notice, the late EDWARD FORSTER, was the youngest son of Edward Forster, esq. and was born at Walthamstow on the 12th Oct. 1765. He passed the greater part of his childhood in the neighbourhood of Epping Forest, and from the age of fifteen became particularly attached to the study of English botany, which he ardently cultivated through a long and active life. He was a partner in the eminent banking house of Lubbock, Forster, and Company, and to within a few hours of his death took a leading part in the business of the bank. In 1800 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnæan Society, of which he became Treasurer in 1816, and one of the Vice-Presidents in 1828; and his kindliness of disposition, unremitting attention to his duties, and zeal for the interests of the Society, will long endear his memory to all its members. He was a man of very active habits; rising daily at 6 o'clock, usually spending an hour before breakfast in his garden, in which he cultivated many of the rarer and more obscure British species, and taking a great deal of bodily exercise, which, together with his extreme temperance, probably contributed greatly to the prolongation of his life. He possessed a very complete and well-arranged herbarium of British plants, and particularly devoted himself to those of his native county of Essex; and he had long entertained the intention of publishing its "Flora," the manuscript of which he has left in an imperfect state. His contributions to the Transactions of the Linnæan Society are limited to two papers: "Observations on the Vicia angustifolia of the English Flora of Sir J. E. Smith," vol. xvi. 435; and "Observations on the Esula major Germanica of Lobel," vol. XVII. 533. But he also published several papers on subjects connected with English botany in "The Phytologist." The editor of the Annals of Natural History for March last observes of Mr. Forster, "His strong attachment to his favourite botanical pursuits, and his zeal for the prosperity of the Linnean Society, of whose eminent founder, Sir J. E. Smith, he had been an intimate and warmly attached friend, require an ampler record than can now be given of one who in every relation of life was truly estimable. "Fortunate senex, senex beate, Hæc ad commoda tam beata magnum Adde quod viridis tibi senectus, Et morti bona cuncta pollicetur. Mr. Forster inherited the general philanthropy of his father; and devoted a long life to alleviating the miseries of his fellow-creatures. He was the principal founder and treasurer of the Refuge for the Destitute, as is recorded in our last Magazine, p. 248, with the sad circumstances attending his lamented death. He married early in life, but has left no children. His property is bequeathed to the descendants of his elder brother, Thomas Furley Forster, esq. There is a large lithographic portrait of Mr. E. Forster drawn by T. H. Maguire, 1849; and an admirable oil-painting by Eddis in the meeting-room of the Linnæan Society. The library, drawings, and prints of Mr. Forster were sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, May 21 to 24. A very extensive and valuable collection of dried plants, both indigenous and exotic, with their names and locations from whence derived, arranged, with the names of the authors who have figured and described them, in 150 bundles, was bought by Robert Brown, esq. Vice-President of the Linnæan Society, for 57. 15s. "Chronica Sancti Albani, sive Fructus Temporum, à primis incolis usque ad regnum Edw. III. Gallicè; et Chronica cujusdem anonymi ab ortu gigantum in Anglia usque ad exitum regni Edw. I. Gallicè," an early vellum MS. was bought by Thorpe for 451. Lawes's "Customes and Ordinances of the Fellowshippe of Merchant Adventurers of England, col lected, &c. by Jo. Wheeler, 1608," a MS. of 171 pages on vellum, 117. 158. Thorpe. The Rev. W. Gilpin's Tour in Scotland, with 114 original drawings, 107. 58. Mr. Dawson Turner's English Fuci, 4 vols. 107. 10s. A Collection of English Madrigals, by Morley, Younge, &c. in 5 volumes, 137. C. F. BARNWELL, ESQ. March 22. In Woburn Place, aged 68, Charles Frederick Barnwell, esq. M.A. F.R.S. and F.S.A. This learned and amiable gentleman was the second son of the Rev. Frederick Barnwell, Rector of Brockley, in Suffolk, descended from a family seated for several generations at Mileham in Norfolk, and claiming to have a common origin with the family of Lord Trimleston. He was formerly Fellow of Caius college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1802 as 11th Wrangler, M.A. 1805. Mr. Barnwell was for some years Assistant Keeper of the Department of Antiquities in the British Museum, an appointment which he received in 1826. He resigned soon after the decease of his elder brother, the Rev. Frederick Henry Turnor Barnwell, of Bury St. Edmund's, who dying in 1844, unmarried, property to a considerable amount came into the possession of the survivor. (See our Magazine for Feb. 1844, p. 202.) We are not aware that Mr. Barnwell ever wrote anything for publication; but he was full of curious learning upon classical subjects, had a very retentive memory, was well skilled in music, singing with great taste and ability, and was altogether a delightful companion. Mr. Barnwell was married on the 30th May 1805, to the only daughter of the Rev. John Lowry, of Norwood, Middlesex; and that lady is left his widow, with six children. His eldest son, Frederick Lowry Barnwell, esq. of Gray's Inn, was married in 1845 to Mary Anne, second daughter of the Rev. Charles J. Chapman, of Norwich. His younger son, the Rev. Edward Lowry Barnwell, M.A. of Jesus college, Oxford, was elected Head Master of Ruthin school in 1839. There is a good likeness of Mr. Barnwell in lithography, one of several portraits of officers of the British Museum, from drawings by the late Henry Corbould. JOHN STOCKDALE HARDY, Esq. F.S.A. July 19. At his residence in the Newarke, Leicester, aged 55, John Stockdale Hardy, esq. F.S.A. Registrar of the Archdeaconry Courts of Leicester. Mr. Hardy was descended on the paternal side from a family of respectable freeholders long resident at Gaddesby in the county of Leicester; and on that of his mother from the Stockdales and the Harrisons, who were his predecessors in his official functions. He was born at Leicester on the 7th Oct. 1793, the only child of Mr. William Hardy, a respectable manufacturer in that town, and was on his mother's side the nephew of William Harrison, esq. proctor, and Registrar of the Archdeaconry Court of Leicester, to which office he succeeded on the death of his uncle; and it is worthy of remark, that Mr. Harrison was himself the successor of his own maternal uncle, John Stockdale, esq. from whom the subject of the present memoir derived his Christian name. Mr. Stockdale Hardy received his education under the late Mr. Marsh, then, and for many years, master GENT. MAG. VOL. XXXII. : of a flourishing private school at Leicester. At about the age of 14 he was placed in his uncle's office, and having gone through the usual routine of clerkship, he was in due time admitted as a Proctor and Notary Public-in other words, a practitioner in the Ecclesiastical Courts of England. In that branch of the law, Mr. Hardy practised during the whole of his life and not only practised, but so deeply studied the principles and science of his profession, that it is not saying too much to aver that there were few men in the country of more sound and accomplished erudition in that department of jurisprudence. In addition to his professional practice, Mr. Hardy assisted his uncle in his official duties, and on the death of the latter in 1826, he was appointed to succeed him in his several Ecclesiastical Offices of Registrar of the Archdeaconry Court of Leicester, Registrar of the Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of Lincoln, and Registrar of the Court of the Peculiar and Exempt Jurisdiction of the Manor and Soke of Rothley. He also held the offices of Registrar of the Court of the Peculiar of Evington, and of the Prebendal Court of St. Margaret in Leicester, in both of which he was the successor of the late Beaumont Burnaby, esq. All these appointments Mr. Hardy retained up to the time of his death. The retrospect of Mr. Hardy's life affords one of the many bright examples of the effect of voluntary study and spontaneous mental culture, aided only by a natural quickness of talent, but with no groundwork of imparted learning beyond the rudimental instruction afforded by an establishment which scarcely aspired to the rank of a classical school. He had hardly emerged from boyhood, when his natural genius and self-taught knowledge acquired for him the distinction as a literary character, which he retained to the last hour of his life. His talent, we have said, was quick and lively. It was also versatile, as were his acquirements. In poetry and general English literature his taste was correct, and his knowledge extensive and accurate. From an early age he sacrificed occasionally to the Muses, for the gratification of a passing hour, and some of his early effusions found a place in this Miscellany. We have seen a song by him sung at a meeting of the Pitt Club, which was set to music by Mr. Clifton. As a prose writer, his style was fluent and easy, and in soundness of argument, as well as solidity and accuracy of information, he showed himself capable of taking a high rank amongst the essayists of the day. To the Leicester Journal he contributed a series of 3 K papers under the signature of "Britannicus," which extended over a period of about twelve years, from the year 1820, during which the eventful struggle of Catholic Emancipation was in progress, and after the first-fruits of it had been reaped in the dismemberment of the Conservative party. Without a spark of personal rancour, Mr. Hardy was a firm, consistent, and conscientious opponent of the Roman Catholic claims, and was in frequent and confidential communication with the late Lord Eldon, and other leading champions of the Protestant cause. In politics, Mr. Hardy was a staunch Conservative; but here again, as in his religious opinions, he was free from personal animosity, and was one of those, of whom we trust there are many in the ranks of both parties, who combine the most zealous and uncompromising support of their own views with kind and friendly feeling towards their equally zealous opponents. In private life, he will be long remembered as a cordial and warm-hearted friend amongst his equals, and a charitable benefactor towards his poorer neighbours. His conversational powers were of a high order, and he had the somewhat rare capacity of adapting them to familiar intercourse with persons of every rank in life. A cheerful and social disposition, with an inexhaustible fund of anecdote, as well as shrewd observation on passing events, made his society generally acceptable as an agreeable and an entertaining companion. We are scarcely prepared at present to enumerate the literary productions of Mr. Stockdale Hardy: but we can state that in the early part of his literary career he was a frequent correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine, his first contribution to which, on the author of "The Beggar's Petition," appeared in the number for August 1809. His distinct publications were as follow: A Letter to a Country Surrogate, containing a Summary of the Laws relating to Marriage Licences, and Suggestions as to the line of conduct advisable to be pursued in granting those instruments. 1818. 8vo. The Character of the late Very Rev. Robert Boucher Nickolls, LL.B. Dean of Middleham, &c. &c. Extracted from the Gentleman's Magazine for March 1816, with some Additions. 1819. 8vo. pp. 24. A Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, upon the Motion of Earl Grey for a Repeal of the Declaration against Transubstantiation. Thoughts on Dr. Phillimore's proposed Alterations in the Marriage Act, A series of Letters, addressed to a friend upon the Roman Catholic Question. By Britannicus. 1820. 8vo. A Letter addressed to the Right Hon. the Earl of Eldon, Lord High Chancellor, &c. upon the Marriage Act Amendment Bill. 1822. 8vo. An Attempt to appropriate a Monument in Trinity Hospital, Leicester, to the Countess of Derby, Mother of King Henry the Fifth: with some account of the Castle and Newarke of Leicester. 1836. 8vo. (Reviewed in our vol. V. p. 518.) These essays, together with such other of his published and unpublished papers as may be thought desirable, Mr. Hardy has directed by his will to be printed, under the editorship of Mr. John Gough Nichols, in a volume to be entitled "The Remains of John Stockdale Hardy, F.S.A. sometime Registrar of the Archdeaconry Courts of Leicester." Mr. Stockdale Hardy married, in 1827, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late, and sister of the then Thomas Leach, esq. of the Newarke, Leicester. She died childless in the year 1838. He has left a considerable amount of real and personal property, which he distributed by his will amongst his numerous collateral relations. The mortal remains of this much re spected gentleman were consigned to their last resting place, in the Chancel of St. Mary's Church, Leicester, on the 24th July. The pall was borne by the Venerable Archdeacon Bonney, the Rev R. Burnaby, the Rev. J. Davies, Roger Miles, esq. T. Cradock, esq. of Loughborough, and W. Latham, esq. of Melton. The service was performed by the Revs. J. Wing and J. Dixon in a very solemn and impressive manner. Mr. Hardy had ever been the firm and consistent friend of the poor stockingers of Leicester, and, as a mark of regard to his memory on their part, a large congregation of framework-knitters walked in procession to meet the funeral at the church. Mr. Noble was born on the 22nd of November, 1796, at the Mill House, near Coldstream, in Berwickshire, a farm held for many years by his father, Mr. William Noble, who there brought up a family of 15 children. The subject of our notice, like many of his shrewd and enterprising countrymen, early left Scotland to seek his fortune, and at the age of 18 came to London, where he soon obtained a situation in a leading commercial house in the city, and long remained in it as head and managing clerk. He then became a general merchant, and by his intelligence and energy amassed at an early period of life a considerable fortune, much of which, however, he afterwards lost in endeavouring to assist a branch of his family in Wales. At the time of his death he was partner with a brother, Mr. William Noble, in a very extensive business, and enjoyed a high character for integrity in the mercantile world. But he had another circle beyond this in which he moved. In the busiest periods of his life he always contrived to devote some hours each day to study, and found his chief delight in books and in the society of those who had profited by them. He had a great love also for the fine arts, increased by journeys in Italy, and had formed a valuable collection of paintings and books. "I have been lying here,' he said to the writer of this notice, a few days before his death, "several months incapable of looking at a book, but I have been able to fall back on my memory of them, and have found therein solace and delight." Mr. Noble was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a member of the Archæological Institute, and an active member of the council of the Art Union of London: he was also for a short time on the committee of the Literary Fund Society, a member of the Antiquaries' Club, and of that of the Noviomagians. A large amount of general knowledge, and a continued flow of good spirits made him a cheerful and welcome companion to all, while his real kindness of heart endeared him to those who knew him better. The last few days of his life were saddened by the death of his brother, Mr. William Noble, who was carried off in a few hours by cholera. His brother's widow has since also fallen a victim to the same mysterious disease: the three were swept away within a month! He bore his own illness, of eight months' duration, with exemplary patience and submission to the Divine Will, and died, as he said, "without a regret." He was buried in Kensall Green Cemetery, on the 19th of July. WILLIAM ADAMS, ESQ. Aug. 7. At Cambridge, aged 73, William Adams, esq. By the demise of Mr. Adams the various charitable institutions of his neighbourhood have lost an active and powerful supporter-a cheerful and a willing giver. The following list of benefactions enjoined by Mr. Adams in his will affords some clue to the channels in which his charity was directed in his lifetime, but there were in addition many others which will miss his helping hand to a very great extent:-Foreign Baptist Missionary Society, 200/.; Church Missionary Society, Wesleyan Missionary Society, Moravian Missionary Society, London Missionary Society, each 1007.; British and Foreign Bible Society, 2007.; Bristol, Bradford, and Stepney Baptist Academies, each 2007.; Addenbrooke's Hospital, 2007.; Friendly Benefit Society, 507.; Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Benefit Society, 501.; Cambridge Union Friendly Benefit Society, 501.; Religious Tract Society, 501.; Cambridge Auxiliary Tract Society, 197. 198. ; Old Lying-in Society, 197. 198.; Baptist Congregation, Landbeach, 1007.; clothing the poor of Cambridge, 3007.; Dissenting Sunday School at Coton,* 2001.; Poor at Barton,* 2007.; St. Anthony and Eligius Almshouses, 2007.; Cambridge Female Refuge, 2007.; Victoria Asylum,* 2007. ; Mechanics' Institute, 507.; Disabled Ministers Fund, 1007.; Baptist Home Missionary Society, 2007.; Baptist Irish Society, 50%.; Cambridge British School, 1007.; to thirty inmates of various almshouses, 57. each, 150l. (All except those with an asterisk duty free.) Mr. Adams has left a large number of complimentary legacies, besides a number of others to objects of his former munificence; for instance, he had at various periods paid the premiums requisite for the apprenticeship of four boys to various trades; to each of these he has left 50%. His private charities to individuals in his lifetime are known but to the recipients, for it was his custom, and he observed most studiously the maxim, "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand giveth." His body was attended by a long train of the inhabitants of Cambridge to the General Cemetery on the Histon road. MR. WILLIAM SPENCE. July 6. At Liverpool, aged 56, Mr. William Spence, sculptor, and professor of drawing in the Antique School of the Liverpool Academy. He was born at Chester, and at an early age evinced a decided predilection for the fine arts. His first studies were at Liverpool, under Mr. Pether, a wood carver and teacher of drawing, and at this period he made the acquaintance of Gibson, the eminent sculptor, who assisted him in getting into the establishment of Messrs. Franceys, where he soon distinguished himself as a draughtsman and modelist. Mr. Roscoe, and others in the literary and intellectual circles of Liverpool, were at tracted by the display of his powers, and the productions of this his youthful period are described as being very beautiful. But he went not to Italy, like his com→ panion Gibson, and became a partner in Franceys' house; in which occupation, though immersed in business, he nevertheless adhered to his love for the sculptor's art, and regularly contributed to the exhibitions of the Liverpool Academy, of which he was not only one of the oldest and most esteemed members, but, as the successor of Mr. Mosses the portrait painter, professor of drawing in the Antique School. CLERGY DECEASED. Aug. 1. At the vicarage, St. Paul's, near Penzance, aged 70, the Rev. William Oben Gurney, M.A. Rector of Aston Bottrell, Salop, and for 47 years Curate of the former parish. He was presented to his living in 1823 by the Duke of Cleveland. Aug. 2. At Creech St. Michael, near Taunton, aged 63, the Rev. Henry Creswell, Vicar of that parish. He was the fourth son of Thomas Estcourt Creswell, esq. many years M.P. for Cirencester, by his second wife, Miss Gregory, of Sherston, Wilts. He was instituted to the vicarage of Creech St. Michael in 1813. Aug. 3. At Norwich, aged 73, the Rev. James Browne Tompson, LL.B. Vicar of Shropham, Perpetual Curate of Tompson, and Chaplain to the Court of Guardians in Norwich. He was of Caius college, Cambridge, LL.B. 1799; was presented to the vicarage of Shropham in 1801 by the Corporation of Norwich; appointed Chaplain to the Court of Guardians in 1814, and presented to the chapelry of Tompson in 1816. At Clifton, in his 28th year, the Rev. George Hickes, Curate of one of the newly formed districts at Devonport; son of the late Dr. Hickes, of Brook-street, Bath. He was staying at Clifton for the benefit of his health, and whilst walking on the rocks some 200 feet above the Avon, accidentally fell down the precipice, probably from the slipperiness of the turf, and was killed on the spot. Aug. 8. At Southampton, aged 42, the Rev. John Henry Buxton, M.A. Vicar of Britford, near Salisbury: to which he was presented in Jan. 1842 by the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. Aug. 11. At Dover, aged 49, the Rev. William Casaubon Purdon, Vicar of Loxley, Warwickshire. He was the second son of the late William Casaubon Purdon, esq. of Tinerana, co. Clare, a Major in the 7th Dragoon Guards, by Deborah, eldest daughter of Michael Head, esq. of Derry, co. Tipperary, and niece to Henry first Lord Dunalley. He was presented to the vicarage of Loxley by the Lord Chancellor in 1837. He married July 17, 1838, Augusta- Louisa, only child of the Rev. George Augustus Tavel, and granddaughter of Augustus-Henry 3d Duke of Grafton. At the Hague, aged 47, the Rev. Thomas Tyrwhitt, M.A. Prebendary of Salisbury, and incumbent of Winterborne Whitchurch and Turnworth, Dorsetshire. He was collated to these small livings in 1830, and previously to the prebend in 1828, by the late Bishop Burgess, who thus repaid his own early obligations to Thomas Tyrwhitt, the well-known scholar and critic. The subject of this notice was of Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated there in honours, B. A. in 1823, and M.A. in 1826, having been ordained at Cambridge in the interval. He had lately effected very great improvements in the church at Whitchurch. Having left home on Monday, 6th August, on a short visit to some relations at Brussels, he unhappily chose the route by Holland, and having stayed one clear day with a brother in London, landed at Rotterdam on the 9th. He arrived at the Hague in the afternoon of the 10th, having that day felt pain on his journey; and there, after about eight hours' suffering from Asiatic cholera, expired at three A.M. on Saturday the 11th. In the short intervals of pain he resigned himself to his Maker in fervent prayer, supported by the ministration of the Rev. G. A. Baker, acting chaplain to the English Embassy. His remains were interred in the cemetery near the town, Mr. Baker officiating; but none of his family received the sad news in time to attend. Mr. Tyrwhitt was born at Stanleyhall, Shropshire, in 1802, the second son of the late Richard Tyrwhitt, esq. (afterwards of Nantyr, Denbighshire, Recorder of Chester, see our Obituary of 1836), and married, in 1837, Margaretta, daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Bridges, Vicar of Henstridge, Somersetshire. By this lady he had eight children, seven of whom, with their amiable mother, survive to lament him. DEATHS. LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. July 29. In Gower-st. James Gunning Plunkett, esq. of Clooneagh, co. Ros common. July 30. In Kennington-road, aged 40, Anne, wife of William Thomas, esq. Pay. master and Purser R.N. eldest dau. of the late Thomas Seacombe, esq. surgeon, Betley, Staff. Aug. 3. In Cambridge-terr. Hyde Park, Philip Windsor, esq. R.N. Aug. 4. At Knightsbridge, aged 27, Caroline-Editha, eldest dau. of T. Potter Macqueen, esq. Eliza, wife of James Leach, esq. of South Lambeth. |