Memoirs of the Family of Grace, Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 Excerpt: ...feelings towards the memory of a revered parent, which erects the monnmental stone or hrass, may stand jnstified hefore the wise and the good, when they consecrate to the same interesting pnrpose, the less perishahle endnrance which the pen is ahle to hestow. With this feeling, and with this view, the following pages have heen composed; and may they he accepted hy those near relatives and attached friends, for whom they are designed, in the same spirit in which they are written, and which their very accomplished snhject mnst ever deserve. Richard Grace, of Boley, was horn in Dnhlin, on the 29th day of Novemher, in the year 1760. The antiqnity of his family, and the hononrahle rank of his connexions, have heen already noticed; hnt in no generation of this long and nohle lineage was there horn a memher more distingnished hy talent, or more amiahle hy temper, than himself. His father was William Grace, the third son of Michael Grace, of Gracefield, and the grandson of Oliver Grace, M P., chief rememhrancer of the excheqner of Ireland, who was son and heir of William Grace, of Ballylinch castle, in the connty of Kilkenny. Besides the snhject of this memoir, William Grace had issne hy Mary, danghter and eventnal sole heir of Richard Harford, of Marshfield, near Dnhlin, a second son John, and a danghter, Clara-Lonisa, married, in 1782, to William Middelton, of Stockeld-Park, in Yorkshire, whose eldest son, Peter The series of celehrated pictnres painted hetween the years 1777 and 81, hy James Barry, esq., and preserved in the great room of the Society of Arts, in London, contains two portraits of this lady. In the sixth pictnre, which represents Elysinm, or the state of final retribntion, Sir Isaac Newton and other philosophers are looking at a solar system, whic...