them, and when a cry arose that the ammunition near 500 men. COCKBURN, HENRY THOMAS, known by his title, Lord Cockburn, as one of the lords of the court of session and a lord commissioner of justiciary, was born in 1779. He holds a brilliant place in the rank of barristers, and possessed remarkable power and eloquence as a special pleader. In political doctrines he belonged to the same constellation of whigs as his friend Lord Jeffrey, whose life and correspondence he published, 1852. Died 1854. COCKTON, H., author of 'Valentine Vox' and other contributions to light literature, 1808-1853. CODRINGTON, ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD, born 1770, entered the navy in 1783, and in 1794 was lieutenant on board the flag-ship of Lord Howe. From that time he took a distinguished part in many great actions, but his name is chiefly associated with the destruction of the Egyptian fleet at Navarino, October 20th, 1827 On this occasion the commands of the king are said to have been expressed in a sentence more pithy than dignified, -Go it, Ned!' From 1832 to 1839 he sat in parliament for Devonport. Died 1851. COLBURN, HENRY, the well known publisher, | projector of the New Monthly Magazine,' the Court Journal,' the United Service Magazine,' and the 'Literary Gazette.' Died 1855. COLLYER, WILLIAM BENJO, a distinguished theologian and popular preacher of the metropolis, was the son of a builder at Deptford, and was CHAPMAN, JOHN, memorable for his exer-educated at Homerton. Died in his seventy tions in the cause of India, especially for the introduction of railways and the cultivation of cotton, died 1854. CLAYTON, A. B., an architect, 1795-1855. CLINT, GEORGE, a painter and mezzotint engraver, remarkable for his theatrical and other portraits, 1770-1854. CLONCURRY, VALENTINE BROWNE LAWLESS, Lord, of Cloncurry in Ireland, was born in Dublin, 1773, and educated for the bar. Towards the close of the century we find him identified with the movement party of his countrymen, a member of the Society of United Irishmen, and an associate of Curran, Grattan, Emmett, O'Connor, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and George Ponsonby. In 1798 he was arrested on a charge of treason, but after several examinations before the Privy Council, he was liberated as 'imprudent rather than criminal.' Arrested again in 1799, he did not regain his freedom till 1801, and in the meantime, by the death of his father, had inherited the family title. From that time till the visit of George IV. in 1821, he remained at variance with the government, but was then graciously received by his Majesty, and lived to become a sworn member of the Privy Council. Died 1853. [E.R.] COCHRANE, CHARLES, principal founder and president of the 'National Philanthropic Institution,' established in Leicester square for the relief of the unemployed poor, 1807-1855. COCKBURN, SIR GEORGE, a distinguished British admiral, born in 1772, and honourably served his country from 1786 till the day of his death in 1853. second year, 1854. His 'Lectures on Scripture Facts,' published in 1808, obtained for him the diploma of D.D. from the university of Edinburgh. COLQUHOUN, JAMES, known as the Chevalier de Colquhoun, distinguished as a diplomatist and writer on the civil law, 1780-1855. His father was the celebrated writer on the police system of the metropolis. CONDER, JOSIAH, editor of the Patriot newspaper, was born in London, on 17th September, 1789. At an early age Josiah Conder manifested that poetical genius and literary taste which subsequently distinguished him. In 1814 he became proprietor of the Eclectic Review, being at that time a bookseller in London. In 1819 he disposed of the business to Mr. Holdsworth, and went to reside at Watford, in Hertfordshire, retaining in his own hands the management of the Eclectic till 1837, when Dr. Thomas Price became the proprietor and editor. During the twenty-three years of Mr. Conder's editorship of this monthly journal, he enjoyed the assistance either more statedly or more occasionally, of John Foster, Robert Hall, Dr. Chalmers, Dr. Pye Smith, Isaac Taylor, L. Uwins, D.D., Dr. Vaughan, Charles March, and many other literary celebrities. In 1818, Mr. Conder published a work on Protestant Nonconformity. In 1824 he entered upon an engagement to compile the Modern Traveller.' In 1832 Mr. Conder became editor of the Patriot newspaper, an office which he sustained with credit for twentythree years. Mr. Conder died on the 27th December, 1855. strator of anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital, and published many valuable papers. He died in 1853. COPELAND, FANNY. See FITZWILLIAM. COPELAND, THOMAS, a writer on surgery and other medical subjects, 1781-1855. CORRY, ARMAR LOWRY, rear-admiral of the White, was born in 1795, and entered the naval service in 1805, under Capt. Sir H. Popham. He received his first commission, April 12, 1812, and sailed with Napier as second in command of the Baltic fleet, 1854. Died at Paris, May 1, 1855. COTTENHAM, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER PEPYS, earl of, formerly lord chancellor, was born in 1781, and called to the bar in 1804. In July, 1831, he was returned to parliament through the interest of Earl Fitzwilliam; in 1834 became master of the rolls, and in 1835 was appointed, in conjunction with others, a commissioner of the great seal. In 1836, this high responsibility devolved on himself alone. He held office till 1841; resuming it again while the whigs held the reins of government, from 1846 to 1850. Died 1851. ČOTTLE, JOSEPH, one of the earliest and most faithful friends of Coleridge, 1769-1853. CRICHTON, REV. ANDREW, a Scottish divine, many years editor of the Edinburgh _Advertiser, author and translator of many valuable contributions to history and biography Died 1855. CONYBEARE, THE VERY REV. WM. DANIEL, Dean of Llandaff, was born June 7, 1787 His father was rector of Bishopgate. The late dean was educated at Westminster, and afterwards at Christ Church, where, in 1808, he took a first class in classics, and a second in mathematics. At Christ Church, Conybeare was the associate of the late Sir Robert Peel, and is said to have been somewhat acquainted with the opinions of that eminent statesman, whom he used always to describe as a whig at heart. From Christ Church he proceeded to Oxford, and shortly after taking his degree there, he entered upon the study of that science with which his name is inseparably associated. It was in 1814 his first communication was made to the Transactions of the Geological Society,' of which body he was, if not the founder, at least one of the earliest members. In the study of the new science, he was associated with Buckland and Phillips. His first paper the Geological Transactions' is a tract on the origin of a remarkable class of organic impressions occurring in the nodules of flint, in the course of which he establishes that these substances are not, as was supposed, fossil corals, but produced by the infiltration of siliceous matter into shells, the calcerous matrix of which has perished. Mr. Conybeare completed his geological labours by the publication, in conjunction with Mr. Phillips. of the Outlines of the CROKER, THOMAS CROFTON, whose name is Geology of England and Wales.' The work was identified with the fairy legends and traditions of regarded as a marvel of compilation, and has often the Celtic race, was the son of Major Croker, of been referred to as one of the most useful manuals the 38th regiment of foot, and was born at the on the subject ever published. Mr. Conybeare was house of his maternal grandfather, in Cork, 1798. for many years rector of Sully, in Glamorganshire. He was a descendant of an old Devonshire family, In 1831 he was elected vicar of Bristol College. some of whom had settled in the south of Ireland During that and the two following years he de- in the times of Elizabeth and Cromwell; and, notlivered a series of lectures at the College, which withstanding his high connections, was educated were afterwards published, accompanied by an in- for a mercantile life. He passed much time in the augural address on the Application of Classical and south of Ireland in the period 1812 to 1815, colScientific Education to Theology. Originality of lecting the legends and songs of the peasantry; thought, and charm of style, gave these lectures at the same time employing occasionally his talent an unusual popularity. In 1836, Mr. Conybeare for sketching, yet his first work, 'Researches in became vicar of Axminster, Devon. In 1839 he the South of Ireland,' did not appear till 1824. was appointed Bampton lecturer to the University In the spring of the following year, he became of Oxford. In 1847, at the instance of Dr. Cople- renowned by the publication of his Fairy Legends," stone, then bishop, he was instituted to the deanery to which he was indebted for the acquaintance of of Llandaff, resigning Axminster in favour of his Sir Walter Scott, who met him with several other eldest son. Here the last eleven years of his life celebrities of the day at a breakfast party, at Mr. were passed in the prosecution of his favourite Lockhart's, in Pall Mall. The occasion is interstudies, and in the zealous discharge of his profes-esting, as it forms the subject of a notice in Sir sional duties. The loss of a son, the Rev. W. J Conybeare, who promised to transcend in the world of letters, even the father's fame, is understood to have hastened the death of the venerable Dean of Llandaff, which took place on the 12th August, 1857, at Itchen Stoke, near Portsmouth. COOK, W. B., an engraver, 1778-1855. COOPER, BRANSBY, a distinguished English surgeon, nephew of Sir Astley Cooper, born in 1792, and at an early age entered the naval service, but being obliged to relinquish it from weak health, he embraced the medical profession. In 1812 he entered the royal artillery as surgeon, and gained great experience in the Peninsular war. He afterwards settled in London, was appointed demon Walter Scott's journal, who characterizes Mr. Croker as the author of the Irish Fairy Tales, little as a dwarf, keen-eyed as a hawk, and of easy, prepossessing manners, something like Tom Moore.' Other interesting particulars concerning this interview will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine,' vol. xlii., p. 452. It may be added, that the best published likeness of him is said to be in Maclise's 'Snap Apple Night.' It would exceed our limits to specify all the legendary and other amusing or learned works we owe to the subject of our notice; but we may briefly mention his contributions to the annuals, Daniel O'Rourke,' and Legends of the Lakes,' in which he was aided by the MSS. of Mr. Lynch. In 1832, he essayed his hand as a novelist, but was more himself in 1839, as editor of 'The Popular Songs of Ireland.' This year also he took part in the formation of the Camden Society, and, in 1840, was still more active in founding the Percy Society, both of which were benefited by his antiquarian knowledge and literary talents as editor. Died at his house in Brompton, after a short illness, August 8, 1854. [E.R.] CROLL, FRANCIS, an engraver of Edinburgh, who was rapidly rising to eminence when he died, at the early age of twenty-seven, 1854. CUDDY, LIEUT.-COLONEL, a gallant officer, killed while leading his men up to the Redan fort, September 8, 1855. CUITT, GEORGE, an artist distinguished for his etchings, author of Wanderings and Pencillings amongst the Ruins of Olden Times,' 1779-1854. DAVY, LADY JANE, daughter of Charles Kerr, Esq., of Antigua, and widow of the celebrated Sir H Davy, remarkable for her accomplishments and conversational powers, died 1855. DAWNAY, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM HENDRY, seventh Viscount Down, born 15th May, 1812, died 26th January, 1857. DE LA BECHE, SIR HENRY THOMAS, a distinguished geologist, at whose instance the Museum of Practical Geology was instituted, 1796-1855. DEMAINBRAY, THE REV S. G. F. T., one of the chief promoters of the allotment system, author of a pamphlet entitled, "The Poor Man's Best Friend,' 1759-1854. DENISON, EDWARD, late bishop of Salisbury, was born in London, 1801, and at the time of his appointment to the bishopric, March, 1837, held a small college living at Oxford. He was in favour of reviving the synodical powers of the church, and was remarkable for his sincerity and clearness of judgment. He is the author of several works, chiefly in practical religion. Died March 6, 1854. DENMAN, THOMAS, Lord, born in London 1779, was the son of a physician distinguished by the patronage of the court, and grandson of a country apothecary. His first teachers were Mr. and Mrs. Barbauld, then keeping school in Norfolk; his education was continued at Cambridge. In 1806, he was called to the bar; and in 1818, took his seat in parliament as member for Wareham; in 1820, for Nottingham. The same year, having boldly ranged himself with Brougham and the other advocates of popular rights, he was also appointed solicitor-general to Queen Caroline, the advocacy of whose cause left him proportionately out of favour with the court. In 1828, his star began to rise under favour of Lord Lyndhurst; and, at the period of the reform bill, his brilliant qualities, no longer under eclipse, carried him to office. At the close of that struggle, therefore, we find him, November 8, 1832, appointed successor of Lord Tenterden as lord chief justice of the King's Bench; soon after which he was made a privy councillor, and eventually, in 1834, raised to the peerage. Lord Denman performed the functions of the high office to which he had been called with rare devotion to his duties and independence of character till March, 1850, when he retired on the ground of ill health. He died at Stoke Albany in Northamptonshire, aged seventysix, September 22, 1854. [E.R.] DENNISTOUN, JAMES, an historical writer and amateur of art, was born in Dumbartonshire in 1803; died in February, 1855. He was distinguished by his acquaintance with the literature and history of Scotland, and contributed some interesting papers to the reviews. His 'Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino,' is a well known and admired work; since which we have from his pen one of the most interesting biographies that has appeared for many years, in the Life of Sir Robert Strange,' the eminent engraver, and of his brotherin-law, Andrew Lumisden, secretary to the Stuart princes. Sir Robert Strange was the grandfather, un her mother's side, of Mrs. Dennistoun. DILLWYN, L. W.. a Welch magistrate and naturalist, characterized as the father of English botany, author of several important works, 1778 1855. DOBSON, A. R., a young architect of much promise, son of a gentleman of the same name, long known at Newcastle-on-Tyne, perished in the fire at Gateshead, aged twenty-six, 1854. DOD, CHARLES ROGER, whose name is familiar to the public as the founder of the Parliamentary Companion and the Peerage,' was born in his father's vicarage of Drumlean in 1793. He was educated for the bar, but abandoned his legal studies for journalism, and was for many years a writer in the Times. Died 1855. DONE, JOSHUA, a pianist and composer of music, chiefly of songs, died in poverty, occasioned by his irregular habits, aged about sixty, 1818. DOVASTON, J. F. M., an essayist and poct, author of British Melodies,' and other poems, and of a life of Bewick, the naturalist, with whom he was intimately acquainted, 1782-1854. DUCIE, EARL, a distinguished English agriculturist and free-trader, 1802-1853. DU PLAT, GEORGE GUSTAVUS CHARLES WILLIAM, brigadier-general in the British army, died at Vienna, where he had proceeded, after the commencement of the late war, as military commissioner, December 21, 1854. General Du Plat had been nearly forty years in the service, and was recently consul-general at Warsaw. His son, Capt. Du Plat, is an equerry to Prince Albert. E EGERTON, FRANCIS, the first earl of Ellesmere, of Ellesmere, county Salop, and Viscount Brackley, of Brackley, Northamptonshire, was born on the first day of January, 1800. He was the second son of George Granville, marquis of Stafford, who was afterwards created duke of Sutherland. His grandfather, the preceding marquis of Stafford, had married the daughter, and eventually co-heir, of Scroope, the first duke of Bridgewater, to whose estates the late earl succeeded on the death of his father, assuming then the sole name of Egerton, in place of his patronymic of Leveson Gower. The Ellesmere peerage was a revival, having been first conferred on Thomas Egerton, lord chancellor of England in the reign of James I. The chancellor was created baron Ellesmere and viscount Brackley, but died before the promised earldom was conferred, which James granted to his son under the title of earl of Bridgewater. In the works of Bacon, as well as in the historical annals of the time, the name of lord Ellesmere frequently appears; and a still more interesting literary association is, that his appointment to the presidency of Wales and the Marches was the occasion of Milton writing his masque of Comus. The fourth earl of Bridgewater was created duke in 1720, the ducal title becoming extinct in 1803, though the earldom remained till 1828 in another branch of the family. The princely property of the Bridgewater peerage, including the magnificent collection of pictures, was devised by the last duke to his nephew the duke of Sutherland, with remainder to his second son, the deceased earl of Ellesmere.-From Eton, where he received his early education, Lord Francis Leveson Gower went up to Christ Church, Oxford, where he took the B.A. degree in 1821. In 1822 he was returned to parliament, and became a devoted supporter of the policy of Canning. When the London university was projected he became one of its most zealous promoters, despite the outcry about its hostility to the church and to Oxford and Cambridge. In 1820, as Lord Francis Egerton, he was chief secretary for Ireland; under the duke of Wellington, in 1830, he was secretary at war. On the formation of Peel's government in 1841, he declined a seat in the cabinet. On the bill for the repeal of the corn laws being introduced he moved the address in reply to the royal speech. From 1829 to 1834, he sat for the county of Sutherland, and from 1834 to 1846, for South Lancashire, which he represented at the time of his elevation to the peerage. From an early period Lord Ellesmere cultivated literary tastes, and published several works both in prose and poetry. His lordship's name will, however, be more widely known in connection with art than literature. To the splendid collection of pictures he inherited he made numerous important additions, and the Bridgewater Gallery, said to be worth more than a quarter of a million, is the finest private collection in Great Britain. The late earl was a fellow of several of the learned societies, was vice-president of the Literary Fund; was one of the royal commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, and a trustee of the British Museum. Few noblemen have better discharged the duties of their order. He died in 1857. ELDON, JOHN SCOTT, second earl of, grandson of the illustrious chancellor of that name, member for Truro from 1829 to 1831, died in 1854, having nearly two years before become of unsound mind. ELLIOT, SIR HENRY MILES, foreign secretary to the government of India, author of a 'Bibliographical Index to the Historians of Mahommedan India, and a Glossary, 1809-1854. ELTON, SIR CHARLES ABRAHAM, a classical scholar and poet, died 1853. ESCOTT, BICKHAM, a political speaker and magistrate, member for Winchester, 1802-1855. ESTCOURT, MAJOR-GENERALJAMES BUCKNALL, born 1802, died of cholera in the camp before Sebastopol, June 23, 1855. This gallant officer was appointed on the staff of Lord Raglan, and shared the glories of the principal actions in the Crimea; previously, in 1835, he had accompanied the expedition to the Euphrates. EVANS, ARTHUR BENONI, late head master of Market Bosworth school, distinguished as s profound classical scholar and author, was born in Berkshire, 1781, died at Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, November, 1855. Dr. Evans was at once a linguist, naturalist, numismatist, musician, mechanic, anatomist, artist, and divine; and with all these talents he had a large share of those better qualities which gained for him the love and confidence of his parishioners. He belonged to the high church and conservative party. EWING, JAMES, lord provost of Glasgow, returned member of parliament for that city at the general election in 1832; distinguished for the munificent aid he afforded to various philanthropic movements; 1776-1854. F FABER, GEORGE STANLEY, the celebrated writer on prophecy, was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Faber, and was born in 1774. In 1805 he became the vicar of Stockton-upon-Tees, but exchanged this living for that of Long Newton in 1811. The latter he retained till 1832, when he was appointed master of Sherburn's Hospital, near FAUCIT, JOHN SAVILLE, stage manager and author of several plays, father of the celebrated Miss Helen Faucit; died 1854. The most popular of his productions are 'The Miller's Maid,' and Wapping Old Stairs.' FAULKNER, THOMAS, an industrious writer on topographical and antiquarian subjects, formerly a bookseller of Chelsea, 1776-1855. FELLOWES, SIR THOMAS, a distinguished British naval officer, 1778-1853. Durham. Here he died, aged eighty, January 27, | The taste for Natural History which characterized 1855. His chief work, which has gone through Professor Forbes, and ultimately raised him to the five editions, is entitled 'Dissertations on the rank of one of the first and most philosophic natuProphecies that have been Fulfilled, are now Ful- ralists of the present day, showed itself in early filling, or will hereafter be Fulfilled, relative to life. He was educated at the University of Edinthe great period of 1260 years; the Papal and burgh, where he was a pupil of the late Professors Mohammedan Apostacies; the Tyrannical Reign of Jameson and Graham, and studied the kindred Antichrist, or the Infidel Power; and the Restora- sciences of Zoology, Geology, and Botany, with tion of the Jews.' marked success. At the early age of eighteen he visited Norway on a Natural History excursion, and made many observations on its native productions and glaciers. In 1841 he was appointed naturalist to H.M.S. Beacon on the surveying expedition to the Mediterranean, and made a tolerably extensive tour through Asia Minor. During this expedition he carried on an important series of dredging operations, which gave rise to his brilliant theories on the nature and distribution of submarine life in reference to geological changes. In 1843 he was elected Professor of Botany in King's College, London, as successor to George Don. He became secretary and curator to the Geological Society, and in 1845 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. On the establishment of the Government School of Mines in connection with the Ordnance Geological Survey under the direction of Sir Henry de la Béche, Professor Forbes became Palæontologist to that institution; and when the new museum was opened in Jermyn Street, he was appointed Professor of Natural History there. In this situation he remained for some time, giving lectures to crowded audiences; and at the same time worked hard in various parts of the country in connection with the Geological Survey. On the death of Professor Jameson of Edinburgh, in the year 1854, Forbes was immediately elected his successor, and entered on the duties of the chair of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh at the commencement of the summer session. There he was pre-eminently popular, and bade fair to raise his own reputation, as well as that of the University of Edinburgh, to a high pitch; but, alas! a disease, the seeds of which had been sown in his constitution some years previously, cut him off, after a very short but severe illness, and after FITZCLARENCE, LIEUT.-GENERAL LORD he had filled the chair only a few months. Forbes's FREDERICK, son of the duke of Clarence and works are very numerous, but chiefly consist of Mrs. Jordan, grand master of the Scottish free-detached memoirs in many of the leading scientific masons, and a devoted officer of the Indian army, 1799-1854, FERRIER, SUSAN, died at Edinburgh, on the 5th of November, 1854, at an advanced age. Miss Ferrier's novels were three: Marriage (1818); "The Inheritance' (1824); and 'Destiny; or, The Chief's Daughter' (1831). These works, of which the first was especially popular, had their chief excellence in the vigorous faithfulness and dry humour with which they portrayed characters and scenes of common and real life. The authoress of 'Marriage,' greeted by the author of 'Waverley' as a sister shadow,' maintained a dignified and lady-like privacy, on which it would be unseemly to intrude. It may be enough to say, that her father was one of Sir Walter Scott's official colleagues, a principal clerk of the court of session in Scotland; and that, through one of her brothers, she was connected by affinity with the family of Professor Wilson. [W.S.] FIELD, GEORGE, memorable for his successful application of chemistry to the arts; author of Chromatics,''Outlines of Analogical Philosophy, and other works; 1777-1854. FIELDING, COPLEY VANDYKE, late president of the Old Society of Painters in Water Colours, remarkable for the beauty of his marine subjects and landscapes, 1787-1854. FITZWILLIAM, FANNY ELIZABETH, late of the Haymarket theatre, was born in 1803; died at Putney, of cholera, September, 1854. Mrs. Fitzwilliam made her first appearance in public in 1814, as Miss Fanny Copeland, and was particularly successful at the Surrey theatre as Effie Deans in the Heart of Midlothian.' She married Mr. Fitzwilliam, an actor of Irish characters, in 1822. Her most popular performances were at the Adelphi, especially with Mr. John Reeves in the Wreck Ashore.' Being an admirable mimic she often performed more than one character in the same piece. FORBES, EDWARD, F.R.S., born in the Isle of Man in 1815, died in Edinburgh, November, 1854. journals of the day. His first published separate work was the 'Malacologia Monensis,' a description of the shells of the Isle of Man. His next was the very pleasingly written 'History of the British Star-fishes;' then came his 'Travels in Lycia,' in company with Lieut. Spratt; the 'Natural History of the British Mollusca,' in conjunction with Mr. Sylvanus Hanley; and the 'Natural History of the British naked-eye Medusa,' published by the Ray Society. He died, much lamented, at the early age of thirty-nine years. [W.B.] FORREST, ROBERT, a self-taught Scottish sculptor, died 1853. FOURDRINIER, HENRY, celebrated for his improvements in the means of manufacturing paper, was born in London 1766. He patented his machine for the manufacture of paper between |