whom he had
four children, two of whom died young. Sarah, the elder of the two
daughters who survived their father, married George Stanley of Poultons,
Hampshire; the younger, Elizabeth, married Colonel Charles Cadogan,
afterwards second Baron Cadogan.

A table drawn up by Sloane's trustees immediately after his death shows
that, in addition to his splendid natural history museum, his
collections comprised between forty and fifty thousand printed books,
three thousand five hundred and sixteen manuscripts,[57] and six
hundred and fifty-seven pictures and drawings. The coins and medals
amounted to thirty-two thousand, and other antiquities to two thousand
six hundred and thirty-five. Sir Hans Sloane expressed a desire in his
will that his collection in all its branches might be kept and preserved
together after his decease, and that an application should be made by
his trustees to Parliament for its purchase for twenty thousand pounds,
a sum which did not represent more than a fourth of its real value. This
application was favourably received, and in June 1753 an Act was passed,
'For the purchase of the Museum, or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and
of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts; and for providing one general
repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said
Collections; and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions
thereto.' The Act further enacted that a board, consisting of forty-two
trustees, be appointed for putting the same into execution; and at a
general meeting of this body, held at the Cockpit, at Whitehall, on the
3rd of April 1754, it was resolved to accept of a proposal which had
been made to them, of the 'Capital Mansion House, called Montague House,
and the freehold ground thereto belonging, for the general repository of
the British Museum, on the terms of ten thousand pounds.'[58] Although
the Act had been passed, considerable difficulty was experienced in
finding the purchase-money. When the matter was brought before George
II. he dismissed it with the remark, 'I don't think there are twenty
thousand pounds in the Treasury'; and eventually it was proposed that
the needful sum should be raised by a public lottery, which should
consist of 'a hundred thousand shares, at three pounds a share; that two
hundred thousand pounds should be allotted as prizes, and that the
remaining hundred thousand--less the expenses of the lottery
itself--should be applied to the threefold p