Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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Died. Doctor Hd. Fawoi't, :it Diiiliam, vicar of Newcastle and one
His Majestie's chaplains. '^
178l'. May 16. Died at Edinhur'jh, .Idliii Cay, esq., of Cliarltonliall
in Nortliinubcrland, barrister at law.^-
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Died, Mr. Henry Forster, Hepple, a^-ed
(rood news from Adniii-al Kodiiey : takiiii; of Dominica, the French
jidmiral in a. ship of 110 Lfuns with three of 74 guiisi and one of 64
guns, and sinking- a ()4 L;un ship.^^
1782. Miiy22. Captain Georg-e Faripdiari^ and Mr. Edward
(Jreyie gg^-, ^f ,^i;^ .^ journey to Limdou to pay a visit to Sir Heniy
Grey, bart.
1782. May. Two companies of the Wiltshire militia fixed at
Alnwick.
1782. May 27. An account that Admiral Sir Samuel Hood has
taken an 80 gun ship, a 74 gun ship and a frigate, jDart of Count
de Grasse's squadron left from the engagement with Sir G. B. Kodnev
on the 12th of April. i"
1782. May .30. Died at Catcleugh, Mr. Kobt. Hall, one of the
bayliti's to the duke of Nnrthumberland.^'^
" The Rev. Richard Fawcett was second son of John Fawcett, recorder
of Durham, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he
matriculated 26 Aug., 1730, aged 15. After holding benelices in Staffordshire,
he was appointed vicar of Newcastle in 1767, and continued to hold that living
by dispensation, with the rectory of Gateshead, to which he was presented in
1772 ; in 1778 he was made prebendary of the third stall in Durham Cathedral.
He died 30 April, 1782.
Mr. John Cay of North Charlton, in the parish of EUingham, was the
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eldest son of Robert Cay of that place and of South Shields, whose name is
remembered as the friend of Horsley, and by his pro])osal to found an infirmary
at Newcastle. He was born 16 April, 1727, was of the Middle Temple, but
having become involved in a lawsuit took sanctuary at Holyrood, where he
died as stated above, leaving issue one son, Robert Hodshon Caj^ judge of the
High Court of Admiralty in Scotland.
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Last week at Bickerton near Rotiibury, Mr. Forster, father of Captain
For.ster. ' Newcastle Courant, 25 May, 1782. He was buried at Rothburv,
22 May, 1782.
" There is a full report of tliis engagement in tlie (•eiif/eman'.t MayrJue for
1782, p. 254. The victorious admiral failed to make tlie most of his success.
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We have done very handsomely,' said Rodney to Hood, but he let the fleet
of the vanquished De Grasae escape.' Cf. a leading article in The Thiies, 22
Aug., 1908.
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George Farquhar, captain 32nd Regiment, was eldest son of Captain Hugh
Farijuhar of Rothburv, where he was baptized 16 March, 1721 2. By his first
wife Catherine, daughter and coiieir of Ford tirey of Alnwick, attoi'uey, he
obtained an estate at Holystone in Co(juetdale. He died 'to the loss of an
enlarged circle of acquaintances' 9 August, 1795.
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Mr. Edward Grey of Alnwick and of Overgrass, descended from tiie family
of firey of Howick, was baptized at Alnwick on the 23rd August, 1728. Cj'.
new Iliitori/ of North iiinbcrland, vol. ii., p. 4C0.
' This action is reported in tlie (levlleman\f Magazine, 1782, p. 260.
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His name was Roger and his burial is entered in the Ehtlon Ref/iMer as
follows:— '1782. June the 1st. Roger Hall of Catcleugh buried at Birness,'
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