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Excerpt from Tours in Wales: 1804-1813
He married Eloise, the beautiful daughter Of Baron Pillet de Moudon, the personal friend of the second Duke of Marlborough, and by her had three sons - John, Richard, and Samuel.
During his residence in London he became acquainted with most of the literary and dramatic celebrities Of his day. He knew something of Dr. Johnson, Edmund Burke, and Sir Joshua Reynolds (who painted miniatures Of him and of his wife) but he was particularly intimate with Oliver Goldsmith and David Garrick. His greatest and most intimate friend in later life was, undoubtedly, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. (1758 who accompanied him in his Tours practically throughout, and to whom he dedicated his Pembrokeshire (1811) recollect ing the numerous journeys in which we have traced together the vestiges Of antiquity the many hours of my existence which your conversation has informed and cheered the friend of my fortunes and of my life. He also reckoned among his friends William Owen, better known as Dr. W. Owen Pughe.
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