The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-07-14
GREAT NAMES EXTINCT.
There Are No Male Descendants -
Represent Many iiiustrious
IMgIishmeB.


No direct male descendant Of the lord
protector survives 10 enjoy the tribute
paid 90 the memory OF his epoch max
ing ancestor, the last Cromwell in di-
rect line from "Old Noll' having been
one Oliver. an attorney, the son OF
worthy grocer of Snow Hill. In this
connection it is interesting 10 note how
many Of olx illustrious dead are now
cnrepresented by direct male descend
ants. Here is an ample list OF names
of light and leading in literary history:
Chaucer. Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton,
Cowley, Butler. Dryden, Pope. Swift,
Addison, Cowper, Goldsmith, DIR. john
son. Scott. Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tom
Moore, Charles Reade and II. l.. Steven
eon, and of not one of these land doubt
less there are others) does direct male
representative exist. Turn from lit
erary celebrities to naval and military
heroes, TO statesmen and 10 politicians.
Sir Philip Sidney, illustrious in letters
and in war, left but zone fair daugh-
ter" who died without issue. Sir Wal
ter Raleigh's male descendants have
long since died out, or have descended
to such social depths as to be untrace-
able. Sir Francis Drake and Nelson,
the naval heroes of two great fighting
epochs, died childless. 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 it is not infrequently as
sumed 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 honors
and possessions passed to his daugh-
tiers. The great Lord Peterborough had
sons, but no grandson. lll-starred
STAFFORD married thrice. but each OF
his sons died without issue. The cele-
brated duke of Ormonde's direct line
onded with his grandson's death at
Avignon. Clarendon, famous historian
of the rebellion. though he left four
sons. had but one grandson. who died
without male issue. Horace Nalpole
was the last male descendant Of Sir
Robert, the famous minister, and he
never married Bolingbroke twice
made matrimonial venture, but had no
child by either wife. The historic fam
ily of Pitt 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 of his nephew. the third Lord
Holland, died childless At Naples just
40 years ago. Edmund Burke had but
one son. who died in early manhood,
leaving his broken-hearted father to
exclaim: "Mine is grief that cannot
be comforted!"
AS with the statesmen. so with the
philosophers and scientists. Neither
Bacon, Newton, Locke, Davy nor Stuart
Mill left a son TO inherit his fame; while
of historians. Hume, Gibbon and Ma
caulay were never married. Among
our great painters. Reynolds, Lawrence
and the late Lord Leighton were bache-
Tors. Hogarth perpetrated romantic
love match, which was fTuitless; and
Turner, the great magician of color and
canvas, twice soured by early disap-
pointmsnts, never married Handel,
who may almost be claimed as an Eng
lishman, had no wife but his art.
Braham, perhaps our greatest singer,
whose daughter some of us remember
rs Lady Waldegrave. l believe left no
son; while Of the giants of the foot
lights. Davy Garrick and John Kemble
died childless. and the direct male issue
of Edmund Kean ended with the death
of his son Charles.-Pall Mall Gazette.
STRANGE pEOpTE