Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-08-09
HAVE NO MALE ISSUE.
MANY GREAT NAMES IN ENG
LAND ARE EXTINCT.
tliustrious Britishers Who Have No
Male Descendants to he present Them
and Bear Their Cognomens-Great
ness Seems to Die Out Quickly.

No direct male descendant Of the
Lord Protector survives to enjoy the
tribute paid to the memory of his
epoch making ancestor. the last Crom-
we'll in direct line from 'Old Noll'
having been one Oliver, an attorney.
the son Of worthy grocer of Snow
Hill. In this connection it is interest
dead are now unrepresented by direct
male descendants. Here Is an ample
list of names of light and leading in
literary history: Chaucer. Shakespeare,
Spenser, Milton. Cowley, Butler, Dry
den, Pope, Swift Addison. Cowper,
Goldsmith, DIR. Johnson. Byron, Shell
ley, Keats. Tom Moore, Charles Reade,
and r. l.. Stevenson, and of not one
of these land doubtless there are 9TH
ers) does direct male representative
exist. Turn from literary celebrities
to naval and military heroes. to states
men and to politicians. Sir Philip Sid
ney, illustrious In letters and In war,
left but zone fair daughter" who died
without Issue. Sir Walter Ralelgh's $
male descendants have long since died
out, or have descended to such social
depths as to be untraceable. Sir Fran
els Drake and Nelson, the naval heroes
Of two great fighting epochs, died child
less. The patriot Hampden's last male
descendant passed away "a lonely
bachelor In 1854. Gen. Monk, Duke
Of Albemarle, had but one son. and
with him expired the hardly earned
and newly acquired family honor.
Though 1t Is not infrequently assum-
ed that the Dukes of Marlborough of
our day are directly descended in the
male line from the great Churchill this
Is not the case. That splendid soldiers
only son died In Infancy, and his hon
ors ana possession passed to his daugh-
ters. The great Lord Peterborough had
sons, Dut no grandson. Ill-starred
Stranord married thrice, but each of
his sons died without issue. The cele.
brated Duke Of Ormondes direct line
ended with his grandsOn's death nj
AVlghon. Clarendon, famous historian
or the rebellion, though he left fou
sons, had but one grandson, who died
without male issue. Horace Walpole
was The last male descendant of Sir
ROBERT, the famous minister. and he
never married. Bolingbroke twice made
matrimonial venture, but had no child
| Dy either wife. The historic family Of
Fit In respect of direct male heirs
ceased In 1885, while the rival house OF
FOX lasted but little longer. Charles
James Fox left no heir, and the only
son or his nephew, the third Lord Hol.
land, died childless at Naples just forty
years ago. Edmund Burke had but
one son, who died in early manhood
leaving his broken hearted father ia
exclaim: Mine Is a grief that cannot
be comfortedr'
AS Win the statesmen. so with the
philosophers and scientists. Neither
Bacon, Newton, Locke, Davy nor Stu
art Mill left son to inherit his fame.
while of historians, Hume. Gibbon and
Macaulay were never married. Among
our great painters, Reynolds, Lawrence
and the late Lord Leighton We're bach.
elors. Hogarth perpetrated romantic
love match, which was fruitless, and
Turner, the great magician of color
and canvas, twice soured by early dis
appointments, never married. Handel
who may almost be claimed as an Eng,
lishman, had no wife but his art. Bra.
ham, perhaps our greatest singer
whose daughter some OF us remember
as Lady Waldegrave. | believe left no
son; while OF the giants of the foot
lights, Davy Garrick and John Kemble
died childless, and the direct male Is
sue OF Edmund Kean ended with the
death of his son Charles.-I.ondon Pail
Mall Gazette.