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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mansel, George

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​MANSEL, K.L.H. (Captain, 1840. f-p., 17; h-p., 22.)
George Mansel entered the Navy, 30 May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Venerable 74, Capts. Andw. King and Sir Home Popham, in which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. John Strachan, he accompanied the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren. After cruizing for some time in the Eliza tender, Lieut.-Commander Nicholas Kortwright, he became attached, in July, 1811, to the Surveillante 38, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, under whom he served, in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, until transferred, as Midshipman, about March, 1812, to the San Domingo 74, successive flag-ship of Sir R. J. Strachan and Sir John Borlase Warren in the North Sea and North America. He continued on the latter station in the Colibri sloop, Capt. John Thomson, Nymphe 38, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth, and Albion 74 and Tonnant 80, bearing the flags of Admirals Geo. Cockburn and Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, until the summer of 1815; and he then, for a few weeks, joined the Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, on the Channel station. In July, 1816, he sailed for the Mediterranean in the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth, who, on their arrival, nominated him Lieutenant of the Minden 74, Capt. Wm. Paterson, a capacity in which he took part in the bombardment of Algiers. He returned home shortly afterwards in the Queen Charlotte, and was paid off; but he did not succeed in obtaining his official promotion until 29 Jan. 1821. His next appointment was, 24 July, 1824, to the Valorous sloop, Capt. the Earl of Huntingdon, fitting for the Jamaica station, where it was his fortune, 2 Dec. 1826, to be made Commander into the Magnificent hospital and store-ship at Port Royal. Returning home about the commencement of 1828, Capt. Mansel, on a subsequent occasion, proceeded to the Mediterranean, and there, during the operations of the French against Algiers, performed such good service as to lead to his being invested, 14 Nov. 1831, with the order of the Legion of Honour. He afterwards, 20 April, 1840, assumed command of the Wasp 16; and on 28 Sept. in that year, as a reward for his services at the capture of Sidon he was advanced to Post-rank. In the following Nov. he witnessed the fall of St. Jean d’Acre. His appointments have since been – 9 Jan. 1841, to the Powerful 84, also in the Mediterranean, whence he came home in the following Sept. – and, 14 Dec. 1844, to the Actaeon 26, in which ship he is now on the coast of Africa.
Agent – John Chippendale.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mansel, Thomas

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​MANSEL. (Captain, 1834. f-p., 19; h-p., 30.)
Thomas Mansel entered the Navy, in 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hyaena 24, Capts. Hon. Courtenay Boyle and David Lloyd, stationed at ​first in the North Sea and afterwards in the Mediterranean. Removing as Midshipman, in 1800, to the Elephant 74, Capts. Thos. Foley and Geo. Dundas, he served in that ship under Lord Nelson at the hattle of Copenhagen 2 April, 1801, and on proceeding to the West Indies took part in the operations of 1803 against the French at St. Domingo. Between the summer of 1804, on 16 Sept. in which year he was confirmed a Lieutenant, and the date of his promotion to the rank of Commander, 15 June, 1814, we find him serving, in every quarter of the globe, in the Port Mahon sloop, Capt. Sam. Chambers, Barracouta schooner, commanded by himself, Racoon 18, Capt. Edw. Crofton, Avon 18, Capt. Mauritius Adolphus Newton De Starck, Dreadnought 98, Capt. Wm. Lechmere, Volontaire 38, Capt. Chas. Bullen, Hibernia 110, Capt. R. J. Neve, Troubridge armed ship, under his own orders, Dragon 74, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Laforey, and Barham 74, Capt. John Wm. Spranger. He was wounded, during that period, in the boats of the Racoon at the recapture of a merchant-vessel off Cuba – was present in the Avon (after having escorted a Russian ship of the line to the Baltic, and Mr. Erskine, H.M. Minister, to the United States) in a gallant escape made by that vessel from the French 74-gun ship Regulus – aided, when in the Volontaire, in conveying the present King of the French to Malta, as also in capturing the island of Pomégue, near Marseilles, and in destroying Fort Rioux, mounting 14 guns, near Cape Croisette – and commanded the Troubridge at the reduction of the Isle of France. His last appointment was, 13 April, 1831, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued until posted 12 Feb. 1834.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mant, Joseph Bingham

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​MANT. (Retired Commander, 1837. f-p., 15; h-p., 51.)
Joseph Bingham Mant was born 15 July, 1768, at Havant, in Hants, and died 2 March, 1845, at Padstow, co. Cornwall. He was brother-in-law, we believe, of General Miller, R.M.
This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy 3 Feb. 1779, and continued a student at that institution until Sept. 1782; on 12 of which month he embarked as Midshipman on board the Atlas 98, Capt. Geo. Vandeput, and proceeded off Gibraltar. He next, from 1783 to 1786, and for a short time in 1791, served on the Halifax and Channel stations in the Mercury and Marlborough, Capts. Stanhope and Bazely; and in 1794-5 he became in succession attached to the Victory 100, flag-ship of Lord Hood, and Arethusa and Phaeton frigates, Capts. Mark Robinson and Hon. Robt. Stopford. On 6 Sept. 1796, Mr. Mant, who had acted for a period as Lieutenant of the Arethusa, was confirmed to that rank in the Firm gun-vessel. His succeeding appointments were, chiefly on the Home station, to the Cumberland 74, Capt. Rowley, Shannon frigate, Capt. Alex. Fraser, Powerful 74, Capt. Wm. O’Brien Drury, Dromedary store-ship, Capt. Thos. Leith, Valiant 74, Capt. John Cochet, Ruby 64, Capt. Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner, Atlas 98, Capt. Theophilus Jones, and Courageux 74, Capt. Chas. Boyles. He left the ship last mentioned in 1804 in consequence of ill health, and did not again go afloat. He accepted the rank of Retired Commander on the Senior List 26 Dec. 1837.
From 9 Oct. 1804 until July, 1812, Commander Mant was a Poor Knight of Windsor. He married, 14 Jan. 1813, Miss Jane Osborne, and by that lady had issue three sons and two daughters. His eldest son was drowned in the merchant-service in 1834; and his next, George, at present holds an appointment in the Excise.
# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 75

Chap. LXXV.—Of the Balance of a Figure resting upon its Feet.
The man who rests upon his feet, either bears the weight of his body upon them equally, or unequally. If equally, it will be with some accidental weight, or simply with his own; if it be with an additional weight, the opposite extremities of his members will not be equally distant from the perpendicular of his feet. But if he simply carries his own weight, the opposite extremities will be equally distant from the perpendicular of his feet: and on this subject of gravity I shall write a separate book.
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# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 78

Chap. LXXVIII.—Of the Balance of Figures, Plate IX.
If the figure rests upon one foot, the shoulder on that side will always be lower than the other; and the pit of the neck will fall perpendicularly over the middle of that leg which supports the body. The same will happen in whatever other view we see that figure, when it has not the arm much extended, nor any weight on its back, in its hand, or on its
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# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 72

Chap. LXXII.—Of the Quickness or Slowness of Motion.
The motion performed by a man, or any other animal whatever, in walking, will have more or less velocity as the centre of their weight is more or less removed from the centre of that foot upon which they are supported.
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# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 73

Chap. LXXIII.—Of the Motion of Animals.
That figure will appear the swiftest in its course which leans the most forwards.
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# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 77

Chap. LXXVII.—Of a Man standing, but resting more upon one Foot than the other.
After a man, by standing long, has tired the leg upon which he rests, he sends part of his weight upon the other leg. But this kind of posture is to be employed only for old age, infancy, or extreme lassitude, because it expresses weariness, or very little power in the limbs. For that reason, a young man, strong and healthy, will always rest upon one of his legs, and if he removes a little of his weight upon the other, it is only a necessary preparative to motion, without which it is impossible to move; as we have proved before, that motion proceeds from inequality.
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# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 74

Chap. LXXIV.—Of a Figure moving against the Wind, Plate VIII.
A man moving against the wind in any direction does not keep his centre of gravity duly disposed upon the centre of support.
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# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 79

Chap. LXXIX.—In what Manner extending one Arm alters the Balance.
The extending of the arm, which was bent, removes the weight of the figure upon the foot which bears the weight of the whole body: as is observable in rope-dancers, who dance upon the rope with their arms open, without any pole.
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# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 80

Chap. LXXX.—Of a Man bearing a Weight on his Shoulders, Plate X.
The shoulder which bears the weight is always higher than the other. This is seen in the figure opposite, in which the centre line passes through the whole, with an equal weight on each side, to the leg on which it rests. If the weight were not equally divided on each side of this central line of gravity, the whole would fall to the ground. But Nature has provided, that as much of the natural weight of the man should be thrown on one side, as of accidental weight on the other, to form a counterpoise. This is effected by the man’s bending, and leaning on the side not loaded, so as to form an equilibrium to the accidental weight he carries; and this cannot be done, unless the loaded shoulder be raised, and the other lowered. This is the resource with which Nature has furnished a man on such occasions.
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# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 76

Chap. LXXVI.—A Precept.
The navel is always in the central or middle line of the body, which passes through the pit of the stomach to that of the neck, and must have as much weight, either accidental or natural, on one side of the human figure as on the other. This is demonstrated by extending the arm, the wrist of which per​forms the office of a weight at the end of a steelyard; and will require some weight to be thrown on the other side of the navel, to counterbalance that of the wrist. It is on that account that the heel is often raised.
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# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 8

Chap. VIII.—Motion, Changes, and Proportion of Members.
The measures of the human body vary in each member, according as it is more or less bent, or seen in different views, increasing on one side as much as they diminish on the other.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Smythe, George

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​SMYTHE. (Commander, 1847.)
George Smythe, born 26 Sept. 1811, is second surviving son of the late John Groome Smythe, Esq., of Hilton, co. Salop, Major of the Local Militia, and Deputy-Lieutenant of the co., by Anne, youngest daughter of Thos. Parke, Esq., of Highfield House, co. Lancaster, and sister of the Right Hon. Baron Parke, of the Court of Exchequer. He is brother of the present Thos. Smythe, Esq., of Hilton, Captain in the Madras Engineers, and of John Groome Smythe, Esq., Lieutenant Hon.E.I.Co.’s service, who died 25 July, 1839; and brother-in-law of Lieut.-General Henry Monckton.
This officer entered the Navy 13 Aug. 1825; passed his examination in 1831; obtained his first commission 14 Feb. 1834; served in the Mediterranean from 1 May, 1834, until the spring of 1838, in the Portland 52, Capt. David Price, and from 1841 until 1844, as First-Lieutenant, in the Scout 18, Capt. Hon. Jas. Robt. Drummond; and from 5 June in the latter year until advanced to his present rank 9 July, 1847, was employed as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Hugh Pigot, Commander-in-Chief at Cork. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Snell, William

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​SNELL. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 18; h-p., 30.)
William Snell is brother of Commander Geo. Snell, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Aug. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Venerable 74, Capts. Sir Wm. Geo. Fairfax and Sam. Hood; in which ship and the Resistance 38, Capt. Henry Digby, he continued employed in the Channel until July, 1801. In June, 1803, he became Midshipman of the Britannia 100, Captain, afterwards Rear-Admiral, the Earl of Northesk; and in June, 1806, after having fought at the battle of Trafalgar, he removed to the Lavinia 40, Capts. Lord Wm. Stuart and John Hancock, stationed at first in the Channel and then in the Mediterranean; where he served as Master’s Mate, from Aug. 1808 until July, 1810, on board the Royal Sovereign 100, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough. He next, in Sept. 1810, joined the Hibernia 120, Capts. Nash and John Chambers White; with the latter of whom, on returning to the Mediterranean, he removed, in Dec. of the same year, to the Centaur 74. In that ship, of which he was created an Acting and a confirmed Lieutenant 19 Oct. and 4 Dec. 1811, he co-operated in the defence of Tarragona. He left her in Jan. 1813, and was subsequently appointed – 19 March, 1813, to the Fervent 12, Capts. Chas. Hope Reid and Wm. Hotham, employed in the Baltic and Channel – 16 Nov. 1814, to the Calypso 18, Capts. C. H. Reid and Sam. Sison, stationed, until July, 1816, off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean – and 16 May, 1818, to the Driver 18, also commanded by Capt. Reid, with whom he served on the coast of Scotland until paid off in Oct. 1821. He has not, we believe, been since afloat. Agents – Burnett and Holmes.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Snellgrove, Henry

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​SNELLGROVE. (Lieutenant, 1811. f-p., 12; h-p., 37.)
Henry Snellgrove was born 1 Sept. 1782, and died in 1848.
This officer (who had been wrecked in 1798 in the Mary Anne transport, and had co-operated in the Earl Howe Indiaman in the attack upon Seringapatam) entered the Navy, 8 July, 1803, as A.B., on board the Colossus 74, Capts. Geo. Martin, Michael Seymour, and Jas. Nicoll Morris. In the course of the following month he attained the rating of Midshipman; and he continued in the Colossus, cruizing off the coasts of France, Spain, and Portugal, until after the battle of Trafalgar. In consequence of several injuries he there sustained, he was presented with a gratuity from the Patriotic Fund. From Dec. 1805 until May, 1809, he served, nearly the whole time in the West Indies, in the Canada 74, Capt. John Harvey, and Guerrière 40, Capt. Alex. Skene. He then joined the Martin sloop, Capt. John Evans, at Bermuda; and on 18 of the following July, having just completed his time, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Eurydice 24, Capt. Jas. Bradshaw. From that vessel, which had been stationed in the West Indies and North America, he was superseded 20 April, 1811. He was officially promoted 1 Aug. in the same year; and was lastly, from 20 March, 1812, until 12 June, 1815, employed in the Mediterranean, and again off the coast of America in the Brune 38, armée en flûte, Capts. John Thompson and Wm. Stanhope Badcock (now Lovell). While in that ship he was lent, at first, to the Cadiz flotilla; and was present afterwards at the sieges of the Col de Balaguer and Tarragona, the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the Patuxent, the capture of Washington, and the attack upon Baltimore. From constant exposure in boats his health suffered very materially.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Snow, Robert

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​SNOW. (Lieutenant, 1815.)
Robert Snow died in 1848.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 March, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Saracen sloop, Capts. Jas. Prevost and Buckland Stirling Bluett; in which vessel he was for nearly six years and a half employed on the Home, South American, West India, and Mediterranean stations. In July, 1807, he was present as Midshipman in the unsuccessful attack made by Lieut.-General Whitelocke on Buenos Ayres. In Sept. 1811 he joined, for three months, the Queen 74, Capt. Lord John Colville; and from Feb. 1812 until presented in Aug. 1815 with a commission bearing date 21 Feb. in that year, he served in the West Indies and North America, nearly the whole time in the capacity of Master’s Mate, in the Dragon 74, Capts. Fras. Augustus Collier and Robt. Barrie. Under the latter officer he participated in a variety of very gallant performances, and accompanied a highly successful expedition up the Penobscot. His last appointments afloat, we believe, were, in Dec. 1825 and March, 1826, to the Superb 78, and Melville 74, both commanded, at Portsmouth, by Capt. Henry Hill. For several years prior to his death he inspected the Powder Magazine at New Zealand. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Soady, Joseph

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​SOADY. (Commander, 1822. f-p., 19; h-p., 28.)
Joseph Soady was born about 1788.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Sept. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Edgar 74, Capt. Edw. Buller, whom he followed as Midshipman, in March, 1801, into the Achille 74, commanded afterwards by Capt. John Okes Hardy. In those ships he continued employed in the Channel until June, 1802. In March, 1803, he again joined Capt. Buller on board the Malta 84; and in her, after sharing in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805, he proceeded to the Mediterranean; whence in June, 1807, he returned to England in the Comus of 32 guns, Capt. Conway Shipley. In March of the latter year he appears to have assisted in the boats at the destruction of a large transport laden with ordnance stores, which had been wrecked near Cadiz. He was made Lieutenant, 17 Aug. 1807, into the Colossus 74, Capts. Jas. Nicoll Morris and Thos. Alexander, employed in the Channel and again in the Mediterranean; and was subsequently appointed, – 4 Sept. 1812 and 12 Oct. 1814, to the Surprise 38, Capts. Sir Thos. John Cochrane and Geo. Wm. Henry Knight, and Nymphe 38, Capt. Hugh Pigot, on the North American and West India stations – 16 Sept. 1816, to the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins – 9 Oct. 1818, to the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence he invalided in Dec. 1819 – and, 20 July, 1822, to the Pandora 18, Capt. Fred. Hunn, at Newfoundland. In the Colossus and her boats he aided at the defence, in 1808-10, of the fortress of Rosas and the city of Cadiz, and was frequently in action with the enemy’s gun-vessels and batteries. In a gallant but unsuccessful attack made, 27 Dec. 1811, by the boats of the Colossus and Conquestador 74, commanded by himself and by Lieut. Stackpoole, on a convoy in Basque Roads, protected by three gun-brigs, an armed lugger, and several pinnaces, his own boat was the only one, and that most miraculously, that escaped falling into the hands of the enemy. He contributed, about the same period, to the capture and destruction of several vessels to the southward of Ile d’Aix. In 1814 we find him employed up the Patuxent in the boats of the Surprise, and on shore with the Naval brigade in the attack upon Baltimore. Towards the close of the same year he accompanied, as First-Lieutenant of the Nymphe, the expedition against New Orleans; and on 27 Aug. 1816, he fought, in the Superb, at the battle of Algiers. On that occasion, the Captain and the Senior-Lieutenant having been placed hors de combat the command of the ship devolved upon Mr. Soady, who succeeded in extricating her from the perilous position she at the time held, and, after refitting her, brought her to England. He attained his present rank 26 Dec. 1822; and since 9 July, 1830, has filled the appointment of Superintendent of the shipping belonging to the Ordnance department.
Commander Soady married, 29 Aug. 1822, Rosetta, third daughter of the late Mr. Gray, surgeon, of Kingsand, co. Cornwall, by whom he has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Snell, John Cooke

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​SNELL. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John Cooke Snell entered the Navy 23 Jan. 1827; passed his examination 6 Dec. 1834; and was promoted (while serving at Portsmouth as Mate of the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington) to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Nov. 1841. On 5 March, 1842, he was appointed Additional of the same ship, then bearing the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean; where he removed, 19 April following, to the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard. He returned to England and was paid off in Jan. 1843; and has not been since afloat.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Sneyd, Clement

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​SNEYD. (Rear-Admiral, 1846.)
Clement Sneyd, born in Feb. 1773, at Bishton, near Rugeley, Staffordshire, is second surviving son of the late John Sneyd, Esq., at one time of Bishton and afterwards of Belmont, by his first wife Penelope, eldest daughter of Thos. Kynnersley, Esq., of Loxley Park, co. Stafford; and brother (with the present Wm. Sneyd, Esq., of Ashcombe, co. Stafford) of Lieut. Ralph Sneyd, R.N., who died 7 March, 1805.
This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1786, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Expedition 44, Capt. Jas. Vashon, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Alan Gardner, with whom he served his time in the West Indies and Channel in the same ship, and the Courageux 74. From the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 14 Oct. 1793 until Dec. 1795, he was employed in the Swift sloop, Capt. John Doling, and Suffolk 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Peter Rainier, in the East Indies. He next, in Dec. 1796 and July, 1799, joined the Russel 74, and Juste 80, Capts. Arch. Dickson and Sir Henry Trollope, in the former of which ships he bore a warm part in the action off Camperdown 11 Oct. 1797. After serving, as First-Lieutenant, with Capt. Jas. Walker in the Prince George 98, and with Capt. Wm. Selby in the Cerberus 32 (the latter engaged at the bombardment of Granville in 1803), he was appointed, in the spring of 1804, to the Culloden 74, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, by whom, on their arrival in the East Indies, he was appointed Governor, with the rank of Acting-Commander, of the Hospital at Madras. He was confirmed a Commander 25 Sept. 1806; acted subsequently as Captain of the Lord Duncan and Sir Francis Drake frigates; was appointed, 26 Oct. 1809, to the Muros 14, on the Home station; and from 3 April, 1811 (the date of his Post commission), until 13 June, 1813, commanded the Myrtle 20, on the coast of Portugal. While in the Sir Francis Drake, and in charge of a China convoy, Capt. Sneyd, we are told, beat off the French frigate ​Piémontaise of superior force. On being superseded from her, in consequence of a change in the administration, he returned home a passenger in the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier; which ship, when near the Cape of Good Hope, was caught in a violent gale and half dismasted, while several ships under her convoy actually foundered. Capt. Sneyd accepted his present rank 1 Oct. 1846.
He married, first, 27 Oct. 1813, Helen, third daughter of Roger Swetenham, Esq., of Somerford Booths, near Congleton, Cheshire, by whom (who died 16 March, 1821) he had issue one son and two daughters; and, secondly, Eliza Catherine, daughter of John Cotton, Esq., of Etwell, co. Derby.