[116] By her grandfather Florentius Vassall’s will the property was to be equally divided among all her sons at her death.
[117] John Lens (1756–1825), became a Serjeant-at-law in 1799, and King’s Serjeant in 1806.
[118] On him and his share in the quarrel between Lord Carlisle and Lord Kenyon.
[119] He was appointed Louis XV.’s doctor in 1731.
[120] Joan, daughter and co-heiress of Major-General Scott, of Balcomie, co. Fife. She was created Viscountess Canning in 1828, after her husband’s death, and died in 1837.
[121] John Millar (1735–1801). He accepted a professorship in law at Glasgow in 1761. His lectures on civil law and jurisprudence were renowned. He was strongly inclined to Whiggism, and favoured the principles of the French Revolution, though detesting the excesses which afterwards arose in that country.
[122] Mr. Fox, writing of Lord Henry in 1802, says, ‘I never did see a young man I liked half so much. Whatever disappointments Lansdown may have had in public life, and of a still more sensible kind in Lord Wycombe, he must be very unreasonable if he does not consider them all compensated in Lord Henry.’
[123] Mme. de Staël mentions Bonaparte’s visit to her father in her Considérations sur la Révolution française, but does not allude to having seen him herself. Bourrienne quotes Napoleon’s opinion of her: ‘I do not like women who make men of themselves, any more than I like effeminate men.... I cannot endure that woman: for one reason, that I cannot bear women who make a set at me, and God knows how often she has tried to cajole me!’
[124] Charles, third Earl Stanhope (1753–1816), an outspoken admirer of the doctrines of the French Revolution, and a social reformer of a most advanced type.
[125] Mrs. Warren Hastings, the divorced wife of Baron Imhoff. She married Hastings in 1777.