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422 SIR WILLIAW STAINES.
gnage of the celebrated Lady Falkland in the reign of
Charles I. viz. “ that she would rather relieve ten impos-
tors, than one person truly deserving should go away
empty handed?’
Sir William, who has been twice married, is now a wi-
dower, has had ten children, and has two left at present;
a daughter who is lame, and a son : his first son William,
by his first wife, died many years ago of a consumptive
habit, much regretted on account of his promising abi-
lities in figures, and a capacity for the mathematics.
The late spouse of Sir William, who had been his ser-
vant, has been dead but a few months, This misfortune
occurred at Clapham : her ladyship, however, was in-
terred at Cripplegate church, the charity children singing
at the burial: and on Saturday, August 14, the funeral
sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Gregory, his lord-
ship’s late chaplain, to a very crouded audience,
Sir William has not, though in the 71st year of his age,
relinquished the character of a tradesman. His masons’
yard, and his house at Millbank, Westminster, are still
the objects of a part of his care. As a stone-mason upon
a large scale, it may be supposed he has been engaged,
in some buildings of magnificence, something approxi"
mating to the gorgqous palaces and cloud-capped
towers; humbler, but, perhaps, more useful dwellings,
notwithstanding, still find a place in the heart of this
true philanthropist, this general friend to mankind.
Sir William has a particular habit that we cannot pass
over; he is so partial to smoking, that he is never without
a pipe, as he always takes one of these organs of contem-
plation with him in his carriage : and so far is he from ad-
hering to the modern notions of high life in amassing
riches for indulgenpe in extreme luxury, or in heaping
them up to be disposed of by others after his decease,' that;
lie has more prudently resolved to see to the dispensation^
' , of
gnage of the celebrated Lady Falkland in the reign of
Charles I. viz. “ that she would rather relieve ten impos-
tors, than one person truly deserving should go away
empty handed?’
Sir William, who has been twice married, is now a wi-
dower, has had ten children, and has two left at present;
a daughter who is lame, and a son : his first son William,
by his first wife, died many years ago of a consumptive
habit, much regretted on account of his promising abi-
lities in figures, and a capacity for the mathematics.
The late spouse of Sir William, who had been his ser-
vant, has been dead but a few months, This misfortune
occurred at Clapham : her ladyship, however, was in-
terred at Cripplegate church, the charity children singing
at the burial: and on Saturday, August 14, the funeral
sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Gregory, his lord-
ship’s late chaplain, to a very crouded audience,
Sir William has not, though in the 71st year of his age,
relinquished the character of a tradesman. His masons’
yard, and his house at Millbank, Westminster, are still
the objects of a part of his care. As a stone-mason upon
a large scale, it may be supposed he has been engaged,
in some buildings of magnificence, something approxi"
mating to the gorgqous palaces and cloud-capped
towers; humbler, but, perhaps, more useful dwellings,
notwithstanding, still find a place in the heart of this
true philanthropist, this general friend to mankind.
Sir William has a particular habit that we cannot pass
over; he is so partial to smoking, that he is never without
a pipe, as he always takes one of these organs of contem-
plation with him in his carriage : and so far is he from ad-
hering to the modern notions of high life in amassing
riches for indulgenpe in extreme luxury, or in heaping
them up to be disposed of by others after his decease,' that;
lie has more prudently resolved to see to the dispensation^
' , of