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THE ANGELO FAMILY deceased, who had once been in command of the. Chester. They were married on February 25th, 1755, by Archbishop's licence, at St. George's, Hanover Square, in the presence of the bride's mother, Elizabeth Johnson, and of John Morris, a friend of the Masters, and a distinguished naval officer, who when in command of the Bristol was mortally wounded in the unsuccessful attack on Sullivan's Island, off Charlestown, on June 26th, 1776. Elizabeth Johnson at that time was very young, not more than seventeen. She was one of the beauties of that age, and in 1760, when she was twenty-two, her picture was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, a reproduction of which will be found in the first volume of The Reminiscences (1904). Her father was probably, like her step-father, a naval oficer, and she is said to have been related to Admiral Byng. "All my mother's relatives," writes her son Henry in his Reminiscences, " were brought up to the sea, and from her information she was related to Admiral Byng." It is not improbable that we have her father and mother in the following note of an entry in the register of St. George's, Hanover Square:-"Richard Johnson and Elizabeth Harvey married in St. George's, Hanover Square, 1728. Before passing on to the issue of Domenick Angelo by Elizabeth Johnson, it may be well to mention here that in 1755 k was residing in the parish of St. George's, Hanover Square, that from 1758 to 1760 he had a house in St. James' Place, off St. James' Street, that in 1760 he was provided with premises for a school of foncing and riding by the Princess of Wales in Leicester Square, within two doors of Hogarth's house in the east corner, and that soon after he moved to Soho, where he bought Carlisle House, standing in King's Domenic