At Little Ealing, after a long illness, in her 62nd year, Eliza, wife of John Bowyer Nichols, esq., F. S. A. of Parliament-street. Eldest daughter of John Baker, esq., of Salisbury-square, and Hampstead.

12. At Creedy Park, Sandford, Devonshire, aged 71, Sir Humphrey Phineas Davie, the tenth Bart. (1641.) The family of Davy has flourished in various branches in the county of Devon, and that branch seated at Creedy were descended from John Davie, three times mayor of Exeter in the reign of Elizabeth, and who, during his first mayoralty, in 1584, entertained in his house Don Anthonio, the exiled King of Portugal. Sir Humphrey was the fourth and youngest son of Sir John the seventh Bart., by Catharine, daughter of John Stokes, of Rill, Devonshire, esq. He succeeded to the title on the decease of his nephew, Sir John the ninth Baronet, who died unmarried Sept. 18, 1824. Sir Humphrey was also unmarried, and, as he was the last heir male of the family, the title of Baronet has become extinct with him.

At Limerick, aged 81, Sir Joseph Barrington, Bart. His family is supposed to have been derived from the family of Barrington of Essex, and has been settled for some generations in Limerick. He was born Feb. 21, 1764, the only son of Matthew Barrington, esq., of that city, by Jane, daughter of John Canter, of Ballyvara. In conjunction with his sons, Mr. Joseph Barrington founded the hospital and infirmary at Limerick, which has their name, and which was incorporated by Act of Parliament, 11 Geo. IV.

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was created a Baronet by patent dated Sept. 30, 1831. He married, in 1787,

Mary, daughter of Daniel Baggott, esq., of Limerick, and had issue.

12. In Woburn-place, aged 49, Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson, a well-known and highly popular writer. Mrs. Wilson was the authoress of several very clever poems. In 1837 she gained the prize offered by the Melodists' Club for the words of a song, although there were upwards of two hundred candidates. She also was awarded the prize for a poem on the Princess Victoria, at the Cardiff Bardic Festival, in 1834, and wrote the words in the third volume of Mr. Parry's Welsh Melodies.

13. At Leamington, aged 58, Lady Anne Wardlaw Ramsay, relict of Robert Wardlaw Ramsay, esq., of White Hill, and sister to the Earl of Balcarres.

14. In Welbeck Street, General John Hodgson, Colonel of the 4th or King's Own Regiment. General Hodgson was the only surviving son of Field-Marshall Studholme Hodgson, who is known in history as the commander of the expedition which took Belleisle from the French, in the year 1761, and who was greatly distinguished by the friendship and favour of the Duke of Cumberland, and by the confidence and good opinion of the great Earl of Chatham. The mother of the deceased officer was Lady Catharine Howard, through whom he was nephew to the late Field-Marshall the Right Hon. Sir George Howard, K. B. and first-cousin to the Earl of Effingham, and to Mary Countess of Roseberry. He was educated at Harrow School, and was still there when he obtained his commission, so far back as 1779, in the King's Own Regiment, which was his father's corps, and was then in Canada. He shortly afterwards went out to join it, and served with it for some years in Canada; and in 1793, he was employed as major of brigade at the reduction of the islands of St. Pierre and Miguelon. He was twice taken prisoner at sea, in 1794 and 1797, on the latter occasion by a French privateer, after a severe action, at the close of which he sank the colours of the "King's Own," to prevent their falling into the enemy's hands. He was then taken to France, where he remained a prisoner until October, 1798, when he was exchanged. In 1799, he served as commanding officer with the 4th in Holland, where he was present at the capture of the town and garrison of Hoorn, and at the actions of the 2nd and 6th of October. In the action near Egmont-op-See he was

most dangerously wounded, the ball never having been extracted. He was subsequently appointed Governor and Commander in Chief at the Bermudas, and afterwards to the same situation at Curaçoa, which latter government he retained till the peace, when the island was restored to the Dutch. In each of these situations he received the repeated thanks of the King's government, and on his return home was appointed to the colonelcy of the third garrison battalion. In 1822 he received that of the 83d Foot, from which he was, in 1835, removed by the special command of his late Majesty, William IV., to the distinguished regiment of which he died Colonel.

15. Aged 75, John Anderson, esq., of Bond-court, Walbrook, and Princes-place, Kennington, Secretary to the Church of England Assurance Company. Mr. Anderson's early life was passed in diplomatic missions of considerable importance in the Eastern Archipelago; and he published, at different times, two octavo volumes, in which he gave interesting accounts of his voyages and services. 1. Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in 1823. 2. Acheen, &c., with Incidental Notices of the Trade in the Eastern Seas. These works attracted much attention to the state of our commerce in those parts, and suggested measures for its great extension and improvement, which seem now likely to be productive of immense benefit to the natives of those rich countries, and to add immeasurable wealth to the prosperity of our manufacturers and merchants.

At his house in Hyde-park Gardens, aged 70, Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton, late Chief Justice of Bombay. Sir Herbert was the son of Walter Abingdon Compton, esq., of Gloucestershire. Through his own merits and conduct alone, he raised himself to the high and important stations he successively filled, with honour to his character and talents, and to the advantage of the country and the administration of justice. He em. braced the military profession very early in life, and served with his regiment for some time in India; but, returning to England, he entered on the study of the law, which he sedulously pursued, though his active mind found leisure to write for the papers of the day. Having completed his legal studies, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 22, 1808. He then re-visited India, and joined the bar at Fort St. George, where he soon became distinguished. His zeal, ability, and un

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tiring assiduity obtained for him the high and lucrative government appointment of Advocate-General successively at Madras and Calcutta, and subsequently, in 1831, the distinguished post of Chief Judge of Bombay, whereupon he was knighted by letters patent. His integrity in discharg ing the duties of his office, and his high general character, acquired him universal esteem, of which he received various testimonials, from both the European and Native residents.

At Mudiford, aged 74, Mrs. Frances Rose, daughter of the late Right Hon. George Rose.

16. At Bath, Ann, widow of Fletcher Partis, esq., of Pulteney-street. This benevolent lady spent much of her ample fortune in works of charity, and contributed largely to most of the public institutions. Her beneficence provided a large part of the funds for the erection and endowment of Partis College, near Bath-a retreat in age for the widows and daughters of clergymen and others.

17. At Mersham House, near Southampton, aged 75, the Rev. Ernle Kyrle Money, M. A., Vicar of Much Marcle, Herefordshire, and a Prebendary and Prelector of Hereford Cathedral.

At Mont-le-Grand, near Exeter, aged 56, Captain Gilbert Wakefield, late of 36th Foot. He served through a great part of the Peninsular war, and was present in every action in which his regiment was engaged, from the siege of Burgos to the battle of Toulouse.

19. At Mylor, aged 85, Mr. J. Pascoe. He was the last survivor of the gallant crew of the Antelope packet, of which he was boatswain, when in 1793 they took the French schooner privateer Atalanta. All the superior officers being killed, he took the command, and personally lashed the schooner's yard-arm to the rigging of the packet, during which he had three shots through his hat, but without injury to himself.

21. Aged 66, Francesco the Fourth, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and of Bohemia, Duke of Modena, Reggio, Mirandola, Massa, and Carrara. He was the eldest son of the Archduke Ferdinand, Duke of Modena and Brisgau, who died in 1806, by Maria Ricarda Beatrice, Duchess of Massa, and Princess of Carrara, and was born October 6, 1779. He was restored to the Duchy of Modena, on the dissolution of the Kingdom of Italy, by the treaties of 1814 and 1815; and on the death of his mother,

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At Leamington, aged 53, the Rev. Leopold Erasmus Dryden, Rector of Whitnash, Warwickshire, elder son of Sir John Turner Dryden, of Canons' Ashby, Northamptonshire.

At Bath, aged 82, Charlotte, daughter of the late Sir William Gordon, Bart., and relict of Lieutenant-General W. H. Cameron.

22. At Bath, aged 86, Frances, relict of John Blagrave, esq., of Calcot Park, Berks. She was the eldest daughter and co-heir of Anthony Blagrave, esq., of Southcot.

24. At Bayswater Villa, Bayswater, in his 79th year, Richard Latham, esq., F. L. S. a life governor of Christ's and St. Bartholomew's Hospitals, &c. &c., and for upwards of a quarter of a century acting partner in the eminent brewery of Sir Henry Meux and Co.

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2. Aged 69, Henry William Maister, esq., of Beverley, and formerly of Wood Hall, East Riding, Registrar of Deeds for that division of the county, and a DeputyLieutenant.

At Buxted parsonage, Sussex, aged 71, the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Rector of Buxted-with-Uckfield, and late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Dr. Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth, in Cumberland, in the year 1774, and was a younger brother of the present Poet Laureate. He received his early education at Hawkshead grammar school, and became a member of Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his degree as Tenth Wrangler, in 1796. In 1798, he also obtained the second Members' Prize for Senior Bachelors. In 1802, he became Domestic Chaplain to Dr. Manners Sutton, Bishop of Norwich, and subsequently Archbishop of Canterbury, and, in 1804, was collated to the living of Oby, Norfolk, whence, in about two years, he was promoted to the deanery of Bocking. In 1811 he took an active part in the foundation of the National Society. In 1816 he was collated by the Arch

bishop to the rectories of St. Mary's, Lambeth, and Sunbridge, Kent; and soon afterwards he was appointed Chaplain of the House of Commons. In the year 1820, he exchanged the livings of Lambeth and Sunbridge for Buxted, also in the gift of the Archbishop; and in the same year was promoted to the Mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge, in the room of Bishop Mansel. He discharged the duties of this office during a period of twenty-one years, during which time many great improvements were effected in the discipline and education of the students, in the manage. ment of the College funds, and in the spiritual condition of the parishes connected with the College: the buildings of the Foundation also received several magnificent additions and restorations. Dr. Wordsworth resigned the Mastership of Trinity College in 1840; in his letter taking his farewell, he presented the college with his portrait, and a donation of 500l. to be added to the fund of the society for the augmentation of its poorer vicarages. He retired to the parish of Buxted, where he exerted himself with success in the building and endowment of one new church, and in the rebuilding of another.

3. At Southwell, aged 77, Edward Sneyd Clay, esq., Rear-Admiral of the Red. He had been nearly sixty-three years in the service, having entered the Navy in 1783. He was Lieutenant of the Venerable at the victory obtained by Lord Duncan over the Dutch fleet off Camperdown, in 1797, when he was severely wounded, and for which he received a pension of 300l. At the expedition to the Helder he was also actively employed; and in 1801 he commanded the Zebra bomb-vessel, at the defeat of the Danish fleet at Copenhagen.

At Dessau,in her 72d year, her Highness Amelia Christina, dowager Duchess of Anhalt Dessau. She was a daughter of the late Louis, Landgrave Hesse Homburg, and in 1792 married the hereditary Prince Frederick of Anhalt Dessau (who died May 27, 1814), by whom she had issue, the reigning Duke of Anhalt Dessau, and other children.

4. At Rockliffe, near Lymington, Hampshire, after some months' severe illness, aged 61, Sir James Rivett Carnac, of Derby, Bart. He was the son of James Rivett, esq., of the East India Company's civil service, who, in 1801, assumed the name of Carnac, by a daughter of James Fisher, esq., of Yarmouth.

Mr. Carnac was a Major on the Madras establishment, and retired in 1822. He was elected a Director of the East India Company, on the 7th of March, 1827, and was for some time chairman of the board. In February, 1832, he was appointed Governor of Bombay; and in 1836 he was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet. In 1837 he was returned to Parliament for Sandwich.

5. At Pentonville, aged 37, Mr. Samuel Jefferson, late of Carlisle, bookseller. Mr. Jefferson was a distinguished antiquarian and topographer, and published several works connected with the county of Cumberland. The History and Antiquities of Carlisle, with accounts of the Gentlemen's Seats and Antiquities, 8vo., a Guide to Naworth and Lanercost in 12mo. The History of Leath Ward, and of Allendale Ward, being parts of an intended history of the entire county; and some smaller works.

6. At Apley Park, Shropshire, aged 63, Thomas Whitmore, esq., formerly M.P. for Bridgnorth; a deputy lieutenant and magistrate for that county. He was born November, 16th, 1782, the eldest son of Thomas Whitmore, esq., also M. P. for Bridgnorth, and served the office of sheriff of Shropshire in 1805. He was returned to Parliament for the borough of Bridg. north (of which he was also formerly Recorder) from the general election of 1812 to that of 1831, and in politics was a firm and stanch supporter of the institutions of his country both in Church and State. In 1831 he gave way to a Whig candidate, James Foster, esq., but the latter was superseded in the following year by Mr. Whitmore's son. Whitmore married, July 19, 1804, Ca. therine, only daughter and heiress of Thomas Thomasson, esq., of York.

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7. At Doneraile house, co. Cork, aged 52, the Right Hon. Charlotte Esther Viscountess Doneraile. She was the second daughter of Francis Bernard, first Earl of Bandon, by Lady Catherine Henrietta Boyle, daughter of Richard 2d Earl of Shannon, and was married in 1816 to her cousin the present Viscount Doneraile.

9. In Lower Grosvenor-street, aged 59, Henry Gally Knight, esq., of Firbeck Hall and Langold, Yorkshire, M. P. for the Northern Division of Nottinghamshire, a Deputy Lieutenant of that county, and a magistrate for Yorkshire. This distinguished traveller and accomplished virtuoso and antiquary was born Dec. 2, 1786, the only son of Henry Gally

Knight, esq., of Langold, barrister-at-law, by Selina, daughter of William Fitzherbert, esq. of Tissington in Derbyshire. Mr. Henry Gally Knight succeeded to the estates of the family on his father's death in 1808. In the years 1810 and 1811 he travelled in Spain, Sicily, Greece, the Holy Land, and Egypt; and the observations made in this tour were published. In 1814 he published a poem entitled Europa Rediviva, and in the following year a volume of Poems. In 1817 he gave two other poems to the world, the one entitled "Phrosyne, a Grecian tale," and the other" Alashtar, an Arabian tale," which gave an opening for a sarcasm of Lord Byron's. His last tribute to the muses was "Hannibal in Bithynia," a dramatic poem, in 1839. In 1826 he published a pamphlet on the then all-engrossing subject, the Catholic question. Mr. Gally Knight now devoted his leisure to the investigation of architectural history at home and abroad. Startled by the early dates ascribed by the Norman Society of Antiquaries to certain churches in the pointed style, he landed at Dieppe in May, 1831, examined the buildings and the libraries throughout the country, and on his return published "An Architectural Tour in Normandy," which conclusively destroyed the assertions of the French antiquaries. Having thus reviewed the works of the Normans in these two countries, he was desirous of completing the survey "by giving some account of their operations in the third scene of their conquest and dominion, Sicily;" and accordingly started for Messina in August, 1836, and in 1838 published a sequel to the Tour, under the title of "The Normans in Sicily." This is prefaced with an historical notice of the events which led to the establishment of the Normans in the South of Europe. His third, last, and best work is called "Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy, from the time of Constantine to the fifteenth century;" splendidly illustrated by Mr. Owen Jones, in two volumes imperial folio. Mr. Knight was a member of the Commission for the advancement of the Fine Arts, and was a constant attendant at the anniversary meetings of several of the metropolitan societies connected with literature and art. Some time between the years 1824 and 1828 Mr. Knight was elected M. P. for Aldborough, under the auspices of the Duke of Newcastle; but, differing in opinion with his grace on the claims of the Catholics to unconditional emancipa.

tion, he was induced to tender his resignation, and accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. In 1830 he was elected for the borough of Malton, in the interest of Earl Fitzwilliam; and in 1835 Mr. Knight was elected for North Nottinghamshire, in the room of Lord Lumley, who had been called to the House of Peers by the death of his father, the Earl of Scarborough. At the general election in 1837, Mr. Knight again offered himself for that division of the county in conjunction with Thomas Holdsworth, esq., and succeeded after a severe contest, and continued to hold his seat undisturbed until his death. In Parliament Mr. Knight was a fluent though not a very frequent speaker. In private life a more estimable man never existed, for in all the social relations he greatly excelled. Mr. Gally Knight married, in 1828, Henrietta, third daughter of Anthony Hardolph Eyre, esq. of Grove, Nottinghamshire, but had no issue.

9. Aged 61, Mr. Robert Armour, of Brighton, formerly of Crown Court, Old Change, last surviving brother of Jean Armour, the wife of Robert Burns.

10. William Balfour, esq., a retired Captain R. N. This gentleman was a midshipman of the Irresistible, 74, Capt. (afterwards Sir George) Martin, and was wounded in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797. He obtained his first commission in 1801, and received another wound whilst serving as Lieutenant of the Cleopatra frigate, commanded by Sir Robert Laurie, in her desperate action with la Ville de Milan,, a French national ship of very superior force, Feb. 16, 1805. The Cleopatra was taken; but the Ville de Milan was so severely crippled, that she fell an easy victim to the Leander, 50, six days after. Lieut. Balfour was promoted to the rank of Commander, Jan. 22, 1806. He was subsequently appointed to the Cockatrice and Woodlark sloops. He retired with the rank of Captain, September 10, 1840.

11. At Cowley, near Uxbridge, aged 71, the Rev. Henry Campbell. By the will of Mr. Campbell, the following charities will, upon the demise of his widow, become entitled to an equal participation of the sum of 15,000Z., viz. :the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, the Church Missionary Society, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Society for the Conversion of the Jews, the London Missionary Society, the Religious Tract Society, and VOL. LXXXVIII.

the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Animals.

12. At Laverstoke House, Hampshire, aged 91, William Portal, esq., M. A.

In Thayer-street, Oxford-street, in his 50th year, Sir George William Lefevre, Knt., late Physician to the British Embasy at St. Petersburg. He was author of the "Life of a Travelling Physician," and of several medical treatises. The eccentricity which had marked this gentleman's career terminated in insanity, and he destroyed himself, when in a state of great depression, by taking prussic acid.

13. Suddenly, at Tyers-terr. Vauxhall, Mr. George Samouelle, the well-known entomologist, for many years of the British Museum. He was the author of the

At his chambers, in Essex-court, Temple, Thomas George Waller, esq. At the College, Salisbury, aged 74, John Campbell Wyndham, esq., of that place and of Dunoon, Scotland. He was born October 30, 1771, the son and heir of Colonel John Campbell, esq., of Dunoon, and of Blunham House, Bedfordshire, Governor of Chelsea Hospital, by Susanna, daughter and coheir of John Lewis, esq. His early life was passed in the army, from which he retired when he had obtained the rank of LieutenantColonel. He married Sept. 28, 1797, Caroline-Frances, daughter of Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, esq., M. P. for Wiltshire; and on the death of his brotherin-law, the late Wadham Wyndham, esq., M. P. for Salisbury, he assumed, together with his lady, the additional name and arms of Wyndham after Campbell, by royal sign-manual dated April 3, 1844.

15. At his seat, Cockenhatch, near Royston, Hertfordshire, General Sir William Henry Clinton, G.C. B. Colonel of the 55th Foot, Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital, Member of the Board of General Officers, and Commissioner of the Royal Military College and Royal Military Asylum. Sir William Henry Clinton was descended from the sixth Earl of Lincoln, and was the elder son of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. who was commander-in-chief in America, by Harriet, daughter of Thomas Carter, esq., and was the elder brother of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, G. C. B., Colonel of the 3rd Foot, who died in 1829. Sir William entered the army in 1784, as a Cornet in the 7th Light R