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When the parliamentary grant of a million was made for the building of additional churches, Thomas Rickman became a competitor for the premiums offered by the commissioners for the best designs, and having on one occasion been successful in gaining the first prize, he was summoned to London to enter into arrangements for carrying his design into execution. He was now therefore reduced to the alternative of either abandoning the respectable certainty which his present situation promised, and of embarking in an entirely new course, or of relinquishing the idea of carrying his plans into effect, and at the same time all hope of deriving substantial advantage from his favourite pursuit. The course which he adopted is evinced by the celebrity which he speedily obtained as an architect.

After this change he continued to reside a few years only at Liverpool, when finding his employment increasing in all parts of the kingdom, he removed to Birmingham, as a more central situation, and remained settled there till the time of his death. For several years he had the assistance of Mr. Henry Hutchinson, who was first a pupil, and afterwards a partner in the business; but on his death in 1830 he conducted the whole, with the exception of a short interval, by his own exertions, till the end of the year 1834, when he formed a connexion with another gentleman (Mr. Hussey), whom he had previously known as a friend.

In the year 1825 he married his third wife, Elizabeth Miller, of Edinburgb, who, with one son and daughter, survives him.

In the month of March 1834, he was first attacked by an apoplectic seizure, and from that time, though with many fluctuations, the inroads of disease continued gradually to undermine his originally strong constitution; and the necessarily severe remedies that were applied to counteract the more immediately dangerous symptoms of his principal disorder, ultimately bringing on other complaints, he became so reduced, that for the last seventeen weeks of his life he was confined to his room, and for the greater part of that time to his bed; till, on the 4th of January, a little after seven o'clock in the morning, he quietly sunk away.

He

is buried in St. George's churchyard in Birmingham, near the western end of the building, which is one of his own early churches.

Thomas Rickman. Rickman was originally, like his parents, a member of the Society of

Friends, but he relinquished his connexion with that Society a few years before his death. His bodily constitution, till attacked by disease, was most robust, and capable of enduring an extraordinary degree of fatigue. His mental powers were very great; and in all his pursuits he was most energetic and persevering-a keen observer both of nature and art, indefatigable in his investigations and quick in his preceptions; the fund of information he had collected, coupled with the vivacity of his disposition, rendered him a most agreeable companion, especially to those who by long intercourse had the opportunity of drawing out those stores of knowledge which his unostentatious habits never allowed him to obtrude.

The buildings which he erected are to be met with in nearly every county; but among those which are most admired may be enumerated the buildings of St. John's College, Cambridge, and the churches of Oulton, near Leeds, in Yorkshire, and Hampton Lucy, in Warwickshire.

His treatise on "Gothic Architecture" is known to all; and the estimation in which it is held is best shown by the rapidity with which the several editions have sold. R. C. H.

[We are indebted to the " Literary Gazette" for this memoir, and we have only to add, that we believe a subscription is likely to be entered into for raising a monument to his memory over his grave in St. George's churchyard.]

CAPT. PETER LE MESURIER.

Jan. 7. At St. Alban's Place, Charles Street, St. James's, Capt. Peter le Mesurier, h. p. of the 103d Foot.

From the Military Academy at Marlow he got his first commission of Ensign, in the 8th regt. in 1805. He exchanged into the 89th, and with that corps served in the expedition to the Weser, in which the regiment was dis.. persed in a gale of wind, and the headquarter ship lost. In 1806 he sailed with the expedition to Buenos Ayres, under General Whitelock, and from thence to the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, and Madras, and formed part of the force at the capture of the Isle of France. His health being then in a very precarious state, he returned home in 1811, and after some time joined the 2nd battalion at Horsham, in which he had purchased a Company, and with it went out to Halifax. Being anxious to be employed in the Peninsula, he exchanged into the 68th Light Infantry, and joined them in 1813, and with the 7th division shared in

the battles of the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, and Orthes; and, after remaining some time in the neighbourhood of Bayonne, the regiment returned home, and was sent to the North of Ireland, and from thence to Canada. Here he remained till 1818, when his health was so much impaired as to oblige him to go on half-pay. His malady increased, and fell into his lower limbs, the use of which he entirely lost during the last ten years of his life.

CLERGY DECEASED. The Rev. Tobias Adams, Vicar of Aherne, Cloyne, and Rector of Britway.

At Salmonby rectory, near Horncastle, aged 71, the Rev. W. Bowerbank, Rector of that church, to which he was instituted, on his own presentation, in 1827.

At Dublin, the Rev. John Crossthwaite, Prebendary of Tipperkwin.

The Rev. James Evans, Perpetual Curate of Rhayader, Radnorshire, to which chapelry he was presented in 1824 by the Vicar of Nantwel, and Vicar of Cwmtoiddwr, in the same county.

The Rev. Philip Samuel Fisher, Vicar of Burbage, Wilts, to which he was presented in 1813 by the Prebendary of Burbage, in the cathedral church of Salisbury.

At Norwich, aged 75, the Rev. Peter Hansell, for fifty-three years Perpetual Curate of St. John Sepulchre, in that city, a Minor Canon of the cathedral, and Vicar of Worstead, Norfolk. He was presented to his church in Norwich by the Dean and Chapter in 1788, and to Worstead by the same patrons in 1811.

At Castlecomer, co. Kerry, the Rev. William Henry Hughes, M.A. Curate to the late Dean of St. Patrick's, in that parish. At Bath, the Rev. John Symonds, Rector of Wilcot, Wilts, to which church he was presented in 1823 by G. W. Wroughton, esq.

At his father's, near Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire, in his 40th year, the Rev. Morgan Watkins, B.A. Vicar of Southwell and Bleasby, Notts, and brother to Mr. D. Watkins, surgeon, of Tredegar. He was presented to the vicarage of Southwell in 1831 by the Prebendary of Southwell in that collegiate church.

Aged 90, the Rev. Charles West, for nearly sixty years Vicar of Ahamlish, Ireland.

In the parish of Manchester, Jamaica, the Rev. John Woolridge, of the London Missionary Society, and formerly pastor of Newfoundland-street chapel, Bristol.

Oct. 24. At St. Michael's, Berbice, in his 29th year, the Rev. W. A. Beckles, Rector of that parish.

Nov. 28. At Heathfield, Somerset, aged 77, the Rev. Thomas Cornish, for fifty-three years Rector of that parish, which was in his own patronage.

Dec. 10. The Rev. Robert P. Sidney, Rector of Llanharry, near Cowbridge, to which he was presented in 1812. Be

Dec. 14. At St. Stephen's, Cornwall, the Rev. Charles Lethbridge, sen. Rec. tor of Stokeclimsland and St. Thomas by Launceston. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, M.A. 1792; v was elected to the latter living in 1791 by the inhabitants, and presented to the former by the Prince of Wales (as Earl of Cornwall) in 1805.

Dec. 14. In Hoxton-square, aged 85, the Rev. Watts Wilkinson, B.A. for sixty-one years afternoon lecturer of St. Mary Aldermary, and for thirty-seven years Tuesday-morning lecturer of St. Bartholomew Exchange. He was born of a family of dissenters and received his baptismal name from the celebrated Dr. Isaac Watts. He was ordained in 1779, and preached his first sermon at St. Ann's, Blackfriars. He was father, we believe, of Henry Watts Wilkinson, M.A. of Worc. coll. Oxf. 1806, and of Marlow Watts Wilkinson, M. A. of the same college, 1813. An excellent portrait of this venerable divine has been published.

Dec. 15. Aged 75, the Rev. David Davies, Rector of Cliddesdon, near Basingstoke, to which church he was presented in 1813, by the Earl of Portsmouth.

At Exeter, the Rev. W. C. Kitson, Incumbent of the new church of St. James's, in St. Sidwell's parish. widow died two days after, leaving four infant children, the youngest only three weeks old.

Dec. 16. At Eltham, Kent, aged 81, the Rev. John Kenward Shaw Brooke, for fifty-seven years Vicar of Eltham, and Rector of Hurst-Pierpoint, Sussex. He was born in London, on the 22nd Dec. 1758, but spent his earliest years at the Lodge, Eltham, the family mansion of Sir John Shaw, Bart. his father. He was educated at Harrow, under that eminent master and able scholar, Dr. Sumner. He entered as a Gentleman Commoner at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1774, and took the degree of B. A. 1778, and that of M.A. 1782. In 1783 he was elected a Fellow of All Souls'; and residing a good deal in the University, was particularly noticed for his gentlemanly manners and observance of the forms and discipline of the University. In 1796, by the death of Mrs. Brooke, he succeeded to the property of the late Joseph Brooke, Esq. of West

Malling, and took the name. This caused him to resign his Fellowship, and fix his residence at his living of Eltham. Here, as a parochial minister, he gained the love and respect of his parishioners, by his care and improvement of the numerous charities in the parish, by his kindness and benevolence to the poor, and by social and hospitable intercourse with the gentlemen and wealthier inhabitants of that large village. Nothing could more feelingly mark the regard and estimation in which he was held than the jubilee that was given in the year 1833, being the fiftieth year of his Incumbency. In 1806, by the death of Dr. Dodson, he was instituted into the family living, the rectory of Hurst-Pierpoint, where, though not resident more than a few weeks in each year, he was by no means unmindful of the interests of his parishioners. Both in the pulpit and the reading desk his manner was clear, impressive, and energetic-his doctrine pure and apostolical.

Dec. 18. In Tredegar-square, aged 57, the Rev. Joseph Darby, Curate of St. Leonard's Bromley, and Vicar of Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, to which he was presented in 1830 by Mrs. J. Pugh. He had not been Curate of Bromley for more than two months. He died suddenly of apoplexy, whilst performing the rite of baptism; and has left a widow and ten children.

At Repton Priory, Derbyshire, the Rev. John Heyrick Macaulay, Head Master of Repton School, eldest son of the late Rev. Aulay Macaulay, Vicar of Rothley, Leicestershire, and cousin to the Right Hon. T. Babington Macaulay. He was of Trinity college, Cambridge, B.A. 1821, M. A. 1825. Shortly after taking his first degree, he was elected head master of the Proprietary School at Plymouth; and, such was the confidence of the proprietors in his judgment and ability, that every thing was left to his uninterrupted management. The school, in consequence, enjoyed a high degree of prosperity and reputation. On the last vacancy in the mastership of Repton, Mr. Macaulay received that appointment, and, until his death, continued to conduct that establishment with equal assiduity and success. Mr. Macaulay was a deep and elegant scholar; he was critically versed in the philosophy of grammar, which he applied with the highest felicity to the interpretation of classical writers; and so great was his command of the ancient languages, that he has been frequently heard to cast extemporaneously newspaper advertisements into elegant Greek and Latin

verse. His amenity and cheerfulness rendered him everywhere a welcome visitor, his warmth of heart and steadiness of friendship endeared him to a large circle of friends, as did his charity to the poor.

Dec. 19. At Cheltenham, in his 80th year, the Rev. Thomas Tisdall, one of the Prebendaries of St. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin.

Dec. 20. The Rev. John Missing, of the New Town, Bedford. He had performed duty in Biddenham church on the Sunday before his death.

Aged 70, the Rev. Thomas Ramshay, Vicar of Brampton, Cumberland, to which he was presented by the Earl of Carlisle in 1792. He took the degree of LL.B. as a member of Queen's coll. Camb. in 1797.

At Llanfihangel - y - Croyddin, near Aberystwith, aged 37, the Rev. Jenkin Jones, recently Curate of Garth Heibio, Montgomeryshire.

Dec. 23. In Guernsey, in his 25th year, the Rev. Henry Balston, B.A. Demy of Magdalen college, Oxford. He was the fourth son of Wm. Balston, esq. of Maidstone, admitted as a Commoner of Oriel college, Oct, 21, 1833, and elected to a Demyship of Magdalen college in July, 1837. At the public examinations in Michaelmas term of that year he appeared in the first class list in Classics and in the second in Mathematics, and proceeded B.A. Nov. 2, 1838. "His friends, his college, and indeed the University in general, may be said to have sustained a great loss in the early death of this amiable young man; for he was a sound scholar, and one from whose accuracy and information, as well as diligence and love of letters, there was every probability that in due time much might have been expected: indeed, the mildness of his disposition, his desire to oblige and be useful, and the general sauvity of his manners, endeared him to all his acquaintance, whilst his rectitude of principle and constant and unaffected piety, together with a zeal well-tempered with knowledge and controlled by discretion, gave promise, had it pleased God to have spared him, of a life of great usefulness in the profession to which he had devoted himself. Mr. Balston had long been in a declining state, and when perfectly aware that his end was fast approaching, expressed a desire that he might be permitted to lie within the precincts of his college, a request most cheerfully complied with on the part of the President, whose high regard he possessed and was justly proud of. His remains were consequently brought to Oxford, his four

brothers and all the members of Magdalen then in the University following him to the grave."-(Oxford Herald.)

Dec. 24. At the residence of his sister, Mrs. Lattey, Kenilworth, aged 30, the Rev. Henry Allen, M. A. eldest son of the late Richard Allen, esq. of Dalbyterrace, Islington, whom he survived only one day.

Dec. 25. Aged 78, the Rev. John Eden, Vicar of St. Nicholas and St. Leonard, Bristol. He was of St. Alban hall, Oxford, M. A. 1798, B.D. 1803; and was presented to his united churches by the Dean and Chapter of Bristol in 1799. He was a man of high classical attainments and refined taste; but his nobler excellence was a truly Christian temper, which exemplified itself in numerous acts of benevolence towards his poor fellow-citizens. He was a friend of the late Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart. the historian of South Wiltshire, and some views of the stone monuments at Carnac in Britany, from sketches by Mr. Eden, are engraved in the Baronet's Hundred of Ambresbury, in illustration of the kindred monument of Stonehenge.

Dec. 26. At Great Buckland, Maidstone, in his 63d year, the Rev. Robert Pope.

At Weddholme hill, near Wigton, Cumberland, the patrimonial estate of his ancestors, aged 86, the Rev. John Watson, for many years Incumbent of Hipperholme, Yorkshire, and of Coley near Halifax. He was of Queen's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1781, M.A. 1784; and was presented to Coley by the Vicar of Halifax in 1791.

Dec. 28.

At Newton St. Loe, Somerset, the Rev. Peter Gunning, Rector of that parish and of Bathwick-cumWoolley. He was of Merton college, Oxford, M. A. 1804; was presented to Bathwick (in the patronage of the Duke of Cleveland) in 1805, and to Newton in 1820 by W. G. Langton, esq.

Dec. 29. At Batcombe, Somerset, aged 81, the Rev. Thomas Coney, for fifty years Rector of Batcombe with Upton Noble, a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for that county. He was of Pembroke college, Cambridge, LLB. 1789, and was instituted to his living in 1791.

At Thornby, Northamptonshire, aged 51, the Rev. Nathaniel Cotton, M.A. Rector of that parish and a Rural Dean. He was of Jesus college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1812, M.A. 1820; and was instituted to Thornby, which was in his own patronage, in 1814. At Thame, aged 70, the Rev. Timothy Tripp Lec, for forty-six years Vicar of

that parish, and for twenty-six years Master of the Free Grammar School. He was educated at Winchester, and thence elected to a Fellowship at Pembroke college, Oxford. He was much respected by his parishioners, and rich and poor followed his remains to their last restingplace, beneath where he had for so many years stood to administer, to his numerous congregation, the sacred ordinance of the Holy Sacrament. He has left a large family. d) of nisl

Dec. 31. At Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aged 71, the Rev. John Dodd, Vicar of Newcastle, to which he was presented in 1826 by Dr. Goodenough, then Bishop of Carlisle.

Jan. 4. At Hadlow house, Kent, aged 78, the Rev. Phillips Monypenny, of Maytham hall, and 44 years Vicar of Hadlow. He was of St. Peter's college, Camb. B.A. 1783, M. A. 1786, and was instituted to Hadlow, on his own petition, in 1797.

Jan. 5. At Turnham Green, aged 73, the Rev. Thomas Clarke, Rector of Tusmore, in Oxfordshire, to which he was instituted in 1799.

At his residence, Hurley, near Maidenhead, aged 58, the Rev. Robert Mason, D.D. of Queen's college, Oxford. He graduated M.A. 1813, B.D. 1820, and D.D. 1823. Dr. Mason has bequeathed to the University of Oxford a very curious painting of the Zodiac of Tentyra, in Egypt, together with a description of the same; as well as all his Egyptian papyri, and a model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem; the former to be placed in the Picture Gallery, the latter in the Bodleian Library; to which library he also bequeaths the sum of £40,000 (stock), to be expended for the benefit of the said library, at the uncontrolled discretion of the trustees. Queen's College he has left all his Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, and other relics of antiquity, (excepting as before bequeathed to the University and the Bodleian,) together with a picture of the late Mr. Belzoni, and his shells; and, in addition £30,000 (stock), to be expended in books for the use of the society.

Jan. 7. At Morpeth, aged 78, the Rev. Thomas Shute, M.A. Curate of that parish for twenty-five years, and of Bothal for the twenty-six years preced ing.

Jan. 9. At Dry Drayton, near Cam bridge, aged 75, the Rev. Samuel Smith, D.D. Rector of Dry Drayton, Preben. dary of York and Durham. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith, for many years Master of Westminster School, and Prebendary of Westminster

and Peterborough. He was admitted Scholar of St. Peter's college, Westminster, on the foundation of Queen Elizabeth, in 1777, at the early age of 11. In 1782 he was elected Student of Christ church, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. 1789, B.D. 1797, D.D. 1808, and continued to reside, filling the several college offices, until the year 1795, when he accepted the perpetual curacy of Daventry. In 1802 he was appointed Chaplain to the House of Commons, by Mr. Abbot; in 1807 he was installed Canon, and in 1824 Dean of Christ Church, which preferment he exchanged for a stall at Durham in 1831. He was instituted to Dry Drayton, which was in his own patronage, in 1831. Dr. Smith married a daughter of Sir W. E. Taunton, Town Clerk of Oxford, and sister to the late Judge Taunton. He was remarkable for a masculine understanding, a sound judgment, and a warm heart. In the government of his college, he displayed equal kindness and authority; testifying the most anxious interest in its welfare, and a truly fatherly regard for all who were under his charge. Endeared to his family by the most affectionate solicitude for their happiness, and revered by his friends for his steady and sincere attachment, he was no less respected by all who knew him for his constancy, independence, and truth.

At Gloucester, the Rev. John Goulter Dowling, Rector of St. Mary de Crypt, in that city. Mr. Dowling was a native of Gloucester; matriculated at Wadham college, Oxford, in 1823; proceeded B.A. 1826; M.A. 1829. He was the author of a most useful volume printed in 1839 at the University Press, entitled "Notitia Scriptorum SS. Patrum aliarumque veteris Ecclesiæ Monumentorum, quæ in Collectionibus Anecdotorum post annum 1700 in lucem editis continentur ;" 8vo. This is a continuation of the well-known work of Ittigius on the same subject, and a valuable assistance to all engaged in theological researches.

Jan. 11. Aged 91, the Rev. William Hopton, of Kemerton Court, near Tewkesbury.

At Rousham, Cambridgeshire, in his 77th year, the Rev. John Strange Dandridge, Rector of Syresham, Northamptonshire, and of Rousham, Oxfordshire, both in the patronage of C. C. Dormer, esq. He was formerly of Emanuel college, Camb. LL.B. 1799, was instituted to Syresham in 1797, and to Rousham in 1804.8w.old

Jan. 12. Aged 81, the Rev. John Roberts, Rector of Kilymaenllwyd with Castlederran, and Incumbent of Taliaris

chapel, Carmarthenshire. He was instituted to the latter 1796, and presented to the former in 1810, by Lord Chancellor Eldon. He was for many years Domestic Chaplain to Lord Robert Seymour.

Jan. 13. At Botesdale, aged 82, the Rev. William Hepworth, Rector of Congham, Norfolk, and for fifty years Curate of Wattesfield, Suffolk. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1783, as 3d Junior Optime, but did not proceed to a Master's degree. He suc ceeded the Rev. J. R. E. Nelson as Rector of Congham in 1839.

At Duffield, aged 78, the Rev. Charles Stead Hope, for 42 years Perpetual Curate of All Saints', and for thirty-eight Vicar of St. Alkmund's, Derby. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1784, and was presented to his churches at Derby by the Corporation.

Jan. 14. At Kingsbridge, the Rev. J..C. H. Borwell, M. A. master of the endowed Grammar School in that place, and late Master of the Plymouth Grammar School.

Jan. 16. At Colinshays, Somersetshire, aged 63, the Rev. John Dampier. He was of Balliol college, Oxford, B.Ĉ.L. 1802.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Aug. 5. At Shooter's hill, aged 61, Major-Gen. Cornelius Mann, R. Eng. He was made 2d Lieut. Royal Art. 1795, removed to R. Engineers 1796, First Lieut. 1798, Second Capt. 1802, Capt. 1806, brevet Major 1813, Lieut. Col. R. Eng. 1814, Colonel 1825, and Major-General in the army 1837.

Nov. 7. In Norfolk-street, Strand, Sir Francis Molyneux Ommaney. He received the honour of knighthood May 17, 1820; and was formerly M. P. for Barnstaple. Sir Francis was a Navy agent.

Dec. 15. At the house of his brother Mr. William Behnes, the sculptor, Mr. Charles Behnes. He was much devoted in early life to the study of mathematics and natural philosophy, but ill-health had of late years disinclined him to application, althongh his mental vigour remained unimpaired.

Dec. 24. At Clapton, aged 56, Catharine, widow of James Powell, esq. of Carey-st. Lincoln's Inn-fields, and sister to the late Rev. Nathaniel Cotton, of Thornby, who survived her only five days.

Jan. 3. In Cadogan-st. in her 21st year, Jane, wife of David Lewis, jun. esq. of Bank House, Llandilo, and second daughter of the Rev. E. Morris, Vicar of Llanelly.