bar, &c. &c. Among the numerous company present were-Lord Panmure, Lord John Frederick Gordon Hallyburton, the Hon. Captain Ogilvy, the Hon. William Ogilvy of Fearn, Colonel Sir Charles Hopkinson, C.B., Mr. Lindsay Carnegie of Spynie and Boysack, Mr. Carnegy of Craigo, Mr. Carnegy Arbuthnot of Balnamoon, Colonel Swinburne of Marcus, Mr. Guthrie of Guthrie, Mr. Hay Pierson of the Guynd, Mr. Rait of Anniston, Mr. James A. Campbell, younger, of Shacathro, the Provost of Brechin, the Rev. Messrs. Stuart of Oathlaw, Myles of Aberlemno, Halkett of Brechin, Gardner of Brechin, Foote of Brechin, &c. &c.

HENRY AGLIONBY AGLIONBY, Esq. M.P. July 31. At the manor-house, Caterham, Surrey, in his 65th year, Henry Aglionby Aglionby, esq. of Nunnery, co. Cumberland, M.P. for the borough of Cockermouth, and a barrister-at-law.

Mr. Aglionby was born on the 28th Dec. 1790, son of the Rev. Samuel Bateman, of Newbiggen-hall, Cumberland, Rector of Farthingstone, co. Northampton, by Anne, daughter of Henry Aglionby, esq. of Nunnery, and Anne, fourth daughter of Sir Christopher Musgrave, Bart. of Edenhall. His uncle Christopher Aglionby, esq., the last male heir of that ancient family, having died unmarried in 1785, the family estates were divided, by a decree in Chancery, between his four sisters. The name of Aglionby was assumed in 1822 by Francis, son of the youngest sister by her husband John Orfeur Yates, esq., of Skirwith Abbey, Cumberland. Major Francis Aglionby died in 1840, being then one of the members for the eastern division of Cumberland; and a memoir of him will be found in our vol. XIV. p. 325. His only son having died in 1834, the estates of Nunnery, &c. devolved on the subject of this notice.

He

Mr. Bateman had previously (before 1813) assumed the name and arms of Aglionby, in compliance with the testamentary injunction of one of his aunts. was a member of St. John's college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816. He was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn June 28, 1816; he practised as a special pleader, and went the Northern circuit.

He was first elected to Parliament for Cockermouth after the enactment of Reform in 1832, when the candidates, who all professed Liberal politics, were ranged on the poll as follows:

He

He married first on the 2nd May 1816 his cousin Mary-Neville, eldest daughter of John Reed, esq. of Chipchase castle; she died on the 2nd Sept. following. married secondly, Aug. 26th, 1820, Elizabeth, second daughter and coheiress of John Hunter, esq. of the Hermitage, Northumberland; by whom he had surviving issue four sons and three daughters. The former were: 1, Lancelot-JohnHunter, of the 13th Light Dragoons; 2, James; 3, George; 4, William-Isaac. The latter: 1, Elizabeth-Martha, married in 1840, to Henry Eyre, esq. Major 98th regt.; 2, Anne-Jane; 3, Isabella.

THOMAS MEYNELL, ESQ.

July 19. Thomas Meynell, esq. of Kilvington hall and the Fryerage, co. York, and of Hartlepool, co. Durham, a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant of the North Riding, and a magistrate for Durham.

This gentleman was of an ancient Roman Catholic family. In 1803 he raised a corps of Volunteers, consisting of three companies of infantry, which he commanded with the rank of Major. In 1825 he laid, as chairman of the company of proprietors, the first rail of the Stockton

and Darlington Railway, the first public road of that description constructed in the country. He built Kilvington hall in 1836.

He married, Aug. 23, 1804, TheresaMary, eldest daughter of John Wright, esq. of Kelvedon hall, Essex, by whom he had issue four sons and two daughters. The former were: 1. Thomas Meynell, esq. his son and heir, who married in 1841 Jane, eldest daughter of W. Mauleverer, esq. of Arncliff hall; 2. Edward Meynell, esq. barrister-at-law, of Lincoln's Inn, who married in 1840 Katharine, daughter of Joseph Michael, esq. of Stanford; she died in 1841, leaving one son ; 3. Hugo-George, who died in 1828, aged fifteen; and 4. Edgar-John.

W. L. G. BAGSHAWE, ESQ. July 20. At Wormhill Hall, co. Derby, in his 26th year, William Leonard Gill Bagshawe, esq. of that place and The Oaks in the same county, and a magistrate for the same, and for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

He was born on the 18th Oct. 1828, the eldest son of the late William John Bagshawe, esq. M.A. and barrister-at-law, by Sarah, third daughter of William Partridge, esq. of Bishop's Wood, co. Hereford. He succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father in June 1851 (see our vol. XXXVI. ii. p. 93), and became a magistrate for the county of Derby in 1852.

He finished his education at Trinity college, Cambridge, together with his younger brother; and took the degree of B.A. in 1851. While at Cambridge he acquired fame as the best oarsman on the Cam, and won many prizes. He was strongly attached to field sports and other manly pastimes, in almost all of which he excelled. Since his father's death he had spent his time chiefly (excepting that he had made a tour in the East of about six months' duration) between his seats of Wormhill Hall, near Tideswell, and the Oaks. At the time of his unfortunate death he was at Wormhill Hall with his cousin Mr. Edward Partridge, of Haslehurst, and his brother-inlaw Mr. H. St. John Halford, of Wistow. Near Wormhill runs the beautiful river Wye, one of the finest trout streams of Derbyshire, and well known to all the gentle craft who fish in the neighbourhood of Bakewell. Mr. Bagshawe had recently been annoyed by the poaching carried on about Wormhill. On the night of his death he had reason to suspect that a party of poachers would visit the Wyc. Late in the evening he went out with Mr.

Partridge, Mr. Halford, and a gamekeeper named Jarvis Kay, with a view of capturing the poachers, or, at least, frustrating their designs. Three of them concealed themselves by crouching in the underwood, while one watched. After some time, the watcher observed 14 men, about whose object there could be no doubt. They were placing lights upon the river to attract the fish for the purpose of spearing them. These being too formidable a body for the party of four to attack, Mr. Bagshawe and Kay went back to the hall, and mustered the servants and neighbouring tenants, in number equal to that of the poachers. They took with them also a large dog. Instead of going back to the place where he had left Mr. Partridge and Mr. Halford, Mr. Bagshawe led his party down to the river where lights were seen. They there found the poachers in the midst of their sport. The dog rushed towards the poachers, who fired twice. At this point Mr. Bagshawe could not restrain his impetuous courage. He dashed ahead of his party, plunged into the stream among the poachers, laying about him with a life preserver, and seizing one of the men. This was the work of a moment, and, before his supporters could come up, he received from the man who had fired so severe a blow on the head with the butt-end of the gun as struck him down in the water and broke the gun to pieces. Mr. Bagshawe's supporters rushed to the rescue, and a momentary but very severe conflict ensued. Considerable injuries were sustained on both sides. Two of the poachers, one of them being the man who struck Mr. Bagshawe, were seized, but the rest fled. Mr. Bagshawe was promptly assisted out of the water, and, in answer to the whistle of Kay, Mr. Halford and Mr. Partridge, who had not heard the conflict, hastened to the place. Mr. Bagshawe exclaimed to them, have had a smash;" and in reply to the inquiry whether he was hurt, he said he feared they had killed him, but he thought be must have killed some of them. friends assisted him, but suddenly he became faint, his head fell forward, and he was carried home insensible. The blow upon the head had fractured his skull, and he had been either struck on the side or trampled upon when down so as to rupture the liver. From the time that he first became insensible he never spoke again, and he died at eleven the next morning.

We

His

Of an ardent temperament, and a frank and generous disposition, few young men had made so many friends, or possessed qualities better adapted to gain popularity without an effort. Nothing could evince more strongly the high degree in which he was respected than the universal sym.

pathy which was manifested in every town and village on the road between his two estates. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Benjamin Milner (otherwise known as "Big Ben," a man of Herculean proportions), as principal, and against William Taylor and others unknown, as aiding and abetting. Seven men were afterwards committed to prison at Bakewell, and on the 29th July were brought to trial at the Derby assizes before Mr. Justice Maule, who, in summing up, said that the prisoners would not be guilty of murder unless they had reasonable means of knowing that the parties who attacked them did so for the purpose of apprehending them and carrying them before a justice; and if Mr. Bagshawe's party had not really that object, but, as was suggested for the defence, the object of beating them, then their resistance would assume a different character altogether; and the case would not fall within that description of murder to which he had referred. But if they should think that the general nature of the transaction in question was such as to bring it within that description, then they must consider singly the case of each prisoner, and see how far the evidence implicated him. After a quarter of an hour's consultation the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty against each prisoner on the charge of murder,a result which has generally been received with much disapprobation.

Having died unmarried, Mr. Bagshawe is succeeded in his estates by his next brother, Mr. Francis Westby Bagshawe, who is in his 23d year.

MRS. SOUTHEY.

July 20. At Buckland, Lymington, Hants, in her 68th year, Caroline-Anne, the widow of Robert Southey, esq. LL.D. Poet Laureate.

Mrs. Southey was born Dec. 6, 1786, and was the daughter of Charles Bowles, esq. who had been in early life a captain in the army.

Her mother was Anne, daughter of George Burrard, esq. and sister of General Sir Harry Burrard, Bart. and first cousin of Admiral Sir Harry Neale, Bart. the well known favourite of George the Third, and the idol of his native place, Lymington, which he long represented in Parliament.

Caroline Bowles showed from childhood very remarkable talents, and early distinguished herself both by her pen and pencil. She has been represented as related to the poet William Lisle Bowles, Canon of Salisbury, and he claimed kin with her; but no greater link was proved than that the family of each had long borne the same

arms. It would seem that the poetic, temperament common to both was the real bond of alliance. In middle life, when some failures where her fortune was deposited had diminished her income, she began to fear that she should be obliged to part with the home of her birth if she did not make her literary productions a source of profit, though we believe this crisis of alarm passed away, and authorship with her was always rather an affair of inclination than an adventure to the gold diggings. To get at the opinion of Southey, she sent her poem of "Ellen Fitzarthur" to him anonymously, wishing to know whether it were worth publishing. His judgment being favourable, it led to an acquaintance, which ripened into intimacy with him and his family, and it finally ended, when both were of advanced age, in their marriageSouthey having lost his first wife, who had been hopelessly insane during her latter years. They were married at Boldre church, near Lymington, on the 5th June, 1839. They reckoned on the enjoyment together of a quiet evening of life, but it was not to be. His overworked intellect gave way even before he could get back to Cumberland, and through three or four years of utter seclusion she had only anxiously to watch over him as he gradually sank into complete imbecility, though retaining, while any sparks of consciousness still flickered, a delight in her presence, and a revival of partial sanity at the mention of her Christian name. After his death she returned into Hampshire, and passed the rest of her life, where her infancy was cradled, among her own friends.

Her productions were chiefly poetic, and she collected them into volumes from time to time. Some of the smaller pieces were so generally admired that it encouraged plagiarists to appropriate them, and not only in England, but even in America, they may be found in collections under the names of other writers. The stanzas "I never threw a flower away" have been a choice subject for pillage, but her title to them is indisputable. Her only prose work was "Chapters on Churchyards," originally published in Blackwood's Magazine, and which contributed materially to establish her literary reputation. It showed powers of narrative fitting her for a popular and profitable branch of composition, had she chosen to adventure on novel-writing. She was mistress both of pathos and humour-painfully so, perhaps, of the former.

A charming series of pictures of her youth will be found in her "Birthday," a poem which preceded by several years the publication of the poetical Autobiography of Wordsworth, and which may be ranked

amongst the most graceful and touching efforts of female genius.

The order of her publications was as follows: Ellen Fitz-Arthur, a Poem, 1820; The Widow's Tale, and other Poems, 1822; Solitary Hours, Prose and Verse, 1826; Chapters on Churchyards, 1829, two vols.; The Birthday, a Poem, in three parts, with Occasional Verses, 1836; The Life of Andrew Bell, 1844; Tales of the Factories; and Robin Hood, a Fragment, by the late Robert Southey and Caroline Bowles; with other Poems, 1847.

She had a wide correspondence, and, being warm-hearted, alive to every interest of her friends, zealous in any good cause, deeply imbued with religion, and possessing the command of a style capable of expressing everything in the most picturesque and lively manner, it is no wonder that her letters should be life-like sketches, which reflected every quality of the writer's mind.

The provision which Robert Southey could leave her, conjoined with the relics of her own once sufficient fortune, hardly placed her in easy circumstances. This was represented to the Queen, who was pleased to grant her a pension of 2007. a-year, in consideration of her late husband's literary merit; but she scarcely lived to enjoy it through a second year. She was well content to accept it solely on the grounds of her husband's worth and pre-eminence in the world of letters, though her own pure and high-toned compositions may have had some influence in directing the royal benevolence of a sovereign of her own sex. It no doubt cheered her latter days, and of the hundreds to whom the name of Caroline Bowles is familiar (for by that will her poems continue to be known), many will rejoice that the authoress of such touching strains had a public testimony conferred upon her.

Very slight notice of this lady will be found in the Rev. Cuthbert Southey's Life of his Father. That gentleman had no communication with his step-mother upon the subject; and she abstained from even reading his book. Mrs. Southey had, however, received herself, or collected from friends, a great number of Southey's letters, which it was originally her intention to interweave into a memoir. The whole of these papers she has bequeathed to the Rev. Mr. Warter, the husband of Southey's daughter Edith, and the editor of his "Doctor" and "Common Place Book."

JOHN ARSCOTT LETHBRIDGE, Esq. R.N.

July 16. At Greenwich, aged 68, John Arscott Lethbridge, esq. for many years Secretary of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich.

He was descended from an old Devonian family, born at Okehampton, in Devon, the 28th Feb. 1787, and educated at Christ's Hospital, where he attained great proficiency, receiving many silver medals as rewards for his assiduity.

In Dec. 1802 he entered the Hon. East India Company's ship Bombay Castle as midshipman, and while in that ship he was engaged at the celebrated repulse of a French squadron, commanded by RearAdmiral Linois in the China seas. Upon Mr. Lethbridge's return to England, Mr. Holland, M.P. for his native town, recommended him to Commodore Sir Home Popham, as a "clever, trustworthy, obliging, and intelligent young man, bearing a most admirable character." Sir Home responded to Mr. Holland's application, and Mr. Lethbridge entered the Royal Navy in the Diadem, under that officer's command, and such was his zeal and ability that he soon after became the Commodore's secretary. The Diadem was present at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, and in the subsequent expeditions against Buenos Ayres and Walcheren. At Buenos Ayres he was made a prisoner, and remained some time in confinement.

From Sir Home Popham's great knowledge on the subject of naval signals Mr. Lethbridge derived much information concerning that very important adjunct to naval manoeuvring; and a committee of flag-officers having been ordered to assemble for the purpose of thoroughly revising the existing code, Mr. Lethbridge was appointed its secretary. The result of the committee's recommendation was the formation of a clear and comprehensive vocabulary, which still remains in operation, with some few additions and changes. On the termination of his labours Mr. Lethbridge received the following acknowledgement from the flag-officers who constituted the committee: "On closing the above Report we feel it incumbent on us to make known to their lordships the great assistance which we have derived from Mr. Lethbridge, who has acted as our secretary. To an extensive knowledge of every branch of the subject he has throughout united the strictest attention and the most unremitting assiduity."

He was appointed to Greenwich Hospital in 1823, and retired in 1853 upon a pension, having officiated during that period as secretary to Admirals Sir Thomas Hardy, Hon. C. E. Fleming, Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, and Sir Charles Adam, as well as to the institution.

THOMAS CLARKE, ESQ. F.S.A. July 15. At his residence, Highgatehill, Kentish-town, Thomas Clarke, esq. F.S.A. Solicitor to the Board of Ordnance.

He was born 14th July, 1789; was admitted an attorney in 1810; and was appointed to his official post in 1845. Mr. Clarke's practice, as one of the partners of a firm in Craven-street, with which he was associated for thirty years, was of the most respectable character; and his strict integrity and disinterestedness secured him the friendship of a large and influential circle, which included many persons of celebrity in literature and art, by whom his taste and acquirements were fully appreciated. He filled the office of President of the Incorporated Law Society for the year 1849-50.

Mr. Clarke offered an example, which we believe is not so uncommon as the prejudices of the world might lead one to suppose, that an attorney may become wealthy without chicanery; labour to suppress rather than to encourage litigation; and be a firm friend to the unfortunate instead of preying on their necessities.

MR. GEORGE CUITT.

July 15. At Masham, Yorkshire, in his 75th year, Mr. George Cuitt, a gentleman well known to connoisseurs in art by his numerous etchings.

Mr. Cuitt was born in 1779, at Richmond in Yorkshire, and was the only son of an artist of ability, who had studied abroad as a portrait-painter, but on his return home turned his attention to landscape-painting with success. From his earliest years, Mr. Cuitt devoted himself to his father's profession, and his sketches soon gave promise of talent.

A fine collection of Piranesi's etchings, which his father had brought from Rome, imbued him with much of that artist's spirit; this he very happily adapted to the subjects of his pencil, and portrayed the mediæval ruins of his native county with something of the same force which had distinguished Piranesi's Roman antiquities. He was however, far from being a mere copyist; and rivalling, as his etchings certainly did, those of his prototype for vigour and depth, they are full of originality and poetic feeling, and less tainted with mannerism and affectation.

We find his earliest published works, which represent some of the ecclesiastical remains of the city of Chester, where he was then resident, are dated in the years 1810 and 1811. His first publication, we believe, consisted in five etchings contributed to a small " History of Chester," printed in octavo, 1815. In 1816 he published in folio a volume consisting of, 1.

Six etchings of Saxon and Gothic buildings remaining in Chester; 2. Six etchings of Old Buildings in Chester; and 3. Six etchings of Picturesque Cottages, Sheds, &c. in Cheshire.

A few years of arduous application in teaching and etching enabled Mr. Cuitt, at the age of forty, to realise an independence, and to give up the more laborious part of his profession; he retired to his native county, and built himself a house at Masham, where he resided for the rest of his days, uniting the pursuit of horticulture with that of art, and occasionally publishing fresh works, amongst which are some of very considerable merit. "Yorkshire Abbeys" are especially chefs d'œuvres of art. In 1848 the copyright of his works was purchased by Mr. Nattali, who collected them into a handsome folio, which he published under the title of "Wanderings and Pencillings amongst the Ruins of Olden Time," and which we believe is now out of print.

CLERGY DECEASED.

His

May. The Rev. Lort Mansel, Vicar of Minsterworth, Glouc. (1817). He was of Trinity college, Oxford, B.A. 1815.

May 6. At Kilcarra House, Kerry, of cholera, the Rev. Rowland Bateman, of Bedford, co. Kerry, formerly Rector of Silton, Dorsetshire, to which he was presented in 1815, and resigned in 1835.

May 11. At Dublin, aged 53, the Hon. and Rev. William le Poer Trench, M.A. Rector of Cloon, eldest son of the late Lord Archbishop of Tuam, by (his cousin) Anne, dau. of Walter Taylor, esq. of Castle Taylor, co. Galway, and Hester-Anne Power Trench, sister to the first Earl of Clancarty. The deceased married in 1830 his cousin Lady Louisa Trench, eldest dan. of Richard the second Earl, and had issue two daughters.

May 15. On board the Ripon, on his passage home from Alexandria, aged 29, the Rev. William George Tupper, Warden and Chaplain of the House of Charity, Soho. He was the youngest son of the late Martin Tupper, esq. of New Burlington-street; and was of Trinity college, Oxford, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849.

May 17. At Rand, Linc. aged 54, the Rev. John Glover, Rector of that parish (1830).

May 21. At Dublin, aged 93, the Rev. Henry Stewart, D.D. Vicar of Mothill, Lismore, and for nearly thirty years Rector of Loughgilly, dioc. Armagh.

May 21. At Llanedy, Carmarthenshire, aged 74, the Rev. Henry Williams, Rector of that parish (1845).

May 23. At Sampford Peverel, Devon, aged 65, the Rev. Anthony Boulton, D.D. Rector of that parish (1847) and Chaplain to the Gaol at Tiverton. He was first of Sidney Sussex and afterwards of St. John's college, Camb. B.A. 1811, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1849.

May 23. At Croft, Leic. aged 34, the Rev. Lucius Fry, youngest son of the late Rev. John Fry, of Desford, in that county. He was of St. Peter's college, Camb. B.A. 1843.

May 29. At Croft, aged 49, the Rev. William Lockwood, Vicar of Kirkby Fleetham, Yorkshire. He was of Univ. coll. Oxf. B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829.

At Wellwood, Ulverstone, aged 28, the Rev. Thomas Edmund Petty, M.A. Perp. Curate of Bardsea, Lanc. (1852). He was the only son of the late Thomas Petty, esq. of Wellhouse. He was of Trinity coll. Camb. B.A. 1848.