The Press.
London, England, 1857-01-24 00:00:00

Obituarl.

HIS GRACE TILL DUKE OF RCTLAND, K.G., died at
half-past three o'clock on Tuesday, at Belvoir Castle,
near Granthan, in his seventy-ninth year. The
immediate cause of his death was an attack of bron-
chitis, supervening on a gradual decay. John
Henry Manners, fifth Duke and fourteenth Earl of
Rutland, Senior Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieu-
tenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of
Leicester, and Colonel of the Leicestershire Militia,
High Steward of Cambridge, Recorder of Scar-
borough and Grantham, a trustee of the British
Museum, and one of the Council of King's College,
London, was born on the 4th of January, 1778. He
was tiara eldest and last surviving son of Charles,
fourth Duke (son of the celebrated Marquis of
Granby), who died suddenly in 1787, at the ago of
thirty-four, from an internal attack, while holding the
important post of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by the
Lady Mary Isabella Somerset, youngest daughter of
Charles, fourth Duke of Beaufort, who died in 1831,
long after she had outlived her reputation as the
most beautiful woman of her day. The late duke
succeeded to tke princely title and estates of his
father when be was under ten years of age, and
consequently held his dukedom for the unprecedented
period of all but seventy years. At the usual age his
grace entered Trinity College, Cambridge, then under
Dr. Postlethwaite, where he took the degree of M.A.
in 1707. At the time of his decease be must have
been nearly the senior member of that college, with
the exception of Lord Lyndhurst, who graduated
there some three years before him, Having come to
his title at so early an age, his grace was never able
to hold a seat in the House of Commons. In 1799,
however, he took his seat in the Upper House, and
naturally gave his support to the then existing
Ministry of Mr. Pitt, who. it may here be remarked,
owed to the recommendation of the father his first
introduction to public life as member fur Lord
Lonsdale's pocket borough of Appleby. The duke,
however, though, on one occasion, we believe, be
moved or seconded the Address in the House of
Lords, never took an active or prominent part in the
proceedings of that assembly, but contented himself
with giving to the Ministries of Pitt, Addington,
Percewal, and Liverpool, as afterwards to Wellington,
Peel, and Lord Derby, a steady, but silent support.
During the greater portion of his time his brothers,
the late Lords Charles and Robert Manners, repre-
sented the Tory interest in the counties of Leicester
end Catnbridge, in which lies the greater part of the

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property of the house of Rutland. As a magistrate,
country gentleman, friend, neighbour, and parent it
is not too much to say that his grace was equally
honoured and beloved. As a proof of the affectionate
regard in which he was held by his tenantry we
may mention that so lately as Christmas, 1855, the
tenants on the Belvoir estates presented him with
his portrait, which they had painted by subscription
by. Grant. He took great pride in his corps of
Leicestershire Yeomanry ; and at Christmas and
other seasons of the year, and especially on his own
birthday, he rejoiced in keeping open house in
"princely style," and in entertaining not only les
family and friends, but the leading inhabitants of the
county and his own poorer dependants. He also
subscribed largely to the maintenance of the Leicester.
shire hunt, though for some years he had been unable
to follow the amusements of the chase. It should be
added that his grace was regarded with high esteem by
the poet Crabbe, who owed to his father his earliest
preferments ; and who mentions him with much re-
spect in the prefaces prefixed to his poetical work.
The deceased duke is succeeded in the family honours
and vast landed estates by his eldest son, the 'Marquis
of Granby. M.P. (now Duke of Rutland ), who way born
in May, 1815. He was first returned to the House
of Commons for Stamford in 1837, which borough he
uninterruptedly sat for until July, 1852. when he was
elected for North Leicestershire, on the retirement
of his uncle, the late General Lord Charles Manners.
By his accession to the House of Lords a vacancy
occurs in the representation of that division of the
county. By the lamented demise of the venerated
duke the families of the Duchess of Sutherland, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley, the
Countess of Carlisle, the Countess of Scarborough,
Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond, Mr. B. Coch-
rane, M.P., Mrs. Cochrane, and many others of rank,
are placed in mourning.
REAR ADMIRAL STEVENSON died last week at Leith.
This officer entered the navy in 1783 as a first-class
volunteer. He served first on the coast of North
America until 1789, and next in the Channel and
West Indies, from 1790 until 1792. In 1797 he was
nominated acting lieutenant of the Victorious, 74,
and assisted at the blockade of Mangalore. He re-
turned to England in 1803; obtained in 1804 an ap-
pointment in the Sea Fencibles at Dundee ; acquired
the rank of commander in 1806 ; and from the re.
ceipt of his post commission, bearing date 1812, was
employed (with the exception of an interval of two
months in the summer of 1808) on various parts of
the Baltic, Mediterranean, and home stations, He
made prize of two privateers, and accompanied the
expeditions to Copenhagen and Walcheren. He at.
tained his present rank in 1846.
DR. TATHAM, Master of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, died on Monday night at twelve o'clock in the
seventy-eighth year of his age. His decease was ex-
pected by his friends, as he had been gradually
declining for several months, and for the last three
weeks he was confined to his bed. He was the
twelfth Wrangler of his year, and graduated 8.A.,
1800; M.A., 1803; 8.D., 1811; D.D , 1839. In
1809 he was elected Public Orator, and discharged
the duties of that office with great ability till the year
1836, when be resigned. He was elected master of
his college on the death of Dr. Wood, in the year
1839.

THE COENTESi of CARHAIMTON died on the 18tb
inst., at Sillwood place, Brighton, in the eighty-flreit
year or her age. Her ladyship was the daughter a
John Morgan, Esq., and in 1798 became the second
wife of the B.ght Hon. .john Luttrell, third and last
Earl of Carhatupton, but was left a widow on the
decease of that nobleman in 18:29, who died without
leaving male issue, when the peerage consequently
expired.