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xvi , 396, [40 advertisements], pages. Footnotes. Appendix I through IV. Index. Cover worn, corners bumped, Spine torn and chipped. Boards weak. Bookplate of Lucius Montrose Cuthbert inside front cover!!! Antoine Louis François Sergent, called Sergent-Marceau (1751-1847) was a French painter and printmaker. He married Emira Marceau, General Marceau's sister, and used the two names together. During the French Revolution he held political positions. He was elected deputy of the Convention by the department of the Seine. In October 1792 he was an assistant to the Conservative Commission on Monuments of the Arts. It is in this position that he takes measures to avoid the degradations committed on historical monuments. In 1793, he proposed the creation of the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture, and encouraged the creation of the Conservatory of Music (project of Marie-Joseph Chénier). Also with Chénier, he had a copyright law enacted. He was one of the most ardent in the trial of Louis XVI and was one of those who voted for the king's death. Lucius M. Cuthbert was born August 17, 1856, in Philadelphia. He was descended from a long line of distinguished ancestors, the first of whom there is definite record being George Cuthbert of Castlehill, Inverness, Scotland. The family name was originally George, which, with the patronymic, became MacGeorge. Cuthbert (635-687), Bishop of Hexham, and later Bishop of Lindisfarne, and afterwards honored as Saint, was of this family. On account of his personal merit and excellence he acquired the name of Cuthbert; Cuth, in the Albanick or Erse language, signifying "skill" and Bert, meaning "Illustrious." The family thus acquired the name of Cuthbert from the surname of the bishop. The family went to Inverness from the kingdom of Northumbria, in the north of England, about the year 700 A. D. On account of the services they rendered in the consolidation of the Albanicks and Picts into the Scottish nation, the lands of Drakies, Muckovy and Castle Hill, Inverness, were granted them for military service in vassalage or fee, as a royal holding from the king, with a fortified castle. George Cuthbert, the paternal ancestor mentioned above, commanded the royal forces of the Town of Inverness at the Battle of Harlow, A. D. 1411, against the rebellious Donald, Lord of the Isles. As a recognition of this meritorious service King James II of Scotland granted to him "a fess gules in a field d'or" as an addition to the former armorial bearing of the family and for a crest a hand in a gauntlet and for a motto, "Nec minus fortiter," with two wild horses for supporters. The second in the ancestral line was John Cuthbert of Castlehill, 1458, and following him came William Cuthbert, also of Castlehill, 1478, to whom a charter was granted by King James III, July 23, 1478, of all the lands of Auld Castle Hill. The next in the line is George Cuthbert, 1548, the great-grandson of William. The fifth is John Cuthbert, Baron of Castlehill, 1592; a charter uniting all the lands of the family of Castlehill into a free Barony in favor of John Cuthbert was granted August 19, 1592, by James VI of Scotland, including the right of sitting in the Assembly of the States of the Kingdom. Next came William Cuthbert, Baron of Castlehill, 1624, who married Janet MacKenzie, and following him John Cuthbert, Baron of Castlehill, 1625, who married Mary, daughter of George Cuth bert of Drakies, and who received a charter from King Charles I of England dated August 1, 1625. In the order of descent the next was George Cuthbert, also Baron of Castlehill, who married Magdalen Fraser, daughter of Sir James Fraser of Brae. After him came John Cuthbert, who married Jean Hay, only child of Right Reverend H. Hay, last Episcopal bishop of Moray, Scotland. There were four children born to this union - George, Lachian, Alexander and James, the latter being the paternal ancestor. James Cuthbert was born in 1716 and died in 1794. He came from Scotlan.
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