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Show DESCENDANTS OF EMINENT imiTlSH WORTHIES. , j Tin; suddenness with which" tbo families t of distinguished Eugl'Ali celebrities come' to. end is exemplified in the following paper pa-per from .the Loudon Jluililtr: Wc may put Shukspcure ut the head of the lis't. Hi eldest' daughter, Sttsnnlni, was married ut .Strntfohl, Jtme 5th, lil07, to John 11 all. There was only onij child by this marriage. Tho youngest daughter us uiurried- to Thomas tiutiu-y, At Shakspenre's death, iu 101 ', tho fumily consisted of bis lie, his daughter Sltsniiuii, nnd her husband, Dr. Hall; Judith nnd Thomas (jniucy, nud Elinlk'th Hall, a granddaughter. Judith (Julucy hud seve ral children, who were ull dead m UijJU Thepoet's granddaughter, Elizabeth Hall, was married iu lli'JO, to Thomas Nash, who died in 1017 without is.ue; nnd, secondly, in 104l, to John Iturnnrd, tif Abingt'pn, county or NoithanipUni, by nhorn sLc had uo bimiiy, and died in 1070. Thus in lift y-f our ycora S'luks-peure's S'luks-peure's dcscendniits, both male and female, fe-male, came to an end. Mitten, the poet, left female descendants descend-ants only, whose family are believed long since to have ceased to exist. A poor woman, named Clarke, some years since claimed to be the lust descendant from-John from-John Milton. The male lino of Sir Christopher Wren was speedily extinguished, mid wo sometime, some-time, since stated the belief that the female line had also ceased; a correspondent, however, mentioned thnt at the time he wrote, (a feV years ago), an old lady, descemh-d from the greet architect, was still living. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Cowpcr, the poet, Popo, Locke, Seldon, Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Wilkie, Dcau Swift, Sir Isaac Newton, Hogarth, lurner, the landscape painter, Sir Humphrey Davy, Edmund Hiirkc, Pitt, bav left no dc-' sceudunts. Robert Stephenson ended the line of his father, George. Notwithstanding all the anxiety of Sir Walter Scott to establish a, family in hcritai'.ee, bis direct race has perished, and those uf hut slight relationship inherit his liu.id and title. Wc believe that lth the sons of Robert Ro-bert Hums, the family of the national poet of Scotland will expire. Lord liyroit is ouly represented on the fetuabt side. t . . |