Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed._ 1854, _portrait_; _European Mag. lxxv_, 387 (1819) _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan society, ii_, 304–306 (1855); _Minutes of proceedings of institution of civil engineers, xiv_, 120–23 (1855). AIKIN, LUCY (_only dau. of John Aikin, M.D. of Harrington 1747–1822_). _b._ Warrington 6 Nov. 1781; author of _Epistles on women, a poem_ 1810, _Lorimer, a tale_ 1814, _Memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth_, _2 vols._ 1818; _Memoirs of the court of King James I_, _2 vols._ 1822; _Memoirs of the court of King Charles I_, _2 vols._ 1833; _Life of Addison_ 1843; lived at Church row, Hampstead, June 1822 to 1830; at 18 Church row 1830–44; in London 1844–45; at Wimbledon 1845–50; at John st. Hampstead 1850 to death. _d._ Milford house, Hampstead 29 Jany. 1864. _bur._ near east end of old churchyard of Hampstead. _Memoirs, miscellanies and letters of the late Lucy Aikin, edited by P. H. Le Breton_ 1864; _J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed._ 1854, _portrait_. AIKMAN, JAMES. A bookseller in Edinburgh; author of _Poems, chiefly lyrical_ 1816; _An account of the tournament at Eglinton_ 1839; _The animal kingdom_ 1861; editor and proprietor of a weekly paper called _The Star_. _d._ Edinburgh 21 May 1860 aged 81. AILESBURY, CHARLES BRUDENELL-BRUCE, 1 Marquess of (_3 and youngest son of Thomas Bruce 1 earl of Ailesbury 1729–1814, by his 1 wife Susanna dau. of Henry Hoare of Stourhead, Wilts and widow of honble. Charles Boyle, she d. 4 Feb. 1783_). _b._ Seamore place Mayfair, London 12 Feb. 1773; M.P. for Marlborough (tory) as Charles B. B. Bruce commonly called Lord Bruce 30 May 1796 to 19 April 1814, when he succeeded; col. of Wiltshire yeomanry 1798–1811; col. commandant of Wiltshire militia 25 July 1811 to 1827; K.T. 20 May 1819; created Viscount Savernake of Savernake Forest co. Wilts, Earl Bruce of Whorlton co. York, and Marquess of Ailesbury co. Buckingham 17 July 1821. (_m._ (1) 10 April 1793 Henrietta Maria 1 dau. of Noel Hill, 1 baron Berwick, she _d._ 2 Jany. 1831. _m._ (2) 20 Aug. 1833 Maria Elizabeth youngest dau. of honble. Charles Tollemache and widow of Charles John Clarke, she was _b._ 27 Oct. 1809). _d._ Tottenham park near Marlborough 4 Jany. 1856. _bur._ in family vault in parish church of Great Bedwyn, Wilts 12 Jany. AILESBURY, GEORGE WM. FREDERICK BRUDENELL-BRUCE, 2 Marquess of (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ Lower Grosvenor st. London 20 Nov. 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch Ox.; lieut. col. commandant Wilts yeomanry cavalry 30 June 1837 and col. 1 April 1876 to death; summoned to house of Lords in his father’s barony of Bruce 10 July 1838; kept a racing stud 1840 to death; won the St. Leger with St. Albans 12 Sep. 1860; succeeded his father 4 Jany. 1856; aide de camp to the Queen with rank of colonel 13 March 1857 to death; P.C. 18 June 1859; master of the horse to the Queen 24 June 1859 to July 1866 and 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord lieut. of Wilts 25 March 1863 to death; K.G. 23 May 1864; succeeded his cousin as 8 Earl of Cardigan 28 March 1868. (_m._ 11 May 1837 Mary Caroline 2 dau. of George Augustus Herbert, 11 Earl of Pembroke, she was _b._ 22 March 1813). _d._ Savernake park, Marlborough 6 Jany.