he was elected to a scholarship at St. John's College, Oxford, in June, 1795, being then in his 17th year. He was in due course admitted Fellow; proceeded B.A. April 3, 1799; M.A. March 4, 1803; and not long after became one of the public tutors of his college. In 1808 he proceeded B.D., and, resigning the tutorship, accepted the vicarage of St. Giles's, in Oxford, where he laboured with great zeal and assiduity, establishing charitable societies, superintending Sunday schools, and performing the responsible duties of a parochial minister in a most exemplary manner, and with much practical discretion, for full twenty years. Upon the rectory of St. Sepulchre's becoming vacant by the death of Dr. Shackleford in 1829, he succeeded to that benefice, and retained it till his death.

In 1841 Mr. Natt published a small volume of "Sermons, preached in the Parish Church of St. Sepulchre." Most of these had been previously delivered at Oxford, and will now be read with a deep interest by both his congregations. They are very characteristic of the author; plain and practical, earnest and impressive; abounding in good sense and charitable feeling.

Mr. Natt was an ardent admirer of the fine arts, and had a small collection of good pictures; among them were two excellent Vernets, and a Wilson of high character. His own portrait was painted at the personal request of, and for, his intimate friend, Dr. Wilson, the present Bishop of Calcutta, a few years since, by Mr. Bridges, of Great Marlborough street; who relates an anecdote of him during the time of his sitting for the likeness, which all who knew and loved him will not be displeased at our recording. It had been decided that Mr. Natt should be represented as sitting holding a book, and that book was to be the Bible. When the artist, who knew him intimately, had placed him in the proper position, he said, Now, Mr. Natt, where shall we put the book ?" "Where!" said Mr. Natt, clasping it with great fervour to his breast, "here, here, next my heart!"

Mr. Natt's decease was awfully sudden. He had preached at his church in the morning, and dined early, as was his custom on Sundays, when his servant, being surprised at not receiving a summons as usual, went into the room, and there found his master on the floor, and a corpse. Medical assistance was immediately called in, but in vain; it being the opinion of the gentleman who promptly attended, as well as that of Dr.

Farr, the usual physician and intimate friend of Mr. Natt, that he had expired instantaneously, either from apoplexy, or the rupture of a vessel in the heart. He will be much regretted in St. Sepulchre's; for having an ample private fortune, and a most generous and benevolent disposition, his charities were very extensive, and they were rendered the more estimable from the uniform urbanity of manner and kind consideration with which they were accompanied.

RICHARD SMITH, ESQ.

Jan. 24. Suddenly, of apoplexy, at the Philosophical and Literary Institution, Bristol, in the 71st year of his age, Richard Smith, esq. of Park-street; for nearly half a century one of the surgeons, and for many years the senior surgeon of the Bristol Infirmary.

He was the eldest son of Mr. Richard Smith, an eminent surgeon of that city. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. Alex. Stopford Catcott, LL.B., Master of the Grammar School, and Rector of Saint Stephen's, Bristol, and sister of the Rev. Alexander Catcott, Vicar of Temple, and of Mr. George Catcott, of Chattertonian notoriety. Mr. Smith was descended, on his mother's side, from the pious and benevolent Alderman John Whitson. At an early age, having received a liberal education at the Bristol Grammar School, under the Rev. Nathaniel Lee, and at Reading School, under Dr. Valpy, and having evinced a more than ordinary degree of talent, he was apprenticed to his father; and, that gentleman dying two or three years afterwards, Mr. Smith served the remainder of his time with Mr. Godfrey Lowe, the father of the present Mr. Richard Lowe, of Park-street, Bristol. He had scarcely completed his professional education when, in conjunction with the late Mr. Francis Bowles, he delivered a course of Anatomical Lectures in Bristol, which at once established his professional reputation, and may be regarded as the germ of one of the first, if not the very first, provincial anatomical schools in England. Shortly afterwards, in 1796, he was elected one of the surgeons of the Bristol Infirmary, which appointment he held till the time of his death (46 years), during a great part of which period he was the senior surgeon. Mr. Smith was very successful as an operator, and for a lengthened period of his valuable life was constantly consulted by most of his brethren of the profession in cases of difficulty. During his professional career he was ever careful to preserve whatever was curious or instructive, and thus collected

a valuable museum of preparations of diseased parts and morbid anatomy, grafted on one handed down to him from his father, who was also senior surgeon of the Infirmary, and which he deposited in that institution.

In the year 1802 he married AnnaEugenia, one of the co-heiresses of Henry Creswicke, esq. of Morton-in-Marsh. This estimable lady has survived him. He has left no issue.

When his fellow-citizens took up arms, in 1803, he was appointed surgeon to the regiment, which office be retained till they were disbanded, at the peace of 1814, and he performed this duty with an ardour and delight that threw a halo around everything with which he was associated. Comparatively late in life he joined the Freemasons, embraced the principles and ceremonies of that celebrated craft, con amore; and, long before his death, was invested with the highest honours of the fraternity. For some time past he had been Deputy Provincial Grand Master of the district. About two years since, a faithful portrait of him, as D. P. G. M., was placed in the Masonic-hall, in Bridge. street, at the expense of the craft, from the easel of an excellent artist, Mr. Branwhite.

Mr. Smith was elected to represent the ward of St. Augustine, in the council of the Bristol corporation, at the time of the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, and so continued to his death. As one of the Charity Trustees for Bristol, he devoted much time and attention to the management of the various charities, and particularly of the Red Maids' School, founded by his pious and memorable ancestor, Alderman Whitson, and Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, for boys, commonly called "The City School. During his connection with the newly constituted authorities in these matters, he warmly vindicated their proceedings, through evil report and good report, and never suffered his political opinions to bias him in the slightest degree, either as regarded his colleagues, or the distribution of the charities committed to their care.

In the prosperity of these schools it may be said he truly rejoiced, and no occurrence of the later years of his life afforded more real gratification to his feelings than the consciousness that he, with others, was instrumental in enlarging the benefits of these noble charities, and of seeing at least 100 more than theretofore of the children of his fellow-citizens enjoying the advantages of that sound education, which the deceased worthies of their city had provided for them. In

his descent from one of these founders, Alderman John Whitson, he most particularly prided himself; and if, during the last six years of his life, there was to him, yearly, one day of more expanded feeling than another, it was that of the anniversary of the venerated Whitson, on which, after witnessing the heart-cheering assemblage of 200 children in the House of God, uniting to express their gratitude for the memory of his departed ancestor, he felt himself honoured by taking the chair at the annual festival, which past usage had on this occasion sanctioned. In this, his character of trustee, one subject, most dear to his contemplation, failed to be fully carried out before his death-the re-establishment, in active operation, of the Free Grammar School, of which, in early youth, he had been a scholar. Towards this charity his most ardent expectations were directed: they were so far accomplished as to enable him to see the property of the school restored in prospective to its legitimate purposes; but unhappily the circumstances attending that restoration-the law's delay, and other incidents-withheld from his enjoyment the carrying out of measures which he had most cheeringly anticipated.

His literary attainments were very general and multifarious; he was a good classical scholar, was fond of historical and antiquarian research, had an extensive knowledge of the topics of the day, possessed much wit and humour, and a great facility of composition. In 1804 he became one of the proprietors of the" Bristol Mirror," and continued to be so till 1820, when he disposed of his interest to the present proprietor. During that period he was a regular contributor to its columns; and to his spirited literary productions, at the commencement of the present century, may be attributed the rapid increase of that journal in public estimation. He also wrote the Newsman's Christmas Address for the Mirror to the time of his death. He had made large collections in relation to different portions of Bristol history; those relating to the Bristol stage he had lately ar. ranged, and had bound in three or four folio volumes, with the intention to deposit them in the Bristol Library, of whose committee he had long been a member. His collections relating to the history of the Infirmary were undergoing a similar arrangement, which had not been com. pleted. Mr. Smith possessed, through his uncle, Mr. George Catcott, a collection of Chatterton's original manuscripts, several of which have never been published, and will be of considerable im

portance to some future editor of the works of the "wondrous boy." On this subject he made a very interesting communication to our own pages, which was printed in our Magazine a few years since.

Mr. Smith's remains were honoured with a public funeral, on the 31st Jan. which was witnessed by a large proportion of the population of Bristol. It was attended by the various lodges of Freemasons, by the corporation, the clergy, &c. The pall was borne by Drs. Pri. chard, Wallis, Howell, and Riley, and R. Lowe, N. Smith, J. Harrison, and W. Morgan, esqrs. physicians and surgeons to the infirmary. The service was performed by the Rev. L. R. Cogan, and the body was deposited in a grave at the north-east corner of the Temple church-yard. On the return of the Freemasons to their Masonic hall, a very impressive address was delivered by the Provincial Grand Chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Irvine.

At a meeting of the Trustees of the Bristol Infirmary on the 9th Feb. Mr. Brooke Smith made a communication in reference to the museum formed by the late Mr. Smith, and which had been deposited in the institution. It was always understood to be the property of that gentleman, in proof of which he would state that he had had a communication from the Members of the House Committee of the Infirmary, stating that they had placed it under the care of the housesurgeon, for the purpose of being disposed of to the executors. Now as one of that body he begged to state that he knew Mr. Smith always considered that museum as a gift to the Infirmary, but which he had a legal right to resume whenever he thought proper; still his deceased friend never had any intention to act upon such right; and in confirmation of that he begged to read an extract from that gentleman's will, which is as follows:-"I give and bequeath to the treasurer for the time being of the Bristol Infirmary, (to be payable out of such part of my property as may be legally applicable thereto,) such a sum (free from legacy duty or other expenses) as will be sufficient to purchase the sum of 4007. in the three per cent. consolidated bank annuities, and which stock I declare shall be held upon trust to apply the income thereof in cleansing, preserving, and augmenting the museum which has been formed by me, for the promotion of science, at the said Infirmary, and is there known as Mr. Richard Smith's Museum; and I declare that the said income shall be under the control of the

surgeons for the time being of the said institution, who shall be at liberty to apply the same in such manner as they shall think most beneficial for the purposes aforesaid." The executors to the will were the testator's widow, Mr. Goldwyer, and himself. It might be interesting to the meeting to state that amongst the papers which were lying in his deceased friend's desk, at the time of his death, was a paragraph cut from an old newspaper, and which is as follows: "Mr. Richard Smith, one of the surgeons of the Bristol Infirmary, having frequently experienced a want of means for immediate reference to pathological preparations, when called on to perform an operation out of the usual routine, and also the necessity of a library to the institution, has most kindly resolved to place there his admirable museum, and the necessary medical books, as a commencement of establishments worthy the occasion." Amongst his papers and books (continued the speaker) there were several relating to the Infirmary, some of them going back to a distant period, and all arranged with considerable care; and he had the authority of the widow of that gentleman for saying, that such books and papers were at the disposal of the trustees of the charity, to be done with as they or the committee thought proper.

The thanks of the board were then voted to Mrs. Smith, and the other executors, with an expression of their deep sense of the interest which was felt by the late Mr. Smith for the welfare of this charity, and the able services rendered by him to it for so long a period of time.

CLERGY DECEASED.

At Egglescliff, Durham, aged 89, the Rev. John Brewster, for the last twentyeight years Incumbent of that parish, having previously held, successively, the livings of Greatham, Stockton, Redmarshall, and Boldon.

The Rev. James Frith, Rector of Rathusbuck, Queen's County.

Aged 32, the Rev. Western Fullerton, Rector of Edlington, Yorkshire, and late of Emanuel college, Cambridge.

The Rev. G. L. Gresson, Vicar of Ardmurcher, co. Meath.

In his 82d year, the Rev. John Hag. gitt, Rector of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire. He was formerly Fellow of Clare hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1783, M.A. 1786, B.D. 1796; and he was collated to Fen Ditton in 1804 by Dr. Yorke, then Bishop of Ely.

In consequence of a piece of meat sticking in his throat, at breakfast, the

Rev. Mr. Home, Curate of Tempo, co. Enniskillen.

The Rev. Joseph Jones, Vicar of Crecoragh, and Kilgobban, co. Limerick, and of Brosna, co. Kerry.

The Rev. Thomas M'Culloch, M. A. Treasurer of the diocese of Killaloe, and Incumbent of the union of Kilnasulagh, co. Clare.

The Rev. Arthur M'Gwire, for nearly 45 years Rector of St. Thomas's, Dublin; also, Chancellor of Kildare, and for 52 years Rector of the union of Killeshee in that diocese.

The Rev. Arthur M'Mullen, Rector and Vicar of Moyntaghs, co. Armagh.

At Ipplepen, Devonshire, aged 65, the Rev. Randolph Marriott, Vicar of that parish, to which he was presented in 1814, by the Dean and Chapter of Windsor.

The Rev. James Morgan, Incumbent of the union of St. Mary's, New Ross, co. Wexford.

Aged 48, the Rev. John Morton, D.D. Perpetual Curate of Chorlton with Hardy, Manchester. He was of Trinity college, Cambridge; and received the appointment to his incumbency from the collegiate church of Manchester in 1836.

The Rev. Thomas Sutton, Rector of Clongill, co. Meath.

Aged 76, the Rev. Charles Wildbore, Vicar of Tilton, Leicestershire, to which he was presented in 1796 by the Rev. George Greaves. He was of SidneySussex college, Cambridge, B.A. 1792.

July 21. At Pondicherry, aged 32, the Rev. E. J. Jones.

Dec. 8. At Shrewsbury, aged 36, the Rev. Thomas Atkinson, Curate of Church Streton, Salop, and formerly Curate of Trinity church, Shrewsbury.

At Wilmslow, Cheshire, aged 26, the Rev. William Thornton Cust, Curate of that parish.

Dec. 13. At Easington rectory, Yorkshire, aged 65, the Rev. Robert Morehead, D.D. formerly Rector of that parish, to which he was presented in 1832 by the Lord Chancellor, and previously Second Minister of St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel, Edinburgh. He was of Balliol college, Oxford, M.A. 1802; and was the author of "Explanations of some passages in the Epistles of St. Paul, chiefly by means of an amended Punctuation," recently published.

Dec. 14. At Boughton Malherbe, Kent, aged 48, the Rev. Simeon Clayton, M. A. Rector of that parish, a Prebendary of Lichfield, and Domestic Chaplain to Earl Cornwallis, the patron of the living.

Dec. 17. The Rev. Robert Grosvenor, M.A. Fellow of All Souls' college, Ox.

ford, brother to General Grosvenor, and cousin to the Marquess of Westminster. He was the fourth and youngest son of Thomas Grosvenor, esq. by Deborah, daughter and coheiress of Stephen Skyn. ner, of Walthamstow, esq. He took the degree of M.A. Nov. 26, 1795.

At the rectory, Llanfrothen, co. Merioneth, in his 38th year, the Rev. Isaac Heathcote Pring, M.A. of Christ church, Oxford, and a justice of the peace for that county.

Dec. 21. Aged 68, the Rev. Robert Price, Vicar of Shoreham, Kent, to which living he was presented in 1816 by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.

Dec. 25. At Sutton, Norfolk, aged 74, the Rev. John Homfray, M.A. F.S.A. Rector of that place, and formerly minister of Saint George's chapel, Great Yar mouth. He was the only child of Mr. John Homfray, of Derby (who died in 1804), by Sarah, daughter of Mr. John Parr, of the same town. (See the pedigree of Parr, contributed by Mr. Ĥ. to Nichols's Leicestershire, iv. 725*.) He was a member of Merton college, Oxford, and resided for many years in Yarmouth. Mr. Homfray was a man of strong abilities, of considerable knowledge in antiquities and heraldry, and of exquisite taste in the arts. In early life he made collections for Staffordshire, and contemplated the continuation of Shaw's history. He had also directed his attention to the topography of Derbyshire; and he issued a prospectus for a new edition of Browne Willis's Mitred Abbeys. He materially assisted Mr. Druery in his small History of Yarmouth, 8vo. 1826, in which volume, at p. 80, will be seen some account of his pictures and library. He was presented to the living of Sutton by the Earl of Abergavenny, we believe not long since. He married Hetty, only surviving daughter of James Symonds, Esq. of Great Ormsby, and of Yar mouth, co. Norfolk, by whom he had eight children. This lady died in Margaret-street, Cavendish Square, on the 4th Jan, aged 65, having survived her husband only ten days.

Dec. 29. At his residence in Builth, aged 66, the Rev. Morgan Evans, Vicar of Llangunllo and Pilleth, Radnorshire, and Perpetual Curate of St. Mary, Builth, and Llandewyrcwm, Brecknockshire. He was collated to Llangunllo and Pilleth by Dr. Burgess, Bishop of St. David's, in 1807; and resided there for many years previous to his removal to Builth, to which he was presented in 1825 by the late Charles Humphreys Price, esq.

At Westport, Malmesbury, Wilts,

aged 68, the Rev. William Skey, Vicar of Little Bedwin, Wilts, and Chaplain to the Marquess of Aylesbury. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1796, and was presented to Little Bedwin in 1814 by the Marquess of Ailesbury.

Jan. 2. At Croft, Yorkshire, aged 78, the Rev. James Dalton, Rector of that parish, to which he was presented by the King in 1805. He was of Clare hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1787, M.A. 1790.

Aged 69, the Rev. Stephen Puddi combe, Vicar of Morval, Cornwall, to which he was presented in 1803 by Lord Chancellor Eldon. He was returning from Morval to his residence at West Looe, in company with some friends, when he was taken suddenly ill, and died on the spot.

Jan. 5. At Hickling, Nottinghamshire, aged 58, the Rev. Edward Anderson, Rector of that parish. He was formerly Fellow of Queen's college, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. 1807, as 9th Senior Optime, M.A. 1810, B.D. 1819; and he was presented to Hickling by that society in 1821.

Aged 43, the Rev. Haviland Durand, M. A. Rector of St. Mary de Castro, Guernsey, and Chaplain to the Forces in that Island. He was of Pembroke col. lege, Oxford; and was presented to his living by the Governor of Guernsey in 1832.

Jan. 6. Aged 50, the Rev. Anthony Allett Isaacson, B.D. for 21 years Vicar of St. Woollos, Newport, Monmouthshire. He was of Queen's college, Cambridge; and was collated to his church in 1822 by the Bishop of Gloucester.

Jan. 10. At Eversholt, Beds. the Rev. James Reed, B.D. Rector of that parish, Vicar of Hampstead Norris, Berks, one of her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, and a magistrate for Bedfordshire. He was presented to Eversholt in 1810 by the Marchioness of Downshire, and to Hampstead Norris in 1819 by the Marquess of Downshire.

Jan. 12. At Thorley_vicarage, Herts, in his 35th year, the Rev. Robert M. Gardner, M.A. Curate of that parish, formerly of St. John's college, Cambridge, and Curate of Fenny Stratford, Bucks. He was the youngest son of the late Rev. Thomas Gardner, Vicar of Willen, Bucks. He has left a widow and four children, quite unprovided for.

At Castleton, Sherborne, Dorsetshire, aged 50, the Rev. Mervin West, B.D. Vicar of Haydon and North Wootton in that county. He was of Emanuel college, Cambridge; and was presented to both those churches by Earl Digby in 1835.

Jan. 13. At Ballymoney, co. Antrim, the Rev. William Greene, M.A. Rector of that parish, late Dean of Achonry.

Aged 83, the Rev. Benjamin Johnson, Vicar of Great Gidding, Huntingdonshire, to which he was presented in 1822 by Earl Fitz William.

Jan. 14. At the Hotwells, Clifton, the Rev. John Griffiths Lloyd, of Trowscoed Lodge, near Cheltenham.

Aged 41, the Rev. Evan Lloyd, Rector of Llangelynin, Carnarvonshire, in the patronage of the Bishop of Bangor.

Jan. 15. At Hastings, aged 42, the Rev. Charles Henry Lutwidge, M. A. Vicar of Farleigh, Kent. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1828.

Jan. 16. In his 52d year, the Rev. Edward Ward, only son of the late Robert Ward, esq. of Liverpool.

Jan. 17. At Broomfield, Essex, aged 74, the Rev. Vincent Edwards, Vicar of that parish. He was of Trinity college, Oxford, M. A. 1794; and was collated to his living in 1796 by Bishop Porteus.

At Pisa, aged 28, the Rev. George Elmhirst, B.A. formerly of Exeter college, Oxford, and late Curate of Neen Savage, Salop; son of R. Elmhirst, esq. of Stainton hall, Lincolnshire.

Aged 75, the Rev. John Kingdon, Rector of Marhamchurch, and for fifty years Rector of Whitston, Cornwall, and Hollacombe, Devon. He was instituted to Whitston, which was in his own patronage, in 1793; presented in the same year to Hollacombe by the Lord Chancellor ; and instituted to Marhamchurch, of which also he was patron, in 1818.

Jan. 18. Aged 85, the Rev. Horatio Dowsing, fifty-three years Rector of North Barsham and Alby, and sixty years Vicar of Hindringham, Norfolk. He was of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, B.A. 1779, M.A. 1788; was presented to Hindringham in 1783 by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, and to his two other churches in 1790 by the Earl of Orford.

Jan. 19. At Exmouth lodge, near Exeter, aged 43, the Rev. Robert Hole, third son of the late Rev. Thomas Hole, of Georgeham, Devon.

At his father's residence, in Ashborne, aged 46, the Rev. William Webster, late Perpetual Curate of Preenchurch, Salop, eldest son of William Webster, esq. He was presented to Preenchurch by his father in 1827.

Jan. 20. At Peterston, Herefordshire, aged 43, the Rev. John Nelson, Rector of that parish. He was of St. John's college, Oxford, M. A. 1794; and was instituted to Peterston in 1814.

Jan. 21. In his 72d year, the Rev.