[395] Sir John Rushout had taken an active part in the debates against Walpole’s Excise Bill in 1732. He was made a Lord of the Treasury in 1742, and in the following year Treasurer of the Navy. He was strongly attached to Pulteney, and had the sagacity to predict the consequences of that statesman’s refusal to take office on the resignation of Walpole. He lived to the great age of 91, and died on the 2nd of March, 1775. His son was created Lord Northwich.--E. [396] In Ireland. [397] Henly Earl of Northington. [398] Under Lord Chatham’s administration in the war. [399] Thomas Harley, a merchant, and brother of the Earl of Oxford. [400] The tax on cyder. [401] The Duke of Bedford. [402] Walpole’s Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 329. [403] Vide Wilkes v. Wood. State Trials, vol. xix. 1154.--E. [404] Vide Mr. Croker’s note in Walpole’s Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 322. [405] He was the second son of William de Grey, Esq., M.P., and younger brother of Thomas de Grey of Merton Hall, M.P. for Norfolk, whose estates he inherited, on the death of the latter without issue, in 1765.--E. [406] This was one of the most obstinate contests of the day, and cost Mr. Luther many thousand pounds. He had been the pupil, and was the intimate friend, of Dr. Watson, the Bishop of Landaff, to whom he bequeathed a considerable portion of his fortune. The Bishop describes him correctly as a man of most upright conduct and honourable principles. He died in 1786. Watson’s Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 235.--E. [407] Philip Yorke, Lord Royston, afterwards second Earl of Hardwicke.--See _infra_. [408] General A’Court, M.P. for Heytesbury, was Colonel of the 11th Dragoons. He did not long remain an object of compassion, for he recovered his rank and regiment, and afterwards inherited a large estate and the borough of Heytesbury, from his uncle, Mr. Ash. He died in 1781. The present Lord Heytesbury is his grandson and lineal representative.--E. [409] General Henry Seymour Conway, only brother of Francis Earl of Hertford.