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Then finally closed and Sir JohnTrevelynn, l)art., declared duly elected
by Charles Thomas Lorraine, esq., slieriti' for Newcastle-upon- lyne.
1777. March "29. Mr. liowes and Mr. G. Greive set of for London
to have the sentiments of the House of Commons upon the return.^
1777. April 1 and 2. Luke Wriglesworth and John Augustus
Anthony Lindoe (duke of Northuml>erland's porter) were interred.
1777. April 3. Died, Nicholas Fenwick, esq., at Rothbury, a
commissioner in the Lotteiy.-
1777. April 5. Died, Edward Bell, son of Mr. Edward Bell,
merchant, in Alnwick.^
1777. April 9. [Died] Thomas Butler, esq., steward to duke of
Northumberland
1777. April 10. An account came of the birth of another daughter
of Lady Algernon Percy's : guns tired, etc.^
1777. April 14. Nathaniel Tibbs of Longhoughton died.^ Sir
William Carr, bart., of Etall died.^
1777. April 17. My daughter Margaret Bx'own set of for Sunderland
to serve Mi-s. Robs^ni two years as a milliner : £25 sum paid.^
1777. June 3. Right Hon. Earl Percy returned to England from
Rhode Island in Nortli America.
1777. June 17. Sir Matthew White Ridlev, bait., married to
Miss Coleman (sic) £70,000.«
1777. June 27. Doctor Dodd was executed for forgery: a bond
for £4,200 upon earl of Chesterfield.^
^ This was the restless George Grieve, a member of the the Bill of Rights
Club, a prominent actor in the drama of the French Revohition. He was the
third son of Richard Grieve of Swarland in Felton, a solicitor at Alnwick ; he
was baptized at Alnwick 9 March, 1747,8, and died at Brussels '2'2 Feb., 1809,
it is believed, unmarried.
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Nicholas Fenwick, third son of Nicholas Fenwick of Lemington by his
wife Klizabetli, daughter and heir of Sir Jamts Clavering, bart., was baptized
at All .^aints, Newcastle, on the 5 July, 1720. C/'. pedigree of Fenwick, new
History of Xorthumlierlniid , vol. vii. p. 174.
Edward, third son of Mr. Edward Bell, was baptised at Alnwick, 17 July,
'
1754. His father was the third son of Edward Bell of Shortridge, in the
township of Low Buston, by his wife Margaret Ktnelm of Little Houghton.
'
Lord Algernon Percy, second son of the rirst Duke of Northumberland,
was created Earl of Beverley in 1790. His second daughtei-, Lady Susanna
Elizabeth Percy, whose birth is recorded in the text, died in 1847.
' Natlianiel Tibbs married rirst, at Alnwick, 31 May, 1753, Elizabeth,
daughter of [John] Brown : she, dying at Alndike, was buried at Lesburj', 14
March, 176"2. She was aunt of the diarist. Nathaniel Tibbs married
secondly at Long Houghton, 15 Sept., 1774, Jane Cleugh.
" Sir William Carr of Etal, bart., had issue by his second marriage two
daughters and heires-ses, Isabella, wife of James, the thirteentli Earl of ErroU,
and Margaret, wife of the Hon. Alexander Mackaj-.
Sljf was the Diarist's third daughter, born 4 Nov., 1755, and baptized
at Alnwick on the 17 Dec. following.
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Sir ^L W. Ridley of Blagdon, second baronet, married Sarah, daughter
and heir of Benjamin Colborne (not Coleman), described as of Bath. They
were married 'at St. .James's church.' CY. Xeiccastk Courant, 19 July, 1777.
' This was William Dodd, D.D. (17-9-1777), author of the once well-known
Priioii ThouijhI.t and of numerous publications. He was buried at Cowley,
Middlesex.