guished himself at both, ranking high among Dr. Becker's pupils at school, and proceeding ninth Wrangler at the mathematical tripos in 1793. Cambridge offered in these days little encouragement to classical pursuits; but Mr. Manning always cherished the studies of his youth, and to the last referred with zest to his favourite authors, Horace and Cicero. He became Fellow and tutor of his college, where among his private pupils he numbered the ex-Bishop of London, and was among the earliest to recognise his distinguished abilities; for the late Lord Liverpool having applied to Mr. Manning to find him a tutor for his son, he strongly recommended Mr. Charles James Blomfield, of Trinity College; and this appointment, supported as it was by his lordship's great learning and merits, may be regarded as his first step in the road to high preferment.

In 1804 Mr. Manning was presented by the Master and Fellows of Caius College to the Rectory of Weeting, which he held until the time of his death, and in 1811 he succeeded his father in the Rectory of Diss, completing on the day of his decease the forty-sixth year of his incumbency. In this town he resided nearly half-a-century, the friend, benefactor, and pastor of two generations of its inhabitants.

Of the universal respect and esteem in which Mr. Manning was held by the people among whom he dwelt so long, the town and its neighbourhood afforded a signal instance on the day of his funeral. It was observed as a day of public mourning: all business was suspended, every shop was closed, and hundreds attended their revered friend to his last earthly resting-place. For he was one of whom it might be truly said, that "when the ear heard him, it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, gave witness

to him."

From the retirement in which Mr. Manning lived, especially in his later years, his rare qualities of heart and mind were known to comparatively few beyond the circle of his immediate friends. Within that circle, "the daily beauty of his life" was clearly felt and actively impressive. No man's judgment was sounder in temporal or spiritual matters; his charity, though often secretly bestowed, was large and unfailing; he loved his own Church, but was tolerant of dissent from her, and he had no delight in narrowing her ways or restricting her privileges. Those who heard him in the pulpit can tes tify to the weight and impressiveness of his preaching, and those who administered public business with him can speak to the pa tience and sagacity with which he sifted evidence and applied the law. His taste in literature was highly cultivated; the amount of knowledge he possessed was unsuspected by those whose acquaintance with him was casual, for it was too often concealed by his innate modesty of nature. Both from books and society, however, he had, in a long life, stored up a fund of practical and speculative wisdom, which rendered his conversation instructive and interesting in the highest de

gree. His gracious manners made him a welcome companion in all societies, but perhaps he was never more attractive than when he unbent himself with the young, the poor, and the uninstructed.

Mr. Manning married, in 1812, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of the Rev. William Sayers Donne, Rector of Colton, in Norfolk, by whom he leaves two sons and four daughters. The name of his second brother, Thomas Manning, is familiar to all who have read Charles Lamb's correspondence, and is still held in honour by the few who are able to appreciate his extensive and intimate acquaintance with the manners and languages of the East. Neither of these highly gifted brothers has, unfortunately for the world, left any permanent record in print of his learning and abilities.

THOMAS FITZHERBERT, Esq.

Feb. 7. At his residence, Clarges-street, London, aged 67, Thomas Fitzherbert, Esq., of Norbury-manor, Derbyshire, and Swynnerton-park, Staffordshire.

Thomas Fitzherbert, Esq., who was the tenth of his family that has held the lordship of the manor of Swynnerton, and the twenty-sixth in direct succession from the first of his name who held the manor of Norbury, was the eldest son of the late Basil Fitzherbert, Esq., of Swynnerton, by Elizabeth, youngest daughter and co-heiress of the late James Windsor-Keneage, Esq., of Cadeby, county Lincoln, and Gatcombe, Isle of Wight. He was born January 21, 1789, and succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father in November, 1799. In July, 1809, he married Mary Anne Sophia, daughter of the late John Palmer Chichester, Esq., of Arlington-court, near Barnstaple, and sister of the late Sir John Palmer Bruce Chichester, Bart., M.P. Mr. Fitzherbert was high-sheriff of Staffordshire in 1831, but, as far as we know, never was an aspirant to the honours or burdens of public life. He had by his marriage an only son, Charles, born in 1810. The family of Fitzherbert is one of those which has always remained faithful to the Roman Catholic religion. Its name first appears on the roll of Battle Abbey; the Fitzherberts claim descent from a Norman noble named Herbert, who accompanied William the Conqueror to England. In the year 1125 (25th Henry I.) we find William, Prior of Tutbury, conferring the manor of Norbury on William Fitzherbert, by charter signed with his own hand. The original document, which is still in possession of the family, is attested by Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, the superior lord of Tutbury, and his two sons, Robert and William de Ferrers, the Lady Hawise, his wife, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Abbot of Burton, and divers other distinguished personages. Among the distinguished members of the Fitzherbert family we ought here to specify Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, Knight, and one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, author of the celebrated work De Naturâ Brevium, to

which Blackstone refers in his "Commentaries" in terms of high respect. Dying in 1538, we find his grandson, William, named in 1660 by King Charles II. as one of the Knights of the intended Order of the Royal Oak, in acknowledgment of the faithful services of his family to Charles I. Fifth in succession from him was Mr. Thomas Fitzherbert, the second husband of the celebrated Mrs. Fitzherbert, whose subsequent union with George IV. created so much excitement at the time. He was the elder brother of Basil, father of the gentleman recently deceased.

RICHARD HITCHCOCK, ESQ.

Dec. 3, 1856. At Roundwood, near Dublin, aged 30, Richard Hitchcock, Esq., of Trinity College.

Irish archæology has sustained a heavy loss in the decease of Mr. Hitchcock, who, although young in years, had already distinguished himself by his extraordinary zeal and untiring labours in elucidating the ancient monumental remains of his country, and more especially those of his native county of Kerry. These he explored with an amount of ardour and intense devotion, as well as intelligence, and illustrated with a minuteness and correctness of detail, seldom equalled. Following in the steps of the South Munster Antiquarian Society, his greater opportunities of personal research, arising from residence in his earlier years, and predilection in those more advanced, enabled him to discover and investigate a variety of remains of every period, which have increased our knowledge of this most interesting region to an extent not easily appreciable. In the world-forgotten byeways of his well-loved Corkaguiny, in its sequestered valleys and sea-girt islands, and on the lonely shores of its lakes and mountain-tarns, he ever loved to wander, and disinter from long neglect and oblivion the venerable monuments of his country's elder time, or to recover the mystic inscription scored on some grey Druidical pillar-stone, standing as a silent sentinel on the unfrequented moor, or concealed in the dark recesses of some fairy-haunted crypt. To his enthusiastic mind these were treasures richer than the fabled golden apples of the Hesperides. His researches and peculiar fitness for such investigations early introduced and recommended him to the Rev. Dr. Charles Graves, of Trinity College, Dublin, whose own pursuits, directed in a similar channel, especially in connexion with the monumental literature of primeval Ireland, rendered the acquisitions of so industrious and painstaking a co-labourer of the first importance and utility to him. Aided by the friendship and valuable influence of this distinguished scholar, Mr. Hitchcock obtained a situation in the college library, which gave him advantages and opportunities of which, with characteristic devotedness, he thoroughly availed himself, and for a few past years we find his name prominently before the Irish reading public in every publication connected with

our national antiquities. As an active and zealous member of the Kilkenny Archæological Society, his demise will be specially felt. He was indefatigable in recruiting for that body, and promoting its efficiency; to the "Proceedings" his contributions were numerous, and always of value. He was minutely exact in all he wrote or published. His correspondence was extensive, his diligence untiring, and his wish to be useful a pervading sentiment. His researches as an antiquary were practical rather than specu lative; his opinions were always well weighed and considered. On the subject which most absorbed his enquiries-the Ogham literature of ancient Ireland-he early formed the decided conclusion of its pagan origin. In the search for inscriptions in that character he spared no amount of labour or exertion; his ardent spirit was deterred by no obstacle; his judgment in their examination, and accuracy in copying them, was unerring; his discriminating powers were indeed singularly acute. Had he possessed a knowledge of the Irish language, the acquisitions of such a mind in these researches would have been of the highest advantage in arriving at decisive results. As it was, his death will leave a blank in this particular field of investigation, not easily or soon to be filled up. How he was estimated by those friends who knew and appeciated his value and character, may be learned from the regret with which the announcement of his death was received at a recent meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, when Doctor Graves gracefully and feelingly alluded to his labours and premature loss. The deceased was married, and has left an amiable and sorrowing widow to lament his demise.

GEORGE WHITE, ESQ.

Feb. 15. At Grantham, Lincolnshire, at the advanced age of eighty-eight, George White, Esq., senior member of the firm of White, Johnston and White, solicitors, of Grantham, and from being the oldest legal practitioner whose name is exhibited on the rolls in the county of Lincoln, was as well known as he was respected by numerous friends and clients in that part of England. He had resided in Grantham more than sixty-seven years, and twice (in 1822 and 1829) served the office of "alderman" of the borough and soke. This ancient designation of the chief magistrate has now, under the regulation of the Municipal Reform Act, been changed into that of "mayor!" For fifty years he acted as one of the coroners of the county, a position which he resigned about fourteen years ago. He married, first, on January 1, 1795, Margaret, only daughter of J. Filkin, Esq., M.D, of Nantwich, by whom he had one son, George Thomas White, Esq., barrister-at-law, of Dublin. She died on March 12, 1796. He married, secondly, on February 18, 1812, Ann, eldest daughter of Francis Thirkill, Esq., town-clerk of Boston, who survives him. By this marriage he had seven children, viz., three who died in in

fancy; Francis Thirkill, who married Harriet, eldest daughter of the late William Garfitt, Esq., Banker, of Boston; John, Rector of Grayingham, who married Emily, fourth daughter of the Rev. Beale Post, of Bydewsplace, near Maidstone; Robert Azlack, who married Mary, youngest daughter of Viceadmiral Sir Fairfax Moresby, K.C.B.; and Jane, the wife of Robert Johnston, Esq., of Grantham. To the last Mr. White retained the full vigour of his fine intellect, and took a leading part in the business of the town; in purposes of public utility and charity he largely participated, zealously devoting his time and contributing from his purse to their support. For many years he discharged the duty of lay-secretary to the local associations, of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, of the Sociey for the Propagation of the Gospel, and of several other societies connected with the Established Church. He was not merely a theoretic Churchman, but one of those devout, oldfashioned laymen, like Robert Nelson in former days, and William Stevens and Joshua Watson in our own, who have adorned the Christian religion as professed in the Church of England by the urbanity of their manners, the sparkling cheerfulness of their conversation, the unostentatious hospitality of their domestic establishments, and the practical benevolence of their conduct. He lived in the faith and fear of God, and has descended to the grave enjoying the affection of his children and children's children.

S. H. AMPHLETT, ESQ.

Jan. 28. At his residence, Heath-green, near Biriningham, aged 44, Samuel Holmden Amphlett, surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital.

Mr. Amphlett was second son of the Rev. Richard Holmden Amphlett, of Hadsor, the descendant of an old and highly respected family in the county of Worcester; his eldest brother being the present owner of Wychbold-hall, near Droitwich, and a distinguished member of the Chancery-bar. The subject of this memoir joined the medical profession at an early period of life, in the year 1829, by becoming a private pupil of the late Mr. Alfred Jukes, of the staff of the General Hospital, in which institution, and the Royal School of Medicine, he subsequently pursued his studies. He carried off the medal in the class of the Practice of Physic, then presided over by Professor Eccles. Mr. Amphlett subsequently paid a visit to the medical schools of London, Paris, and Edinburgh, for the purpose of extending his medical knowledge, and soon after his return to Birmingham was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the General Dispensary, an office which he held for about six years. Two vacancies having about that time occurred in the surgical staff of the General Hospital, by the death of Mr. Jukes and the resignation of Mr. Vaux, Mr. Amphlett succeeded

in obtaining one of the vacancies, in conjunction with his friend Mr. Crompton. This important appointment he held up to the time of his decease, a period of nearly fourteen years, and it is not too much to state that, independently of the great interest he took in the general welfare of the institution, he brought to bear upon the discharge of his duties as kind a heart and generous a consideration for the patients committed to his charge as ever characterized a member of his profession.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Dec. 17. At Lagos, coast of Africa, aged 42, the Rev. James Beale. This valuable missionary had been employed by the Church Missionary Society, as one of its agents in the colony of Sierra Leone, since the year 1836. At the period when he first sailed, the mortality in the colony had been so great in a very short space of time, that the devotedness of this admirable missionary, and of some others who were with him at the College of the Church Missionary Society at Islington, in thus offering themselves to labour at Sierra Leone, was much remarked upon. He was spared, however, to labour there, with untiring and devoted energy, for upwards of twenty years, returning to England to recruit his health twice during that period. Upon the occasion of his attempting to return in the year 1852, he suffered a most perilous shipwreck on the African coast, and was obliged to return to Sierra Leone, where he remained till the ensuing year, when he reached England in safety. Mr. Beale's decease took place at Lagos, where he had gone for a little change of air. Becoming worse soon after his arrival, the missionaries, the Rev. H. Townsend and the Rev. Samuel Crowter, were sent for from Abbeokouta to see him. The surgeon of H.M.S. the "Bloodhound" rendered him also all the service which medical skill and great attention and kindness could possibly afford, but it was in vain; he died on the 17th December, leaving a widow and one son to lament their loss.

Jan. 12. Dr. Eli Smith, American missionary. A private letter from Beirout announces the death of Dr. Smith, the oldest member of the American mission in that quarter. He was engaged on the translation of the Scriptures into Arabic. The parts which are partially finished are the New Testament, the Pentateuch, and some of the Prophets. Of these there have been already sted only Genesis and Exodus, and a few chapters of the Gospel of Matthew.

Jan. 21. At the Rectory, aged 62, the Rev. William Henry Walker, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1831, late Fellow and Bursar of Queen's College, Cambridge, Rector of Hickling (1843), Nottinghamshire.

At Cheltenham, aged 70, the Rev. William Thomas Ellis, late of Trinity College, Cambridge. Jan. 24. At Pimlico, aged 60, Dr. Medhurst, the eminent missionary, having landed from China only three days before, in a state of extreme exhaustion. Dr. Medhurst was first appointed to China in 1816, and consequently spent forty years in that important portion of the missionary field, in which he became the worthy successor of Dr. Morrison. His work, published in 1838, during a short but most interesting visit to England, on the State and Prospects of China with reference to the Spread of the Gospel, has become a text-book of all who take an active interest in the evangelization of her teeming millions; and the information which, but for this inscrutable dispensation, he could have been able

Dec. 21. At Mercara, India, aged 47, Major H. F. Gustard, Superintendent of Coorg.

Dec. 25. At Seftwich, Cheshire, aged 37, Thomasine, wife of the Rev. D. Waller, incumbent of Darebridge; also, on the 29th, Ada Thomasine, his infant daughter.

Dec. 26. At Clifton, Bristol, Brigadier-Gen. Dacres Fitzherbert Evans, of 16th Regt. (Grenadiers), H.E.I.C.S.

Dec. 28. In Bombay Harbour, as 4th officer of the ship Vernon, aged 19, Francis Henry, eldest son of William Robinson, esq., of Oxford-lodge, Reading.

Dec. 30. At Paris, Lady Maria de Fontanelle, sister of the Earl of Essex.

Dec. 31. At Killiney, Lady Betham, widow of Sir Wm. Betham, Ulster King-at-Arms. Deceased was sister to the present Judge Crampton, and cousin to Sir Philip Crampton, Bart.

At Falkner-st., Liverpool, aged 79, Samuel Ridgway, esq., late Capt. in the 85th Regt. of Foot.

At his residence, Wilkinson-st., Sheffield, aged 56, Mr. Jonathan Brammall, for more than a quarter of a century travelling representative of the firm of Sanderson Brothers and Co., steel manufacturers. He had a taste for literature, and during several years wrote the leading political articles in a respectable local newspaper. He was a life-member of the British Association; and his name is mentioned with respect in the "Memoirs of Montgomery," and in the preface to Audubon's "American Ornithology." shared, indeed, as he deserved to do, from his intelligence, integrity, and generosity, the respect and confidence of all who knew him, either in his commercial or social character.

He

Jan. 2. At Medway-villas, Gillingham, aged 59, Major W. A. Rogers, late 95th Regt.

Jan. 3. At Gwernhayled, Mary, eldest dau. of the late Phillips Lloyd Fletcher, esq., of Gwernhayled, county of Flint, and widow of Major Walker, of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

At 18, Sherrard-st., Golden-sq., aged 49, Mr. Mark Barnard, a solicitor, who committed suicide by cutting his throat.

Jan. 6. In Bethlehem Hospital, James Lisk, a criminal lunatic, who was tried in Dec. 1830, and acquitted, on the ground of insanity, for an attempt on the life of the late Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, in August in that year. The deceased was under the delusion that he was a prophet, and that his mission was to accomplish the death of the late illustrious warrior by any me ns in his power.

Jan. 7. At the residence of R. P. Davis, esq., Bedwelty-house, Tredegar Iron-works, South Wales, aged 35, James Bramwell, esq., late of Royal Exchange-buildings, London, and nephew of the late Ald. Thompson.

Jan. 8. At East Sutton-pl., near Maidstone, Sir Edmund Filmer, Bart., M.P. Sir Edmund was representative of an ancient Kentish family, the which has held large possessions and exercised considerable influence in the county for the last three hundred years. He was the son of Captain Filmer, and nephew and heir-at-law of the Rev. Sir John Filmer, Bart., whose title and property he inherited. His mother was the widow of Sir W. Geary, Bart., and mother also of the present Sir W. Geary; and two of her sons consequen ly inherited the highest rank of commoners. The late Sir Edmund Filmer was born in 1809; and in 1831 married Miss Helen Munroe, dau. of D. Munroe, esq., of Quebec, Canada. He succeeded his uncle in the baronetcy in 1834, and in March, 1838, on the resignation in his favour of his halfbrother, Sir W. Geary, Bart.,-who had been elected in conjunction with Mr. T. Law Hodges at the general election in 1837,-he was returned M.P. for West Kent, which he continued to represent till the time of his death. Sir Edmund is succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, who attained his majority in 1855. In politics, the late baronet was a Conservative.

GENT. MAG. VOL. CCII.

Jan. 10. Aged 60, Robert Jones, esq., late of the Corn Exchange, Mark-lane, and Pearson'swharf, Shad Thames, Horselydown.

At Badby-house, Northamptonshire, Mary Ann, widow of Richard J. Uniacke, esq., Judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.

In Crosier-st., Lambeth, Mr. Thomas Higgs, coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, and formerly for many years deputy-coroner for Westminster. He had destroyed himself by taking oil of almonds. The deceased has for many years laboured under some distress of mind; and it appears from letters and other documents found in the bedroom of the deceased, that he had for some time been suffering from illness and despondency. An indented inquisition paper, such as the jurors sign at inquests, was found hanging to the top of deceased's bedstead, which contained various directions in deceased's handwriting as to the carrying on of his b siness in case of severe illness.

Jan. 11. At Walton, near Chesterfield, aged 58, Wm. Waller, esq., town-clerk of Chesterfield, (which office he had filled with great ability and integrity for nearly thirty years,) and clerk of the County Court.

At Philadelphia, U.S., Margaret Fanny, wife of William John Birch, esq., of Pudlicote-house, Oxfordshire.

Of typhus fever, Henry Martin Blake, esq., of the Heath, co. Mayo, Ireland, also of Lisduff, co. Galway, and formerly of Winfield, in the same county. R.I.P.

Jan. 12. At Exeter, Anna Maria, relict of John Cunningham, esq., of Castlebar, and dau. of the late J. B. Lynch, esq., Partry-house, co. Mayo, Ireland.

At Honiton, Devon, Annie Charlotte, wife of Capt. J. King, H.M.'s 59th Regt., Town-Major of Hong Kong, and only dau. of Col. M'Pherson, C.B., Inspecting Field Officer at York.

At Sidmouth, aged 22, Clara Maria, youngest dau. of the late Hon. F. J. Shore, H.E.I.C.S. At Cranford-house, Exmouth, aged 92, Miss Elizabeth Brewer Naylor.

At Wolvey, Major Baldwyn, one of the heroes of the Peninsular War.

At Hampton-court Palace, the Hon. Mrs. Bradshaw.

At Park-st., Mile-end, Annabella, wife of the Rev. William Keedy, minister of John Knox Presbyterian Church.

At Upper George-st., Bryanston-sq., Col. William Ovenden Massy, formerly of the Austrian Service.

Jan. 13. At St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Major-Gen. William Cox, K.H. He was a very dis inguished officer, having served in the old 95th at Copenhagen, and throughout the whole of the Peninsular war, from 1808 to 1814, receiving three severe wounds during the war. In the Caffre war of 1835 he had the command of a division under Sir Benjamin D'Urban, and was subsequently employed in Canada during the insurrection of late years.

At Tours, France, Col. Jas. Humphries Wood, of the Royal Artillery, eldest son of the late Sam. Wood, esq., of Newlands, Berwickshire, and of Mrs. Wood, late of Higham-place, Newcastle.

At Tormore, Isle of Skye, Alex. Macdonald, esq. At Headington, Oxon, aged 73, Celia, dau. of the late Edward Cregoe, esq., of Trewithian, Cornwall.

Aged 15, Alfred Thrupp, youngest surviving son of Jas. Nightingale, esq., J.P., of Kingstonupon-Thames, and grandson of the late H. E. Thrupp, esq., of George-st., Portman-sq.

Off Algiers, on his passage from India, Joseph Harding, esq., eldest son of the late Jos. Harding, esq., of East-end, Finchley.

At Weir-cottage, Maidenhead, Berks, aged 68, James Hannen, esq., formerly of Kingswoodlodge, Dulwich.

Jan. 14. At the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. J. M. Stubbs, St. John's-wood, aged 60, Chas. Daniel Loveday, esq., late of Cuckfield, Sussex.

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