The right honourable lord Barrymore, conducting a number of French prisoners from Rye to Dover, by the Berkshire militia, under his command, the whole party halted at the turnpike at the top of Folkstone hill; after taking some refreshment, on regaining his seat in his vehicle, a fusee, which he carried with him, went off, and shot him through the head.
He died in a few minutes, and so finished a short, foolish, and dissipated life, which had passed very discreditably to his rank as a peer, and still more so as a member of society. He was born August 14 1769.
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