Volume 2

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not be afforded to this most notable passage of the times, whose ill beginning with this man brought him to this ill and unfortunate end.” Sir John Hotham married five wives; and his eldest son being beheaded the day before himself, he was succeeded by his grandson, the second baronet; and the title remains with his descend¬ ants to the present time.