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THE ANGELO FAMILY connection formed abroad, the particulars of which are still unknown to us. That brother, as I believe him to have been, was born, we know, in the year 1747-8, so that he must have been about eight years of age when Domenick first came to England, and his name was Anthony (Angelo) Tremamondo, Il Marchese, as his descendants speak of him, whose parentage, on purely conjectural evidence, I had assigned to John Xavier Tremamondo of Edinburgh. This was that member of the Angelo family who, in the year 1778, left London for Calcutta as a cadet in the Honourable East India Company's Infantry of Bengal, who became an officer in Warren Hastings' troop of the Body Guard, and who, while so employed, opened a riding-school under oficial auspices in Calcutta, where he rapidly amassed a large fortune, enabling him to retire from the Company's service and to return to London in affluent circumstances in 1785. In London he married a certain Martha Bland, a cousin of Mrs. Jordan, herself a beautiful actress I think of the Haymarket, becoming by her the ancestor of a distinguished line of descendants, most of whom have served in the Indian Army. The evidence for this fresh fact in the varied story of the Angelos (if fact it is, as I cannot but believe it to be), now published for the first time, is contained in a letter now lying before me, in which Anthony (Angelo) Tremamondo's eldest grandson, General John Anthony Angelo, of Mussoorie, who died at that place in 1896, makes the following state- mentsm (1) That he himself (General Angelo) was the eldest son of the eldest son, and that his father, John William Thomas Angelo Tremamondo, was the eldest son of the eldest son, and so on back for several generations. xxiv