I. Sir Nathaniel William

Sir Nathaniel William, an English author, born in Bristol, April 8, 1751, died in Dover, Nov. 7, 1831. lie went to Bombay in 1769 in the civil service of the East India company, and in 1771 accompanied the expedition against Guzerat and Baroach as judge advocate and paymaster. He returned to Europe in 1772, travelled several years on the continent, entered parliament in 1780, and was created a baronet in 1813. He wrote "Cursory Remarks made in a Tour through some of the Northern Parts of Europe " (1775); "Memoirs of the Kings of France of the House of Valois, to which is added a Tour through the Western, Southern, and Interior Provinces of France " (1777); "The History of France from the Accession of Henry the Third to the Death of Louis the Fourteenth" (3 vols. 4to, 1795); "Correspondence between a Traveller and a Minister of State, October and November, 1792 " (8vo, 1796); " Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna" (1799; 2ded.,2 vols., 1800); "History of France from the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Henry IV." (2d ed., 6 vols., 1814); "Historical Memoirs of my own Time" (3 vols. 8vo, 1815; new ed., 4 vols., 1836); and " Posthumous Memoirs of his own Time " (2d ed., 3 vols., London, 1836).

II. Sir Frederick Charles Lascelles

Sir Frederick Charles Lascelles, an English author, grandson of the preceding, born in Boulogne in 1828, died in London, June 11, 1865. He was educated at Oxford, and in 1855 was appointed assistant commissary of the field train in the Turkish contingent, with the rank of captain. He served in this capacity at Kertch until the close of the Crimean war, and published "Camp Life" (12mo, London, 1860). He had charge of the "Naval and Military Herald " in 1858, and from January, 1860, to March, 1861, was editor of " The Welcome Guest." He edited the despatches of Sir James Outram (privately printed), and published a "Handbook to the Armies of Europe " (1855); "Wild Oats," a novel (1857); "Armies of the Great Powers" (1859); " Only a Woman," a novel (1860); "Life in the Sea" (1860); with Robert Wehrhan, " Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of Napoleon III." (2 vols. 12mo, 1862); "Married in Haste," a novel (1862); "Military Sketches" (1864); "Historic Byways" (1864); "Mercedes," a tale of the Mexican war (1865); and many other works and translations.