10 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12S. X.JAN. 7, 1922. NATHANIEL EATON, President designate of Harvard College, was the sixth son of the Rev. Richard Eaton, vicar of Budworth, Cheshire. What was his mother's maiden name ? He is said to have been twice married, one of his wives being a daughter of Thomas Graves of Virginia. I should be glad to obtain the dates and further particulars of these two marriages. The ' D.N.B.,' xvi. 337, does not throw any light on these points. G. F. R. B. WILLIAM GEORGE EVELEIGH, the third son of the Rev. William Eveleigh, vicar of Aylesford, Kent, graduated B.A. at Oxford University from Brasenose in 1832. The date and place of his death are required. G. F. R. B. ' NOT So BAD As WE SEEM ' : CHARLES KNIGHT. Who was the Charles Knight j mentioned as one of the performers in 1851 ! Was he by any chance Charles Parsons | Knight, the landscape painter, son of Canon William Knight of Bristol ? W. HAYTHORNE.
- AN ANAGRAM. Has the
word " Moliere " ever been explained as an anagram similar to " Voltaire " ? A. SCOTT. AUTHORS WANTED. 1. Will anyone kindly en- lighten me as to the authorship of the following : " He crossed the flood at such a narrow point as scarcely to feel the chill," obviously referring to a last passage ? Is the quotation verbally correct ? JOHN FORBES. 2. Can any of your readers kindly oblige with the author of the following lines : " A heart at leisure from itself To soothe and sympathise." C. L. H. [From a poem by Anna Laetitia Waring, beginning " Father, I know that all my life Is portioned out for me," which may be found in several collections e.g.,
- Poems of the Inner Life " (Sampson Low).]
3. Some years ago, when in the British Museum, in perusing a volume of poems there was one that Appealed to me. The theme was faithfulness After loss of the loved one, and each stanza ended with the word " Instead," in the sense that none other would do instead. I think the writer was of the Victorian period, but as I mislaid my note about the poem and am without the name or the first line, I am unable to find it by knowledge of the last word in a sense contrary to the literal meaning. If any of your readers can guide me to this poem by furnishing name and author I will be very much obliged. FITZ-MINSTRELLE. fctplie*. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT : LADY MARY KING. (12 S. ix. 490.) THE lady referred to in The European Maga- zine was Lady Mary Elizabeth King, third daughter of the second Earl of Kingston. Two accounts of the tragedy referred to are known to me, one in the ' Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne ' (vol. i., p. 119), the other in a modern compilation, * Love Romances of the Aristocracy,' by Thornton Hall, barrister -at -law. It is also cautiously referred to by Sir Jonah Barrington in his ' Personal Sketches ' (vol. i., p. 196). The Comtesse's account is that of a contempo- rary and she was a personal friend and claims deep affection for Lady Mary King. At the same time her recollections were written down without notes and there are obvious omissions in her account of the tragedy. Briefly, she tells us that Lady Mary at the age of about 18 eloped with Colonel Fitzgerald, who was the natural son of her mother's brother and therefore her cousin in blood. Fitzgerald was a colonel in the Guards, tall, handsome, and popular. He was about 30, was married, and had been Mary's playfellow since she was a child. This fatal infatuation seized these two otherwise excellent persons and they were found at a house in Kennington, where Mary, dressed in boy's clothes, was waiting to embark for America with her lover. There was an inconclusive duel in Hyde Park between Colonel Fitzgerald and Colonel King, Mary's brother. She was enceinte, and her family hurried her off to a lonely house belonging to her father, on the shores of the Atlantic in the west of Ireland. According to the Comtesse, Mary feared for the life of the child she was about to bring into the world, and she induced the woman who was in charge of her to agree to send a letter to Colonel Fitzgerald begging him to send a reliable agent to the nearest village to take away the child. The woman gave up the letter to her father, then Vis- count Kingsborough, and he used it as a means to entrap Fitzgerald. The letter was allowed to go to him, for the father suspected that Fitzgerald would come for the child him- self. He did, alone, and disguised. He was murdered by Mary's father and brothers, and the letter and Mary's minia- ture found on him were brought to her
