Excerpt from The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland: Including All the Titled Classes, Fourth Year The' knights bachelor comprise a large body of eminent lawyers, judges, artists, men of science and of letters. In com piling notices of this branch of the titled classes, especial care has been taken to state, in common with all other particulars, the occasions on which their honours were conferred, the offices they have held, and the services which each has performed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.