_Lady Harington._--Can any of your readers give the pedigree of the late
Lady Harington, mother of the lamented Principal of Brasenose Coll. Oxford?
The writer of this, who was distantly related to her, recollects, though
very young, being struck with her beauty when he saw her in 1787. One of
her brothers died in India; and another was curate of the lower church in
Guildford in 1806; he was probably Thomas Philpot, of Magdalen Hall,
Oxford, M.A. in 1798. Her mother was daughter or granddaughter of the
celebrated mathematician Abraham de Moivre, and had a sister, or aunt,
housekeeper of Windsor Castle. Her mother, the writer believes, was related
to the Gomms, a branch of the family descended from Eustache de St. Pierre.