time, he commenced his "History of the Russell Family." On this, as well as his "Tasso," he bestowed the application of several years; and the same result was produced, viz. a fulness, a richness of polish, and a mass of recondite illustrations. He personally searched the most curious records of Normandy; and has succeeded in establishing for this family a high and ancient origin, having traced them to heathen chiefs three hundred years previous to the conquering Rollo; thence accompanied them in their distinguished stations in Neustria, and related their exploits in the Crusades; and subsequently brought them with William to 66 merry England." Their history, up to the present time, is enriched with many curious documents, not only of immediate interest to one connected with the family, but having a very extensive bearing upon the general history of England (see our review of the work in vol. cII. ii. 136.)

One feature of Mr. Wiffen's mind was an interest in the lineaments of hoar antiquity-a lingering respect for " the days of old, and the years that are past.” İn fact, this quality is almost inseparable from a mind of any thought and tenderness. He had some skill in architectural, feudal, and ballad lore; and in a pedestrian excursion which he once made to the Lakes, &c. brought back several sketches of ancient relics. In addition to the accomplishment of a draughtsman, he possessed considerable taste for music; he had some knowledge of astronomy and botany, and was a tolerable though not perfect classical scholar. He had also studied Hebrew; and, latterly, gave his attention to Welsh, from which he translated some of the Triads" and pieces of the old bards. The happiest is entitled, "To the Cuckoo, in the Vale of Cuag," by Llywarch Hen.

Mr. Wiffen, after having been by no means unacquainted with the speculations of various theorists, settled in a firm and cheerful belief in Christianity. He returned to the place from which he had started, but which he had not lost sight of; esteeming it the best on which to build his tower of rest and observation of the skies, and the most satisfactory for the foot of erring and wearied man to repose in. He was also an enlightened student of natural religion. An admirer of all that was beautiful in the magazines of creation, he cordially turned to the contemplation of that "unseen Almighty" who is not far from any one of us. one period of his life he had an inclination to take a degree at one of the universities; but he subsequently attached himself more closely to the sentiments of his own Society, in which he held an office of

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trust. But he was a very liberal man. The caustic asperity of a Howitt was very alien to the milder spirit of Wiffen. He had a great respect for the Established Church, and was an admirer of its choral services-those beautiful and soothing things, which are alike pleasing in cheerfulness and grief, and almost always improving to the heart; and which, we trust, will long survive the acerbity of a Lord Mountcashell, and others of that class, which Chateaubriand has, with curious felicity, designated as "cold enthusiasts."

The distinguishing feature of Mr. Wiffen's mind was suavity; and it is his highest praise that this will always be the leading circumstance of recollection amongst his friends.

Though not precisely holding the office of almoner, he was always ready to point out cases of merit in distress to the answering hand of the Duke of Bedford. His counsel was always diligently given when he thought it might serve; and he took much interest in furthering the career of younger and more inexperienced authors. His friendship and kindness of heart always shone pre-eminently in his epistolary correspondence.

On the night of his death Mr. Wiffen retired to bed in perfect health and spirits, but in a few minutes he was a corpse, leaving an amiable wife and three chil dren to mourn his premature death. His sister is the wife of Mr. Alaric A. Watts, another distinguished poet, and herself well known by her elegant writings, and as the editress of the "Juvenile ForgetMe-Not."

MR. SERJEANT FRERE.

May 25. At Downing College, Cambridge, aged 60, William Frere, Esq. D. C. L. of Dungate,* Cambridgeshire, Serjeant-at-Law, and Master of Downing College, Cambridge.

Serjeant Frere was the 5th, but 4th surviving son of John Frere, Esq. (M.P. for Norwich, 1799) of Roydon, in Norfolk, and of Finningham, in Suffolk, and Jane, his wife, daughter and heiress of John Hookham, Esq. of Beddington, in Surrey, and was born 28th Nov. 1775. His eldest brother is the present Rt. Hon. John Hookham Frere, and Bartholomew is the 6th son.

He was educated at Eton, and afterwards admitted of Trinity college, Cam

* Dungate is the name of a farm in the parish of Swaffham Bulbeck, belongs to Downing College, upon which Mr. Serjeant Frere laid out some money in repairs, by which he built a room for musick.

bridge, where he passed a highly distinguished academical career, as did his brother Bartholomew. He obtained Sir William Browne's medal for the Greek Ode in 1796, and for the Epigrams in that year and the following; in 1796 he was also elected Craven scholar; in 1798 he took his bachelor's degree as fifth Senior Optime, and obtained the Chancellor's medal; and in 1800 he was elected Fellow of Downing College. He proceeded M. A. 1801, D.C.L. by Royal Mandate, May 27, 1825, and was admitted ad eundem in the University of Oxford in 1834.

The inscription on Nelson's Monument on Yarmouth Denes, is said to have been written by Serjeant Frere.

On the 28th May, 1802, he was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn; and in Easter term 1809 he became a Serjeant-at-Law. He was one of the Chairmen of the Norfolk General Quarter Sessions.

In 1812 he was elected Master of Downing College, and in 1819 he officiated as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

He was chosen Recorder of Bury, Suffolk, in 1814, which he resigned in 1826, when he retired from the Bar.

Mr. Serjeant Frere married, May 4th, 1810, Mary, the only daughter of Brampton Gurdon Dillingham, Esq. of Letton, Norfolk, and Grundisburgh, Suffolk, and half-sister to the present Theophilus Thornhaugh Gurdon, Esq. by her he had a family of six or seven children.

Serjeant Frere, though no doubt a sound lawyer, was by no means a good orator. He always seemed at a loss for words to express his ideas, and was therefore hesitating, and very slow. See an Epigram on this subject in Frazer's Mag. for Jan. 1833, p. 46.

Of other members of this family the following notices occur to us;-James Hatley Frere, 7th son of John Frere, esq. is the author of a combined View of the Prophecies of Daniel, Esdras, and St. John, 1815, 8vo.-The Rev. Temple Frere, the 8th son, was of Trin. Coll.

Camb. eighth Junior Optime, 1802, Rector of Roydon, Norf. and Chaplain to the House of Commons. Of Mr Frere's two daughters, Jane, the eldest, married Sir John Orde, Bart.

NATHAN DRAKE, M.D.

June 7. At Hadleigh, Suffolk, aged 70, Nathan Drake, M.D. a Honorary Associate of the Royal Society of Literature, &c. &c.

Few families have furnished more names to the catalogue of authors than that of Drake, during the last and the previous centuries.*

Dr. Nathan Drake was brother to the late Richard Drake, esq. of York, and was born in that city on the 15th Jan.. 1766.

He graduated at Edinburgh in 1789; and, after a short residence at Billericay, in Essex, and at Sudbury, in Suffolk, finally settled as a physician, at Hadleigh, in the latter county, in 1792, where he practised forty-four years.

In 1807, Dr. Drake married Miss Rose, of Brettenham, in Suffolk, by whom he had several children; three of them died young, and lie buried in Hadleigh churchyard.

The walk of literature adopted by Dr. Drake was that of light essays, and ingenious illustrations of our standard literature; though his first attempt as an author was a medical treatise, published while he was a resident at Edinburgh. His later contributions to that science consist of papers in different medical periodicals. Of his literary works, by which his name is more generally known, the following is a correct list:

The Speculator; a Periodical Paper, written in conjunction with Dr. Edward Ash. 8vo. 1790.

Poems. 4to. 1793.

Literary Hours. First edition, 1 vol. 8vo. 1798. 4th edition, 3 vols. 8vo. 1820.

Essays illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian. 3 vols. 8vo. 1805. Second edition, 1812.

Essays illustrative of the Rambler, Ad

venturer, Idler, and other periodical papers, to the year 1809. 2 vols. 8vo. 1809.

The Gleaner; a Series of Periodical Essays, selected from authors not included in the British Essayists. 4 vols. 8vo, 1811.

Shakespeare and his Times, including the Biography of that Poet; criticisms on his Genius; a new Chronology of his Plays; a Disquisition on the object of his Sonnets; and a a History of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements, Superstitions, Poetry, and elegant Literature of his age. 1817. 2 vols. 4to. Reviewed (by the late Archdeacon Nares) in Gent. Mag. vol. LXXXVIII. ii. 241, 334.

Winter Nights. 2 vols. 8vo. 1820. Evenings in Autumn; a series of Essays, narrative and miscellaneous. 1822. 2 vols. 8vo. (See Gent. Mag. XCII. i. 522.)

Noontide Leisure. 2 vols. 8vo. 1824. Mornings in Spring. 2 vols. 8vo. 1828.

Memorials of Shakespeare. 1828.

In addition to the above, Dr. Drake has left a MS. ready for the press :"A Selected Version of the Psalms, with copious Notes and Illustrations ;" which will be published by his family. Of these works, the fourth, fifth, and seventh on our list display much re finement of taste, and industry of research. The papers illustrative of our periodical essayists are at once amusing and interest. ing, from the variety of information they afford, touching that popular department of our national literature; and the "History of Shakespeare and his Times," throws much light on the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of that age.

The papers contained in the last eight volumes of Essays, from the "Winter Nights," to the "Mornings in Spring," inclusive, are of a very miscellaneous character, critical, narrative, biographical, and descriptive. They are pleasing and elegant in their style, and evince no inconsiderable delicacy and discrimination of taste, unvarying kindness of heart, and purity of moral feeling. Their most striking characteristics are, perhaps, grace and amenity, rather than force or originality. The amiable character of their author is, in fact, impressed on all his productions; and in that character, as developed and displayed in his writings, exists their greatest charm. As an author, and as a man, Dr. Drake was kindness, courtesy and candour, personified. In his criticism, he seemed only to look at what was beautiful or pleasing; and in his

intercourse with his fellow creatures, bis candour and charity were equally conspicuous. It may, indeed, be said of him with perfect truth, that in a professional and literary career of near half a century, amid all the turmoils of party strife and contentious rivalry, he so "pursued the even tenor of his way," as never to have lost, by estrangement, a single friend, or made one enemy.

As a medical practitioner, he was deservedly respected and esteemed by his professional brethren for his courtesy and skill; and yet more endeared to all whom he attended by the urbanity of his manners, and the unaffected kindness of his heart. The former was so uniform towards all persons and on all occasions, yet so cordial, that even the extreme of politeness in him seemed his very nature ; for the overflowing benevolence in which it originated was an ample pledge of its sincerity.

Some lines by Bernard Barton "to Nathan Drake, M.D., on reading the first paper in his Winter Nights," will be found in Gent. Mag. xc. ii. 65.

MRS. MACLEllan.

June 5. At Richmond, Mrs. Frances Maclellan, the authoress of "Sketches of Corfu," "Evenings Abroad," &c.

This lady, although only in her twentyeighth year, bad experienced many vicissitudes and afflictions of life. She travelled for some time as governess in the family of Bishop Heber. Circumstances afterwards induced her to go to Corfu, as instructress to the children of a distinguished family; and, during her residence there, she occupied her leisure in collecting materials for a work, which was published, and attained a very deserved popularity. On her return from Corfu, an attachment was formed between herself and an officer in his Majesty's Navy, to whom she was eventually united. Three weeks afterwards he was ordered to join his ship, to proceed to Malta, and in a few months she sailed from Falmouth to rejoin him. On the passage a vessel was met, the captain of which informed her of the death of her beloved husband, who had sunk under an attack of brain fever of three days' duration. This shock to her feelings, conveyed in the most guarded manner, was too great for even time to remove; and although naturally of a cheerful disposition, yet, in secret, a deep and settled melancholy was the consequence.

The cause that removed her from this world was the return of a cancerous affection in the lower jaw, for which, some time ago, she underwent a long and painful operation. After many means had been tried, the insidious disease still

gained ground, the pain of which she endured with a truly Christian fortitude, when death released her from extreme suffering in this world, for one of joy and peace.

MRS. ANDREE.

July 17.
In Trevor-square, Knights-
bridge, in her 93d year, Mrs. Mary
Andree.

This venerable lady was the only child of William Umfreville, of Hornsey, esq. by his wife, Mary Weld.

By her father she was lineally descended from Robert Umfreville, Earl of Angos and Baron Prudhou, who was descended from Richard Umfreville, Baron Prudhou, by a daughter of Ingleram Baliol, and which Richard was descended from Robert Umfreville, Lord of Tours and Vian, and who King William the Conqueror in his grant to him of the Lordship of Redesdale, in Northumberland, denominated his beloved kinsman.

Robert Umfreville, the grandson of Earl Robert, married Margaret, the sister of Harry Hotspur, whose father, the first Earl of Northumberland, afterwards married Matilda de Lucy, the widow of Gilbert Umfreville, Earl of Angus, the father of that Robert Umfreville.

By her mother, Mary Weld, she was descended from the Welds of Eaton and West Aston, who were also ancestors of the Welds of Lulworth Castle, and who were descended from Edric, the Duke of Mercia, by Edith, the daughter of King Etheldred.

She first married Edward Lake Pickering, esq. of Tichmarsh, in Northamptonshire, by whom she had several children, two only of whom survive her, Lake and Edward-Rowland Pickering, Esqrs.; and, secondly, George Andree, esq. by whom she had no issue, and whom she survived many years.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Aged 65, the Rev. John Segrave, Rector of Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, and of Westcote Barton, Oxfordshire. He was the son of the Rev. Edward Seagrave of Oxhill, Warw., was matriculated in 1788 of Worcester college, Oxford, graduated B.A. 1792, M. A. 1795, was presented to Castle Ashby in 1805, by the Marquis of Northampton, and instituted to Westcote Barton in 1813, on his own petition.

May 20. At Northiam, Sussex, aged 75, the Rev. Henry Lord, D.D. Rector of that parish and of Barfreston, Kent. He was the son of the Rev. William Lord, of Northiam, was educated at Merchant-taylors' school, and thence elected a scholar of St. John's college, Oxford, in 1778; became actual fellow in 1781, and graduated B. A. 1782, M.A. and B.D. 1792, D.D. 1801. In Jan. 1783, he was appointed Third Undermaster of Merchant-taylors' school; in July, 1785, Second Undermaster; and continued in the latter office until July, 1796. In 1801 he was presented by his college to the rectory of Barfreston, and in 1813 to that of Northiam, which was in the patronage of his own family.

May 21. At Chorley-wood, Herts, aged 52, the Rev. Robert Coningham, of Rosehill, in the same county.

May 29. At Ideford, Devonshire, the Rev. George Heywood, Rector of that parish. He was of Jesus coll. Camb. B.A. 1804; and was presented to his living in 1811, by trustees of his own family.

At Market Lavington, Wiltshire, aged 65, the Rev. George Rogers, M.A., Vicar of that parish. He was the son of the Rev. John Rogers, of Leeke, Staffordshire; was matriculated of Christchurch, Oxford, in 1790; graduated B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796; became Chaplain to that Society, and received his living from the Dean and Chapter, in 1805.

At St. Omer's, aged 77, the Rev. Richard Sandilands, LL.D. Minister of the English church at that place, and

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Rector of Turnaston, Herefordshire. He was of Sidney-Sussex coll. Camb.

June 8. At Sandford, Devonshire, aged 49, the Rev. Hugh Bent, Perpetual Curate of that chapelry, and Rector of Jacobstow and High Bray. He was of Exeter coll. Oxford, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813; and was presented to all his churches in the following year; to Sandford by the trustees of the Crediton charity, to Jacobstow by L. Burton, esq. and to High Bray by T. P. Acland, esq.

June 9. At Hereford, in consequence of jumping from his carriage whilst the horse was at full speed, aged 55, the Rev. Charles Taylor, D. D. Chancellor of the diocese of Hereford, a Prebendary of the Cathedral Church, Vicar of Almeley and of Madley with Tibberton. He was the only child of the late Mr. John Taylor, of Holywell, Oxford; was matriculated of Balliol college in 1796, and afterwards held an exhibition in that society. He graduated B.A. 1800, M. A. 1807, B. and D.D. 1822. He was for several years Master of Hereford school, which situation he lately resigned, and was succeeded by his son, the Rev. John Taylor, M.A.; also a Prebendary of Hereford. He was collated to the prebend of Moreton Magna by Bp. Ryder in 1820; presented to the vicarage of Madley by the Dean and Chapter in 1823, appointed to the Chancellorship in 1825 by Bp. Bethell; and collated to the vicarage of Almeley by the same patron, in 1830.

June 11. At the parsonage, Over Whitacre, Warw. aged 27, the Rev. Edward Bagnall, M. A.eldest son of Mr. Edward Bagnall, of Smethwick, near Birmingham. He was of Magdalen hall, Oxf. B. A. 1829, M.A. 1831.

June 12. At Blandford, in his 40th year, the Rev. George William John Chard, M.A. Vicar of that parish. He was the last surviving son of Dr. Chard, of Winchester (the death of whose youngest son, not four weeks before, is recorded in p. 108).

At Thrapston, Northamptonshire, aged 75, the Rev. William Lockwood Maydwell. He was the son of the Rev. William Lockwood, of Fifield, Essex; was matriculated under that name at Oriel college, Oxford, in 1779, and afterwards assumed the name of Maydwell.

June 13. At Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, aged 35, the Rev. James Thomas Du Boulay, Rector of Heddington, Wilts. He was matriculated of Exeter college, Oxford, in 1820; took his degree of B. A. in 1822, was elected Fellow of Exeter in 1823, proceeded M. A. 1824; and was presented to the rectory of Heddington in 1831.

June 17. At Stonham Aspal, Suffolk, aged 72, the Rev. Thomas Methold, Rec

tor of that parishand Wetheringsett, and a Prebendary of Norwich, an active magistrate for the county, and many years Chairman of the Quarter Sessions. He was the son of Thomas Methold, esq. of London; was matriculated of Trinity college Oxford, in 1781, and took the degree of B.C L. in 1787. He was instituted to Stonham Aspal in 1789, to Wetheringsett in 1791, and collated to his prebendal stall in 1804, by the late Archbishop Manners Sutton, then Bishop of Norwich.

June 27. Aged 67, the Rev. William Whitelock, Rector of Sulhamstead Abbas with Bannister, Berks. He was a native of Kendal in Westmorland; was matriculated in 1789 as of Queen's college, Oxford, graduated B.A. 1793, M. A. 1797, was elected Fellow of Queen's, and was presented to his united churches by that Society in 1822.

July 14. At Wroxenby, near Scarborough, the Rev. Thomas Turner Roe, Rector of Swerford. Mr. Roe entered at Trinity College, Oxford, at the age of 16, Jan. 1806, and was matriculated as the eldest son of William Turner, Esq. of Whitchurch in Shropshire. He took the Degree of B.A. (as Mr. Turner) Feb. 1, 1810, and afterwards changed his name to Roe, upon the acquisition of some landed property. He became M. A. March 16, 1814. In 1834 he exchanged the living of Beddington Lincolnshire, with the Rev. Mr. Swann, for the Rectory of Swerford, with the consent of the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, the patrons.

Lately. At Clifton, near York, aged 77, the Rev. James Britton, D.D. Vicar of Bossall with Sand Hutton Curacy, Flaxon Curacy, and Buttercrambe Curacy, Yorkshire, and Vicar of East Acklam, Yorkshire. Dr. Britton was educated at Christ Church; was matriculated 1777, being then 17; proceeded B.A. 1781; M.A. 1784; and B. and D.D. 1819.

The Rev. Edward Bagnall, M.A. of Magdalen Hall, and Incumbent of Over Whiteacre, Warwickshire. He took the Degree of B.A. 1829; and of M. A. 1831.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

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May 13. In Upper Grosvenor-st. General George Milner. He was appointed Ensign in the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1776, Lieut. and Capt. 1778, Capt. and Lt. Col. 1793. He served in 'Flanders in 1793, and was at every action in which the Guards were engaged in 1794. received the brevet of Colonel 1796, and the rank of Major-General 1801. He served on the Staff in Jersey from Feb. 1800 to Jan. 1802, and on the Staff of England from the latter date until he received the rank of Lt.-General in April