David Garrick (born 19th February 1716, died 20th January 1779) was the son of an officer in the army, and of Huguenot descent from the family of La Garrique of Bordeaux. Garrick took to the stage at an early age, and after having unsuccessfully tried other means of making a livelihood he eventually took to acting as a profession. He acted as an amateur at St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, and he wrote several plays. His family did not approve of his becoming an actor, but his rapid success ultimately reconciled them to it. His life-history is one of unvarying triumphs, which, however, naturally made him many enemies; he left the stage practically in 1762. Garrick was a collector of treasures of all sorts, but particularly copies of Early English plays, of which he made a very large and valuable collection. These he bequeathed to the British Museum. He left a large fortune, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. [Illustration] GEORGE I., KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND _Arms._--Within the Garter. Quarterly. 1st grand quarter; _England_ } and _Scotland_ impaled. } As used by Queen 2nd grand quarter; _France_. } Anne. 3rd grand quarter; _Ireland_. } 4th grand quarter; the arms of the Royal Dominions in Germany. Impaled. Dexter: Gules, 2 lions passant guardant or. _Brunswick._ Sinister: Or, semée of hearts ppr., a lion rampant az. _Lunenburg._ In the base point gu., a horse current arg. _Saxony._ Over all an escutcheon gu., charged with the Crown of Charlemagne or, as a badge of the office of _High Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire_. The Crown of Charlemagne is one of the finest Byzantine Crowns in the world, and it is one of the very few heraldic bearings that are in actual existence. It is of gold and richly ornamented with jewels and enamels, and is kept in the Royal Treasury at Vienna. _Crest._--A Royal Crown ppr., thereon a lion statant guardant or, crowned ppr. _Helmet._--Royal. _Supporters._--The lion and unicorn, as used by James I. (q.v.). _Motto._--DIEU ET MON DROIT. _Initials._--G. R. (Georgius Rex). _Badges._--A Tudor rose and a thistle. [_The many advantages of a good Language._ 1724.] George Lewis, Electoral Prince of Hanover (born 28th May 1660, died 11th June 1727), was the eldest son of Sophia, youngest daughter of the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I., and Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg. In 1714 Prince George succeeded his cousin, Queen Anne, on the throne of England. He was then fifty-four years of age, and firmly fixed in his German ideas; he never spoke English well, and took every possible opportunity of revisiting his electoral dominions, where he died in 1727.