late appearance of his great map, and the slow and difficult growth of his hardearned fame, they had reason to be thankful that in the maturity of geological research, at a time when the progress of continental science could be rightly appreciated, the delicate task of estimating the value and originality of his labours was accomplished with the taste, truth, and independence which characterize the writings of Dr. Fitton.

Between the appearance of the great general map in 1815 and the year 1821, Mr. Smith published no less than twenty geological maps of English counties, often remarkable for their accuracy; and he did not afterwards desist from the labour of preparing others, amidst difficulties and privations such as few men devoted to science have ever endured. In 1819 Mr. Smith resigned his residence in London, and had, in fact, scarcely any home but the rocks until 1823, which year he passed in Kirby Lonsdale. In 1824 he delivered a course of lectures on Geology to the members of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, then recently established; these were repeated in the same year, in conjunction with his nephew (now Professor Phillips) at Scarborough and Hull. similar effort was made at Sheffield in 1825, and soon afterwards Mr. Smith accepted an engagement as agent to Sir J. Johnstone, Bart. of Hackness, near Scarborough, and withdrew for a while from the wandering life and endless labours he had imposed on himself.

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In 1829 one who deeply felt the enthusiasm of active geological research, was led by curiosity, or a better motive, to visit the secluded valley of Hackness, and contemplate the imprisoned energies of an impassioned mind. He found a patient though disappointed man; an inflexible activity of intellect, forced into new and not infertile channels; a generous sympathy with the progress of science, shaded only by deep regret at his own compulsory exclusion from the active promotion of it. Nothing that could be effected by individual kindness was omitted by the worthy proprietor of Hackness, to encourage the veteran geologist, whose mind, singularly gifted with the power of living through the past, was often far away from the spot where his labours, and perhaps his life, were amusingly and usefully prolonged.

The time, however, came at length, when the young geologists of England drew from his retirement the unforgotten leader of their science. The Geological Society of London awarded the first medal placed at their disposal by the bequest of Wollaston to Mr. William

Smith, in consideration of his being a great original discoverer in English Geology; and especially for his being the first, in this country, to discover and to teach the identification of strata, and to determine their succession, by means of their imbedded fossils." Professor Sedgwick then occupied the chair of the Geological Society, and added to the value of the distinction he was conferring on Mr. Smith, by a careful estimation and proof of his right to receive it, and by the acknowledgment, which could come with better grace or greater force from no living geologist, of his undoubted claim to be recognised as the Father of English Geology.' "If," observes this eloquent advocate of truth, "in the pride of our present strength, we were disposed to forget our origin, our very speech would bewray us; for we use the language which he taught us in the infancy of our science. If we, by our united efforts, are chiselling the ornaments, and slowly raising up the pinnacles, of one of the temples of nature, it was he who gave the plan, and laid the foundation, and erected a portion of the solid walls, by the unassisted labour of his hands."

In 1835 he received the degree of LL.D. in Trinity college, Dublin.

No man ever withstood more bravely than Mr. Smith the pressure of pecuniary difficulties; they were, in fact, neither rashly nor recklessly incurred, but inevitably brought on by the unconquerable desire of personally tracing the strata of England and Wales. These difficulties were however often excessive; and after the public tribute to the Father of English Geology,' decreed by the Geological Society, it was impossible to avoid an anxious fear that in the winter of his age he would be destitute. An application was made to the Crown, on the part of several eminent men of science, and persons of high station, in the country, who had known the practical value of Geology, for the grant of a suitable pension. An annuity of One Hundred Pounds was the result of this well-timed application; and from this limited income, at threescore years and ten, the first English geologist drew his scanty support. satisfied with his previous labours, he employed the latter years of his life in extending his early observations and applying the discoveries of Geology to practical uses, and was one of the Committee which recently issued their elaborate report on the stone best fitted for the construction of the Houses of Parliament. In private life, the unaffected goodness of his heart, the unpresuming simplicity of his manners, and the striking originality

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of his remarks, endeared him to the widely extended circle of his friends."

Dr. Smith came to Northampton from London on Tuesday the 20th August, to spend a few days with Mr. Baker, the historian of that county, with an intention to proceed to the meeting of the British Association at Birmingham. On the Friday following he was suddenly attacked with a bilious diarrhoea, which immediately prostrated his strength, and his death ensued on Wednesday the 28th. His body was attended to the grave in the churchyard of St. Peter's, Northampton, by his nephew Professor Phillips, and his afflicted friend, Mr. Baker, on the Monday after his decease.

A portrait of Dr. Smith, taken in 1838 by Fourau, and engraved by T. A. Dean, was published in the Supplement to the Natural History Magazine for May.

THE REV. GEORGE TURNER. Nov. 9. In his 73rd year, the Rev. George Turner, B.A. Rector of Kettleburgh and Monewden, in Suffolk.

Mr. Turner was born at Pulham, in Norfolk, and received the early part of his education at the Free Grammar School at Bury St. Edmund's, under the tuition of the Rev. Mr. Laurentz, and his classical acquirements there did ample credit to the teaching of so distinguished a master. Upon leaving Bury, he was, for a short time, with a private tutor, after which he was admitted of Jesus college, Cambridge, and in 1788 proceeded to the degree of A. B. His proficiency in classical learning, while in college, was much increased, and his friends confidently looked forward to his success in an examination for one of the medals given by the Chancellor of the University; but, the study of mathematics being unsuited to his taste, his name appeared only on the second Tripos, and be was thereby precluded from offering himself as a candidate for that high honour. soon as he was of sufficient age, he entered into holy orders, and was for a while curate in a parish near Harleston, in Norfolk. In 1790 he married, and soon after took upon himself the duties of the parish of Kettleburgh; settling himself in the parsonage. house there, which he never quitted afterwards. Though qualified by nature and education for any station in life, his habits were retiring, and, considering "the post of honour to be a private station," he earnestly entered upon the duties of a parish priest, and never, to the end of his life, relaxed his efforts in the due performance of them. In 1803, he was instituted to the rectory of Monewden, on the presentation of the

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late Chaloner Arcedeckne, esq. and in 1807 to that of Kettleburgh, patron the late Robert Sparrow, esq. of Worlingham hall, Suffolk. About the year 1804, he began to act as a magistrate, and in the exercise of the duties of that office he reaped golden opinions from all. Easy of access, patient in the investigation of cases and complaints which came before him, and cool in the determination of them, he was firm in the execution of that determination; though, in all instances where his severe sense of duty would allow him, he was ever eager to temper justice with mercy. Thus did he deservedly obtain the utmost popularity among those who sought for justice at his hands, as well as great respect and deference to his opinion from his brethren on the bench. For nearly thirty years he continued his exertions in this line of duty; but growing infirmities obliged him, a few years since, greatly to the regret of his neighbourhood, to retire from it.

In the performance of the duties of his profession he was most exemplary; earnest and impressive in the highest degree in the pulpit, always alive to the wants of his poor parishioners, relieving them in their necessities, comforting them in their afflictions, and earnestly endeavouring, both by precept and example, to lead them in the way they should go. Of his social qualities, too much cannot be said ; the friends he has left behind him, and they were numerous, can best bear record of the excellencies of this trait of his character: always cheerful, lively and playful in his conversation, his society was eagerly sought for, and most highly appreciated; not only for the amusing powers which he possessed, but for his sound judgment and extensive information on general subjects. The loss, therefore, of such a friend will long be most sincerely and deeply felt; but upon his family how much more heavily must it fall in his relation with them, he was indeed beyond all praise; his ever unruffled good temper, his unvarying kindness of heart, and large allowance for the faults of others, and particularly of those immediately about him, will have left such a grateful remembrance of him, as time only, the softener of all griefs, can be capable of weakening or obliterating.

It is to be regretted, that the only memorial which he has left behind of his literary attainments, is his edition of his friend the Rev. Robert Forby's "Vocabulary of East Anglia," 2 vols. 8vo. 1830, to which, indeed, he was himself a large contributor. D. A. Y.

CLERGY DECEASED.

The Rev. John Boake, Rector of Swalcliffe, Kent, to which he was presented in 1826 by Earl Cowper.

At Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, the Rev. John Bull, M. A. Curate of that parish.

The Rev. G. H. Haslewood, Perpetual Curate of Morvill with Aston Eyre, and of Quatford, in Bridgnorth, Salop; to the former of which livings he was instituted in 1797, and to the latter in 1801.

Aged 37, the Rev. C. Moffatt, Curate of St. Mary's, Newry, co. Down.

The Rev. Richard Noble, Vicar of Whalley and Perpetual Curate of Church Kirk in Lancashire, and a magistrate for that county. He was presented to the former living in 1822 by Abp. Manners Sutton, and to the latter in 1824 by the

Trustees of Hulme's Exhibitions.

Aged 71, the Rev. Morgan O'Donovan, Rector of Dundurrow, and Chaplain to the Corporation of Cork.

At Newport glebe-house, Tipperary, aged 83, the Rev. Dr. J. Pennefather,

Rector of the Union of St. John's.

The Rev. Edward Roberts, Rector of Halkin, Flintshire, to which he was collated in 1819 by Dr. Luxmoore, then Bp. of St. Asaph.

Aged 67, the Rev. Thomas Robyns, Vicar of Marystow, Devonshire, to which he was presented in 1819 by J. H. Treesq. He was of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1794, M. Ä. 1820.

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At Cardiff, aged 65, the Rev. Richard Samuel, Chaplain in the Royal Navy, and formerly Curate of Swansea.

Oct. 3. At Corpus Christi college, Oxford, in his 75th year, the Rev. Henry Dimock, M. A. Chaplain, and formerly Fellow of that society, and Rector of Monks' Ris. borough, Buckinghamshire. He was the son of the Rev. Henry Dimock, Chaplain to Archbishop Moore, and the author of "Critical and Explanatory Notes on the Holy Scriptures." The deceased was elected a Scholar of Corpus in 1782; proceeded B. A. 1785, and M.A. 1789. He was collated to his living by the late Archbishop in 1811.

At Boldon, Durham, the Rev. Nathaniel John Hollingsworth, Rector of that parish. He was born at Battersea, in Surrey, educated at Merchant-taylors' school, and thence elected a Scholar of St. John's college, Oxford, in 1789, became actual Fellow in 1792, and graduated B. A. 1793, M. A. 1796. He was collated to the rectory of Boldon by Bishop VanMildert in 1829. He married Lucy,

daughter of the Rev. Dr. Neve, Margaret Professor of Divinity. And a few days only before his decease his daugh,

ter, Amelia, was married to Calverley, eldest son of the Rev. Calverley John Bewicke, M.A. of Hallaton hall, Leicestershire.

At Sallowglen, co. Kerry, the Rev. Francis Sandes, Curate of Lisleton, second son of the late T. Sandes, esq. nephew to the Bishop of Waterford.

Oct. 5. Aged 83, the Rev. Richard Constable, Prebendary of Chichester, Vicar of Cowfold and Hailsham, Sussex. He was formerly Fellow of St. Peter's college, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. 1778, M. A. 1781; was collated to the prebend of Wisborough Green, in the cathedral church of Chichester, by Bishop Ashburnham, in 1796; to the vicarage of Cowfold in 1801, by Bishop Buckner; and presented to Hailsham in 1805, by E. Mitchell, esq.

Oct. 8. At his seat, Belmont, near Hereford, aged 92, the Rev. Richard Prosser, D.D., a Prebendary of Hereford, and late Archdeacon of Durham. He shire; and entered of Brasenose college, was born at Market Drayton, in ShropOxford, in 1767. He proceeded to the degrees of B.A. Oct. 10, 1770, and of M.A. July 1, 1773, having, in the preceding March, been elected to a Chaplain Fellowship in his college. In 1783 he served the office of Proctor; at the expiration of which, in 1784, he was admitted to the He was for many years degree of B.D. one of the Delegates of the University Press, and held, in succession, various College offices, especially that of Tutor, in which he was uniformly distinguished for a faithful discharge of his duties, and a strict, but courteous, maintenance of academical discipline. In Jan. 1792, he was presented by his College to the rectory of All Saints', Colchester, which he vacated in 1796, on his being collated to rington. In the same year, also, he prothe rectory of Gateshead, by Bishop Barceeded to the degree of D.D. He married, June 16, 1796, Sarah, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Wegg, esq. of Bloomsbury-square, and Acton, Middlesex, and had issue an only child, Richard, who died in his youth. By the patronage of the same Prelate, Dr. Prosser was, in 1804, collated to a prebend in the Cathedral of Durham, and afterwards to the Archdeaconry, together with the rectory of Easington. This latter preferment he resigned, and, during the rehis official residence at Durham, he resided mainder of his life, with the exception of at his beautiful seat, Belmont, near Hereford, purchased by him of the late Colonel Matthews, and in a county to which he was strongly attached by the ties of his earliest associations and family connexions,

Dr. Prosser was remarkable for a strong attachment to the institutions of his country, in Church and State, and omitted no opportunity of testifying his zeal for both, by personal exertions and pecuniary donations. He possessed a talent for business, and a clearness of understanding which continued unimpaired to the last; and he conciliated general esteem by the benevolence of his disposition and the urbanity of his manners. Dr. Prosser's large property descends, it is believed, to his great-nephew, the son of the late Rev. Dr. Haggitt, Prebendary of Durham. His stall, under the arrangements for endowing the University of Durham, devolves to the Professor of Greek in that institution, the Rev. Henry Jenkyns.

Oct. 9. The Rev. Thomas Wether herd, Chaplain to the Hon. East India Company, and late of Leeds.

Oct. 10. Aged 70, the Rev. John Roby, Rector of Congerston, Leicestershire, and Vicar of Austrey, Warwickshire. He was of Emanuel college, Cambridge, B. A. 1791, M.A. 1791; was presented to Congerston in 1793 by Sir John Danvers, Bart. and to Austrey in 1825 by Lord Chancellor Eldon.

Oct. 12. At Lichfield, aged 32, the Rev. Henry Jevon Greene, M.A. of Trinity college, Cambridge.

Oct. 13. At St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, aged 63, the Rev. Cuthbert Johnson Baines, Vicar of that parish. He was the son of Cuthbert Baines, esq. of Penzance; was matriculated of Pembroke college, Oxford, in 1793, and graduated B.A. 1787, M. A. 1800. He was instituted to the vicarage of St. Ives in 1802. Only four days before his death, his eldest daughter had been married to his curate, the Rev. H. Hayton.

Oct. 14. At Madeira, the Rev. Edward Ashe, M.A. Rector of Harnhill, and Vicar of Driffield, Gloucestershire. He was the youngest son of the Rev. Robert Ashe, of Langley house; and was presented to both his livings in 1833 by his father.

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At Codford St. Peter's, Wilts, aged 75, the Rev. John Dampier, for fifty-one years Rector of that parish, and Rector of Langton Matravers, Dorsetshire. was of Wadham college, Oxford, M.A. 1787; was presented to Codford St. Peter's in 1790 by Pembroke college; and to Langton Matravers in . . . by his own family.

Oct. 21. Aged 37, the Rev. Charles Agar Hunt, B.A. Incumbent of St. Peter's church, Blackburn.

Oct. 24. At Waghorn's Hotel, Grand

Cairo, whilst travelling for his health, the Rev. Joseph Clay.

Oct. 26. At Cheltenham, the Rev. John Meara, Rector of the union of Headford, co. Galway (rent charge 7861. per ann.) in the gift of the Bishop of Tuam.

Oct. 29. Aged 74, the Rev. George Osborne, Rector of Haslebeach, Northamptonshire. He was of Clare hall, Cambridge, M.A. 1799, and was presented to Haslebeach in 1822 by Sir Thomas A preece.

Oct. 31. At his seat, Macknay, near Ballinasloe, aged 66, the Hon. and Rev. Charles le Poer Trench, D.D. Archdeacon of Ardagh. He was the fourth son of William-Power-Keatinge first Earl of Clancarty, by Anne, eldest dau. of the Rt. Hon. Chas. Gardiner, and sister to Luke 1st Viscount Mountjoy; and consequently brother to the late Earl of Clancarty and the late Lord Archbishop of Tuam. He died of typhus fever, caught while attending at the sick bed of one of his poor parishioners. His loss is great, in all the relations of a private gentleman, a magistrate, and a clergyman. He was very charitable, sparing neither trouble, time, nor expense when his exertions could be employed for the deserving. Archdeacon Trench married Miss Elwood, and has left issue three sons and one daughter: 1. the Rev. Frederick Trench; 2. Charles; 3. Anne; and 4. Henry.

Nov. 1. At Ipsley, Warwickshire, aged 54, the Rev. Thomas Dolben Dolben, Rector and patron of that parish with Spurnall, to which he was instituted in 1829. His eldest son, a scholar of Worc. coll. Oxford, died in 1836 (see our vol. V. p. 677.)

Nov. 4. At the New Hotel, Hornsea, aged 55, the Rev. John James Hudson, Fellow of Magdalene college, Oxford, on the Lincolnshire foundation. He graduated M.A. 1807, B.D. 1816.

The Rev. John James, Vicar of Tregaren, Cardiganshire.

Nov. 9. Aged 74, the Rev. Joseph Taylor, for thirty-eight years Perpetual Curate of Coppull, Lancashire, in the parish of Standish, and Head Master of Heskin School.

Nov. 12. At Kirk Deighton, near Wetherby, aged 79, the Rev. James Geldart, LL.D. Rector and patron of that parish, and the senior magistrate of the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was of Trinity hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. 1783, as 2d Senior Optime, M.A. 1809; and LL.D. 1814, when he was a Fellow of Trinity hall. He was instituted to his living in 1795.

Nov. 13. Suddenly, of apoplexy, aged 37, the Rev. D. F. Harridge, Curate of Lamersh, Essex.

Nov. 14. Aged 78, the Rev. Joseph Hudson, Vicar of Stanwix, Cumberland, to which church he was collated in 1806 by Dr. Goodenough, then Bp. of Carlisle. He was father of the Rev. Joseph Hudson, formerly Fellow of St. Peter's college, Cambridge.

Nov. 15. At North Cheam, Surrey, aged 68, the Rev. John Cookesley, D.D. late of Dawlish, Devon, and of Sydenham, Kent.

Nov. 18. At Hastings, from an injury caused by the overturning of his chaise, aged 74, the Rev. Robert Hele Selby Hele, Rector of Brede, Sussex. He was the son of Robert Hele Selby, esq. of Marazion, Cornwall; was matriculated of Exeter college, Oxford, June 2, 1783; graduated B.A. 1788, M.A. 1789; and afterwards he took the name of Hele on the death of a relative. He was instituted to the rec. tory of Brede in 1822 on his own presentation, and he was lately Vicar and impropriator of Grays in Essex. He married the eldest daughter of the late Dr. Horne, Bishop of Norwich and President of Magdalene college, Oxford.

The Rev. Martin Gilpin, for fourteen years Perpetual Curate of St. Thomas's church, Stockport.

Nov. 26. The Rev. John Kipling, Perpetual Curate of Chearsley, and Vicar of Oakley, Buckinghamshire, and a magis. trate for that county. He was the son of the Rev. C. Kipling, of Dorton, Bucks; was matriculated of Lincoln college, Oxford, in 1783, graduated B. A. 1787, M.A. 1790; was instituted to Chearsley in 1791, and to Oakley in 1810.

Dec. 3. At Ingleton, Yorkshire, aged 72, the Rev. Robert Hodgson Greenwood, Senior Fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. 1791, as 16th Wrangler, M. A. 1794.

At the residence of his mother, Bracondale, Norwich, aged 33, the Rev. John King, Curate of Redgrave, and chaplain to the Guiltcross union workhouse.

Dec. 4. The Rev. Lawrence J. Nolan, Curate of Athboy, co. Meath, formerly a priest of the church of Rome.

Dec. 5. At Edgbaston, Warwickshire, the Rev. John George Breay, Minister of Christ church, Birmingham, and a Prebendary of Lichfield. He was of Queen's college, Cambridge, B.A. 18.. ; he was for a short time Curate of Trinity church in Birmingham, and for several years Perpetual Curate of Haddenham, in the Isle of Ely. He was collated to Christ church, Birmingham, in 1832, by Bishop Ryder, and the same prelate appointed

him, in 1835, to the prebendal stall of Tachbrook, in the cathedral church of Lichfield.

Dec. 11. At Liverpool, aged 61, the Rev. Richard Cardwell, minister of St. Paul's church in that town.

Dec. 12. At Clifton, aged 41, the Rev. Thomas Stretton Codrington, Vicar of Wroughton, Wilts, to which preferment he was presented in May 1827, by the Rev. Richard Pretyman, Canon Residentiary and Precentor in Lincoln cathedral, Rector of Wroughton, and patron of the Vicarage. He was fourth son of the late William Codrington, of Wroughton House, esq., and was formerly of Brasenose College, Oxford, in which university he graduated in 1820. He married 29th July, 1828, Eliza-Jemima, youngest daughter of the late James White, of Clifton, esq. and by her has left issue six sons, viz. Thomas, born 31 May, 1829; Robert; William; Edward; James- White, and Oliver. During the twelve years of his incumbency, and for the four preceding years in which he laboured in the vineyard as Curate of Wroughton, his whole time was devoted to the discharge of his pastoral duties; and it may be truly said that, in attending to the comforts, and in alleviating the distresses, of his poorer brethren, the genuine principle of piety and charity ever and alone actuated his conduct. Among his equals, the excellence of his understanding, the soundness of his judgment, and the amiable qualities of his heart, gained him the esteem and good will of all; but by none will his premature death be so severely deplored as by those who were accustomed to share the communings of his inmost soul; to them his memory will be imperishable.

Dec. 15. At Haydon, near Taunton, the Rev. Henry Barker, Auditor of the Chard and other Unions in West Somerset.

At Bath, aged 75, the Rev. John Genest, M.A. He was educated at Westminster, and afterwards entered a Pensioner at Trinity college, Cambridge, of which Society he became a scholar at the commencement of his second year. He was for many years a Curate in a retired village in Lancashire, and at length was appointed Private Chaplain to the Duke of Ancaster. He was the author of "The History of the English Stage from 1660 to 1830."

At Preston, Lancashire, the Rev. Roger Carus Wilson, Vicar of that parish, to which he was presented in 1817 by the Trustees of Hulme's Exhi bitions.