Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1786. July 23. Died at Alnwick, Mr. Arthur Gair, surgeon, aged
61.2
Same day : died Miss Peggy Brown, cousin to Nicholas Brown^
attorney, suddenh% by a fit, aged 62.
1786. July. A difference between Mr. Grey's son of BalmbrougK
and a Mr. Robinson from America, arising from the assembly, but
ended with[out] bloodshed.^
Died at Ramsgate, Judge Nares of the Common Pleas, aged 81,
and succeeded by Mr. McDonald, Solicitor General. (N.B. one Mr.
Wilson succeeds.)
Died, Thos. Robinson, Lord Grantham, aged 48, only six years
married to a daughter of the earl of Hardwicke's.
1786. July. By the death of the duke of Northumberland, Lord
Lovaine will be possessed of 10,000/. per annum, besides in personal
effects to the value of 237,000/.
1786. July. Sir Henry George Liddell, bart., came home from
Lapland with two of their women and two rane deer, for a considerable
wager which was laid.'*
1786. Aug. 2. His Majesty was assassinated by a woman as he
was alighting out of his carriage, by delivering a blank petition, in
which paper she had a knife concealed, and aimed the same at his
breast, but at the second thrust she was taken hold of by the guards,
and the instrument Avrested from her. Her name Margaret Nicholson
from Stokesly in Yorkshire, 36 years of age. Thought to be
insane. Sent to Bedlam to be taken care of.^
1786. Aug. Died at Newcastle, the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Clayton,
vicar of Ingram and Kirkwhelpington, aged 78.^
'Mr. Arthur Gair [baptized at Alnwick on the 28 October, 1723, as
son of Edward Gair] resided in, and carried on his profession in his own
house in Bondgate, and his monumental inscription remaining in Alnwick
churchyard asserts that ' his memorj^ will never perish with the many who
reverenced his professional abilities, and the friends who loved his personal
virtue.' His widow, Jane Gair, died on the 6 April, 1787, and his only son,
William Gair, conveyed his father's house, 27 November, 1787, to Robert Alder.
^ John Grey, eldest son of Henry Grey of Shoreston, was baptized at
Bamburgh on the 6 December, 1763, and, entering the armj', attained the
rank of lieutenant colonel of the 43rd regiment.
'
A notice of Sir Henry Liddell's tour in Lapland and of the natives he
brought back to Ravensworth with him may be found in Richardson's Local
Historian'.