Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2)Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
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Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2)
Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
Cornwall (England : County) -- Biography
[157] Sir Joshua also immortalized the fair Betsy Cranch by a portrait
of her, painted in her prime, in 1763.
[158] Hussey was a name early celebrated in the annals of England;
_e.g._, a Sir William Hussey was Lord Chief Justice in the reign of
Edward IV.
[159] Gourgaud, Napoleon's aide-de-camp, as well as other French
military critics, ascribe their loss of the battle of Waterloo mainly
to the charge of Vivian's brigade on the flank of the Old Guard, after
the repulse of the middle guard. 'These three thousand cavalry,' says
Gourgaud, '_prevented all rallying_.'
[160] He rode on this occasion a milk-white troop-horse of the 10th
Hussars.
[161] Colonel Lord Robert Manners.
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INDEX.
A
Acland, Sir Thomas Dyke, i. 98.
Acton Church, Godolphin tombs at, i. 353.
Adams, Mr., the astronomer, ii. 226 _note_.
Africa, remarks on access to the interior of, and its probable
results, ii. 216, 217.
Albalanda family, i. 194, 195.
Albercombe, ii. 6 _note_.
Alford, Dean, his lines on Martyn, ii. 239.
ALLEN, RALPH, his birthplace and parentage, i. 3.
appointment to the Post Office, 4.
detects a Jacobite plot, 4.
marries Miss Earl, 4.
invents cross-posts, 5.
his enormous profits by it, 5-8.
his Coombe Down quarries, 8.
Mayor of Bath, 8.
portraits of him, 8, 17.
builds mansion at Prior Park, 9.
his literary and social friends, 9.
his connexion with Fielding, 9.
do. with Pope, 3, 10, 16-18.
do. with Warburton, 10.
do. with General Wade, 4, 13.
do. with Pitt, 13-15.
his second wife, 14.
his political views, 16.
raises a corps of volunteers, 16, _note_.
his generosity, 17-19, _note_.
house at Weymouth, 18.
house at Bathampton, i. 18.
his building propensities, 19.
his son Philip comptroller of the Bye-Letter Office, 22.
buried at Claverton, 22.
his personal appearance, 23.
his character, 24, 25.
his descendants, 25, 26.
Almanza, battle of, ii. 174.
its peculiar features, 175.
Alverton (Penzance), i. 293.
Amerideth, Judith, i. 351.
Amherst, General, at Louisbourg, i. 224.
Anderson, his opinion of George Grenville as a poet, ii. 83.
Anne, Queen, Godolphin's administration of her affairs, i. 379.
Anson, Lord, his jealousy of Admiral Boscawen, i. 215, 216 _note_,
220.
ANSTIS, JOHN, his extraction, i. 29.
his birthplace, 30.
his various appointments, 30-32.
his works on Heraldry, 30, 31.
created Garter King at Arms, 30.
his fragments of a history of Cornwall, 31.
do. of Launceston, 31.
his MSS. and other works, 31.
his imprisonment, 31, 32.
his death and burial-place, 32.
his son and successor in office, 32.
his portraits, 33.
his wife, 33.
buys Tremodret, 46 _note_.
See also _Errata and Addenda_.
Antrewan family, i. 344.
Apreece, Mrs., i. 269.
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