Richard Paul Jodrell

His parents were Paul Jodrell, Solicitor General to Frederick Prince of Wales, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Warner, of North Elmham, in Norfolk.

Jodrell was born 13 November 1745; and, having lost his father in 1751, lived in possession of his paternal estates for nearly 80 years.

), that living characters were depicted among the dramatis personae: "the artist is a coarse painter, but commonly hits off a striking likeness".

His tragedy, called "The Persian Heroine", having been rejected by the managers of the two great theatres (the particulars of which transactions are given in the Literary Anecdotes, vol.

In the following year he published "Select Dramatic Pieces; some of which have been acted on provincial theatres, others have been written for private performance and country amusement"; and consisting of, Who's Afraid?

1785, The Knight and Friars, an historic tale, from Heywood's Tuvelvcelov", - "the work of three mornings in the Christmas holidays."

However, when Sargent was made Clerk of the Ordnance in January 1794, he was re-elected for the same place; but after the clerkship's dissolution in 1796 he did not again sit in the House.

It became necessary to throw legal protection over his person and property, which was undertaken, after the proper investigation, before a commission de lunatico inquirendo.

1806, who succeeded to his baronetcy in 1817, on the death of his great uncle Sir John Lombe, who took that name instead of Hase in 1762, and was created a Baronet in 1784; he married, in 1814, Amelia Caroline King, daughter of the Earl of Kingston, and has several children; 4.