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usual register of the ship’s run, the following “ Remarks” are inserted:
“ Modte & Cloudy Wr. At one p.m. parted from ye Hero & ye Saphire.
5 p.m. Fell from ye Mizon Top Head and was Drown’d ye Honble
George Tollemache.”
Over the fireplace in one of the bedrooms at Helmingham there is
a somewhat rude oil-painting representing George Tollemache with his
sister Jane. George is in naval uniform, with white lapels and gilt buttons ;
he has powdered hair and a cocked hat. Behind him is a view of the sea,
with a frigate under sail.
William Tollemache was first lieutenant on board the Repulse frigate.
The Repulse, originally the Bellone, was a French prize, renamed on her
capture in 1759; she carried thirty-two guns and a crew of two hundred
and twenty men. The Repulse took part in many of Admiral Rodney’s
naval actions in the West Indies, and she was lost with all on board off
the Bermudas, during a hurricane, in December, 1776. Horace Walpole,
writing of this calamity in July, 1777,1 says: “The Repulse, with all in it, an
hundred and fifty! sunk in a storm on the 26th of last December. This
shows what early and certain intelligence we get from abroad.” And one of
George Selwyn’s friends, writing on the 1 ith of July, says that the Repulse
“foundered at sea between North America and the West Indies.”2
John Tollemache was a Captain in the Navy, commanding the
Scorpion. In 1773 he married Lady Bridget Lane Fox, only daughter
of Robert, first Earl of Northington, and widow of Robert Lane Fox,
only son of Lord Bingley of Bramham, near York.
Lady Bridget was a rather clever woman, much given to society and
amusement. Lady Mary Coke says of her, “ I own I am no admirer of
her wit; she has so little fond of character and such a disposition to
talking without considering (to say no worse) of what consequence her
conversation may prove, that I look upon her as a dangerous person.”3
John Tollemache and Lady Bridget had one son, Lionel Robert
Tollemache, who was born in 1775.
Two years after the birth of his son, John Tollemache’s ship was
ordered to New York, and he gave a passage in her to Captain John
1 Letters to the Countess of Ossory, vol. i., p. 2 81.
2 George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, vol.
iii., p. 206.
3 Letters and Journals of Lady Mary Coke,
vol. iv., p. 318.
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“ Modte & Cloudy Wr. At one p.m. parted from ye Hero & ye Saphire.
5 p.m. Fell from ye Mizon Top Head and was Drown’d ye Honble
George Tollemache.”
Over the fireplace in one of the bedrooms at Helmingham there is
a somewhat rude oil-painting representing George Tollemache with his
sister Jane. George is in naval uniform, with white lapels and gilt buttons ;
he has powdered hair and a cocked hat. Behind him is a view of the sea,
with a frigate under sail.
William Tollemache was first lieutenant on board the Repulse frigate.
The Repulse, originally the Bellone, was a French prize, renamed on her
capture in 1759; she carried thirty-two guns and a crew of two hundred
and twenty men. The Repulse took part in many of Admiral Rodney’s
naval actions in the West Indies, and she was lost with all on board off
the Bermudas, during a hurricane, in December, 1776. Horace Walpole,
writing of this calamity in July, 1777,1 says: “The Repulse, with all in it, an
hundred and fifty! sunk in a storm on the 26th of last December. This
shows what early and certain intelligence we get from abroad.” And one of
George Selwyn’s friends, writing on the 1 ith of July, says that the Repulse
“foundered at sea between North America and the West Indies.”2
John Tollemache was a Captain in the Navy, commanding the
Scorpion. In 1773 he married Lady Bridget Lane Fox, only daughter
of Robert, first Earl of Northington, and widow of Robert Lane Fox,
only son of Lord Bingley of Bramham, near York.
Lady Bridget was a rather clever woman, much given to society and
amusement. Lady Mary Coke says of her, “ I own I am no admirer of
her wit; she has so little fond of character and such a disposition to
talking without considering (to say no worse) of what consequence her
conversation may prove, that I look upon her as a dangerous person.”3
John Tollemache and Lady Bridget had one son, Lionel Robert
Tollemache, who was born in 1775.
Two years after the birth of his son, John Tollemache’s ship was
ordered to New York, and he gave a passage in her to Captain John
1 Letters to the Countess of Ossory, vol. i., p. 2 81.
2 George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, vol.
iii., p. 206.
3 Letters and Journals of Lady Mary Coke,
vol. iv., p. 318.
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