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Nor is there any child, or grandchild, named in the Will of the old
56 physician, who makes a nephew Thiodore'^'^ his residuary legatee ; so that
either all his immediate descendants had died before him, or he carried the
family-quarrel with him to his grave ; and the latter appears to be the fact.
In England, it may be well to mention, the family-name was variously
corrupted, being written as Deodate, Dyodat and Diodate, which last is the
American form.
There exist many portraits of Diodatis of successive generations.
Our friend Rev. Dr. L. W. Bacon made for us, in 1877, a hst of those
which he saw in the Villa Diodati, on the lake of Geneva, as follows :
" Aldegonda Trowers, wife of John Diodati.
" Solomon Diodati, son of John, Sec'y Batavia Orphan House.
" Gertrude Colombine Slott, wife of Solomon.
" John Diodati, son of Philippe, Counsellor of Batavia India Co.
" Nicholas Diodati, Ambassador of the Republic of Lucca to Tuscany, and
Gonfaloniere.
" Dom. Jules Diodati, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, &c. &c., of Ferd. H.
and Ferd. HI. Killed July 26, 1635, at the Siege of Mayence, where he commanded,
aet. 41.
" Jean Diodati, minister, prof., and first deputy of Geneva to the Synod of Dort.
" Jean Diodati, Grand Cross of Malta, and Grand Prior of Venice ;
Lucca, 1595 ;
Geneva ;
died at Malta aged 94.
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" Anthony Joshua Diodati, Chaplain to the Princess of Orange, and Librarian of
died at Geneva 1790.
" In the same room with this hangs a portrait of Mary Princess of Orange and
Queen of England."
There are also in the Villa " Portraits of the Prince and Princess of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin, presented by them to Count Diodati, 1782."
Another large collection is in the possession of the heirs of the late
Madam Elisabeth von Stipriaan Luisgius of the Hague ; of which the
following list was made in 1878, from a list by a granddaughter of hers
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