Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1790. Nov. Small pox—very mortal.
1790. Nov. Died, Mr. Henry Horsley at London, formerly at Merrick
in Northumberland— by a fall doAvn stair."
1790. Nov. 18. Duke of Montrose now appointed Master of the
Horse to His Majesty, vice Duke of Montague, deceased.
1790. Nov. 25. Tlie Parliament met for dispatch of business.
1790. Nov. Died at London, a Miss Reed, who had Hoppen estate
in Northumberland. It descends to a Mr. Heed, subject to several
legacys to relations by lier will.**
1790. Dec. The sale of Henry Potts' goods stopt, upon a distress
made by His Grace Duke of Northunil)erIaiid for iOO/.
1790. Dec. Hon. George Grenville created Lord Grenville of
Wooton.***
1790. Dec. 3. Died, Mr. Henry Barber, steward of Belford estate ;
he was drowned in Ellick slakes.^
1790. Dec. i. Died at Alnwick, after a short illness, Mr. Thompson,
a Roman Catholic priest. ^^
Deaths, Dec, 1790.
Mr. Robert Maddeson of Billingham, near Stockton. i'^
Mr. Robert Coward, brewer at Rothl:)ury.i2
Henry Horsley was baptized at Warkworth on the 24 February,
1735 6, as son of Thomas Horsley of Morwick by his wife Anne, daughter of
Henry Forster of Low Angertoii. On the death of his father, in 1742, he
succeeded to a small property at Morwick, to St. Margaret's Grange, in the
parish of Alnwick, &c. He died unmarried. Cf. pedigree of Horsley, new
JJinton/ of Xorthnmlierlaiid, vol. v. p. 360.
" Mr. George Reed of Heathpool, in tlie parish of Kirknewton, purchased
Hoppen, in the parish of Baniburgh, in the year 17o0, and gave it to Lancelot
Reed, the eldest son of his second marriage with Margaret, sister of Cieorge
Jeffrej'. On the death of Lancelot, who was a mahogany merchant at Hatton
\Valls, London, in November, 1784, unmarried and intestate, his real estate
came to Mary Reed, his sister of tlie whole blood, as heir-at-law. Miss Reed,
who resided in Charlotte Street, Bedford Scjuare, died IS November, 1790, and hy
will dated 1st August, 1789, gave Hoppen to her kinsman (ieorge Reed of
South Middleton, near Wooler.
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William Wyndham Grenville, F.R.S., of Wotton, Bucks., second son of
Right Hon. Geoi-ge (Jrenville, was created Baron Grenville 25 Nov., 1790, and
died iu 1.S34 s.jj.
® Yesterday se'nnight, at night, Mr. Henry Barber, common brewer at
Belford and land steward for the Bamburgh Castle estates, was drowned near
Ross Link, H0I3' Island. y< n-castle (oiirunf, 11 Dec, 1790. He was 46 years of
age. Monumental Inscription, Belford.
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A gentleman of genteel knowledge.' yewcastte Conrant, 11 Dec, 1790.
" Mr. Robert Mad