AN INSTANCE OF LONGEVITY.
(TO ins ED7C011 07 TII7 “97.707•101t.")
SrE,—Your readers are sometimes interested in examples of longevity. Here is one. I have in my house a portrait of an ancestor, a Russian noble who served Peter the Great. He was born in 1685. My uncle, Mr. De Wesselow, of Cannes and Grosvenor Mansions, who died in December last, used to say, looking at the picture : "I well remember my grand- mother, that old gentleman's daughter." There was thus only one life missing between the seventeenth century and the twentieth, between the reign of Charles II. and that of Edward VII. I give the dates of the three lives concerned :— Abraham Wesselowaki (or Be Wesselow), 1685.1783; his daughter Rent*, wife of Rev. John Shapkinson, 1744.1831; her grandson, F. G. Simpkinson de Wesselow, 1819-1906.-1
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