![David Brown Dignam [and] George Barrington drawn from the life, 1777 an unknown artist, The London Magazine](/files/e/c/b/a/i12671-th.jpg "David Brown Dignam [and] George Barrington drawn from the life, 1777 an unknown artist, The London Magazine")
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