4 MAY 1844, Page 10

The week's obituary announces the death of Mr. William Beckford,

the author of Vathek and other works, and formerly proprietor of Foot- hill Abbey. He was horn on the 29th September 1760. In his twenty- third year he married Lady Margaret Gordon, only daughter of the fourth Earl of Aboyne ; who survived her marriage little more than three years. Lady Margaret's second daughter, Susan Euphemia, was married to the present Duke of Hamilton ; and the Dutchess's only daughter is married to the Earl of Lincoln. Mr. Beckford died at his house in Lansdowne Crescent, Bath, on Thursday last.