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Hereditary Genius
Fielding, Henry, continued—
g. Sir Henry Gould, Justice Queen's Bench. (Q. Anne.)
uS. Sir Henry Gould, Justice Common Pleas. (Geo. III.)
[G.] John Fielding, Chaplain to William III.
B. (Half brother.) Sir John Fielden, excellent magistrate, though blind. He wrote on
police administration.
b. Sarah, a woman of considerable learning, and an authoress. Gramont, Anthony,
Duke of; marshal of France; soldier and diplomatist; author of famous
“Memoirs,” but not quite so charming to read as those of his brother.
gB. Cardinal Richelieu. See.
B. Gramont, Philibert, Comte de; wit and courtier; d. aet. 86. His memoirs, written
by a friend, containing all his youthful escapades, were commenced for his
amusement when he was aet. 80.
[S.] Armand, French general.
P. Due de Gramont and Due de Guiche, marshal of France.
Grotius, Hugo (de Groot); an illustrious and profound Dutch writer, statesman, and
authority on international law; showed extraordinary abilities as a child.; was
educated carefully, and at aet. 14 his learning attracted considerable notice. He
was a man of great mark, and lived an eventful life; was sentenced to perpetual
imprisonment for his Armenian religious opinions, but escaped, first to France,
then to Sweden. He became ambassador from Sweden to France, in which
capacity he did his duties in a trying time, with great credit. Ultimately he was
received with high honours in Holland. He belonged to an eminently gifted and
learned family. He married a woman of rare merit.
G. Hugues de Groot, great scholar.
F. John, Curator of the University of Leyden; a learned man.
U. Corneille, professor both of philosophy and of law.
B. William, who collected and edited Hugo's Poems; was himself a learned man and
an author.
S. Peter, able diplomatist and scholar.
Hallam, Henry; one of the most distinguished of modern writers, and most just of
critics; author of the “Constitutional History of England” and of the
“Literature of Europe;” was one of the earliest contributors to the
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