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ACCOUNT OF LORD CHEDWORTH.
Having a constitution naturally infirm and nervous,
his lordship was extremely retired in his manners and
habits. His greatest delight consisted in attending dra-
matic representations, and in the society of the sons and
daughters of the sock and buskin. In return, he was
their zealous patron when living, and at his death be-
queathed ample legacies to his dramatic favourites.
Lord Chedworth was likewise fond of the sports of
Newmarket, and an excellent judge of all matters re-
lating to the turf; but though a member of the rooms
and jockey club, he never mixed at the table with the
company, but lived and dined in the most obscure man-
ner by himself.
As he died a bachelor, the title is become extinct.
His estates are very large, and free from incumbrances.
Mr. Wilson, his steward and solicitor, shortly before his
death, obtained from him the account of his former
steward, by which a very large sum was brought forth.
The legacies left by him amount to upwards of 240,0001.
and Mr. Penrice the residuary legatee, will, it is sup-
posed, ultimately obtain a like sum. The whole of this
vast property Lord Chedworth has bequeathed, with the
exception of 25,0001. to persons in no respect related to
him. A gentleman who, on account of his great intimacy
with his lordship, and his having rendered him important
services in the early part of his life, was expected to share
in his liberality, had displeased him by too frequently and
perhaps too freely representing the impropriety of his
neglect of dress and not associating more with people of
his own rank and condition in life.
As his Will has excited considerable interest, we sub-
join a faithful and accurate abstract of it ; the whole of
it was written entirely with his own hand, in a style that
proves him to have been perfectly acquainted with the
practical part of the profession which he had in early life
adopted.
ACCOUNT OF LORD CHEDWORTH.
Having a constitution naturally infirm and nervous,
his lordship was extremely retired in his manners and
habits. His greatest delight consisted in attending dra-
matic representations, and in the society of the sons and
daughters of the sock and buskin. In return, he was
their zealous patron when living, and at his death be-
queathed ample legacies to his dramatic favourites.
Lord Chedworth was likewise fond of the sports of
Newmarket, and an excellent judge of all matters re-
lating to the turf; but though a member of the rooms
and jockey club, he never mixed at the table with the
company, but lived and dined in the most obscure man-
ner by himself.
As he died a bachelor, the title is become extinct.
His estates are very large, and free from incumbrances.
Mr. Wilson, his steward and solicitor, shortly before his
death, obtained from him the account of his former
steward, by which a very large sum was brought forth.
The legacies left by him amount to upwards of 240,0001.
and Mr. Penrice the residuary legatee, will, it is sup-
posed, ultimately obtain a like sum. The whole of this
vast property Lord Chedworth has bequeathed, with the
exception of 25,0001. to persons in no respect related to
him. A gentleman who, on account of his great intimacy
with his lordship, and his having rendered him important
services in the early part of his life, was expected to share
in his liberality, had displeased him by too frequently and
perhaps too freely representing the impropriety of his
neglect of dress and not associating more with people of
his own rank and condition in life.
As his Will has excited considerable interest, we sub-
join a faithful and accurate abstract of it ; the whole of
it was written entirely with his own hand, in a style that
proves him to have been perfectly acquainted with the
practical part of the profession which he had in early life
adopted.