and secondly, in 1838, to AugustaElizabeth, second daughter of Robert Rushbrooke, esq. M.P. for the Western Division of Suffolk. By the former lady he had issue three sons, George who died in 1833, Henry, and Charles; and five daughters: 1. Caroline, married to Edwin Martin Atkins, esq. of Kingston Lisle, Berks; 2. Maria, married to Head Pottinger Best, esq.; 3. Anna, married to John S. Phillips, esq. of Culham, co. Oxford; 4. Susan, who died in 1841; and 5. Elizabeth. By the second marriage he had further issue, one son, Thomas; and two daughters, Augusta and Mary.

He had been indefatigable in the discharge of his senatorial duties, usually giving his votes as a Conservative and Protectionist, and against Roman Catholic endowments. Not less remarkable were his urbanity and thorough kindness of heart, which justly endeared him to all who had the honour and pleasure of his acquaintance. He was a good specimen of an English gentleman. He married Oct. 8 1828, Frances daughter of the late Henry Woodgate, esq. of Spring-grove, Pembury, Kent, and niece to Lord Viscount Boyne.

THE REV. ELIAS THACKERAY. April 29. At Dundalk, aged 83, the Rev. Elias Thackeray, for more than half a century Vicar of that town, and thirtyone years Rector of Louth.

This gentleman was a brother of the late Dr. Thackeray of Cambridge, and of Mrs. Pryme of the same town. He was educated at Eton, became a Fellow of King's college, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799. He studied for holy orders, but a regiment of Fencible Dragoons being raised in Cambridge he accepted a troop, and proceeded early in 1797 with the regiment to Ireland, where, during the insurrection in that and the subsequent years, he saw some service, being on duty at the landing of the French prisoners at Buncrana on Lough Swilly, after Sir J. B. Warren's action, and he was the officer selected by the Commanderin-Chief, the Earl of Cavan, to convey the celebrated Wolfe Tone as a prisoner to Dublin.

While stationed at Londonderry Mr. Thackeray married Rebecca, daughter of Sir Robert Hill, Bart. and M.P. for that city, and sister to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Hill, Bart. who died Governor of Trinidad: by that lady he had no issue.

After being employed for some time in the superintendence of the yeomanry corps in that locality, and having attained the rank of Major, he followed up his original intention of entering the Church. He was nominated to the living of Dundalk by Lord Hardwicke, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; and, after having been for some time the incumbent of Limavady and Ardee, he was promoted by the Lord Primate to the living of Louth. He took great part in remodelling and re-organising the Protestant Charter Schools of Ireland.

His character is summed up as that of His a truly Christian philanthropist. piety was as unostentatious as it was sincere; his delight lay in acts of kindness and benevolence; and, without the sacrifice of a single principle of his own, he won the respect of those who most differed from him. His funeral was at

dice, and Elizabeth married to Sir William Graham of Gartmore. There is every ground for the presumption that Lady Mary Allardice was the elder sister, and she is said to have claimed, in conversation, to be Countess of Strathern; but she lived to an advanced age, and after her death in 1720 a succession of minorities took place in the Allardice line; and at length the dignity of Earl of Monteith was assumed by William Graham, great-grandson of Lady Elizabeth; and he even voted on several elections of Representative Peers of Scotland from 1744 to 1761 inclusive. His further assumption of the dignity was however prohibited by an order of the House of Lords in 1762; and the whole issue of Lady Elizabeth Graham became extinct on the death of Mary Bogle (niece to William the putative Earl) in 1821. It was then clear that the whole right of inheritance devolved on the mother of Captain Barclay; even if she had been descended from the younger sister.

Mr. Barclay's case was placed in the able hands of the present Vice-Chancellor Knight-Bruce, and the late Sir Harris Nicolas, and the claim was heard in the House of Lords in July and August, 1839: when the Lord Advocate (Rutherford) having replied on the part of the Crown, it was deemed advisable, from the course of his arguments, that Mr. Barclay-Allardice should further assert his claim to the two more ancient earldoms already named, the descent of which was involved with that of Airth. On the 4th Aug. 1840 he consequently petitioned her present Majesty that the dignities of Earl of Strathern and Earl of Monteith should be awarded to him, the former as sole heir of the body

*The Earldom was in fact one, the title of Monteith having been conferred by King James the First in 1427 in exchange for that of Strathern, which he resumed as a palatinate and male fief. In the reign of Charles I. it was recovered by William Earl of Monteith; but, jealousies being again raised as to the royal import which attached to the name of Strathern, it was taken from him, and a new patent for the Earldom of Airth was forced upon him in 1633, with remainder to the heir general; the Earldom of Monteith, which they could not take away, being attached to it in the same patent. At the death of William Earl of Monteith in 1694, the family documents were violently seized by the Marchioness of Montrose; and the charter of 1633 was not reproduced from the Montrose charter-chests until about the year 1780, shortly after which Mrs. Barclay made her claim, and was served heir of line.

of David Earl of Strathern, son of King Robert the Second, and the latter as sole heir general of the body of Malise Graham, who was created Earl of Monteith in the year 1427. This petition was also referred to the consideration of the House of Lords; but no further proceedings were afterwards taken. In 1842 Sir Harris Nicolas published a History of the Earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth, a volume arranged with his wonted research and acumen, and dedicated to Mr. Hudson Gurney, a brother-in-law of Captain Barclay.

Mr. Barclay Allardice had previously had two attacks of paralysis, from which he had partially recovered, when, three days before his death, he met with an accident from the kick of a horse, which confined him to the house, although nothing very serious seemed to be apprehended. On Monday the 1st of May he was seized with an attack of the fatal disease which had been impending over him for years. Dr. Thompson, his medical attendant, was speedily in attendance; but a few minutes before his arrival the hand of death had passed calmly and quietly before him.

He married in 1819 Mary Dalgarno, by whom he had issue an only child, Margaret, who was married in 1840 to Samuel Ritchie, and has a son and heir Robert Barclay Allardice, born in 1841, and two other sons. This lady and her family are resident in America.

THOMAS DUFFIELD, ESQ.

March 15. At the Castle Priory, Wallingford, aged 72, Thomas Duffield, esq. High Steward of that borough, and a magistrate of Berkshire.

He was the second son of Michael Duffield, esq. by Alice, daughter and heiress of Jeremiah Crutchley, esq. His elder brother George-Henry exchanged the name of Duffield for that of Crutchley in 1806.

Mr. Duffield served the office of Sheriff of Berkshire in 1827.

In 1832 he was a candidate for Abingdon, as a Conservative politician, and, in spite of the Reform Act then coming into operation, he defeated the former Whig member Colonel Maberly, who had represented the borough from 1818. The numbers were, for Mr. Duffield 157, for Lieut.-Col. Maberly 43. Mr. Duffield was rechosen in 1835, 1837, and 1841 without opposition; and in April 1844 resigned his seat, in order to make room for Sir Frederic Thesiger.

Mr. Duffield was twice married: first, in 1810, to Emily, only child of George Elwes, esq. of Marcham Park, Berks;

tended by a large concourse of sorrowing mourners. The chief mourners were, Rev. Charles Stevenson, Callan, Kilkenny; Rev. R. W. Thackeray, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire; Rev. George Blacker, Maynooth; Col. Blacker, Carrick-house, Portadown; Capt. Barnston, 90th Regt. ; Col. Brown, Dublin Castle; Stewart Blacker, esq. Dublin; James Blacker, esq. Carrickhouse. And on each side of which were the pall-bearers - Right Rev. Lord J. Beresford, Primate of Ireland; Right Hon. Lord Claremont, Ravensdale Park; Rev. Dr. Campbell, Rector of Forkhill; Rev. Edwin Thomas; Graham Johnston, esq. Dundalk; and Lennox Rigger, esq. Richmond.

The popular author, W. M. Thackeray, who is a cousin of the deceased, has noticed him in his Tour through Ireland; and in another work of the same writer the satirist's pen is arrested, and a very graceful and becoming compliment is paid to the profession to which belonged "the gentle Elias,"-no doubt meaning his relative.

NATHANIEL WALLICH, M.D., F.R.AS.S.

April 28. In Upper Gower-street, in his 68th year, Nathaniel Wallich, M.D., F.R.As.S. and a Vice-President of the Linnean Society.

By birth a Dane, Dr. Wallich entered the medical service of his country when very young, and was in 1807 attached as surgeon to the Danish East Indian settlement of Serampore. When that place was taken by the English, such of the Danish officers as desired were permitted to enter the service of the East India Company, an advantage of which Dr. Wallich availed himself, and this circumstance ultimately led to his arriving at the highest botanical position known in India. His extensive acquaintance with plants soon attracted the attention of the Indian government, especially at a time when very few of the Company's servants had any knowledge of the subject.

Upon Dr. Hamilton's resigning charge of the important botanical garden at Calcutta in 1815, Dr. Wallich was appointed superintendent, and from that time forward his activity in collecting plants from all parts of our Indian empire, in describing them, causing them to be drawn, and in dispatching fine specimens of them to his adopted country, was unexampled. From 1818 to 1828 there was scarcely an English garden of magnitude that was not much indebted to his liberality.

In 1820, in conjunction with Dr. Carey, he commenced the publication of Roxburgh's "Flora Indica," which was greatly augmented by his own discoveries. As

soon as the new art of lithography was made available in India, it was seized upon as a ready means of placing before the world the little-known plants of Nepaul, which was done in the Tentamen Flora Nepalensis," a folio volume. For this large materials had been accumulated during the author's official examination of that province in 1820. In 1825 he was deputed by the government to inspect the timber forests of Western Hindostan. In 1826 and 1827 he was in Ava and the newly-acquired Burmese territory. In 1828 the state of his health, which had become greatly impaired, rendered his return to Europe inevitable. Then it was that he brought with him visible proofs of his never-tiring zeal in the pursuit of science. Eight thousand species of plants collected by himself, together with an incredible number of duplicates, safely arrived in London, and were speedily, at his recommendation, dispersed through the public and private herbaria of Europe and America. The East India Company sanctioned this great operation, with a noble spirit defraying the whole cost in a manner most honourable to themselves. HisList of Plants from the dried specimens in the East India Company's Museum," forms a large folio of 265 pages printed in lithography. At the same time that the laborious work of distribution was going on, Dr. Wallich's magnum opus, thePlantæ Asiatica Rariores" was passing through the press, and eventually, in August 1832, formed three folio volumes, each containing 100 coloured plates.

Shortly afterwards Dr. Wallich returned to his official duties in India, when he was appointed to the chief direction of a scientific party directed to explore the newly-acquired province of Assam, especially with a view to determine the nature of the tea cultivation that had been ascertained to exist there. Ill health still pursued him, and after a visit to the Cape of Good Hope, and a further attempt to struggle against a climate which had always proved his most dangerous enemy, he finally bade adieu to Hindostan, and reached England with his family in 1847, to enjoy, alas! for too brief a space, the repose and honours to which he had gained a just title by a most arduous life.

By those who knew him intimately, Dr. Wallich will be much regretted, for he was not only an enthusiastic botanist and a learned man, but a charming companion, as well as a warm and steady friend.Gardener's Chronicle.

WILLIAM STANGER, M.D.

March 21. At Natal, in his 42d year, William Stanger, M.D. Surveyor-General

of the Port Natal district, and, ex officio, a member of the Legislative and Executive Councils, and F.G.S.

Dr. Stanger was born at Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire, and educated at Edinburgh, where he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He subsequently visited Australia, and was engaged in superintending the road-works near Cape Town, which were prosecuted under the direction of the government. After his return to England he settled in London, where he commenced the practice of his profession.

His knowledge of natural history and his enterprising character recommended him to those who were engaged in fitting out the Niger expedition, which turned out so disastrously in 1841. During the voyage up the Niger, Dr. Stanger was one of the few who were not prostrated by the terrible fever which raged on board the ships, and it was mainly owing to his energy, in conjunction with Dr. Macwilliam, that one of the steamers was brought down the river. Although not attacked with the fever, his strong frame never wholly threw off the effects of exposure to the pestilential swamps of the Niger. The scientific results of this expedition were small, and nobody regretted this more acutely than Dr. Stanger, who had anticipated a rich harvest along the banks of the river.

His

In 1845 he obtained the appointment of Surveyor-General to the new colony of Natal, when it was constituted a district of the Cape Colony, with a separate government. In 1851, in consequence of his wife's failing health, he obtained leave of absence, and returned to this country, where he remained about two years. services were of great importance to the colony; and he performed the duties attached to his office laboriously and conscientiously. He had little time afforded him to reduce to form his numerous observations on natural history. One of his last contributions to this science was the discovery of a plant belonging to the family of Cycads, possessing characters differing from any hitherto found in that family. This plant has been named after him, Stangeria; and a very interesting specimen is now producing its peculiar fruit in the Royal Gardens at Kew.

Dr. Stanger seems to have fallen a victim to an ill-judged application of the so-called hydropathic treatment. He had travelled from Maritzburg to Port Natal on horseback, and, in order to relieve the fatigue he felt, was induced to submit to the application of the "wet-sheet." The next day inflammation of the lungs took place, which carried him off in one week.

Dr. Stanger's funeral was a public de

monstration of the respect entertained for his memory by those who knew him best. The Lieutenant-Governor of the colony, the newly-appointed Bishop, Dr. Colenso, and a long procession of local celebrities, followed his body to the grave; and a proposal has been made to erect an obelisk over his remains. At the suggestion of the Bishop, a subscription has also been commenced for the erection of a memorial window, in his honour, in the cathedral church of the neighbouring town of Maritzburg.

JAMES WADMORE, ESQ.

Dec. 24, 1853. At Upper Clapton, aged 71, James Wadmore, esq. a well-known patron of the fine arts.

This gentleman was born on the 4th Oct. 1782, at a house in the Hampsteadroad, nearly opposite the Chapel. His father, who bore the same names, held a situation of trust in the Stamp Office; and, after an education received at a Yorkshire school near Greta Bridge, the son was for a time a supernumerary clerk in the same department of the public service; but he was eventually apprenticed to Mr. Prickett, a land-surveyor at Highgate, and commenced business on his own account at Lisson Grove. At the raising of the St. Pancras volunteers in 1803 he entered the corps and acted as its fugleman; and towards the close of the war, by the wishes of his fellow-volunteers, he was gazetted as Ensign, and chosen by them to present a sword to their commandant on their being disbanded.

Whilst still at Lisson Grove, Mr. Wadmore began to collect pictures, and bought Westall's Hagar and Ishmael, which, being too large for his door, had to be taken in by the removal of his window sashes. But having by the death of his uncle Mr. John Foster, of Bury-street, in 1815, acquired a considerable estate, Mr. Wadmore removed to No. 40, Chapel-street, Maryle. bone, and covered the walls of that large house with the productions of the easel. He was the intimate friend of many eminent living artists, among whom were William Allan, Wilkie, Burnet, Denning, Fox, and Vincent. He had long desired a picture by Wilkie, but the many engagements of that artist had prevented him from fulfilling the promise of painting one. When the picture of "The Chelsea Pensioners " was in progress, Mr. Wadmore called, and, after having attentively examined the picture, he turned to the painter, and objected to the figure of a Life Guardsman, saying, But, Mr. Wilkie, the Guards were at the battle." Upon which Wilkie answered, "A' weel, some of them might ha' been left at hame to recruit." How

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