talents and accomplishments which would have qualified him to fill any station in the church with dignity, and his connections in life were such that he had good reason to expect considerable preferment, yet as soon as the glorious light of the gospel visited his mind, he renounced every prospect of temporal advantage. An occasional correspondent of Lady Huntingdon, he till this period had never had a personal interview with her. He was one of the most aged ministers of Christ in the kingdom, and was inferior to none in the fervour of his spirit, in the simplicity of his manners, and in the ancient hospitality of the gospel.” Mr Perronet was represented collaterly by the late Colonel Thomas Perronet Thompson (born 1783), Fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge, and (in 1802) Seventh Wrangler, author of “A Catechism on the Corn Laws,” M.P. for Hull.
Chapter XXVI. (pp. 280, 281).
Offspring of the Refugees in the Army and Navy.
(1.) Page 280. Colonel Scipio Duroure (died 1745), and Lieutenant-General Alexander Duroure (born 1700, died 1765), were sons of Captain Francois Du Roure and Catherine de Rieutort. The commission of Alexander as Lieutenant-General was dated 6th December 1760. I regret the errata in the dates concerning him.
(2.) Page 281. Lieutenant-General Louis Dejean (died 1764), was evidently of French Protestant descent.
(3.) Page 282. Sir Thomas De Veille, Justice of the Peace and Colonel of the Westminster Militia, formerly a Captain of Dragoons (born 1684, died 1746), was the son of a refugee pasteur.
(4.) Page 281. Major John André (born 1751, executed by the enemy 1780), Adjutant-General in the American war, was a native of Lichfield, and descended from a French refugee family of Southampton.
Note.
At page 282 I gave the epitaph on Major André, inscribed on the monument at the date of its erection. I was not then aware that there is the following addition —
The remains of Major John Andre
were, on the 10th of August 1821, removed from Tappan
by James Buchanan, Esq., His Majesty’s Consul at New York,
under instructions from His Royal Highness the Duke of York,
and, with the permission of the Dean and Chapter,
finally deposited in a grave contiguous to this monument,
on the 28th of November 1821.
[As the monument does not appear in the Parliamentary return of monuments erected at the public expense, we may infer that it was paid for by King George III. out of the Privy Purse.]
(5.) Page 282. Major-General Henry Abraham Crommelin de Bernière (born 1762, died 1813), was great-grandson of a military refugee of ancient family. Captain Jean Antoine de Bernière.
(6.) Page 283. Captain Peter Garrick (born 1685, died 1736), was a refugee infant, son of David Garric, also a refugee. The theatrical manager, David Garrick, Esq., was one of the grandsons of Peter. At page 284, I give a document from the Heralds’ College, which ought to have been entitled “Document written by David Garrick’s great-grandfather, David Garric.”
Errata.
| Page | 283. | For | “the Old Buff’s,” | read | “The Old Buffs.” |
| 284, l. 3. | Herald’s, | Heralds’. | |||
| 285, l. 11. | Garnic, | Garric. |
