Windham’s father, Colonel Windham, married, after his first wife’s death, Sarah Hicks, widow of Robert Lukin, of Dunmow. To a nephew by this connection, Captain (afterwards Admiral) Lukin, Windham left his property on condition he took the family name.
His diary was published by Mrs. Henry Baring in 1866.
[346] As Chancellor of Oxford University.
[347] Henrietta Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Hon. Edward Bouverie. She married, in 1790, James St. Clair Erskine, second Earl of Rosslyn.
[348] John Clerk, of Eldin (1728–1812), seventh son of Sir John Clerk, of Penicuik. He lived about six miles from Edinburgh. He was the author of An Essay on Naval Tactics, which he claimed had much effect on the warfare of the day.
[349] Queen Mary’s remains were removed to Westminster in 1612.
[350] Holland House.
[351] General Fox was appointed Governor of Portsmouth in 1808, on his return from Sicily, and died there three years later.
[352] General Sir Ronald Craufurd Ferguson (1773–1841), son of William Ferguson, of Raith. He saw much service, and sat for many years as a Whig in the House of Commons. The appointment, which he was obliged to relinquish at Cadiz, was that of second-in-command.
[353] Charles Fox entered the Navy in 1809, but disliked the life so much that he left in 1813, and entered the sister service two years later.