86 OBITUARY.-Rev. A. W. Trollope, D.D. Sir John Trollope, the seventh who has borne the title. Admiral Sir Henry Trollope, K. C. B. is also a member of a junior branch of the same house. Dr. Trollope received his education at Christ's Hospital, whilst the Rev. James Boyer was Master, and from thence was entered of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded B. A. 1791; M. A. 1794; and D. D. 1815. After taking his Bachelor's degree, he obtained one of the Chancellor's gold medals, given to the two best classical proficients, whose names appear in the first tripos. The succeeding year (1792), he gained one of the Members' prizes for the two best dissertations in Latin prose; and in 1793 the first prize was awarded him. In 1795, Mr. Trollope was the successful candidate, against no ordinary competitors, for the Seatonian prize, given annually for the best English poem upon a sacred subject; the subject that year was "The Destruction of Babylon." In 1799, Mr. Boyer resigned the Head Mastership of Christ's Hospital, when Mr. Trollope was appointed by the Governors to succeed him, In this situation he had the happiness of becoming the coadjutor of his old school-fellow and fellow collegian, the Rev. Lancelot Pepy Stevens. About this period, Mr. Trollope married one of the daughters* of Mr. W. Wales, Master of the Mathematical School, of whom some account may be seen in our vol. LXVI. p. 1155; and in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, vol. xxx. p. 491. By this lady he has left a numerous family, the eldest of whom, the Rev. W. Trollope, was educated upon the foundation, and was afterwards entered at Pembroke Hall, where he proceeded B. A. 1821, and was upon his return from College appointed fourth classical master. The Rev. Arthur Trollope, the second son, was educated under his father, but not upon the foundation, and was afterwards also entered at Pembroke Hall, and proceeded B. A. 1822. Another son was, after leaving school, placed in the Counting-house of the Hospital. In 1814 Mr. Trollope was presented to the rectory of Colne Engaine by the Governors of Christ's Hospital. In 1815 he proceeded to the degree of D.D.; upon which occasion the same body, to evince their sense of his indefatigable zeal in rendering his scholars fit for the Universities, complimented him by paying the whole of the expenses His friend Mr. Stevens, some years after, married the other daughter of Mr. Wales. [July. attending the attainment of that ho nour. From that time, till his resignation at the commencement of the present year, Dr. Trollope shewed the same unwearied diligence in the duties of his office; and, upon that event being publiclyannounced, he had the gratification of re ceiving, as the gift of those gentlemen who had proceeded to college from under his care, a handsome silver cup, with a suitable inscription from the pen of a pupil, the Rev. James Scholefield, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge. As a sound and elegant scholar, Dr. Trollope was no less distinguished by extraordinary natural talents, than by his great acquirements; while the candour of his disposition, and the rectitude of his principles, made him an object of equal love and respect to all who knew him. His excellence as a school-master may be estimated by the many distinguished scholars who are indebted to him for the foundation of their knowledge. He has been accused of unnecessary severity-bred up under the antiquated and severe discipline of Mr. Boyer (of whom a good account may be found in the works of Mr. Coleridge), it is not surprising that he should at times have resembled his great prototype; and if his temper occasionally appeared hasty, and even passionate, it should be recollected that the provocation was usually great. The writer of this notice recollects a trying scene of this kind, through the obstinacy of a lad of the name of Snow (afterwards a Lieutenant in the navy), the individual of whom an interesting memoir is given in part i. p. 566. With the recollection of the circumstance at this distance of time (about 25 years since), he was surprised at Mr. Trollope's forbearance. 3 In testimony of the merits of the tutor, the following list of his scholars who have gained University honours, and become celebrated in after life, may not be uninteresting. It has been hastily enumerated, and, with little trouble, might no doubt be enlarged;-Rev. W. C. Cautley, M. A. Fellow of Clare Hall, medallist 1805, member's prize-man 1806 and 1807; T. Mitchell, esq. late Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, senior medallist 1806, translator of the comedies of Aristophanes; Rev. J. Schole. field, M. A. Fellow of Trinity Coll., Craven's scholar 1812, senr. medallist 1813, first member's prize-man 1814 and 1815, and in 1825 elected Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, after a very honourable competition;† The election of Mr. Scholefield to Rev. W. S. Gilly, M. A. author of “Travels in the Piedmont and Vaudois Territory," &c. recently preferred to a Prebend in Durham Cathedral; Rev. Geo. Townshend, M.A. author of "A Chronological arrangement of the Old and New Testaments," and also recently appointed to a Prebend in the same Cathedral; Rev. G. C. F. Leicester, Fellow of Christ's Coll. senr. wrangler and Smith's prize-man 1815; Rev. W. Owen, M. A. Fellow of St. John's, Bell's scholar 1812, chancellor's medallist 1815; Rev. J. H. Alt, M. A. of Pembroke Hall, Tyrwhitt's Hebrew scholar 1219; Rev. W. Trollope, B. A. Hulsean prize-man 1822, editor of the " Pentalogia Græca." At the time of Dr. Trollope's resignation, the whole of the assistant classical masters, and also the master of the mathematical school, had been his pupils; and the mode in which that resignation was accepted by the Court, manifested that his services were justly appreciated and his loss regretted. The Rev. John Greenwood, the second master, was appointed to succeed him. REV. ROBERT HAWKER, D.D. May 7. At Plymouth, aged 73, the Rev. Robert Hawker, D. D. Vicar of Charles near that town. Dr. Hawker was born at Exeter in 1753, and was intended for the profession of surgery. He was a pupil of Mr. White of Plymouth; on leaving whom, be accepted a surgeon's commission in the Royal Marines which he soon vacated for the church, having, to use his own words, "speedily imbibed an utter abhorrence of the dreadful effects of corporeal punishment" (so very much more prevalent in those days), which in his patients were frequently and repugnantly depicted. He entered himself at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and in 1784 was inducted to the vicarage of Charles, on the presentation of the corporation of Plymouth, having officiated as curate the Greek Professorship was conducted upon a plan which must obtain universal approbation. The successful candidate must have an absolute majority of those who are present to vote. Mr. S. had, at the first ballot, three votes; Mr. Rose three; and Mr. Hare one; in consequence of which Mr. Hare was dropped, and a second ballot ensued, when Mr. Scholefield obtained four votes, which constituted a majority, the number of voters being only seven. Mr. Waddington and Mr. Walker of Trinity, and Mr. Robinson of St John's, the other candidates, had no votes. from the year 1778, under the Rev. John Bedford. In 1792 the degree of D.D. was presented him from a Scotch University for his "Sermons on the Divinity of Christ." As an orator, Dr. Hawker was impressive, persuasive, and fascinating. His voice was powerful and yet harmonious. In the cause of religion and charity, he was ever a most zealous advocate; and as an author was well known; and duly appreciated for piety, energy of thought, and purity of intention. He was for many years an annual visitant preacher (to use the term) to the churches of the metropolis. Of his numerous publications, the following is probably an imperfect list; A Devout Soldier, a sermon (on Acts x. 7.) preached before the north battalion of Gloucestershire Militia, 1781, 4to.The invaluable blessings of our civil and religious Government, a sermon, 1792, 8vo. Sermons on the Divinity of Christ, 1792, 8vo.-Evidences of a plenary inspiration; a letter to Mr. Thomas Porter, in a reply to his defence of Unitarianism, 1793, 8vo. Sermons on the divinity and operations of the Holy Ghost, 1794, 8vo.-Recommendation of private prayer, 1794.-Misericordia, or companion to the sorrows of the heart, 1795, 12mo. The Christian's pocket companion, 1797. Sermons, 1797, 2 vols. 12mo.-Youth's Catechism, 1798, 12mo. Specimens of preaching, 1801, 8vo.-Account of William Coombs, of Buckfastleigh, a youth of thirteen, 1802, 8vo.-Works complete, 1805, 6 vols. 8vo. and 12mo. A sermon preached for the asylum of the deaf and dumb, at St. Giles, Cripplegate, 1805.-Life and writings of late Rev. Henry Tanner of Exeter, with his portrait, 1807, 8vo.-Letter to a Barrister, in answer to Hints on Evangelical preaching,' 1808, 8vo.-Second letter to a Barrister, 1808, 8vo.— Letter to W. Hales in defence of the London Female Penitentiary, 1810, 8vo. -The commentary on the Old and New Testament, with the text at large, 1816, published in penny numbers, and complete in forty 3s. parts.-The poor man's commentary on the New Testament, 1816, 4 vols. 12mo. REV. LEGH RICHMOND. May 8. At Turvey Rectory, Beds. aged 56, the Rev. Legh Richmond, Rector of that parish, and Chaplain to his late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. He was the only son of the late Henry Richmond, M. D. of Bath, and was a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, where his father was Fellow, and where he proceeded B. A. 1794, M. A. 1797. 88 OBITUARY.-Rev. Legh Richmond.~A. Volta. He published in 1799 a Sermon on the General Fast, being the Curate of Brading and Yaverland in the Isle of Wight, and Perpetual Curate of Caton near Lancaster. In 1803 be issued in 8vo. a Sermon on the Sin of Cruelty to the Brute Creation; and in 1805 he was presented by the Miss Fullers to the liv ing of Turvey, then vacant by the death of a divine of similar opinions with Mr. Richmond, the Rev. Erasmus Middleton, author of the Biographia Evangelica. Mr. Richmond also published in 1809, Bvo. a Sermon preached before the Society for supporting Missions to Africa and the East; in 1810, 8vo. the First Anniversary Sermon preached before the Directors of the London Female Penitentiary; in 1813, 8vo. a Statement of Facts relative to the supposed abstinence of Anne Moore; and in 1814, Annals of the Poor, two vols. 12mo. and in 1815, The Young Cottager, a Narration, 12mo. ALESSANDRO VOLTA. March 5. The very same day that deprived France of its celebrated mathematician and astronomer la Place (see our last Supplement, p. 643), robbed Italy of its no less eminent Volta, whose discoveries in physical science are among the most important of the last century, and are so much the more honourable to his talents, as they were all more or less the result of study and profound theory. Alessandro Volta was born at Como, Feb. 18, 1745, and was descended from an eminent family in that city. In his youth he was by no means remarkable for precocity of genius, nor was it till after the publication of some Latin and Italian poems, that he gave any Indica-tion of the talents be afterwards displayed; yet it must be observed that even the subjects of these productions indicated an attachment to pursuits connected with natural philosophy. Shortly afterwards he wrote some Latin treatises on electrical phenomena, in which he treated of the means of carrying to a greater extent this branch of physics. Having finished his. studies, he was appointed, in 1774, to a professorship in his native city and in 1779, to one at the university of Pavia, which, during a quarter of a century, was the theatre of his labours and his glory. At the end of this period, 1804, he was permitted to retire, on condition that he should continue to give some lectures every year. "Les grands hommes, said Napoleon to him, on this occasion, "meurent sur le champ d'honneur;" in allusion to which, Volta remarked [July, after the Emperor's fall, "He has not kept his word." When Buonaparte first entered Italy Volta was deputed, with Giovio, to intercede with the victorious general in behalf of his fellow-citizens, and from that time was honoured with his favour. Among other marks of Napoleon's regard, he bad conferred upon him the order of the legion of honour, and of the iron crown, and the titles of count and senator of the kingdom of Italy. But one most elegant and flattering compliment paid to him by that great man was the following: it being proposed to form in Italy a literary and scientific institute, it was asked whether the list of the intended members should be in alphabetical order, upon which Napoleon, taking a sheet of paper, wrote, "Volta!" -"Now," said he, you may fill up the list in what order you please." During the vacations Volta frequently made excursions; in 1777, accompa nied by his friend Giovio, he travelled through Switzerland, where he visited Haller and Voltaire; and in 1780 he made a tour of Tuscany, directing his attention more particularly to the Vulcanetto di Pietra Mala in the Apennines. In the account which he afterwards pubJished of these volcanic fires, he was the first that shewed them to be occasioned by the combustion of inflammable air escaping from the earth. Two years afterwards he visited Germany, along with his colleague Scarpa, and continued his route by himself through Holland, England, and France. In his notes, made during this journey, are descriptions of some of the earliest steam-engines. His fourth tour formed an epoch not only in his own life, but in the history of science. In 1801 he was invited to Paris, where, in the presence of the members of the Institute and the First Consul be made experiments of his invention which has been named in honour of him the Voltaic Pile. Their success was complete, and the Institute presented him with a gold medal. The Royal Society of London, too, shewed him a similar mark of honour. He married in 1794, and had three children, on whose education he bestowed great attention. One of them, who had given indications of extraordinary mathematical genius, died prematurely, a loss that very sensibly affected him. Towards the latter end of his life be retired to Como, where he resided in the midst of his family. He had now entirely renounced his former studies, and had fallen into a state of complete imbecility, his faculties being quite exbausted. Volta's principal.discoveries and in ventions were as follows:-1. The per petual electrophorus; a description of which he wrote in June 1775. It is in portant to remark this date, as the honour of the invention has sometimes been given to Wilche, of whose experiments Volta was entirely ignorant.-2. The inflammability of the air escaping from the marshes. In 1776 and 1777 Volta published some remarkable letters on this subject.-3. The Voltaic pistol and lamp. These instruments were invented in 1777.-4. The eudiometer. This instrument, which was invented by Volta in the same year, 1777, serves to determine, with a precision until that time unknown, the proportion of the two gases, oxygen and azote, composing the atmospheric air.-5. The condensor. This instrument, which renders sensible the smallest portions of the electric fluid, was invented by Volta in 1789.-6. The Voltaic pile, of which it may truly be said, that, it has been as productive of discoveries, in natural philosophy and chemistry, as the telescope has been in astronomy, or the microscope in natural history. This astonishing invention, and the simple apparatus of which it is composed, were described by Volta in a letter written by him to Sir Joseph M. LARIVE. Lately At Montignon, aged 78, M. Larive, the oldest, and one of the most celebrated of the French tragedians. He was born at Rochelle in 1749, and made his first theatrical appearance at Lyons, under the management of Madame Lobreau. In 1771, he went to Paris, when he appeared at the theatre François, under the patronage of the celebrated Mademoiselle Clairon. That lady regarded him as her protoge; but the public, indignant at the unqualified panegyric which she heaped upon him, estimated him below his real value. However his fine person, and his powers of declamation, soon commanded ap plause; and for many years, he stood upon a level with Le Kain: At the commencement of the French Revolution, many of the players, it is well known, were amongst the most ac tive of the insurgents. Larive was not one of the exceptions. He appeared at the head of the electors of Paris, before the Constituent Assembly, with an address of adherence to the new system, and was admitted to the honours of the GENT. MAG. July, 1827. sitting. On the 12th February 1790, he made a present to the Marquess de la Fayette, of the chain which the Chevalier Bayard used to wear round his neck. Larive quitted the theatre rather ear. lier than is usual with first-rate actors. By some bis retirement was ascribed to the severe criticisms of Geoffroi ; but it may be more reasonably assigned to the superior merits of Talma, who supplant ed him in the estimation of the public. Larive afterwards repaired to Naples on the invitation of Joseph Buonaparte, by whom he was liberally rewarded. He was the author of Pyramus and Thisbe; Reflections on the Theatrical Art; a Course of Declamation, &c. MR. E. WILLIAMS. Lately. At Flemstone, Glamorganshire, Mr. Edward Williams, a Welsh bard. Although purely self-taught, never having been a single day at any school, his literary acquirements were extensive. He attained knowledge on the various subjects of his pursuit with astonishing facility, and his memory was so strongly retentive, that he became a living chro nicle in the annals of British history. In 179%, he produced, in 12mo. "The Fair Pilgrim, a poem, translated from the Welsh ;" and in 1794, two duodecimo volumes of Poems, Lyric and Pastoral. By Edward Williams, Bardd wrth Fraint a Defod Beirdd Ynys Prydain." The latter publication was reviewed in vol. LXIV. p. 1113, the author being somewhat reproved for commingling the factional politics of Reform with his poetical effusions. It otherwise passed the ordeal of criticism with credit. In 1800 he published, "The Christian Preacher, or, Discourses on Preaching, by several eminent divines, English and Foreign; revised and abridged," 12mo. He contributed largely to various other publications relating to Wales;-published a volume of Welsh Psalms (his own compositions), for Unitarian worship, besides other smaller pieces in Welsh and English. He also wrote the elaborate preface to the Myvyrian Archaiology, of which he was one of the editors; but by far the greater part of his works are in manuscript. The strong powers of his imagination, were refined by a chaste and correct judgement, and continued in considerable force to old age. He was a devoted friend, and a constant inculcator of truth, peace, and social benevolence. He was, by trade, a common mason, but he soon acquired an excellent knowledge of marble masonry and sculpture. His He was of Trin. Coll. Camb. B.A. 1788, M.A. 1794, was presented to Cowbit in 1805, by the devisees of Mrs. Miller, and to Owston in 1808, by the late Sir John Palmer, Bart. of Carlton. 90 OBITUARY.-The Ullswater Landlord THE ULLSWATER LANDLORD. June 27. At Pooley-bridge, Ullswater, Mr. Russell, innkeeper, aged 58, well known as the obliging and judiciously-catering entertainer of the numerous visitors to that delightful region of summer enjoyment. Though Mr. Russell, like other men, was not free from the weaknesses of human nature, he possessed many good qualities of head and heart; many acquirements which made him "a man to be talked about" in his neighbourhood. True, he loved the pure spirit; but he also loved the pure element of the silver lake-not, gentle reader, as a beverage, but as the scene of piscine exploits that old Isaac Walton, himself, might have been proud of. The pike, the char, the trout, the perch, the eel, all were fish that came to his hook, net, or coop; and come they did in abundance. Long will Mr. Russell's name be associated with the fairy scenes, the excursions, the fishings, the ridings and sailings, the wrestlings, singings and dancings, the runnings and leapings, the sayings and doings of Pooley and Ullswater. His death bas caused a blank in the locality which cannot be filled up. Not only the naiads hang their heads, but the peasants weep, and the bird of wisdom and of night whoops his most melancholy note; even honest Tom Watt, the iron-handed Hercules of the lake, shed tears for the first time when the Fates inexorably severed the thread of the existence of his jovial master the "Admiral.”. The Rev. Wm. Deason, Perpetual Curate of Ayton and Whorlton in Yorkshire. He was of Trin. Coll. Camb. B.A. 1793, M.A. 1807; was presented to Ayton in 1795, by the Rev. W. Marwood, and to Whorlton in 1797, by G. Cary, esq. The Rev. W. Domett, Rector of Hawkchurch, near Axminster, to which he was inducted in 1774, on the presentation of H. W. Wyndham, esq.29 The Rev. John Hartley, Vicar of Corringham, and Perpetual Curate of Stow, Linc., to which churches he was presented in 1815, by the Prebendary of Corringham in the Church of Lincoln. At Clapham, the Rev. John Haddon Hindley, Chaplain to the Collegiate Church, Manchester. He was of Brazenose Coll. Persian Lyrics, or Scattered Poems from Oxf. M.A. 1790; and published in 1800, Hafiz, with Paraphrases in verse and prose; a Catalogue of the Gazels, as arranged in a MS. of the works of Hafiz, in the Chetham Library, Manchester," 4to. Also, in 1800, MS." fc. 8vo. (reviewed in vol. lxxxi. i. "The Counsels of Attar, from a Persian 460.) The Rev. Richard Hoblyn, Rector of All Saints and St. Leonard's, and Perpetual Curate of St. Botolph's, Colchester. He was of Balliol College, Oxford, M.A. 1797, Society in 1799. and was presented to his churches by that At Nant, near Carmarthen, the Rev. John Jones, Vicar of Llangunnor, to which parish he was presented in 1816, by Dr. Burgess, then Bp. of St. David's. Aged 72, the Rev. John Tasker Nash, D.D. Rector of St. Thomas's, Haverfordwest, and Herbrardston, Pemb. He was of Trin. Coll. Camb. B.A. 1780, M.A. 1783, D.D. 1799; and was presented in the latter King, Lord Loughborough being then Lord year to his church in Haverfordwest, by the Chancellor. Mr. Nash published in 1790, "The Claims of the Clergy to the generosity of the Laity, a Sermon," 4to. At Huntingdon, on his 67th birthday, the Rev. Wm. Panchen, Rector of Wood Walton, and Vicar of St. Mary, Huntingdon. He was of Christ's Coll. Camb. B.A. 1774, M.A. 1777; was instituted to Wood Walton in 1779, and presented to his Church at Huntingdon in 1803, by the King, Lord Eldon being then Lord Chancellor. The Rev. H. Phillips, Minister of Coity and Coychurch, in the County of Glamorg. Aged 78, the Rev. Evan Powell, Vicar of St. Harmon, Radnorshire, and Perpetual Curate of Llanwrthwl, Breconshire. To both those churches he was presented by Dr. Burgess, when Bp. of St. David's, to the |