1812.-MOULTON, WILLIAM. In "Hill's Arrangement" for 1881 will be found the names of six Moultons, three of whom were then living and three deceased. Five of the six were members of the same family, of which William Moulton was the head. He became a Wesleyan minister in 1794, and laboured as such for forty years, during the whole of which time he bore an unblemished character. He died at Tadcaster in 1835, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. He had a numerous family of fourteen or fifteen children, of whom the eldest was named, after his father, William. The latter was a scholar at the Grove at its opening, and was for some time the head boy in the school. He was known amongst his schoolfellows as a singular character, and very clever. He died when only sixteen years of age. Three of his brothers were Wesleyan ministers, viz., John Bakewell, who entered the itinerancy in 1830, and after labouring for seven years died in 1837; James Egan, who was born at Bedford in 1806, and who died in 1866; and Ebenezer (A), who is still in the ministry, having entered it in 1835. James Egan, just mentioned, had four sons, all more or less distinguished men—the eldest being William Fiddian (now Dr. Moulton), who, being a Grove boy, will be mentioned in his place; the second, James Egan Moulton, was a missionary in Tonga; the third, John Fletcher Moulton, was a distinguished Cambridge scholar, and was both senior wrangler and Smith's prizeman; and the fourth was Richard Green Moulton, a well-known Cambridge lecturer.

1846.-MOULTON, WILLIAM FIDDIAN, C.Sc. (afterwards the Rev. Dr. Moulton). It has often been said that the lives of literary men are uneventful; their events are their books. This remark is true of such a man as the Rev. Dr. Moulton. The brevity of this notice, therefore, must not be looked upon as the measure of the estimate with which he is regarded. He is the son of the late Rev. James Egan Moulton, who has been already mentioned, and who was a scholar at Kingswood, where he remained as junior master for seven years. He relinquished this position to enter the Wesleyan ministry in 1828, in which he laboured for thirty-five years, during which he made considerable attainments in various branches of knowledge. He was a great sufferer from asthma, and was obliged to retire from active work in 1863, and he died in 1866. His son, the subject of this notice, as a boy, early displayed a remarkable aptitude for scholarship. It is noticeable that whilst he is now most widely known as a classical scholar, when he

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was at the Grove he studied mathematics with such success, as already mentioned, that he found it necessary to send home for mathematical books of a higher character than were then used in the school. In 1851 Dr. Moulton matriculated at the London University, graduated as B.A. in 1854, with honours in mathematics, and took the M.A. in 1856, with the gold medal for mathematics and natural philosophy. In 1860 he took the special scripture examination at the London | University with distinction in all subjects of examination, and in 1863 he passed the further scriptural examination in the first class with a prize. In 1874 he was made an honorary D.D. by the University of Edinburgh. He has served Methodism in many offices. In 1858 he was appointed assistant classical tutor at Richmond, and afterwards classical tutor at the same college. In 1874 he was elected head master and governor of the Leys School at Cambridge. He has rendered service also to the Churches and to the nation in general by his valuable labours as a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee. He has written a History of the English Bible, a Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, and many learned articles in various publications. Though noted last, it is not forgotten that Dr. Moulton has translated from the German, and annotated Winer's Grammar to the New Testament Greek. By this work he has laid all Greek Testament students under deep obligations. The Methodist people are naturally proud of Dr. Moulton, and pardonably so. He has by his wide attainments, and his successful head mastership at Cambridge, raised the prestige of his Church and also the intellectual and moral ideal of its members.

1872.-MOUNTFORD, A. H., dentist, Bournemouth.

1860.-MUFF, J. ALFRED, engineer. Died in 1867.

1827.-MUFF, JOHN ISAAC. Wesleyan ministry, 1841. Died in

1873.

1821.-MUFF, ROBERT, chemist, Leeds.

1867.-NANCE, FRANCIS J., M.A. (London). Wesleyan ministry, 1881. Assistant tutor, Headingley.

1865.-NANCE, JOHN WESLEY. Died at Burnley in 1874.

1865.-NANCE, WILLIAM T., grocer and seedsman, York.

1868.-NATTRASS, JOHN, S. L., Nottingham.

1852.-NAYLOR, CHARLES HENRY.

1819.-NAYLOR, WILLIAM, London.

1856.-NAYLOR, WILLIAM.

1850.-NEALE.

1856.-NEALE, George.

1860.-NEALE, WILLIAM.

1815.-NEEDHAM, JAMES P.

1818.-NEEDHAM, ROBERT, became a well-known letterpress printer in London. Some of us can remember when his name appeared as the printer of our hymn book, and other Wesleyan publications, and which was looked upon with much interest by his old schoolfellows.

1817.-NEEDHAM, WILLIAM.

1869.-NEEDLE, Alfred W., America.

1874.-NEEDLE, ARTHUR J., fitter, Grantham.

1866.-NEEDLE, BARNABAS W. Barlow's warehouse, Bolton. 1875.-NEEDLE, ROBERT NEWTON, clerk at Southall's, Bir

mingham.

1845.-NELSON.

1865.-NELSON, HARRY.

1864.-NELSON, JOHN M.

1862.-NEWTON, EDWARD SHACKFIELD.

1846.-NEWTON, J.

1847.-NEWTON, J.

1844.-NEWTON, MICHAEL.

1838.-NEWTON, THOMAS.

1833. NICHOLSON, EDWARD.

1828.-NICHOLSON, JOHN.

1850.-NICHOLSON, J.

1830.-NICHOLSON, Samuel.

1835. NICHOLSON, THEO.

1853. NICHOLSON, THOMAS.

1830.--NICHOLSON, WILLIAM.

1876.-NIELD, HERBERT M.

1859.-NIGHTINGALE, ARTHUR WILLIAM.

1854.-NIGHTingale, Robert B. Wesleyan ministry, 1868.

1847.-NORTH, George.

1847.-NORWOOD, ED.

1853.-NYE, ED. WAYSON, B.M., C.Sc.

Episcopal Church,

Canada.

1853.-NYE, HENRY W.

1855.-NYE, J.

1818.-OAKES, ED., commercial traveller.

1816.-OAKES, WILLIAM.

1858.-Oldfield, EDMUND, clergyman of English Church. 1861.-Oldfield, George C. Died at Doncaster.

1875.-OLDFIEld, Henry.

1877. OSBORNE, Edward. 1875.-OSBORne, George.

1860.-OSBORNE, HENRY.

1828. OSBORne, Samuel.

1849.-OSBORNE, THOMAS H. C.

1852.-OWEN, JOHN A. HENRY.

1856.-OYSTON, HENRY. Wesleyan ministry, 1873.

1837.-PADMAN, George.

1846.-PADMAN, J. W. C., draper, Boston Spa.

1823.-PADMAN, THOMAS. Many years in Australia.

1838.-PADMAN, WEBSTER. Died in 1839.

1877.-PAGE, W. J.

1862.-PALMER, Albert Thomas, is the son of the Rev. Jabez Palmer, mentioned before.

He entered the Grove in 1862, where he only remained a short time. After devoting himself to office work for a while, he decided upon entering the ministry, and in 1879 was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Marden in Kent, where he still remains.

1858.-PALMER, Alfred J., J.Sc., L.M., is the son of the Rev. Jabez Palmer, who entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1837, and who, after labouring for more than thirty-five years, is now a supernumerary in London. His son Alfred was a Grove scholar, and consecrated himself to Christ when but ten years of age, and began to preach when quite a youth wearing a jacket. He afterwards became assistant to his father in the towns of Romford and Barking, preaching with such acceptance that his services were eagerly sought after. He has had three brothers in the ministry, who were also Grove boys, viz., Frederick W., Albert Thomas, and Augustus Septimus, who will also be noticed. The subject of the present sketch, after passing his B.A. examination (London), was ordained a Congregational minister, and in 1870 became|| the pastor of the Congregational Church at Folkestone, succeeding the

Rev. E. Cornwall. It is recorded that the church and congregation over which he has presided for fourteen years have enjoyed during that period uninterrupted peace and prosperity. The same authority which makes the statement also says that Mr. Palmer is one of the ablest preachers and most promising men in the Congregational Union.

1866.-PALMER, Augustus SEPTIMUS, was the seventh son of the Rev. Jabez Palmer, before named, and was a scholar at the Grove for about a year when he was transferred to Kingswood, and afterwards became an assistant master at the Grove. Like his elder brother, Alfred, he joined the Congregational ministry, and in 1881 was ordained at Greenwich as pastor of Greenwich Road Tabernacle, the memorial stone of which was laid by Rowland Hill more than a hundred and thirty years ago. His ministry, which only extended over twelve months, was most successful, when he was cut off by death at the early age of twenty-five years.

1862.-PALMER, Frederick WILLIAM HENRY, entered the Grove, remaining there two years. He subsequently spent several years at the Cathedral Grammar School at Rochester; and after taking his B.A. at Oxford was ordained as curate of New Barnet. In 1875 he was elected head master of the Grammar School, Snettisham, King's Lynn, and took his M.A. in 1878.

1871.-Parker, Charles, civil engineer, America. 1875.-PARKER, ED. G., City Bank, London.

1872. —Parker, JOHN L., mining engineer, Staffordshire. 1877.-PARKER, R. H., analytical chemist, Liverpool.

1859.-PARKER, S. H.

1876.-PARKER, THOMAS L., with a merchant, Auckland, New

Zealand.

1849.-PARKES, HENRY.

1856.-PARKES, James C.

1859.-PARKES, STEPHEN. Wesleyan ministry, 1870.

1849.-PARKES, WILLIAM.

1875.-PARSONS, LITLEY J.

1861.-PARSONSON, GEORGE.

1859.-PARSONSON, JOHN E.

1865.-PARSONSON, JOSEPH M.

1867.-PARSONSON, THOS., J.Sc. Army Hospital Corps, Aldershot.