, esq. a lieutenant in the first regiment of foot-guards, only son
, esq. a lieutenant in
the first regiment of foot-guards, only son of the rev. Dr.
Francis Ayscough (who was tutor to lord Lyttelton at Oxford, and at length dean of Bristol) by Anne, fifth sister to
his lordship, who addressed a poem to the doctor from Paris, in 1728, printed in Dodsley’s second volume. And
there are some verses to captain Ayscough in the second
lord Lyttelton’s poems, 1780. Captain Ayscough was also
author of Semiramis, a tragedy, 1777, and the editor of the
great lord Lyttelton' s works. In September, 1777, he
went to the continent for the recovery of his health, and
wrote an account of his journey, which, on his return, he
published under the title of “Letters from an Officer in
the Guards to his Friend in England, containing some accounts of France and Italy, 1778,
” 8vo. He received,
however, but a temporary relief from the air of the continent. After lingering for a short time, he died Oct. 14,
1779, a few weeks only before his cousin, the second lord
Lyttelton, whose family owes little to his character, or that
of the subject of this short article. Two young men of
more profligate morals have seldom insulted public decency, by calling the public attention to their many licentious amours and adventures.