appreciate his high scientific powers and acquirements, which those virtues adorned. “In affectionate regard for his memory (writes Mr Johnson, his successor at the Radcliffe Observatory), and in admiration of his learning, I yield to no one. His private virtues are remembered by many of us; and his public services will be remembered as long as Astronomy is a science cultivated among men.” Professor Rigaud married, in 1815, Christian, eldest daughter of Gibbes Walker Jordan, Esq., by whom (who died in 1827) he had four sons and three daughters; as to his sons, —
- Stephen Jordan Rigaud, D.D., born March 1816, was Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, Head-Master of Ipswich School, and Bishop of Antigua, where he died, May 1859.
- Richard Rigaud, born January 1819, settled in South Australia, and died there, May 1865.
- Gibbes Rigaud, born May 1820, commanded the 2d Battalion of the 60th Royal Rifles, and retired as Major-General, January 1873.
- John Rigaud, B.D., born July 1821, was Demy, and subsequently Fellow, of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Inscription on a Tombstone in St James’ Church, Piccadilly.
“Here lie the mortal remains of Stephen Peter Rigaud, M.A., F.R.S., &c., born August 12th, 1774, who departed this life, in expectation of the Resurrection through faith in his Redeemer, March 16th, 1839. He was elected Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1794; Senior Proctor of the University, Savilian Professor of Geometry, and Reader in Experimental Philosophy, 1810; Savilian Professor of Astronomy, and Radcliffe Observer, 1827.”
Inscription on a Monumental Brass in the Ante-Chapel of Exeter College, Oxon.
In memoriam Stephani Petri Rigaud, A.M., hujusce Collegii olim Socii et Astronomige Professoris Savilliani, qui Londinii defunctus, die XVIto Martii A. S. MDCCCXXXIX., Eetatis su£e LXVto juxta ecclesiam Sti Jacobi parochialem Westmonasteriensem sepultus jacet; necnon Stephani Jordan Rigaud, S.T.P., ejusdem S.P.R. filii natu maximi, hujusce Collegii olim Socii, et Antiguce apud Indos Occidentales Episcopi, qui Antiguae die XVIImo Maii A. S. MDCCCLIX., aetatis suae XLIIIo, obiit, et ibidem juxta Ecclesiam Cathedralem sepultus est. Filii filiaeque Stephani Petri Rigaud superstites hoc ponendum curaverunt.
deo aeterno sit aeterna gloria.
(21.) James Robinson Planché, Somerset Herald, is a descendant of a refugee, said to have escaped from France concealed in a tub. The first refugee names on record are his sons or grandsons, Paul, Antoine, and Pierre Antoine Planché. Antoine married Mary Thomas, and had an only child, a daughter. Pierre Antoine, East India Merchant of London in 1763, was, by his wife, Sarah Douglas, the father of Captain John Douglas Planché of the 60th Foot (who died on active service in the West Indies in 1812), and grandfather of James Planché, a settler in America. We return to Paul Planché, who married, in 1723, Marie Anne Fournier, and had five sons. One of these sons was Andrew Planché (born 1728, died at Bath after 1804), the first maker of china (porcelain) in Derby, who, in his humble residence in Lodge Lane, “modelled and made small articles in china, principally animals — birds, cats, dogs, lambs, &c. — which he fired in a pipe-maker’s oven in the neighbourhood.” There is extant an agreement between John Heath of Derby, gentleman, Andrew Planche of the same place, china-maker, and William Duesbury of Langton, Staffordshire, enameller, dated 1st January 1756. Three sons of Andrew Planché and Sarah his wife, named Paul, James, and William, were registered at Derby. The youngest son of Paul, and brother of Andrew, was Jacques, baptised at the French Church in Leicester-Fields, London, in 1734, his sponsor being Jacques de Guyon de Pampelune. He was a watchmaker, and married the only child of his uncle, Antoine Planché. James Robinson Planché, his son, born in London, 27th February 1796, is the subject of this memoir. In 1818 he made his successful debut as a dramatic author. His employments, connected with theatrical business, led him to the ardent study of costume. In consequence, he has attained great and just celebrity by his “History of British
