Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1784. Jan. 29. Lady Alixernou Percy delivered of two sons.^"
1784. Jan. 30. Died at Ravensworth, tlie Eight Hon. Lord
Kavensworth, of the stone in his bladder, aged 76.^'^
1784. Feb. Brook Watson, esq., elected nieniljer of Parliament
for London in the room of Mr. Bull, deceased.
1784. Feb. Duke of Northumberland created Lord Lovaine,
Baron of Alnwick, with remainder to his second son, Lord Algernon
Percy. 1^
1784. Feb. 6. Married at Alnwick, Mr. Vincent Shepherd, carpenter,
and Mrs. Reed of Peak's Hole.^^*^
1784. Feb. Died at Newcastle, Jf)hn Baker, esq., one of the
aldermen there, aged 76.^0
1784. Feb. Lord Lumley to take the name of Saville.^
1784. Feb. 15. An address to His Majesty went from the Chamberlains,
Common Council, freeholders and principal inhabitants [of
Alnwick] thanking His Majesty for dismissing liis late ministers—
Lord North and Mr. Fox—and making choice of men of abilities and
talents to support the constitution of the nation—Mr. Pitt and others.
In this king's reign to this time, peers created, to wdt : —dukes,
two ;
earls, eleven ; viscounts, nine ; barons, thirty-eight. Scots
peers made peers of Great Britain, five ; Irish peers made peers of
Great Britain, fourteen.
Duke of Rutland appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Earl
Temple to be Lord Privy Seal.
1784. Feb. 19. Town-moor of Alnwick:—A petition presented
for the improvement thereof and delivered to the House of Commons.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer signified His Majesty's consent
thereto—and ordered to be considered in a committee of the whole
House on Monday, 23rd.
in that town, and also of Cramlington, he was presented to the united parish of
St. Mary at Hill and St. Andrew Hubbard, as stated above, by the first Duke
of Northumberland. He was also secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of
London, until his death, 11 September, 1806, at the age of 62.
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They were Hugh Percy, D.D. , bishop of Carlisle, and Vice-Admiral
Josceline Percy.
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Sir Henry Liddell, fourth baronet and first Baron Ravensworth, leaving
issue a daughter only, the peerage became extinct, and tlie baronetcy descended
to his nephew, Henry George Liddell of Newton Hall. Cf, Newcastle Courant,
7 February, 1784.
" Algernon, Lord Lovaine, was afterwards created Earl of Beverley.
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Mr. Vincent Shepherd, who designed some of the ' gothic ' ornamentation
inserted in Alnwick chancel in 1782, died in 1812, aged 62.
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Jolm Baker, son of Francis Baker of Tanfield, was enrolled apprentice 16
October, 1729, to Tliomas Airey of Newcastle, hostnian. He married at Horton
Chapel, 1 July, 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of William Reed of West Hartford.
Cf. NewcfiMle Courdnt, 14 February, 1784.
Apparently, the Rev. John Lumley, prebendary of York (fourth son of the
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fourth Earl of Scarborough and himself eventually the seventh earl), who
assumed the name of Saville about this time pursuant to the will of his maternal
uncle, Sir George Saville of Kufford, bart.