XLI.

Culture in the Suffolk families—Sir Henry Bunbury—His

character—The son of H. B., the eminent caricaturist and friend

of Sir Joshua Reynolds—Barton Hall: among several of Reynolds’s

works there is Venus sacrificing to the Graces, a full length

portrait of Lady Sarah Lennox, wife of Sir Charles Bunbury, and

the most famous beauty of her day—Her after marriage to the

Hon. Colonel Napier, and she becomes the mother of a family of

heroes—The Napier family—The second Lady Bunbury, a daughter

of Lady Sarah, marries Sir Henry; and Cecilia Napier, her

grand-daughter, marries his son, Colonel Bunbury—Sir Henry’s

mission to Bonaparte—Sir George Napier—Sir Charles, the hero of

Scinde—Sir Charles Fox Bunbury married to Miss Horner, sister

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