Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . of April, 1783, immediately after the communication to him by the Duke deCrillon of a peace, and when the wonderful defence of Gibraltar had been, without intermission,maintained for three years, seven months, and twelve days, General Eliott was invested on the spot withthe ensigns of the Order of the Bath. He received the well-merited thanks of Parliament, and, re
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . of April, 1783, immediately after the communication to him by the Duke deCrillon of a peace, and when the wonderful defence of Gibraltar had been, without intermission,maintained for three years, seven months, and twelve days, General Eliott was invested on the spot withthe ensigns of the Order of the Bath. He received the well-merited thanks of Parliament, and, remainingfor his life in the custody of the great monument of his glory, was, on the sixth of July, 1787, elevatedto a British peerage, by the title of Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, and on the same day of the samemonth, in the year 1790, died, of a paralytic seizure, at a seat which he had at Aix-la-Chapelle. Lord Heathfield married Anne Pollexfen, daughter of Sir Francis Drake, of Buckland in Devonshire,Baronet, and had by her, who died in 1772, Francis Augustus, his successor, in whom the title becameextinct: two other sons, who died infants ; and one daughter, Anne, married to John Trayton Fuller, ofBrightling, in m in !• \| OF SIB .Tiismw ! : i\ rHE COLLECTION OF THE UICHT II()NIJJ TIIK KAIil, OF EGREMOXT. Off PPHNTIirG AND FDELTSErHQ COK GEORGE BRYDGES RODNEY, hunt i,oki) BODNBY, ThII bright ornament to tin loSg list of our na\al heroes KM bOTD m tin- month of I >«< i, 1717, second of the three ions of limn Etodney, of WeIton»oa*Thames (in early life i sornel i \fi-<-, andafterwards a captain of marines), bj Mar\, eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir Henrj a, an eminent oivilian, who bad bees employed la some diplomatic m to the Italian States, li baa been said that be received his Christian names from QeoTge the Inst ami the Duke \ thai nohleman, asked, and obtained, permission so to baptize him, and that they were hi* , it is well know
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