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MACAULAY — MACCLESFIELD. 191 MACAULAY OF ROTHLEY. Barony. /. Thomas Babixgton Macaulay, 1st s. of Zachary I 1857 Macaulat,(") i Merchant of Sierra Leone, by Selina [formerly Seliua lj ' Mills, spinster), a Quakeress .if Bristol, was b. 25 Oct. 1800, at 1859. Rothley Temple, [ h ) coi Leicester; e.l. at Trin. Coll., Cambridge; gaining twice (for poems on "Pompeii" and on "'Evening") the Chancellor's medal ; second Craven Scholar ; B.A., 1822 ; M.A., 1825, and for many years Fellow of his College ; Barrister (Line. Inn), 1826, becoming Bencher in 1819. 8t.F. for Calne, 1S30 ; for Leeds, 1S32 ; for Edinburgh, 1810-17, and again, 1852-56 ; a Commissioner of Bankrupts ; a Commissioner and subsequently (18:52) Sec. to the. Board of Control; 5th member of and Legal Adviser to the Supreme Council of India; P.O., 1809 i Sec. at War, 1339-41 ; Paymaster Cien. of the Forces with a seat in the Cabinet, 1816-18 ; Lord Hector of the Univ. of Glasgow, 1818; Professor of ancient history in the Royal Academy, 1850; member of the Prussian Order of Merit, 1853; High Steward .if Cambridge, 1857. lie was cr., 10 Sep. 1857, BARON MACAULAY OF ROTHLEY,() co. Leicester. Well known as a Whig statesman he was f»r more famous as a writer, 0 ) both of (most exquisitely expressed) prose and of several spirited ballads, lie d. umu., 28 Dec. 1859, aged 59, at Holly Lodge, Campden hill, Kensington, when " He was bur. 9 Jan. 1SU0, in Pods' Coma; Westin. Abbey. MACCLESFIELD. Eardom. 1. Charles Gerard, s. and b. of Sir Clnrlcs Gerard, T 1 P7'l of Halsall, co. Lancaster, by Penelope, sister ami coheir of Sir Edward FiTTOX, 2d Bart., and da. of Sir Edward Fitton, 1st Bart, of Gaws- worth, co. Chester, was b. about 101S, entered at Leydeu Univ., 23 March 1633, and, baring been trained in the discipline of war in the united provinces, joined the Royal army in defence of his King, being Col. of a Reg. of Horse, 1613, and Comm. in Chief in South Wales, 1611, wherein having greatly distinguished himself,^ 1 ) he was made Lieut.-Oen. of the King's horse and was cr. 8 Nov. 1615,( e ) BARON GERARD OF BRANDON, (■) en. Suffolk. In April 1619, as also in June 1660, he was a Gent, of the Bedchamber ; P.C., 1650-81 ; Capt. of the Life Guards, 1660-68, thereof at the King's restoration ; Envoy to Paris, 1662; Lieut, roes, 167S-79. He was cr. 23 July 1679, VISCOUNT BRAN DON, (') co. Sutlolk, ami KARL OF MACCLESFIELD,!*) co Chester, but shortly afterwards intrigued with the Duke of Monmouth whom he entertained, 5 Sept. 1682. On (a) He was a member of the so called " Clapliam set " well known for their evangelical doctrines, fee, I le d. 13 May 1S3S , and like the rest " of the heroes of the abolition of the slave trade " lias a monument ( " in the Whigs' corner of the nave " ) in Westm. Abbey. [Stanley's " W'estm Abbey."] ( b ) Rothley Temple was the seat of Thomas Babington, the husband of his father's sister, Jean, da. of the Rev. John Maeaulay, Presbyterian Minister of Cardross. ( c ) His " History of England from the accession of James II." is (says the "Annua! Rc<j." for 1859), despite of any amount of criticism, a very great work, and Maeaulay will be read, whatever his deviations from strict accuracy." Dugdale points out that two of his brothers, nr. (1) Edward Gerard, a Col. of Foot, wounded in the first battle of Newbury and (2) Sir Gilbert Gerard slain near Ludlow, were sufferers in the Royal cause, as also two nncles, rh. (1) Sir Gilbert Gerard, Gov. of Worcester, and (2) Ratclifte Gerard, Lieut. Cel. to his said brother ; and that three sons of the said Ratelill'e, viz. Ratelill'e, John and Gilbert (cr. a Baronet, 1666), were in the battle of Kivetoii, of whom John was beheaded for a plot to assassinate the Protector Cromwell. (o) Black's " docquets " as quoted in " Creations, 1483— 1610," in 17th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records. (f) Lord Clarendon says (tho* it seems hardly probable) that he chose this designa- tion for no better reason than " there was ouce an eminent person called Charles Brandon, who was afterwards made a Duke." (B) t is said that the title first chosen was Kakl ok Nuwbury (Banks's Baronage, vol. ; , p. 305), in allusion to the first battle of Newbury (20 Sep. 1613), whero he fought with great distinction.