the Testamenta Eboracensia and the Towneley Mysteries was in progress; but his health, which had long been feeble, had so far declined that he was barely able to correct the press of the two volumes, and compile an Index for the former, and a Glossary for the latter. In other respects, save that the Preface to the Towneley Mysteries was obligingly communicated by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. the Historian of South Yorkshire, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, these two publications were edited gratuitously by the Secretary. When it is remembered that the Glossary to the Mysteries was the work of an invalid labouring daily under the most dispiriting ill-health, and compiled during the short intervals afforded by the cessation of pain, it must be allowed to evince abundant proof of what might have been expected by the Society from a gentleman with whom it had wisely connected itself, if better health and a longer life had been vouchsafed to him.

"In the spring of 1836, Mr. Gordon's ill-bealth seemed to be rapidly gaining ground. He was low in stature, with a spinal mal-conformation, of a slender frame of body, and of the most feeble digestive powers. To the latter he had systematically attended for many years, totally abstaining from every article of food which might be injurious to him; but, notwithstanding all his attention, his constitution at this period appeared to be visibly on the decline. His medical advisers recommended a change of air, and, in consequence, in the month of June, in the same year, he visited a relation at Caldwell, near Richmond, purposing to return to Durham, and attend the Anniversary of the Society, which in that year was held in July. He had not, however, been long at Caldwell before he became confined to his bed, and in this bed he pined away for ten long months in a state of the most extreme bodily weakness, being barely able to speak in a whisper, and that only now and then, but patient and resigned, till, on the 4th of May, 1837, in the 34th year of his age, he was released from his sufferings, and removed to another world, for which he had from his boyhood been daily preparing himself. His body was buried by the side of his father and mother in the church-yard of Gilling.

"Mr. Gordon had from an early age devoted himself to archaiological pursuits, especially those of a philological nature. In the dead and many modern languages he was no mean proficient; and he was intimately acquainted with the history of his own tongue and its various changes

from the Saxon period downwards, and had made the civil and ecclesiastical laws and manners of his country his peculiar study. If Mr. Gordon was learned, he was modest too. His natural inclination led him to shrink from general society, in which, as a literary and thinking man, he found not much of gratification; and his general feeble health confirmed him in his habits of seclusion. By those who fortunately possessed his acquaintance, his highly-cultivated mind and his modest demeanour will be long remembered.

"Mr. Gordon greatly assisted Mr. Frost in his Notices of the Early History of the Town and Port of Hull.' He was the author of Robinson's Guide to Richmond, 1833; of a Guide to Croft, Dinsdale, Darlington, &c. 1834; and the compiler of a Practical Synopsis of the Laws relating to Bills of Exchange. He, moreover, contributed a few occasional papers to the Gentleman's Magazine, which, it is believed, are generally under his proper signature."

MR. SAMUEL Woodward.
Lately.
Woodward.

At Norwich, Mr. Samuel

This gentleman, who was a clerk in the bank of Messrs. Gurney, was a most intelligent and diligent antiquary and geologist, the author of an excellent work on the Geology of Norfolk, and of a Synoptical Table of the Fossils of Organic Remains through Britain. Hefrequently made communications to the Society of Antiquaries, and particularly the following, which they have published, viz.-in 1829, "Observations on the Round Tower Churches of Norfolk; and on the material employed in constructing the early religious buildings of that county" (printed in the Archæologia, vol. xxiii. pp. 7-9); in 1830, "A descriptive Outline of the Roman Remains in Norfolk " (ibid. with a map, pp. 358-373); and a notice of the "Chalk Vaults near St. Giles's gate, Norwich" (ibid. p. 411); in 1832, "A Notice of some ancient Steelyard Weights" (Archæologia, vol. xxv. p. 589, with a plate); "An account of certain Judicial Proceedings at Norwich, at the commencement of the Usurpation" (ibid. pp. 591-594); in 1833 "A sketch of an ancient Sword found in the river Yare " (ibid. p. 618); in 1834, "An Account of some Discoveries made in excavating the Foundations of Wymondham Abbey, with a plan and description of the religious establishment" (vol. xxvi. pp. 287-299, with a plate); in 1837, An Account of two ancient Swords found in the vicinity of Norwich" (vol. xxvii. pp. 435-437).

Mr. Woodward has left a widow and

eight children unprovided for. A public subscription has been set on foot, which has purchased his geological collections for the Museum of the Norwich Philosophical Society; and a History of Norwich Castle, which he has left in MS. is also about to be published for the benefit of the family. It is stated to be a very curious and interesting work; containing a number of most accurate plans, sections, &c. of that noble castle, and many drawings illustrative of the history of the castle and city.

MISS A. F. BYRNE.

Jan. 2, 1837. Aged 60, Anne Frances Byrne, artist in water-colours.

She was the eldest daughter of William Byrne, landscape engraver, and was a native of London. Having acquired considerable skill in flower-painting, her early life was chiefly devoted to the teaching of that art; but her elevated views, and desire to attain excellence, having determined her to abandon for a time its pecuniary advantages, in order that she might study more effectually the great and essential principles of the art, she produced those works which obtained her admission into the Society of Painters in Water-colours, and which were exhibited during a succession of seasons in the gallery of that Society. Her compositions, chiefly of fruit and flowers, were distinguished for elegance in the distribution of the lines and forms, and very refined attention to the breaking of her colours, neglect of which so often produces gaudiness.

Nor was this lady distinguished by her professional talents alone; a rare cultivation of the reasoning faculties, combined with a naturally fine taste and judgment, rendered her the life and ornament of the society in which she moved. In her private circle she stood alone, her amiable deportment and gentle manners radiating happiness and pleasure; and being dignified by a total absence of self, she reigned in the affections of all who approached her, till her death merged them in sorrow.

MR. SAMUEL TERRY.

As a remarkable example of the fruits of commercial activity and usurious transactions, in the state of society which has existed in New South Wales, (a subject which was discussed at some length in our last number,) we are induced to insert the subjoined biography of Mr. Samuel Terry, whose extraordinary accumulation of wealth was also noticed in our last Magazine, p. 448.

He was transported to New South Wales when very young, and, as far as is

known, for neither an atrocious nor consequential crime; some say for stealing geese. On his arrival he established a small sly grog and pawnbroker's shop. Spirits were then a guinea a bottle, and tobacco retailed for the weight of silver. To him resorted convict servants with some worn or questionable clothes, or such property, which he again circulated amongst associates and friends. He was of perfectly sober and frugal habits; he was active and industrious; and his whole philosophy consisted in having made up his mind to never giving value without obtaining value for it; and, moreover, as much as only to keep his neck out of the halter, or his legs out of chains. Samuel Terry was cunning enough, and not at all nice to refuse any bargain where no legal danger was to be apprehended. He left several valuable grounds which he had purchased for a bottle of spirits; or, having advanced spirits and tobacco, sued or caused to be sued for the debt, and bought the ground at the sale of the sheriffs. Whether he foresaw to what value land would rise in the colony, or whether it was accidental that he endeavoured to amass the only sort of property which was to be had in his way, suffice to say, that as soon as this rise took place Samuel Terry was even on that score a rich man, and he must have found to his satisfaction, that those acres of his in and near Sydney, hitherto covered with filth and rubbish, were now worth as much as if they were pasted all over with bank notes. Samuel Terry entered subsequently into some shipping speculations, but his cunning and caution was so great, his economical habits so unalterable, that we do not hear that he ever sustained any considerable loss. It was at this time (about 20 years ago), that being asked in some lawsuit, on his oath, how much he believed himself to be worth, he answered 90,000l. sterling. In the extensive business he was now engaged in he was obliged to have large amounts of cash about him, and one Sunday morning his iron chest" was robbed of some thousand sovereigns. This deed was traced to a young convict who lived in Terry's service, and who, on account of his engaging figure and good behaviour, had been hitherto a favourite with the family. He was capitally convicted. It is asserted that Samuel Terry obtained leave to visit him in his cell, and under the explicit promise of obtaining his pardon, he induced the boy to disclose to him the spot in the garden where the money had been planted. The story runs, that Terry was haunted by the sight of the executed, and in moments of anger his

relations reproached him with the murder of the lad. A similar tragical event is related, in which General B- was concerned. This gentleman was on intimate terms with Samuel Terry, and the latter lent him 8001. Mr. B- became afterwards embarrassed, when Terry sold his valuable farm and got himself possessed of it, which, as it is said, contributed at least to the subsequent mental aberration of that gentleman.

About six years back Samuel Terry was in possession of about 50,0007. sterling per annum, and in the very prime of life. He lived then in the same place he died in, viz. a not small, but inconvenient house in Pitt Anns, Sydney. He rode at times a clumsy old charger, and passed many hours of the day in talking, but in his shirt sleeves. When he had a friend with him, he sent for a bottle of spirits. Mrs. Terry never kept a female servant, dressed in a coarse manner, and was seen every Saturday on her knees scrubbing out the premises. Although Samuel Terry in the latter years of his life discounted 300,000l. bills at ten per cent. and as it is known that the rental of his houses in Sydney, (of which he possessed an entire street,) the produce of his farms, &c. amounted to at least 60,000l. or 70,000l. per annum, he yet lived upon 5001. or 600l. a year.

But we will now mention facts, which will not only exempt Samuel Terry from being an object of envy, but reduce him to that of a man to be truly pitied. About four years ago this hitherto strong and healthy man was seized with a paralytic stroke, which at once deprived him of the use of his right limbs. His son had married a handsome and well-bred emigrant, but, being a drunken and brutal man, he lived with her on the worst possible terms, and opened, in one of his mad moments, her head with an iron poker. The relations appeared against him, and the Magistrates committed him to take his trial. However, strange to say, he was (in a case which nearly threatened his life) allowed to bail, and the whole affair was subsequently made up with money. Even Terry himself was not exempted from the brutal frenzy of this imbecile son, and he abused and threatened him on many occasions. After his paralytic seizure he was unable to move without the aid of two men, and thus extended in his open carriage, pale and bloated, he drove about the domain of Sydney-a silent but impressive example for any one how illusive and worthless at times wealth is, especially if obtained in a low and questionable way. In these drives he was generally accompanied by one of his convict servants, because, notwithstanding

that riches are omnipotent in penal colonies, even those of Samuel Terry could not influence respectable men to associate with him but on business.

His illness became more dangerous and more irksome from day to day, and he died in the beginning of 1838, only fifty-two years of age, and therefore just at the period of life when riches, well and honourably obtained, may be most quietly and beneficially enjoyed and employed.

Such was Samuel Terry, the richest outlaw whom the Australian colonies yet possessed.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Aged 36, the Rev. T. Cooper, Assistant Curate of Frodsham.

At St. Pierre les Calais, aged 73, the Rev. Thomas Fiske, Rector of Shimplingthorne, and of Kettlebaston, Suffolk. He was of Jesus college, Cambridge, B.A. 1789; and was instituted to the churches already named, which were in his own presentation, in 1800 and 1801.

The Rev. William Fookes, M. A. which degree he took at Balliol college, Oxford, in 1808.

Suddenly on his road from Dublin to Portarlington, the Rev. William Hackett.

At Kilmore glebe, co. Roscommon, the Rev. Robert Jones. for many years Rector of that parish.

Aged 82, the Rev. John H. Lloyd, Rector of Cellan, near Lampeter, and Vicar of Llanwnen. He was collated to the former living in 1813, and to the latter in 1814, by the Bishop of St. David's.

At Dublin, the Rev. J. C. Lloyd, Chaplain of the Molyneux Asylum.

At Killigally, King's County, aged 67, the Rev. Henry Mahon, D.D. Rector of a union of two parishes, worth 850l. per annum, of which the glebes produce 6501. It is in the gift of the Bishop of Meath.

The Rev. Deane H. Nash, Rector of Temple O'Malus, co. Cork.

Aged 28, the Rev. William Potchett, jun. Rector of Great Ponton, co. Linc., eldest son of the Rev. W. Potchett, Vicar of Grantham. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge; and was instituted to his living in 1834.

At Patna, the Rev. C. Rawlins, Chaplain on the Bengal establishment.

At Doveridge, Derbyshire, aged 77, the Rev. Henry Stokes, for fifty-three years Vicar of that parish, which is in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire.

Aged 44, the Rev. John Thomas, B.D. for sixteen years Perpetual Curate of Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, and Curate of Llandilo-Talybout, Glamorganshire.

Aged 74, the Rev. Morgan Walters, Rector of Vaynor, co. Brecon, to which

he was presented in 1814 by the Prince of Wales.

At Strangford, the Rev. Charles Wolsey, Rector of Ballyculter, co. Down.

May 12. At the parsonage house, Windsor, New South Wales, aged 73, the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Paramatta, senior chaplain to the colony of New South Wales, founder of the New Zealand mission, and sometime director of the London Missionary Society's operations in the South Sea Islands. Few persons have done more for the real benefit of mankind than Mr. Marsden. Though surrounded by duties of the most laborious kind, which he ever faithfully discharged, his philanthropic mind could not be confined to so limited a sphere, but with a zeal and assiduity rarely to be found, and a perseverance undaunted, he sought and finally succeeded in imparting the glorious gos. pel of Christ to the benighted Islanders of the South Pacific. On the 15th of May his remains were interred at Paramatta; attended by the chief and other officers of the Colonial Government, most of the colonial chaplains, numerous military officers, merchants, private gentlemen, &c. Mr. Marsden was educated in the university of Cambridge.

July 26. At Kirk Bramwith, Yorkshire, in his 94th year, the Rev. R. Bobbitt, after having been resident in that village forty-nine years, nearly forty of which were spent in an unwearied and faithful discharge of his Christian ministry, which was ennobled by a life of usefulness and piety that commanded respect and veneration from all within the sphere of his acquaintance. He was born at Smyrna, in Asia Minor, brought over to England at an early age, and placed at a boarding-school in Yorkshire. He afterwards occupied the situation of usher in a school at Catterick, after which he entered holy orders, and commenced the period of those sacred duties which his subsequent life so much adorned.

Aug. 7. At Oban, Argyleshire, the Rev. John Collier Jones, D.D. Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, Vicar of Kidlington, and an acting magistrate for the county of Oxford. Dr. Jones was the son of a highly respectable medical man at Plympton, in Devonshire, where he was born on the 7th Oct. 1770. He was educated under Dr. Cardew, at Truro school, and in 1788 entered at Exeter College. On the 6th June, 1792, he took the degree of B.A. and was shortly after elected to a Petrean Fellowship in his College. Entering holy orders, he became for some time Curate of Mortlake, in Surrey, but was afterwards in

duced to accept a Chaplainship on board the Namur, Capt. Whitshed, and was present in the action off Cape St. Vincent, in 1797. He proceeded M.A. 1796, B.D. 1807, and returning to his residence in Oxford in 1808, became one of the Tutors of the College. In 1812 he was appointed a Public Examiner; Select Preacher in 1819; and, on the death of Dr. Cole, was elected to the Rectorship of Exeter. In that year also (Nov. 12th) he took his degree as Doctor in Divinity. Dr. Jones's other official appointments were Delegate of Accounts 1824, ViceChancellor from Oct. 1828 to 1832, and Joint Curator of the Sheldonian Theatre 1829. Doctor Jones married Charlotte, widow of Capt. Crawley; she died April 8th, 1836, leaving no surviving issue by her second husband. A man of more inflexible integrity, more active benevolence, or more genuine kindness of disposition than Dr. Jones, never lived. Although despising every species of for. mality and ostentation, he possessed an ease of manner and a natural dignity of deportment which were peculiarly adapted to the official situations in which he was placed; nor is there an individual in his own College, in his own parish, or in the University at large, from the highest to the lowest, who did not love, esteem, and respect him. Notwithstanding every effort was made by the Society to procure the removal of his remains to England, for interment in the College chapel, it was found impossible to accomplish it. The ceremony was accordingly performed, with the sanction of the Rev. Alex. M'Kenzie, Minister of Oban, on Tuesday Aug. 21, by the Rev. W. Jacobson, Vice Principal of Magdalen Hall, and late Fellow of the College, who had proceeded to Scotland immediately on the arrival of the melancholy news.

The Rev. Frederick Langstone, Curate of Fenny Compton, Oxfordshire.

Aug. 14. At Little Hilton, Wilts, aged 67, the Rev. Henry Purrier, Rector of that parish, and formerly Rector of St. Paul's, Deptford. He was of St. John's coll. Camb. B.A. 1793, M. A. 1812. He was presented to Hinton in 1811 by Dr. North, Bishop of Winchester.

Aug. 18. Drowned whilst bathing in Hawkins's Pond, near New Lodge, Horsham, the Rev. James Aldridge, Chaplain to the Sussex County Gaol. He had been just appointed to take the duty of the new chapel now erecting at that town.

Aug. 24. At Leamington, aged 74, the Rev. James Walhouse, B.C.L. uncle to Lord Hatherton and brother to the late Col. Walhouse. He was a son of More.

ton Walhouse, esq. of Hatherton, co. Stafford, by Frances, daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Littleton, Bart.; was entered as a commoner of Pembroke college, Oxford, Oct. 22, 1784, and graduated B. A. 1788, B.C.L. 1791. He married the sister of the late Right Hon. W. Huskisson.

Aug. 25. At the house of his son, at Honington, Warwickshire, the Rev. Thomas Hopkins, Rector of the Second Portion of Tredington, co. Worcester. He was formerly fellow of Jesus college, Oxford; graduated M.A. 1774, B.D. 1781; and was presented to his living by that Society in 1789.

Aug. 27. At Burgh in the Marsh, Lincolnshire, aged 68, the Rev. William Barnes, Vicar of the consolidated parishes of Burgh and Winthorpe, to which he was collated in 1813 by Dr. Tomline, then Bishop of Lincoln.

Aug. 30. At Tendring, Essex, aged 54, the Rev. Benjamin Cheese, Rector of that parish. He was formerly fellow of Balliol college, Oxford, where he graduated M. A. 1809, B.D. 1822; and was presented to his living in the latter year by that society.

Sept. 1. At Ripple, Worcestershire, in his 70th year, the Rev. Job Walker Baugh, Prebendary of Hereford, Chancellor of the diocese of Bristol, Vicar of Diddlebury, Shropshire, and Rector of Ripple with Queenhill, Worcestershire. He was of St. John's college, Camb. B. A. 1791 as 7th Junior Optime, M. A. 1794; was presented to the living of Diddlebury by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford in 1797; collated to the prebend of Nonnington in the church of Hereford in 1800 by Bishop Cornewall; and collated to the rectory of Ripple in 1812 by the same prelate, then translated to Worcester. The prebendal stall of Hereford will not be filled up.

Suddenly, of apoplexy, whilst walking in a field, the Rev. Charles Holmes, Rec. tor of Kirkby Underwood, Lincolnshire; to which church he was collated in 1833 by the present Bishop of Lincoln.

Sept. 3. At the residence of his brother, Duloe, Cornwall, the Rev. Henry Dowell, M. A. late of St. Peter's college, Cambridge, and Curate of Membury, Devon.

Sept. 4. At Bushy Park, co. Dublin, the seat of his father Sir Robert Shaw, Bart. the Rev. George Augustus Shaw, Perpetual Curate of Rathfarnham, in the same county.

Sept. 14. At the rectory, Deal, the Rev. John Barnes Backhouse, Rector of Deal and Little Chart, Kent, and a justice of the peace for that county and the GENT. MAG. VOL. X.

Cinque Ports. lege, Cambridge, B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; was collated to Deal in 1795 by Archbishop Moore, and to Little Chart in 1811 by Abp. Manners-Sutton.

He was of Trinity col

Sept. 17. At Aylsham, Norfolk, aged 68, the Rev. Philip Hunt, D.C.L. and F.S.A. a Prebendary of Canterbury, and Vicar of Aylsham. He was of Trinity college, Camb. B.A. 1793, as fifth Senior Optime, M. A. 1797; and was presented to Aylsham in 1834, by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. From the year 1798 to 1833, Dr. Hunt was the Rector of St. Peter's, Bedford, in which town, the power of his great abilities was eminently displayed, and the greatest benefits experienced by his unwearied attention, not only to his duties as a clergyman, but also to all kinds of public business. He was likewise for nearly 30 years a magistrate of the county of Bedford; and in that capacity, perhaps no man had a sounder judgement, a more retentive memory, or more enlarged and enlightened views of every thing presented to his mind. Sincerely attached to the established church, he was yet no enemy to dissenters a lover of freedom, yet no friend to disorder-patriotic in all his views, he looked upon all men as lovers of their country, and dealt with them and treated them as such, until they showed themselves unworthy of regard. From his knowledge and experience and active habits, there was scarcely any business in the county connected either with the administration of justice, or the distribution of charity, in which he was not consulted. The public Institutions in Bedford bear ample evidence of his unwearied industry and love of being useful and doing good. As a clergyman of the Established church, he was in the truest sense of the term-a faithful Minister of the Gospel of Christ. The happiness of his life consisted in searching out truth, and living according to the rules of charity.

At Attleburgh, Norfolk, in the 68th year of his age, the Rev. Fairfax Francklin, M. A. 36 years Rector of that place, Vicar of Watton in the same county, and formerly Fellow of Clare Hall, Camb., where he graduated B.A 1793, M.A. 1796. He succeeded his father the Rev. John Fairfax Francklin as Rector of Attleburgh, to which living he was presented by the late Joseph Windham, esq. of Earsham Hall, Norfolk; and, on his father's decease, he was also nominated to the vicarge of Watton by Mrs. Barker, formerly of that place. Distinguished for his sincerity and singleness of heart, beloved for his charity and kindness of disposition, he left this tran

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