No. LIV.

THE COUNTess Dowager of UXBRIDGE.

THIS lady was born in 1742, and, until her marriage, was known by the appellation of Miss Jane Champigne, being the daughter of the Rev. Arthur Champigne*, Dean of Clonmacnoise, in the kingdom of Ireland. In consequence of being descended from the Earls of Granard, to one of whom she was grand-daughter, this lady was allied to the noble families of Moira, Mornington, &c., and being very handsome, she was greatly admired by the late Earl of Uxbridge, to whom she was married April 11, 1767.

The Countess-Dowager, who preserved the appearance of beauty, even amidst the ruins of old age, lived to see her husband die, and her surviving children grown up; she also beheld her eldest son created Marquis of Anglesea, on account of his gallantry at Waterloo, where he lost a leg. Her Ladyship died at her house in Bolton-row, in 1817, in the 75th year of her age.

* Dean Champigne was the son of Major (Josias) Champigne of Port-Arlington, in Ireland, who married Jane, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Arthur Forbes, second Earl of Granard.

No. LV.

ALEXANDER MONRO, M. D. AND F. R. S.

OF EDINBURGH ;

PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE IN THAT UNIVERSITY,

AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.

THIS

HIS gentleman was the son of that great anatomist, Dr. Alexander Monro, born in Scotland, in 1697. He studied, for some time, at Leyden, and became the friend of Boerhaave; after which he returned to the capital of his native country, and delivered lectures there. His zeal, talents, and discoveries, soon rendered Edinburgh a school for * anatomy; and although materials for dissection are there less frequently obtained than in London, yet he attained no common degree of celebrity, in consequence of his scientific knowledge and pursuits.

His son Alexander was born in 1732, and lived to be considered the Nestor of northern physicians. Treading in the footsteps of his father, who died in 1767, he also became an eminent professor, and in 1781 collected and published all his works. His own professional labours were not inconsiderable, as may be seen from the following list:

1. Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System, 1783, fol.

2. The Structure and Physiology of Fishes, 1785, fol.

3. A Description of all the Bursæ Mucose of the Human Body, 1788, 4to.

4. Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline substances, 1793, 4to.

* He penned the Anatomical Class, in the University of Edinburgh.

5, Three Treatises on the Brain, the Eye, and the Ear, 1797, 4to.

6. Observations on Crural Hernia, with a general account of the other varieties of that complaint, 1803, 8vo.

7. The Morbid Anatomy, of the Gullet, the Stomach, and the Intestines, 1812, 8vo.

8. Outlines of the Anatomy of the Human Body, 1813, 4 vols. 8vo.

9. Observations on the Thoracic Duct, 1814, 4to.

Dr. Monro, after outliving all his contemporaries, died Oct. 2, 1817, in the 85th year of his age.

No. LVI.

MR. WILLIAM RUSSEL,

OF BRANCEPATH-CASTLE, IN THE COUNTY-PALATINE OF DURHAM,

It is impossible to contemplate such a man as this was without a mixture of love and veneration. Born in the county-palatine of Durham, in the year 1734-5, happily for the interests of humanity, he possessed a considerable fortune early in life, and lived long enough to administer it, as if he had been the steward of the public rather than the owner.

This gentleman, among many other acts of beneficence, founded and endowed an hospital in his native county, for aged persons of both sexes; to which he annexed a school for the education of the young. During the late distresses, arising out of a scanty harvest, as well as a variety of other concurring causes, he actually gave orders for the construction of places of reception for the poor, needy, and forlorn. Being an owner of extensive collieries below, as well as large estates above ground, he wisely contrived to excite the industry of the young and middle aged, by finding them constant employment.

Nor was he deficient in his duties as a patriot and citizen. In 1795, he contributed alike by his purse, his presence, and his influence, to the raising of a large body of infantry within the county-palatine, while at a more recent period, he actually collected and equipped a corps of sharp shooters, who in case of an invasion of the coal-district, would have proved essentially serviceable against the common enemy.

This gentleman united his fate to that of Miss Millbanke, daughter to an Admiral of the same name, who survives him,

and lived to a patriarchal age. In consequence of this, he saw all his children happily settled in life; for of his two daughters, one is the lady of Lieut.-General Sir Gordon Drummond, G. C. B. and the other of Lieut.-Col. Bunbury, brother to Sir Charles Bunbury, Bart., while he beheld his only son, Matthew, represent Saltash several times in Parliament, and who, after marrying Miss Tennison, settled at Hardwickehouse, near Durham, the estate around which he had purchased from the late Sir Henry Vane Tempest, Bart.

Mr. Russel died at Brancepath-Castle, in the county of Durham, at the good old age of eighty-three, leaving behind him the character of a man, who to many amiable qualities, superadded a pure benevolence and truly disinterested public spirit.