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OBITUARY.-Thomas Sherwood, Esq. M. D.

I have mentioned, he printed "The Duties and Qualifications of the Christian Minister," a sermon preached in Chester Cathedral on the 20th Sept. 1801; "What is Truth?" a sermon preached in the same cathedral, on occasion of a General Ordination, 29th Sept. 1816; "A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Leicester, A.D. 1822." We believe there were several other occasional Charges and Sermons published by Dr. Parkinson, but we have neither the titles of them, nor any means of ascertaining their dates.

J. S. H.

THOMAS SHERWOOD, Esq. M. D.

Feb. 28, 1830. At Snow Hall, near Darlington, in his 60th year, Thomas Sherwood, Esq. M. D.

For thirty years Dr. Sherwood engaged himself in the active duties of his profession with zeal and ability rarely surpassed even at this day, when liberal feeling, enlarged understanding, and cultivated taste form so general and so prominent features in the character of an English medical practitioner. Not content with the ordinary routine of professional education, he had, during the early years of his active life, applied himself with ardour to the study of Cullen, Gregory, and other eminent authors, until bis theory and his practice thus combining and lending mutual aid to each other, he gradually acquired that confidence in himself which was ever after so fine a trait in his character, and by which he was enabled instinctively, as it were, to recognize latent disease, and to administer promptly either to its prevention or its cure. In cases of fracture of the scull, or other accidental or natural derangement of the head he was eminently successful. One of these, in particular, deserves to be recorded. During his residence at Bishop's Auckland, a boy fell from a high wall, and beat upon his head. Dr.Sherwood, thoughaltogether in despair of saving him, trepanned the boy, prolonged his life to this day, and was consulted on the extraordinary operation be had performed by almost every eminent practitioner in the kingdom.

His classical education had been from circumstances limited, but he gave signal proof, when in the society of those who had approached nearer to the "integros fontes" than himself, that he had afterwards traced them to their source, had tasted, and bad drunk deeply too, of the thousand delightful rills which fall into the grand stream of Poetry. Amid his other active employments, he GENT. MAG. January, 1831.

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stole many an hour which he consecrated to the history, the poetry, the biography of his own country.* Thence he informed his understanding and cultivated his taste: thence, too, he drew those stores which, ever beaming as they did within the breast of their possessor, shed too their benign and delightful influence on his companions and his friends. Who ever heard him give, with that distinct and manly intonation, that energetical expression, so peculiar to himself, Gray's Ode to Adversity, or Johnson's critique on Milton's plan of initiating his pupils into Latin, without being awakened to the most lively sense of the stern simplicity of the one, or the comprehensive and grasping' vigour of the other?

But troubles came thick and throng upon him. The first shaft was aimed at him by the perfidiousness of friends: the next by a higher and more awful Power. His daughter and his favourite son were taken from him within a few weeks of each other.

His eldest daughter died on the 25th of October, 1829, aged 22. Elizabeth Sarah Sherwood was kind and affectionate upon the truest principle of filial duty, and those who witnessed her many and painful days upon her death-bed, can well answer for those intense feelings of unfeigned religion, which awed and at the same time cheered her sinking mind.

The history of Ralph Sherwood, who died a few weeks after his sister, is soon told. He was destined for the medical profession, and with this view he studied for awhile in London, and was afterwards removed to Edinburgh, where his quickness and talent, his great attention to anatomical and surgical pursuits, and the accuracy of his pencil and pen in sketching off-hand, in the hospitals to which he had access, those various morbid or other appearances produced by nature or the hand of the operator, soon gained for him the notice and approbation of men whose veriest word was praise. During his abode in Edinburgh, Mr. Sherwood became possessed of five very amusing letters written by Mr. Ritson to Mr. Laing, which, with a portrait of their eccentric author etched by himself, he communicated to Mr. Nichols, who inserted them in the third volume of "Literary Illustrations of the Eighteenth Century," p. 775, &c. But here begins

* See Surtees's "History of Durham," vol. I. p. 10. Introduction; and judge of the man" without the early and valued assistance of whom that work would never have been undertaken."

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the sad tale; that, under a mistaken idea of the high theatrical powers, which men into whose company it was his misfortune to fall (Mr. Kean among the number) persuaded him that he possessed, and in connection with the fact that his expensive habits had made him afraid of meeting his justly-irritated father, he at once quitted the profession in which he was so well qualified to excel, and betook himself to the stage. He had, however, the grace to drop his paternal sirname-but the name of RALPH SHERWIN Will not soon be forgotten, not only in most of the provincial theatres, but even at Drury-lane, where, in Dandie Dinmont, and similar characters, which require a man well read in provincial phraseology, he most particularly excelled. To follow this misguided youth through the various chances and changes of his subsequent history is unnecessary, if even it were possible.* It may suffice to state, in general, that for many a year be dank deep of that bitter cup which is prepared for those who have exchanged their home, under such circumstances, for so degraded an occupa

tion. He was at length, however, freely forgiven by his offended father, and without one single murmur of displeasure was welcomed to his home; but, after a very short time, without any apparent reason, he abruptly quitted his father's house, attached himself to the stage once more, slept in a damp bed in Cambridge, early in the year 1830, and came home to die. The full and free condo

nation of what was past, and the plea

surable intercourse and conversation be

tween father and son, as far as the grief of the former for the death of his daughter, and the deeply-rooted disease of the latter, would permit, will not be soon forgotten by those who witnessed them both.

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Amid the gloom which, from all sides, lowered around him, the father recognized not the Arm which, in chastening, was correcting and purifying his heart he would talk incoherently of his lost daughter from morning till night, and he would sit gazing, with a vacant, glassy eye, upon a picture of his son in one of his characters. He was forlorn and blighted -reason reeled on her seat- she received not from him that "sweet oblivious antidote" so often administered to others the conflict was over, and he burried into eternity. His body was found in the Tees, at the distance of a field from his house, and was afterwards

* A brief account of Sherwin's theatrical career has already appeared in our Number for October last, p. 376, EDIT.

buried with his father and mother and children in Staindrop churchyard.

JOHN PRESTOn, Gent.

Oct. 80. Aged 85, John Preston, of Drayton in Hales, co. Salop, Gent.

He was descended from an ancient family resident at Hough, in the parish of Wibunbury, co. Chester, where his ancestor, John Preston, was living in the reign of Elizabeth; be inherited an estate at that place, which he held for his life, and which has now devolved on John Preston, of Burslem, the only son of his first cousin. The deceased was the only child of Lawrence Preston, of eldest dau. and coheir of Thomas GrinNewcastle-under-Lyme, by Mary his wife, by Elizabeth (Walford) his wife. The sell, of Drayton in Hales, Gentleman, family of Grinsell is of greater antiquity at Drayton than any other of that town; it has been traced as resident there in the reign of Henry VIII. but was probably there much earlier, and was about a century ago so numerous, that their christian names were insufficient to de

signate them without having recourse to other appellations. They are now reduced to one family, which still continues to live there with the accustomed

respectability of its ancestors. From this his maternal family, Mr. Preston enjoyed some valuable freehold property. He was educated at the free grammar school at Drayton, and, excepting the short intermission of his abode with his uncle Richard Gore, of Rochdale, merchant, had resided there siderable, and will be long held in refrom infancy. His charities were conmembrance. He was also the firm and determined advocate to rescue from oblivion and embezzlement the numerous bequests left by former benefactors, and to see them appropriated agreeably to the intention of the respective donors. He was a strenuous supporter of the national school from the period of its has bequeathed to its funds 10%. per ann. first institution in 1788, and in his will arising out of 500l. 3 per cent. Consols. He has also given 47. a-year to the use of the church, and 20s. yearly to the two churchwardens, the parish clerk, and the person who receives these dividends, for their trouble. He was a person of extensive information on general subjects; but when any thing connected with the locality of his residence came in question, there were none who could compete with him for correctness and extent. His anecdotes had been treasured up by an excellent and retentive memory.

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OBITUARY.-Rev. B. L. Edwards.

REV. B. L. EDWARDS.

Jan. 2. At Northampton, aged 66, the Rev. Benjamin Lloyd Edwards.

He was upwards of 45 years Minister of the Independent Congregation assembling at King's Head Lane Chapel in that town; and during that lengthened period proved himself the ardent and uncompromising friend of civil and religious liberty. His professional services were characterised by the lucid arrangement of his subjects, the perspicuity of his style, and the fervid earnestness of his manner; but whilst enforcing his own views of the peculiar doctrines of Christianity, he was never betrayed into the slightest violation of candour or liberality; and the benevolence of his disposition prompted him to the habitual exercise of charity towards the temporal wants, as well as towards the religious opinions of all within the circle of his connexion. But the most distinguishing trait of his character was bis unbending, inflexible integrity. Regardless of the frowns of his opponents, and uninfluenced by, though not insensible to, the smiles and approbation of his friends, he had only to ascertain the line of his duty, and no selfish or personal considerations could induce him to swerve from it.

DEATHS.

BEDS.-Dec. 22. At Ampthill, aged 92, Margaret, widow of Rev. Robert Hagar, Vicar of Haynes, Beds. and dau. of late Granado Pigott, esq. of Pigotts Abingdon, co. Cambridge.

BERKS.-Jan. 7. Aged 53, John Sherwood, esq. of Reading.

Jan. 11. At Reading, aged 78, Lt.-Col. Balcomb, late of 1st dragoon guards.

BUCKS.-Jan. 6. At Great Marlow, Francis, youngest son of W. Hickman, esq. Jan. 12. At Fingest, aged 83, Mrs. Catherine Lowndes, sister of the late Wm. Lowndes Stone, esq. of Brightwell.

CAMBRIDGE.-Dec. 9. At Chesterton, near Cambridge, advanced in age, Miss Elizabeth Benson, one of the ladies of the Manor.

Jan. 7. At Swaffham Priors, Anna Maria, infant dau. of Rev. Dr. Jermyn.

Jan. 12. Aged 21, John James Ibbotson, esq. student of St. Peter's College, Cambridge.

CUMBERLAND.-Dec. 31. At Whitehaven, J. Bree, esq. brother of Martin Stapylton, esq. of Myton, Yorkshire.

DEVONSHIRE.-Aged 38, John Clark Langmead, of Derriford, esq. Justice of the Peace for the County, and Captain in North Devon Militia.

At Paignton, Lieut. Yard Eastley, R.N.

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At Weymouth, Julia Anna, eldest dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Browne.

Jan. 6. Aged 17, Emma, second dau. of H. W. Johns, esq. of Blandford.

DURHAM.-Dec. 26. At Stockton-onTrees, aged 68, Richard Jackson, esq. Alderman of that Corporation.

Mrs. Easterby, late of Skinning Grove, near Lately. At Bishop Auckland, aged 74, Whitby.

ESSEX.-Jan. 1. At Bowes, ChippingOngar, aged 55, James Barlow, esq.

GLOUCEST.-Lately. In her 90th year, Elizabeth, widow of Rev. Aug. Tho. Hupsman, Rector of Beverstone, and Vicar of Berkeley.

At Pauntley, Anne-Frances, wife of Rev. Thos. Commeline.

At Hampton upon Severn, Anne, widow of Rev. Richard Lockey, of Stenchcombe. Jan. 1. Aged 74, Edmund Wick Viner, esq. of Wick-street House, Painswick.

At the house of her daughter Mrs. Meredith, Bristol, aged 97, Mary, widow of Mr. Richard Callen, and aunt to Charles Pyer Callen, esq. of Great Merickston, Pemb.

Jan. 3. At Clifton, Miss Guest, dau. of late Thos. Guest, esq. of Dowlais Ironworks.

Jan. 4. At Clifton, aged 90, Lt.-Gen. Richard Bright, late of the Royal Marines, and many years Commandant of the Plymouth Division. He was appointed Capt. 1775, Lt.-Col. 1794, Col. 1798, Major-Gen. 1805, and Lt.-Gen. 1811.

Jan. 12. At Blakeney, Mary Ann, wife of James Jones, esq. of Camberwell.

HANTS. Dec. 26. At Ryde, Isle of Wight, Mary, relict of Henry Singleton,

esq.

Dec. 28. At Lymington, aged 76, Hannah, relict of Samuel Harrison, esq. late banker, of Southampton, where her remains were interred in the catacombs of All Saints' church.

Lately. At Southampton, in the residence of her son-in-law Joseph Chamberlayne Wilkinson Acherley, esq. the relict of Rev. Guy Fairfax, rector of Newton Kyme, York, and of Babworth, Notts.

At Cowes, Charlotte, wife of Rev. J. B. Atkinson, and dau. of S. Dowell, esq. Bath.

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At Portsmouth, aged 96, Mr. Mackay, a veteran soldier, who served in the German war of George II. as a drummer. A numerous family of descendants surrounded his death-bed; and his intellects were perfect to the last. He was one of six brothers who went into the army, and one of whom became Governor of Tilbury Fort.

Jan. 1. At Andover, aged 72, Capt. and Adjutant Donald Fraser, 78th reg.

Jan. 5. At Warnford rectory, Jane, relict of Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, esq. late of Alresford.

Jan. 8. At Yately, aged 65, Henry Randell, esq.

Jan. 13. At Bishop Stoke, aged 62, Frances, wife of E. G. Bourdillon, esq. HERTS.-Jan. 20. At Sarratt Hall, aged 36, Ralph Day, esq.

KENT.-Dec. 4. Augusta, third dau. of John Jones, esq. of East Wickham; and Dec. 25, Harriett, fifth dau. of late Rich. Staynor Jones, esq. of the same place.

Dec. 6. At Ramsgate, aged 61, Thomas Fawssett, esq. Major in the Cambridge Militia, only son of Thos. F., esq. of Wisbech, solicitor.

Jan. 9. At Plaistow-green, Bromley, aged 75, Miss Boyd, late of Edinburgh. Lately. At Ramsgate, Hester, relict of Daniel Robinson, esq. solicitor Gray's-inn. LANCASHIRE. Dec. 31. James Hargreaves, esq. of Bank-hall, Burnley.

Jan. 3. Mr. Thomas Ashton, son of a great master cotton-spinner at Hyde, near Manchester, was assassinated, on his way from the factory to his father's house. He was found lying on the road about eight o'clock, his body being perforated by two bullets. It is supposed that he was mistaken for an elder brother; but the causes which have led to this horrible atrocity are at present veiled in obscurity.

LINCOLN.-Jan. 4. At Blyborough, aged 70, Louisa, widow of Peter John Luard, esq. formerly of Northampton.

His

MIDDLESEX.-Dec. 26. At Tottenham, aged 59, Thomas Carpenter, esq. an eminent naturalist and cultivator of Science. researches and discoveries in the economy and instinctive operations of insects and microscopic animalcula were original, extensive, and curious; many of the latter were but the ten millionth part of an inch, yet all in life or animated motion. He improved the method of illuminating the minutest opaque objects by candle-light, under the compound microscope; and published many of his observations and discoveries in the latter volumes of Gill's Techniological and Microscopical Monthly Repository.

Jan. 2. At Shepperton, aged 84, James Living, esq.

Jan. 10. At Hillingdon, aged 70, Charles Montague, esq. formerly of Camberwell.

NORFOLK.-Dec. 8. At Shropham Hall, in her 50th year, Sarah, wife of Rev. S. R.

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Leathes, and dau. of late Lieut.-Gen. Hethersett.

At Bracondale, aged 73, the widow of Wm. Carter, esq.

Lately. At Lynn, in the house of her uncle, Thos. Allen, esq. aged 16, Harriett, dau. of F. Hogge, esq.

Jan. 5. At Hillborough-hall, aged 53, Ralph Caldwell, esq.

Jan. 7. At Norwich, aged 34, Mr. Jos. Stannard, artist.

Jan. 12. Aged 8, Henry-Aug. son of Rev. Wm. Chester, Rector of Denton.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.-Dec. 20. Aged 66, Kirby Freer, esq. of St. Martin's Stamford, formerly an eminent glass merchant at Manchester.

Jan. 8. At Deane, advanced in age, the widow of Rev. T. Reid, Rector of Corby, and of Stanton, Leic.

Lately. At Peterborough, aged 78, Eleanor, widow of Mary Levitt Ibbetson, and only child and heiress of John Lander, esq. the eminent mathematician, of whom memoirs will be found in our vol. LX. 191, LXXXV. i. 19.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.-Dec. 28. At Osberton, Harriet, wife of Geo. Saville Foljambe, esq. She was the 3d dau. of Sir Wm. Milner, Bart. of Nun-Appleton, in the county of York, by his second wife Harriet, dau. of Lord Edward Bentinck, and was married Dec. 9, 1828. Her remains were interred at Sturton, near East Retford.

Jan. 1. At Nottingham, aged 60, Mr. James Robertson, late one of the managers of the Nottingham, Derby, and Stamford Theatres.

MONMOUTH.-Aged 69, Mr. Chas. Heath, printer, Monmouth, where he twice served the office of Mayor. He was the author of a" Descriptive Account of Piercefield and Chepstow," 1793; a 66 History of Monmouth," 1804; and "Accounts of Tintern Abbey, and Ragland Castle," 1806. OXON.-Jan. 7. Mary, 2d dau. of Jos. Parker, esq. St. Giles's, Oxford.

SALOP.-Lately. At Ellesmere, aged 81, Bulkeley Hatchett, esq.

At Oswestry, advanced in age, Mary, widow of late Rev. E. Hamar, Rector of Hirnant, Montg. mother of 21 children.

Jan. 14. At Market Drayton, aged 58, J. Wilson, esq.

SOMERSET.--Jan. 6. At Bath, aged 38, Philip Bize Entwisle, esq. of Liswonnghouse, Glamorgan, 6th son of late John Entwisle, esq. of Foxholes, Lanc.

Jan. 4. At Bath, aged 40, Mrs. Nisbitt, wife of Col. Nisbitt.

STAFFORD.-Jan. 8. At Swinnerton-hall, aged 59, Mary, dau. of the Hon. James Dormer, younger son of John 7th Lord Dormer.

SUFFOLK.-Jan. 3. At the Boys' Hospital, Ampton, aged 41, Maria, wife of Mr. Augustine Page, the Master, and eldest dau. of the late Mr. Lionel Gowing, of Ipswich,

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by Anne, his first wife. In the first institution of the National Society in Suffolk, in 1812, she was elected Mistress of the Central School for girls in Ipswich, which she continued to conduct, on the removal of Mr. P. to his present situation, until 1821. In both capacities she was always regarded with filial affection by the children, respected and esteemed by their parents, and uniformly obtained the confidence and approbation of her superiors.

SURREY.-Jan. 6. At Richmond, aged 28, Amelia, wife of James Quilter, esq.

Jan. 12. At Hartley, near Croydon, aged 62, Simeon Smith, esq. of the Royal Exchange.

Jan. 14. Capt. Bridges, of Chessington, near Kingston. He joined the hunt at Riddlesdown, on a sudden pulled up his horse, and expired on his arrival at a public-house near at hand. He was a well-known sportsman in Surrey, and was exceedingly eccentric in his dress, generally wearing a great profusion of coloured silk handkerchiefs about his neck, and a hat with an enormous broad brim to it, turned up at the sides. He was the individual who performed a feat many years ago of riding full gallop down the Devil's Dyke, near Brighton, for a bet of 5001. and won it.

Jan. 15. John Bristow, esq. of Beddington. When following Mr. Jolliffe's hounds, he was observed to drop forward, and ultimately out of the saddle, on the ground. He was found to be quite dead; his death is attributed to apoplexy.

SUSSEX.-Jan. 1. At St. Leonard's, near Hastings, by a fall from his horse, in returning from hunting, aged 17, GeorgeJames, only son of Thos. Wood, esq. of the Regent's Park, and grandson of James Burton, esq. of St. Leonard's.

Jan. 5. At Brighton, aged 86, Mr. Penfold, one of the oldest inhabitants, and father of Mr. Penfold, solicitor.

Jan. 6. At Goodwood, aged 8, Lady Sarah Lennox, 2d dau. of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, K.G.

Jan. 11. At Little Hampton, Charlotte, wife of Capt. Edw. Burt, R. N. WARWICK.Lately. At Leamington, aged 42, Wm. Syme, esq. Comptroller-gen. of the Customs, Dublin.

Oct. 27. At Leamington, Lieut. Rogers, 90th foot.

Dec. 21. At Walton, the seat of her grandson Sir John Mordaunt, Bart. aged 75, Anne, widow of William Holbech, esq. of Farnborough, and sister to the Very Rev. Dr. Woodhouse, Dean of Lichfield.

Jan. 17. At Foxcote, Francis Canning, esq. the head of the family from which sprung Lord Garvagh and the late Mr. Canning. He was a whig in politics, and a warm friend of Dr. Parr.

WILTS.—Dec, 29. Aged 72, Jane, widow

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of Thomas Tuckey, esq. of Winterbourne Bassett.

Jan. 6. At the Manor House, Fovant, aged 62, Samuel Bracher, esq.

Jan. 13. At Marlborough, John Halcombe, esq. the eminent coach proprietor. Jan. 15. At Salisbury, aged 72, Thomas Rendall, esq. late of Milston. WORCESTER.-Lately. At Pull Court, Mary-Theodosia, eldest surviving dau. of late Right Hon. Wm. Dowdeswell. YORK.-Dec. 12. At Laughton-en-leMorthen, aged 83, John Auton, esq.

Dec. 22. Aged 28, Thomas, 3d son of late Thos. Fothergill, esq. of Aiskew House, near Bedale.

Dec. 28. At Hull, aged 42, Mr. William Wright, bookseller and stationer. He was a skilful mathematician, and contributed at different periods of his life to various mathematical periodicals.

Dec. 29. At Halifax, very suddenly, in his 105th year, John Logan, commonly called "Old Logan." He was born in

Montrose, Sept. 16, 1726. Fifty years of his life were spent in the service of his country, in England, Ireland, and the West Indies; for 19 years he belonged to the 20th Cameronian regiment, for 23 to the 32d regiment of foot, for three to the 83d regiment, and five to the Bredalbane Fencibles.

Dec. 30. At. Norman, near Tadcaster, aged 57, Ann, wife of John Robson, esq. SCOTLAND. Oct. 30. At Greenock,

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Lieut. Reid, 57th foot.

Nov. 14. At Helensburgh, near Greenock, after a severe illness, Mr. Henry Bell, the practical introducer of Steam Navigation into Europe. It was on the 2nd of August 1812 that he launched the first steam-vessel, called the Comet, on the Clyde. The number of steam-vessels now plying on that river amounts to more than sixty. Mr. Bell was latterly reduced to dependance upon charity.

Nov. 20. At Moncrieffe House, Perthshire, aged 41, Sir David Moncrieffe, the sixth Baronet of that place; nephew to the Earl of Dalhousie, G.C.B., and brother-inlaw to the Earl of Bradford. He was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, the fifth Baronet, by Lady Elizabeth Ramsay, second daughter of George eighth Earl of Dalhousie. He succeeded his father March 26, 1818; and married Jan. 12, 1819, Helen, second daughter of Æneas Mackay, esq. by whom he had issue, 1. Helen; 2. Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, born in 1822, who has succeeded to the title; and 3. Wm.-Æneas.

Dec. 18. At Huntley, Captain John Gordon, late of 95th regiment.

At Huntley-bush, near Melrose, Isabella, eldest daughter of the late celebrated Dr. Adam Ferguson.

Dec. 24. At the Bridge of Earn, Perth, Ann, widow of Thomas Hunter, esq. of Limerick.

Dec. 26. At Caledon, Robert Crothers,

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