The Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons, From the Time of King Edward Iii to Queen Victoria
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On his death, this gentleman found the paternal mansion in a perfect state of ruin, but an ample fortune would have enabled him to restore it to its pristine splendour, had he not died of consumption on his road to Bath, for the benefit of his health, in 1741. His decease was probably accelerated by the SIR JOHN POPHAM. 245 miserly conduct of his father, who according to NichoUs, in his memoirs of the 18th century, " hardly allowed his son the common necessaries of life." This very learned youn...g gentleman rendered great assistance to Mr. Blomfield in his History of Norfolk, which that learned topographer gratefully acknow- ledges, and he left his curious collection of books, coins, and medals to Trinity College, Cambridge, where after leaving Westminster School, he finished his education. Mr. Philip Bell, his younger brother, of Wallington, and Sybeton Hall, in the county of Norfolk, married Anne, daughter of Sir Algernon Peyton, Bart., and left a son and heir, a minor, in the beginning of this century, but by the will of his elder brother Beaupre, the Clackclose estate was devised to his sister Elizabeth, who married in 1742, William Groves, Esq., of Fulbourn, in Cambridgeshire, who also, through his wife, succeeded to the Spalding estate.
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