LA BELLE ASSEMBLÉE, FOR OCTOBER, 1831. ILLUSTRATIVE MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY HANNAH ELLICE. of Lady Durham, is of very ancient standing in the county of Northumberland, and is believed to have come over to England with the Conqueror. We have recently had the honour of || been stated more at length in our memoir entering so extensively into the general and genealogical history of the ancient family of Grey de Howick, that, on introducing the portrait of the Right Honourable Lady Hannah Ellice, one of the scions of that noble and illustrious stock, we find it necessary to attempt little more than to refer the reader to our memoir of her Ladyship's niece, Lady Durham, in the preceding, and to that of her sister-inlaw, the Countess Grey, in the present volume of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE.* Charles, the fourth son of Sir Henry Grey, of Howick, Bart., by his lady, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Wood, of Fallodon, in Northumberland, Esq., was born in the year 1729. Educated for the army, he served on the continent, when not more than nineteen years of age; in 1755, he raised an independent company; in 1759, he was Aide-de-camp to Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, at the battle of Minden; in 1761, he was promoted to the rank of a field-officer, and commanded the 98th regiment of foot, at the capture of Belleisle; and, retiring on half-pay at the return of peace, he obtained the rank of Colonel in the army, and was appointed The Right Honourable Lady Hannah Alithea Ellice, wife of Edward Ellice, Esq., M.P., and one of the Secretaries of His Majesty's Treasury, is the second daughter, and youngest child, of Charles, first Earl Grey de Howick, and sister of the present Earl Grey, Premier of England. The family of Grey de Howick, as has Aide-de-camp to the King. In the Ameri * For a portrait (from a painting by the late Sir Thomas Lawrence) of the Right Honourable Louisa Elizabeth, Baroness Durham, the eldest daughter, and first child, of the present Earl Grey-accompanied by an illustrative memoir vide LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE, vol. xiii., page 47; and for a portrait and memoir of the Countess Grey, his Lordship's wife, vide page 93 of the present volume. No. 82.-Vol. XIV. can campaigns of 1777 and 1778, he was actively engaged, enjoying a separate command, with the local rank of MajorGeneral, under General Howe. In 1782, he was appointed Colonel of a regiment of dragoons; in the year following, he was invested with the insignia of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath; in 1793, he led a small body of troops into maritime Flanders, by which he secured T gem enriching our cabinet collection of Britain's Female Nobility, is the youngest. Her Ladyship was born in the year 1785. She lost her father, by whom she had been in a great measure educated, in 1807; but her mother, the Countess, fortunately survived till 1822. the possession of Ostend and Nieuport; || Alithea, whose portrait is another pictorial after which, embarking with Admiral Sir John Jervis, he sailed for the West Indies, and served as Commander-in-chief at the reduction of Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadaloupe. Having returned to England, Sir Charles Grey was appointed to the government of the Island of Guernsey, and to the Third, or King's Own Regiment of Dragoons. In 1801, His Majesty was pleased to elevate him to the peerage, by the title of Baron Grey de Howick;|| and, in 1806, he was farther advanced to the dignities of Viscount Howick and Earl Grey. By his Countess, Elizabeth, daughter of George Grey, of Southwick, in the county of Durham, Esq., to whom he was united in 1762, his Lordship had a family of nine children.* Of these, Lady Hannah The brothers and sisters of Lady Hannah Ellice are enumerated as follows: 1. Henry, born in 1763, died an infant ;-2. Charles, his successor, the present Earl ;-3. Elizabeth, born in 1765, married in 1786, to Samuel Whitbread, Esq., M.P., who died in 1815;-4. Henry George, born in 1766, a Lieutenant General in the army, and Colonel of the 13th regiment of dragoons, married, in 1812, Charlotte, only daughter of Sir Charles de Vœux, of Queen's County, Ireland, Bart.-5. George, born in 1767, Captain in the Royal Navy, resident commissioner at Portsmouth Dock-yard, Marshal of Barbados, created a Baronet in 1814, G.C.B., married, 1795, Mary, daughter of Samuel Whitbread, of Bedwell Park, in the County of Hertford, Esq., and sister to Samuel Whitbread, Esq., M.P. for Bedford ;-6. Thomas, born in 1770, died in 1797;—7. Wil In the year of her father's decease, but some time previously to that event, Lady Hannah Grey was united in marriage to Captain Bettesworth, of the Royal Navy. That gallant officer, then commanding the Tartar frigate, was unfortunately killed, off Bergen, on the 25th of May, 1808, in attempting to cut out one of the enemy's East Indiamen. On the 30th of October, 1809, Lady Hannah was married to her present husband, Edward Ellice, Esq., by whom she has an only son, named after his father. This gentleman, a distinguished member of the House of Commons, has sat, during several parliaments, as one of the representatives of the ancient city of Coventry. On the formation of the present ministry, in November last, Mr. Ellice had the honour of being appointed one of the Secretaries of His Majesty's Treasury. liam, born in 1777, a Lieutenant Colonel in the army, and Lieutenant Governor of Chester, married Miss Shirreff, sister of Captain Shirreff, R.N., and died in 1807;-8. Edward, born in 1782, M.A., in holy orders, Rector of Peasmore, in the county of Berks, married, first, in 1809, C―, daughter of J. Crofts, of Greenham, in the county of Berks, Esq.; secondly, in 1824, Miss Adair, neice of Lady Barrington. |