William Hallowes Miller to Faraday   c.31 October 18591

My dear Faraday

Some time since you asked me if I knew whether General Laval Count Nugent2 whose name stands in the list of members of the Royal Institution was alive or not3.

It appears from an extract from Sir Bernard Burke’s4 vicissitudes of families 2nd Edition5, quoted in the Illustrated London News of Oct 15, 1859 page 3766 that he was alive very recently - since the death of F.M. Radetzky7 -

It is not a week since I inquired about him in a letter to Haidinger8.

very truly your | W.H. Miller

1
Dated on the basis of the reference to the Illustrated London News.
2
Lavall, Count Nugent (1777-1862, ODNB). Irish born Austrian field marshal.
3
He was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Institution in 1829. RI MS GM, 2 November 1829, 4: 54.
4
John Bernard Burke (1814-1892, ODNB). Ulster King of Arms and Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland.
5
Burke (1859), 8-9.
6
“An Irish Field Marshall”, Ill.Lond.News,15 October 1859, 35: 376.
7
Johann Josef Wenzel Radetzky (1766-1858, OBL). Austrian army officer.
8
Wilhelm Karl Haidinger (1795-1871, DSB). Austrian mineralogist.

Bibliography

BURKE, John Bernard (1859): Vicissitudes of Families, and Other Essays, 2nd edition, London.

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