I. John Dyke, a British major, son of a baronet, commander of the grenadiers in the battle of Stillwater in the American revolution, Oct, 7, 1777, died in 1778. When overpowered by numbers the British retreated to their camp, which was furiously stormed by Arnold. Major Acland was shot through the legs and taken prisoner. When Gen. Fraser was brought mortally wounded to the quarters of the baroness de Riedesel, a report reached Lady Harriet Acland (daughter of the earl of Hchester), in a tent near by, that her husband was also mortally wounded. She determined to seek him in the American camp, although she was at the time much debilitated by want of food and rest, and by anguish of mind. She was received with kindness; her attentions restored her husband to health, and the bearing of the Americans toward both made a profound impression on the mind of Major Acland. After his return to England the next year, he was provoked to give the lie direct at a dinner party to Lieut. Lloyd for some foul aspersions on the American name. A duel ensued, and Major Acland was shot through the head, a circumstance which caused his devoted wife the loss of her senses for two years.

She afterward married the Rev. Mr. Brudenell, a chaplain in the British army, who had accompanied her in her perilous pursuit of her husband, and died in 1815. She wrote a narrative of the campaigns of l77G-'7.

II. Henry Wentworta, M. D., F. R. S., grand-nephew of the preceding, born in 1815, physician to the Radcliffe infirmary, and Lee's reader in anatomy at Oxford, is distinguished as a promoter of sanitary reform. He accompanied the prince of Wales to the United States in 18G0 as his medical attendant.