temporal of his fellow-creatures, he appeared ever peculiarly to consider as the "talent committed to his charge," and when not employed in the honourable line of his profession, his time, his labour, and his thoughts, were uniformly and incessantly directed to these important ends. Bence he was unwearied in the patronage of every humane and charitable institution which ornaments the "metropolis of England," and imitating the example and precept of his divine Master, daily went about doing good. He was President of the Naval Charitable Society, one of the earliest Members of the Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, and a zealous attendant on the Committee of the Society for promoting the Enlargement and Building of Churches and Chapels. On the 26th the remains of Lord Radstock were removed from Portland-place, and interred in the vault adjoining the North wall of the chancel of Navestock Church, Essex, where his father and grandfather, Earls of Waldegrave, and other members of his noble and most ancient family, are likewise buried. LORD LILFORD. July 4. In Grosvenor-place, the Right Honourable Thomas Powys, Baron Lilford of Lilford Park, co. Northampton, and of Atherton and Bewsey, co. Lan caster. He was the eldest son of Thomas first Lord Lilford, by Mary daughter of Galfridus Mann, of Brocton Malherbe, and niece of Sir Horatio Mann, bart. K. B. Ambassador to the Court of Florence; was born April 8, 1775; and received his education at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained the degrees of B.A. 1797, and M.A. 1802. On the 5th of December, 1797, he married Henrietta-Maria, eldest daughter and heiress of Robert-Vernon Atherton, of Atherton Hall, co. Lancaster, esq. and by her (who died August 11, 1820) had issue, Thomas Atherton, present Baron Lilford, and eleven other children, six daughters and five sons. On Wednesday the 13th his mortal remains were deposited in the family vault at Achurch in the county Northampton. The funeral was private; being attended only by the family and immediate connexions of the deceased Lord, and by the Oundle and Thrapston troops of Northamptonshire Cavalry, of the latter of which the Noble Lord had long had the command. Their offer of attendance had been volunteered in the most respectful and affectionate manner, and accepted on the part of the family with a full appre A view of it is in vol. xc, ii, p. 17, 275 ciation of the motives under which it was made. With powers of mind which fitted him to take an active part in public life, in which, when occasion called him forth, he was not backward to show himself, he courted retirement as the chief scene of his duties and pleasures, devoting his unceasing attention to the education of his children, and seeking delight in domestic endearments and social intimacies. For both he was admirably calculated by a sensibility that was deep and tender, an understanding large and cultivated, and a taste exquisitely refined. He delighted in excellence of every kind; but chiefly in the excellence of goodness and wisdom; of which, while studying to form himself after the model of a revered father, he sought out living examples and associates among every rank and description of men. Upright, honourable, independent, high-minded, his temper might have carried him into too much of abstraction, had not real Christianity given him the right bias and aim, His moral mark was always higb; and he pursued it humbly; judging every part of his own conduct with scrutinizing severity, and though always admired by others, seldom or never satisfied with himself. As an imperative duty he was diligent in doing good, and unaffectedly careless of showing or concealing it. His mind was distinguished both by delicacy of feeling and by purity of motive, holding the love of praise in strict subjection; his piety was sincere and unobtrusive; it flowed as naturally in the strain of his conversation as it lived in the actions of his daily life, Embracing in his affection the whole Church of Christ, he was in particular an attached Member of the Church of England. He agreed cordially with her doctrines and institutions, not as an habitual prejudice, but in eolightened knowledge and deliberate love. As a member of the highest legislative assembly, he was addicted to no political master; nor were politics the atmosphere in which he breathed freely, or took delight. Yet be entered it, secured from its infection, in the strength of his independence, and sanctity of higher principles and references, than with the maxims or connexions of the political world. He combined a generous love of freedom with the determined support of order. In moments of peril he was always seen at his post; in ordinary times he was best pleased to confide in others. Such a man was he who is now taken from his family, his friends, and the world, in the very vigour of his age; and at the full period of advancing excellence. His death 276 OBITUARY.-Lord Henry Moore.-Sir W. Geary, Bt. death was sudden; but in no respect was he unprepared. With the practical conviction that life was uncertain, and with the persuasion that his own life would be short, he brought every action to a speedy and regular account, and in studying how best to live, died daily. It is good to record that such men are sent into existence, and that they are snatched from it without a full recompense in the present scene. Such facts convince us that this world, in its best form, is not a reward, but a preparation. This record is written as though it would be subjected to the scrutiny of that judgment to which the writer has often confdently referred; a judgment which tolerated no vagueness, and which abhorred all exaggeration; which weighed scrupulously the value of words as the pictures of things. It is a true record; untainted by partiality, though flowing from the pen of old, and faithful, and fond affection; from one who spoke the words of truth to him with unreserved freedom, but who never dared to offend him with the language of undeserved praise. As a public speaker, his talents were considerable, but the exercise of them was so controuled by his natural modesty, that they were not to be called forth except `under the impulse of a strong and urgent sense of public duty. The qualities of his heart are too well and painfully attested by the deep sorrow of his most amiable family, of his numerous friends, his te nants and domestics, by all of whom he was ardently beloved and revered. To hit the beautiful language of Shakspeare may be most justly applied, "His life was gentle, and the elements And say to all the world, 'This was a man'." LORD HENRY MOORE. Lately. At Clifton, near Bristol, Lord Henry Seymour Moore, joint Mustermaster-General in Ireland, only brother and heir presumptive of the Marquess of Drogheda. He was the second son of Charles late and sixth Earl and first Marquess of Drogheda, by Anne, dau. of Francis first Marquess of Hertford, and K. G. He married, Sept. 28, 1824, Mary, 2d dau. of Sir Henry Parnell, of Rathleague, Queen's County, Bart, and M. P. for Queen's County, by Caroline-Elizabeth, eldest dau. of John first and late Earl of Portarlington. Lady Henry Moore was delivered of a son only a few days before his Lordship's death; and this child is now the presumptive heir to the titles and estates of his uncle. His Lordship's three surviving sis ters are married to the Earl of Westmeath, [Sept. Alex. Stewart, esq. (uncle to the present SIR WILLIAM GEARY, BART. Aug. 6. At Oxenheath, Kent, aged 70, Sir Wm. Geary, Bart Director of Greenwich Hospital, many years Representative in Parliament for Kent. He was the second and eldest living son of Sir Francis, first baronet, by Mary, only child of Admiral Philip Bartholemew, of Kent, Esq. On the death of his father in 1796 he succeeded to the title, and having come into possession of a large property in right of his mother, settled at Oxenheath Park, one of the most delightful spots in England, finely surrounded by woods, interspersed with hop plantations, as well as cherry orchards, and at no great distance from the banks of the Medway. In 1796 he aspired to be a Member for the County in which he had taken up his residence; and accordingly presented himself as a candidate, at the same time with, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and Filmer Honywood, Esq. The contest continued during nine days, at the end of which he was second on the poll, having 4418 votes. Filmer Houywood, Esq. the unsuccessful candidate, and several of the electors petioned against Sir William's election. On the 5th of May, 1797, the Chairman of the Committee that tried the Election reported to the House, that Sir William was duly elected, and that the petition was not frivolous or vexatious. In 1797, when he declared his dissent from Mr. Grey's plan of Parliamentary Reform, "as being too nearly allied to Universal Suffrage," Sir William suggested a plan of his own, which was to divide the country into districts, each of which might send one Member to Parliament, who could be elected at little or no expense by those who paid poor's rates to the amount of 10. or 204. He considered the election by ballot "as the only radical cure to the many evils we experienced, more especially as it led to a good and substantial melioration." In 1802 he once more offered his services, and having polled 4085 was again, returned, the books having been kept open during the same period as before. Filmer Honywood, esq. the unsuccessful candidate in the former election, was returned with him, to the exclusion of Sir E. Knatchbull the successful candidate at the said election. In 1803, when the establishment of the Prince of Wales was brought before the House by Mr. Calcraft, Sir William spoke in favour of an immediate resumption of the splendour of the heir apparent. In the following session he opposed Mr. Wilberforce's proposition for an abolition of the Slave Trade, provided that measure was to take place immediately, as it would be 1825.] OBITUARY.-Sir Thomas Stepney, Bart. &c. be only a transfer of misery to the negroes, who would be exported by other na tions. On the 15th of Jan. 1810, he mar ried Mrs. Dering, daughter of Richard Neville, of Furnace, co. Kildare, Esq. and relict of Edward Dering, Esq. eldest son of Sir Edward Dering, Bart. and had is sue a son, born Nov. 20, 1810, and another son, born in April 1816. SIR THOMAS STEPNEY, BART. Sept. 12. Aged 65, Sir Thomas Stepney, eighth Baronet, of Prendergast, co.' Pembroke, and Groom of the Bedchamber to his R. H. the Duke of York. He was the younger of the two sons of Sir Thomas, the sixth Baronet, by Eleanor, only daughter and heiress of Thomas Lloyd, esq. He inherited the title in Oct. 1811, on the death of his elder brother Sir John (who was M. P. for Monmouth, and for many years Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Courts of Berlin and Dresden, and who died at Vienna); and married at Edinburgh, June 8, 1813, Mrs. Russell Manners. They had no issue; and the title is extinct. Sir John, the third Baronet, having married Justina, daughter and heiress of Sir Anthony Vandyke, the deceased Sir Thomas was fifth in descent from that justly-celebrated painter. It has been generally supposed that Sir Thomas Stepney was the last surviving representative of Sir Anthony; but that is far from being the case. The honourable distinction (for such it really is) devolves on the descendants of his sisters. He had three; the eldest, Margaretta-Eleanora, died unmarried; the second, Elizabetha - Bridgetta, married to Joseph Gulston, esq. F. S. A. the unrivalled Collector of Portraits, and the Patron of Granger; and Mr. Gulston's only daughter is now the eldest branch of the descendants of Vandyke. A third sister of Sir Thomas, Justina-Maria, married first to Francis Head, esq. and secondly to General Cowell, left by her first husband a daughter, the widow of the Rev. George Herbert, brother to the Earl of Carnarvon, (see part i. p. 379,) and by her second, two sons. SIR WILLIAM ELIAS TAUNTON. Aug. 3. At his house at Grandpont, Berks, near Oxford, in the 81st year of his age, Sir William Elias Taunton, Knt. Town Clerk of Oxford, and Deputy Lieu 277 tenant of the County. He was the son of the Rev. Elias T. M. A. sometime Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Rector of Sowton, Devonshire, and a Portionist of Bampton, Oxon. of which latter County he was a Justice of the Peace. Mr. T. was bred up to the profession of the law, and his father residing at Bampton, he was at an early age articled to the late William Stephens, esq. of the neighbouring parish of Kencot, whose practice lay very little in the proceedings of Courts of Justice, but consisted principally of conveyancing, and stewardships and receiverships of noblemen and gentlemen. Mr. T. at the age of 22, settled himself at Oxford as an attorney, and in March, 1766, was admitted a member of the Council Chamber of that Corporation. From his talents and application to business he very speedily attained to great eminence in his profession; he received appointments to many of the College Stewardships, and to most of the public law situ-' ations in the County and City; among others to the Clerkship of the Peace of the County, which he executed for nearly fifty years, until his resignation in 1815*. In 1795 he stood a severe contest for the office of Town Clerk of the City, and succeeded. This place has since his death again become the object of a great conflict between his second son, Mr. T. H. Taunton, the Clerk of the Peace of the County, and Mr. T. Roberson, which lasted three days, and was attended with all' the bustle, parade, and expence of an election for a Member of Parliament, all the common Freemen, who are 1800 in number, being voters. Mr. T. H. Taunton was defeated, owing principally to his father and grandfather having been uniformly partizans of the new or Marlborough interest, now nearly extinct. On the great occasion of his R. H. the Prince Regent paying a visit to Oxford in 1814, Mr. Taunton, as Town Clerk, had the honour to read to him the City Address of Congratulation in the Council Chamber, where his R.H. condescended to pay the Corporation a visit. There were assembled at the time the Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, the Prince of Orange, the beautiful Duchess of Oldenburg, and the other foreign Princes and Ministers who honoured the celebrity at Oxford with their com pany. Mr. T. delivered the Address with so much energy, though then in his seven * Sir William's predecessor in this office was Mr. Walker, many years the auditor of the late Duke of Marlborough, who maintained his station with a degree of dignity never excelled. He succeeded Mr. Nares, M.P. for the City (afterwards Sir George Nares), who resigned on being made a Judge of the Common Pleas. 278 OBITUARY.-Sir William Elias Taunton. tieth year, that his R. H. unexpectedly commanded him to kneel, and conferred on him the honour of Knighthood. He had many years before this event retired, from the practice of his profession, retain ing only the principal affairs which connected him with the County, the University, and the City. While engaged in the discharge of his duties as an attorney, Sir W. T. was distinguished not only for his superior knowledge of the Law, but by his zealous devotion to the interests of his Clients, and above all, by his strict and incorruptible integrity. He was a truly honest man, of sound and upright principles, in public a steady supporter of the Constitution in Church and State, and exemplary in the highest degree in all the relations of private life, performing in every particular his duty towards God and his neighbour. During the latter part of his life he amused himself with writing several little pamphlets on matters of public policy, and with re-publishing one of a religious nature. He had indeed during his whole life distinguished himself by a facility in composition; and during the long period that he filled successively the offices of City Solicitor and Town Clerk, scarcely an Address had the seal of the City of Oxford attached to it, which did, not proceed from the pen of Sir Wm. T. He was twice married; first, to Frances, daughter of Stephen Grosvenor, gent. descended from a branch of the ancient family of that name, and, secondly, to Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Hawkius. By his first wife he has left eight surviving children; William Elias, a King's Counsel and Recorder of Oxford, Thomas Henry, Daniel, both Attornies at Law; George, in holy orders, and fellow of Corpus Christi College; Frances, married to the Rev, Henry Smith; Eliza Charlotte, married to Williain Warren, of Truro, esq.; and Ann. During his life Sir Wm. T. made a considerable benefaction to the City of Oxford, the trusts of which, by his will, he has declared to be for the benefit of a limited number of the widows of poor Freemen. This worthy old gentleman met with a providential escape in February last, the particulars of which he communicated to us in the following narrative, induced thereto by the accidents which had then lately befallen Lady Mostyn and Mrs. Brodie : "Sir William and Lady Taunton bad. been dining with a gentleman in Brewer'sJane in Oxford on Thursday the 23d of February last. Soon after ten o'clock in the evening, it being quite dark, their carriage was announced, and they left the party, and had scarcely seated themselves in the carriage (the coachman and footboy being on the box) before the sudden [Sept plunging of one of the horses caused one of the reins to snap, and the coachman in endeavouring to recover them lost his seat aud fell to the ground. The horses immediately went away at full speed, grating the walls of Pembroke College as they passed along; at the end of Brew. er's-lane they turned up the street towards Carfax, there they turned the corner, and went down the Butcher-row; again they turned another sharp angle into the turnpike-road towards Botley, when Sir William placed his hope that the horses would be stopped by the turnpike-gate, but they went against the gate with such force that they instantly burst it open. The people at the gate endeavoured to overtake them, but their pace was too ra-. pid for any one to reach them; from thence they proceeded along the Botley causeway, and passed five bridges, a mailcoach, and a waggon. During this perilous journey the little foot-boy contrived to get from the box and reach the footboard, from the foot-board he walked along the carriage (the horses still continuing at full speed) and got to their heads, and then by laying hold of the reins, stopped them just at the moment when they were on the point of crossing the bank leading into the meadow adjoining the road, "To those who are acquainted with the road, it will appear next to a miracle that they travelled so far without the slightest injury, having turned in safety all the sharp corners between the place from whence they started and where they stopped; having passed a waggon and a mail-coach in a . narrow part of the causeway, and run against the chain or curb stones of the different bridges on one side or the other. But above all, the little boy so managing in the dark, having nothing but the carriagelamps to light the way, and the horses being in full gallop, to walk along the pole of the carriage and get at the reins, is something above praise, and exceeds all belief. The space the horses ran is upwards of three quarters of a mile, and, except as to a very short part, is without any boundary-feuce on either side; and thus to escape without any accident should afford a lesson to all who may be placed in a similar situation, not to leave the carriage, but wait patiently for what may befal them." THOMAS SMITH, JUN. ESQ. B. A. July 30. At the house of his father, North End, Little Ilford, Essex, in the twenty-second year of his age, Thomas Smith, jun. esq. youngest son of Thomas Smith, esq. Distillery, Whitechapel road. This young man, no less distinguished by natural endowments, than by his literary. acquire 1825.] OBITUARY.-Thomas Smith, Jun. Esq. B.A. At the age of six and a half, this youth was placed under the care of the Rev. Dr. Hooker, an able and experienced teacher, who has long kept a private seminary of great respectability at Rottingdean, near Brighton. He had previously, under the care of his excellent mother, made some proficiency in the rudiments of learning; and to the attention thus early bestowed on the culture of his mind, may be traced, in some measure, those habits of application, and that taste for literature, by which he was afterwards distinguished. With Dr. Hooker he continued five years, making, for his time of life, great progress, and manifesting an ardent passion for classical learning. The master fully appreciated the talent of the scholar, and upon his removal, fearing that his father might design him for trade, wrote an expostulatory letter, declaring that such a destination would be a kind of literary homicide, and strongly urging that he should be sent to a public school, to be educated for one of the English Universities. The step thus recommended according with his father's views, he was in consequence entered at Harrow, and boarded in the house of the Rev. Dr. Butler, the Head Master, having for his private tutor the Rev. S. E. Batten, one of the Assistant Masters of the school. Here, he soon obtained those highly prized tokens of merit which mark the progress, and call forth the exertions of the youth educated in our best public seminaries. The periodical letters to the parent from the Head Master (whose kindness and attention to him were unremitted), as well as the communications of the Tutor, were full of the son's praise. At Midsummer 1820, he quitted Harrow, bearing with him the esteem of all, and numerous school prizes. The last of these was of peculiar distinction, given by the Governors for the best Greek Ode on the opening of the school-rooms after their enlargement. The Ode, publicly recited before a polite, a numerous, and respectable audience, was honoured with the approbation of the late Rev. Dr. Parr, and other distinguished scholars, who were present on the occasion. After leaving Harrow, and at the age of seventeen, he was placed for one year under the care and private tuition of the Rev. George Millett, then resident at Dunmow. From him he received testimonials of entire 279 approbation, with every encouragement to hope for distinction in his future progress. He was admitted of Trinity College, Cambridge, Christmas 1819, and in October 1821 (at the age of eighteen) commenced residence. In 1823, he gained, at his first sitting, a College Scholarship. This to him was a valuable acquisition, for without it he could not have aspired to a Fellowship, which had ever been one great object of his ambition, and which, in Trinity College, is known to be the reward only of the most distinguished merit, ascertained upon strict examination, and comparative trial. He did not, however, reach the time, when, by the statutes of the College, he could have become a competitor for that high honour. With a frame of body never robust, and a mind much alive to sensibility, in the Autumn of 1824 he began to exhibit symptoms of that malady which, either entirely generated, or greatly aggravated by intense study, in the end proved so fatal to him. As the time of his public examinations approached, this malady rapidly encreased; and when that period had arrived, he was advised by many of his friends to forego the perplexity and anxiety of the trial. Others, aware of the mortification, and, with reference to his health, of the probable injury which this would occasion to him, urged him on. He soon decided on the course he should take; and though so enfeebled as to require to be daily carried to the Senate House (the severity of his complaint having rendered the most critical time for reading nearly unavailable) he obtained in January 1825, when taking his degree of B. A. a respectable mathematical honour, that of senior Optime. Nor did this content him; for, at the voluntary classical examination of commencing Bachelors in the succeeding month, he again presented himself. In that tripos, amongst the competitors from the whole University, he appears to have gained the second place; and, amongst those from his own College, the first. Here, he ought to have stopped; and it is to be regretted that he did not. To establish his reputation as a scholar, enough had been done. Those who knew him best, doubted not that, had he been blessed with a better state of health, he had been capable of satisfying their most sanguine wishes, and thought that his unhappy condition ought to have precluded his contending immediately afterwards for the Chancellor's medals; in which content, with very formidable competitors (the strength of his disorder encreasing rapidly, accompanied with high symptomatical fever) he proved unsuccessful. Shortly afterwards, leaving Cambridge, he repaired for a while to the sea side, to recover, if possible, his health: but in vain; his complaint had gotten the better of his con |