE; LORD LIEUTENANT, AND CUSTOS ROTULORUM OF THAT COUNTY; RECORDER OF THE BOROUGH OF WARWICK, &c. &c. &c.

"Vix ea nostra voco.”

THE very ancient family, of which this Earl was so lately the head, has distinguished itself during several periods of our history, and took an eminent part in the unhappy contentions between Charles I. and the long parliament. We learn from Collins*, that the name was formerly written Graville, Grevil, and Grevel. The learned Leland, in his Itinerary, observes, that "sum hold opinion that the Gravilles came originally in at the conquest +;" and he adds in another place," the veri ancient house of the Gravilles is at Draiton, by Banburi, (Banbury,) in Oxfordshire. But there is annother manor place of the chief stoc of the Gravilles, called Milcot yn Warwickshire." We are also told, on the same authority, that this family possessed "Knap Castel and Bewbusch Parke, and other landes in Southsax (Sussex,) by descent of their name."

Camden also has published a pedigree of this house, from which we learn, that William Grevel, of Campden, in Gloucestershire, lent the sum of 300 marks to Richard II. His descendant, Sir Edward Grevile, was knighted at the battle of the "Spurs" and appears to have been a distinguished soldier in those days. In the 13th Henry VIII. being a great favourite of that monarch, whom he attended to the continent, and was present with during his conference with Francis I. he obtained the wardship of Elizabeth, who finally Itin. vol. iv. p. 1. fol. 16.

* Vol. v. p. 94.

became the sole heir of Edward Willoughby, the only son of Robert Lord Brooke; an event which greatly contributed to the aggrandizement of his family. This lady, descended

her grandmother from the Earls of Warwick, afterwards married his second son Fulke, and brought him great possessions, part of which remain in the family to this very day.

Having seated himself at Beauchamp's Court, in the county of Warwick, he appears to have conducted his affairs with such prudence and economy, that he greatly augmented his wife's lands by the purchase of several estates in his immediate neighbourhood. Camden bears testimony to the many excellent qualities possessed by his son, Sir Fulk Greville, whom he describes as 66 a person no less esteemed for the sweetness of his temper, than the dignity of his station." Dying in 1606, his son, also called Sir Fulk, was introduced at an early period of his life to the court of "the maiden Queen," and appears to have cultivated the muses. We are well assured that he held" no mean place in Elizabeth's favour." He boasted of being "the frend of Sir Philip Sidney," whose life he wrote; and was never known to be a suitor for any great place or preferment at court; for he possessed an ample fortune," which he was wont to say, was better held together by a single life, wherein he lived and died, a constant courtier of the ladies." He was created a Baron by the style and title of Lord Brooke of Beauchamp's Court, January 19, 1621, and perished seven years after, at the age of 75, of a wound received from a servant named Haywood.

Robert, second Lord Brooke, was a man of talents, and engaging warmly in the civil war declared against Charles I. who had treated him with great injustice. In consequence of the part taken by that nobleman on this occasion, he was of course hated by the "Cavaliers;" but praised by the "Roundheads." Lord Clarendon accordingly censures him bitterly, for the "virulence" of his opposition; while on the other hand he is mentioned with high respect by Ludlow and Macaulay. His Lordship, in conjunction with Lord Say, had determined to transport himself to America, to avoid the rigours

of civil and religious despotism, then prevalent. * Having been stopped by an undue exercise of authority, they afterwards took part with the Parliament; and he was killed by a shot in the eye, in 1643, while preparing to storm the Close at Lichfield, whither a body of royalists had retired.

His Lordship's descendants succeeded him in title and estates, without any material alteration as to fortune, until the time of Francis, the eighth Lord; who on July 7, 1746, was created Earl Brooke; and in 1759, on the extinction of that title in the Rich family, was finally created Earl of Warwick.

George, of whom we are now to treat, the son of the first Earl Brooke, and first Earl of Warwick of this family, by Elizabeth, grand-daughter of William Duke of Hamilton, was born at Warwick Castle, on Sept. 16, 1746. His Majesty, George II. was his god-father, and Lord Conway acted as the royal proxy at the christening; which ceremony was accompanied with great pomp and magnificence. On his father's advancement in the peerage, he was recognized by the title of Lord Brooke, and in this capacity was educated for a time in England; whence he was sent to the university of Edinburgh, and is perpaps the first English nobleman who ever repaired thither for this purpose. His two brothers were also brought up in the Scottish capital.

Lord Brooke afterwards visited the continent in company with the late Charles Francis Greville, who died in 1809. They resided for some time at the court of Vienna, in company with the present Earl of Beverley, and several others of their distinguished countrymen, and after making the grund tour in the usual manner, returned home.

Lord Brooke was now called upon to serve as a Knight of the shire for the county of Warwick; and he appears also to have been appointed one of the Lords Commissioners for trade and plantations. On April 1, 1771, he married Georgina, only daughter of Sir James Peachey, Bart. the first Lord

*Say-Brooke, a town in America is still called after them.—ED.