By his wife he had six children. In 1785 he purchased the famous house of Field-Marshal Wade, in Old Burlington Street. He became totally blind in 1795, and died of apoplexy at his residence in town on March 1st, 1801, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, William Pratt Call, who died in 1851, leaving a son, William Berkeley Call, the third baronet, who died in 1864, and with the son of this latter, Sir William George Montague Call, the fourth baronet, the title became extinct. It will be noticed that the two last affected aristocratic Christian names, Berkeley and Montague. Whiteford was sold to the Duchy of Cornwall, and all the noble trees in the park were cut down and turned into money, and the mansion converted into an office for the Duchy. Davies Gilbert, in his _Parochial History of Cornwall_, tells a couple of anecdotes of Sir John, but they are too pointless to merit repetition. Call was one of those admirable, self-made men who have been empire-makers in the East, and, better than that, have been makers of the English name as synonymous with all that is powerful and true and just. He well deserved the title accorded to him. He was a man of whom Cornwall may be proud, and it needed no trumpets in his arms and fictions about the origin of his family to make the name honourable. As Dr. Johnson said, "There are some families like potatoes, whose only good parts are underground." The authorities for the life of Sir John Call are Playfair's _British Family Antiquity_, 1809; Clement R. Markham's _Memoir on the Indian Surveys_, 1878; H. G. Nicholl's _Forest of Dean_; and _Neota_, by Charlotte Hawkey, 1871. The grant of the baronetcy to Sir John Call, dated 1795, is now in the Museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, at Truro. JOHN KNILL In August, 1853, appeared the following account in the _Gentleman's Magazine_:--