Engraved by TA DEAN, from a Fainting by J.JACKSON RA. Published by GB.Whittaker for La Belle Aisemblée (new series/N42 for June 1828 The proofs by Melanght. Cockspur St LA BELLE ASSEMBLÉ E, FOR JUNE, 1828. ILLUSTRATIVE MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Right Honourable Harriet, Coun- || Gawthorpe and Engholme Grange; and, tess of Sheffield, whose portrait, from subsequently, those of Stank and North Jackson's original painting of her Lady- || Allerton. ship, now in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, at Somerset House, we have this month the pleasure of presenting to our subscribers, is the eldest daughter of the Earl of Harewood. Her Ladyship was born on the 19th of June, 1802; and, on the 5th of June, 1825, she was united in marriage to the Right Honourable George Augustus Frederick Charles Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield, Viscount Pevensey, Baron Sheffield, of Dunamore, in the county of Meath, and Baron Sheffield, of the county of York, in the peerage of the United Kingdom. The family of Lascelles, ancestors of Lady Sheffield, are of ancient standing and respectability in the county of York. Roger de Lascelles received summons amongst the peers in the year 1293. John de Lascelles, of Hinderskelfe-now called Castle Howard-in the wapentake of Bulmer, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, held divers lands in that place in 1315. John, one of his descendants, living in 1492, was named in deeds, "filius Johannis, alias Jackson." Amongst the family possessions, were the manors of No. 42.-Vol. VII. || Daniel Lascelles, of Stank and North Allerton, was father, by his first wife (Margaret, daughter of William Metcalf, of North Allerton, Esq., by Anne, daughter of Sir George Marwood, of Little Bucksby, Bart.) of Henry Lascelles, of Harewood, whose son, Edwin (by Jennet, daughter of John Whetstone, of Barbados, Esq.) was, on the 9th of July, 1790, created Baron Harewood, of Harewood Castle, in the county of York. He died, however, withou issue, in 1795, and the title became extinct. The above-mentioned Daniel Lascelles, Esq., had, by his second wife (Mary, daughter of Edward Lascelles, of London, Esq.) a son, Edward Lascelles, of Barbados, Esq., whose second son (by his wife, Frances, daughter of Guy Ball, of Barbados, Esq.) was, Edward Lascelles, first Earl of Harewood. He was born at Barbados in the year 1739-40; was elected M.P. for the borough of North Allerton, in 1761, 1768, and 1790; and, having succeeded to the large family estates, on the death of his cousin, Edwin, Lord Harewood, in 1795, 2 K which they were in possession as early as in the reign of Edward I.* Hugh de Holroyd, of Bark-island, and Gracia, his wife, granted two oxgangs of land to John Faber, in the year 1407. To the grant, a seal is appendant—a rose, encircled with the words "S. Hugonis de Holroid." This ensign was afterwards increased to five roses in saltier, now borne he was, on the 18th of June, 1796, elevated antiquity in the West Riding of the county to the peerage by the title of Baron Hare- of York. They take their name from the wood, of Harewood Castle, in the county || hamlet or manor of Holroyd, or Howroyd, of York. On the 7th of September, 1812,|| in Bark-island, six miles from Halifax, of he was advanced to the dignities of Earl of Harewood, and Viscount Lascelles. His Lordship married, in 1761, Anne, daughter of William Chaloner, of Gisborough, in the county of York, Esq., by whom he had two sons-Edward, died unmarried in 1814; Henry, his son and successor, the present Earl; and two daughters. North Allerton being what is termed a proprietary borough, his Lord-by the family; a circumstance which ship's eldest son was one of its representatives in three Parliaments. Enthusiastically devoted to the Pitt interest, his Lordship was desirous of carrying one of the seats for the county of York. He, therefore, caused his second son, the pre- || 1688. sent peer, to stand for the county. The. contest is said to have cost him upwards of £100,000; but, having to meet the two powerful interests of Lord Fitzwilliam and Mr. Wilberforce, he was not successful. || His Lordship died on the 3d of April, 1820, and was succeeded by his only surviving son, Henry Lascelles, second and present Earl of Harewood, Viscount Lascelles, and Baron Harewood, now Lord Lieutenant of the county of York. This nobleman was born on the 25th of December, 1767. He married, on the 3d of September, 1794, Henrietta Saunders, sister of the present Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart., by whom he has had issue : 1. Edward, Viscount Lascelles, born July 13, 1796;-2. Henry, M.P. for North Allerton, -born June 11, 1797, married, in 1823, Lady Louisa Thynne, second daughter of the Marquess of Bath;-3. William Saunders Sebright, M.P. for East Love, born October 29, 1798, married, in 1823, Caroline, eldest daughter of the Earl of Carlisle ;-4. Edwin, born December 25, 1799;-5. Francis, born April 12, 1801, died in 1813;6. Frederick, born June 27, 1803, died in 1823;-7. Arthur, born January 25, 1807;-8. Harriet, now Countess of Sheffield, born June 19, 1802, married, June 5, 1825; 9. Frances Anne, born June 2, 1804 ;10. Emma, born March 16, 1809;-11. Louisa, born September 10, 1812. The Holroyds, Earls of Sheffield, to whom we now turn, are a family of great shows the antiquity of the coat. Isaac Holroyd, Esq., settled in Ireland, where he acquired considerable possessions in the reign of Charles II. He was an ardent supporter of the revolution of John, his great-grandson, first Earl of Sheffield, and father of the present peer, succeeded, on failure of male issue, to the estates of his mother's family, in Yorkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Middlesex; and, pursuant to the will of his maternal uncle, he took the name of Baker, as a prefix to that of Holroyd. He was born in the year 1735. He was not educated for any profession; but he entered into the army in the year 1760, and obtained a troop of light horse in the Royal Forresters, a regiment raised by the Marquess of Granby. After the peace of 1763, he • Antiquaries derive the name of Holroyd, or Howroyd, from the Anglo-Saxon How, a hill; a word which signifies, when applied to land, such that account, paid only two-pence per acre, and as was barren and uncultivated, and which, on was freed from the service of grave and other taxes. This etymology accords with the soil the Horton family) adjoining the mountainous and situation of Holroyd (now the property of district called Black-stone-edge, which separates Lancashire from Yorkshire. The name Holdenroid is also to be found in Holstein, &c., the country of the Anglo-Saxons. + Isaac, his eldest brother, had died in infancy. His younger brother, Daniel, distinguished himself on the breaking out of the war with France. In 1756, he was appointed Ensign in the 18th, or Royal Irish Regiment of Foot; and, in 1759, Lieutenant in a newly-raised regiment of infantry-the 90th-under the command of Colonel Morgan. He also "distinguished himself at the capture of Belleisle, and at Martinico, MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HON. HARRIET, COUNTESS OF SHEFFIELD. 233 travelled, during three years, over the principal parts of Europe, visiting the courts of France, Italy, and Germany. It was in the course of these travels, that he first became acquainted with Gibbon, the historian. Having entered into the marriage state in 1767, he resided partly at Greave Hall, in Yorkshire, but chiefly at Sheffield House,* in Sussex; where he distinguishwhere he commanded the grenadiers of the regiment, particularly on the 24th of January, at the bold attack of the heights, which were thought impregnable, and commanded St. Pierre. From Martinico, the regiment went to the siege of the Havannah; the difficulties and success of which are well known. Four officers, of which he was one, and thirty-six men of the regiment, on an outpost, repulsed a body of five hundred Spaniards, by whom they had been attacked on the 24th of July, just before day-break; for which service, they were thanked in orders by General Lord Albemarle. At last, through the length of the siege, and the ravages of the climate, the army being greatly weakened, and its situation become desperate, it was resolved, as a last resource, to storm the Moro Fort. Notwithstanding the health of the gallant officer, of whom we have been speaking, was at that time much impaired by fatigue and the disorders incidental to the climate, yet he offered himself to command a detachment of the regiment, to act as a forlorn hope. He was obliged to pass to the breach (which would admit only one man abreast) along a narrow ridge of rock, hanging over the sea on one side, on the other side was the ditch, upwards of sixty feet deep. The Spaniards had placed a thirty-two pounder opposite to the breach, behind a traverse, loaded with the parings of ball, &c., which being fired, killed about ten men; the detachment forced its way into the fort; Velasco, the governor, was mortally wounded; the gar. rison gave way, but a priest, with a dozen men, got into a tower, and firing from thence, this promising young man was shot dead on the spot; he fell highly regretted by the whole army. Of the forlorn hope, which consisted of about forty, two of the three officers, and two-thirds of the men, were killed; but they were the whole that fell in this extraordinary attack, the boldness of which entirely confounded the Spaniards. The sustaining party followed the forlorn hope, and four hundred of the eight hundred Spaniards in the fort were put to the sword. It is well known, the Havannah being commanded by the Moro, surrendered in consequence of this successful attack. Daniel Holroyd was buried on the glacis of the Moro fort." ed himself as an active magistrate and useful country gentleman. He became a farmer upon a large scale; and, that he was both practically and theoretically acquainted with agriculture, has been abundantly shewn by numerous tracts, which might be consulted with advantage even at the present day, by our numerous writers, debaters, and lecturers upon po||litical economy and the corn-laws. In 1778, when the war with France broke out, the militia of the county of Sussex was embodied for the first time, under the command of the Duke of Richmond. Mr. Holroyd entered the regiment as Major, and was indefatigable in the performance of his duties. In the summer of 1799, when the combined fleets of France and Spain were upon the coast of England, he, in the course of a few weeks, and without expense to the public, raised a regiment of light dragoons, to which he was permitted to nominate all the officers. This was called the Sussex, or 22d regiment; and it was distinguished no less by its military discipline, than by its men, horses, and appointments. In February, 1780, he was elected M.P. for the city of Coventry without opposition. His parliamentary conduct was marked by spirit, clearness of judgment, and a manly boldness of expression. During the memorable riots of that year, when Parliament was besieged and insulted by an intoxicated mob, and when Lord George Gordon, the person who had caused that mob to assemble, had frequently gone out and represented, or rather misrepresented, what was passing in the House of Commons, Colonel Holroyd stopped him, with some threats; Sussex, are considerable, and give name to the hundred. The house, large and elegant, is situated in an extensive park, midway between East Grinstead and Lewes. It is in the best Gothic style; and, in a battlemented frieze, which goes round the house, are introduced the arms of the possessors of the lordship or manor of Sheffield, from the time of Edward the Confessor, when it belonged to Earl Godwin. It was granted by William the Conqueror to his half brother, Robert de Mortaigne, Earl of Cornwall; from whom it passed, in succession, through numerous families, to that of Lord Delawarr, and next to John Baker Holroyd, Esq., The estates and manor of Sheffield, in afterwards Earl of Sheffield, by purchase. |