Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1782. March 4. Died, Mrs lirown, relict of Nicholas Brown of
Bolton, esq., aged 82. ^^ Same day, delivered of a son, at Enibleton,
the wife of Mr. Charles Grey, only son of John Grey of Morwick, esq.^®
1782. March 5. Hcniy Collingwood Selby, esq., agent to the
duke of Xortluunberland, came to town.^"
1782. March 6. Died, Joseph Gibson, shoemaker. Walter
Trevillion, esq., c^ame to town with his fox-hounds to hunt a few
days.i'^
1782. March. Hexhmn bridge and others damaged by a flood
on Monday. ^^
1782. March 12. The body of Jane Young found at Nairn's Mill
by a sei-vant.-o
1782. March. Upon a motion by Lord John Cavendish, a vote
in the House of Commons for an account of the expences during the
war in America and a censure of the ministers :- —for, 226, against, 216.
1782. March 20. Died at Carham, Ralph Compton, esq.: made
no will.i
1782. March. A change of the ministiy. Marquis of Rockingham
at the he^id, with others. The old administration totally out.
1782. April 1. Mr. Robert Lowes, attorney in Hexham, committed
to Morpeth gaol at the instance of Robert Lisle, esq., for a
considerable sum.^
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Mrs. Brown was Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Youiighusband, of Budle,
and was married 13 June, 1728, to Nicholas Brown, of Bolton, High Sheriff of
Northumberland in 1748, wlio died at Bath, 20 August, 1762, leaving surviving
issue three daughters, co-heiresses.
'"*
Mr. Charles Grey, of Morwick, married, first, Catherine Maria, daughter
of Rev. John Skelly, successively vicar of Shilbottle and Stockton, by his wife,
Lady Betty Gordon, daughter of Alexander, second Duke of Gordon. The son
whose l)irth is noted above, became Sir John Grey, K.C.B., a Lieut-General in
the Army, and Governor of Bombay Presidency.
'
Heni-y CoUingwood Selby, third son of George Selby of Alnwick, attornej',
by his wife Marj-, daughter of Prideaux 8elbj' of Beal, was for sixty years clerk
of the peace for Middlesex, and for some years commissioner of the Duke of
Northumberland. He purcliased the estate of Swansfield in Alnwick from the
family of Grieve of Alnwick and Swarland, and died 9 Feb., 1839, aged 91,
havint; survived his only child Frances, wife of the Venerable Charles Thorp,
Archdeacon of Durham.
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Mr. Walter Trevelyan of Netherwitton, jure iixoi-is.
" The bridge at Hexham, designed by Smeaton and swept away in 1782, had
not been completed two years.
-" See -stipra, p. 238.
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Mr. Ralph Compton was second son of Anthony Compton, tenant of
Learmouth, who purchased Carham circa 1728. He was baptized at Chillingham,
16 March, 1705 6, and farmed successively at Heathpool and Heatherslaw before
succeeding to Carham on the death of his brother Anthony in 1770. He left
numerous issue. The Comptons were, and are, burgesses of Berwick, which
privilege is inherited from their ancestor Anthony Compton, bound apprentice
16 July, 1659, to Thomas Watson of Berwick, burgess.
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Cf. dupra, p. 232.