bequeathed his collection of antique paintings, carvings, and other curiosities to his friend Sir S. R. Meyrick, and they are now preserved at Goodrich Court. Sir Samuel wrote a Descriptive Catalogue" of them, which is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1836, volumes v. and vi. of the new series. The gentlemen to whom he left the residue of his property were the Rev. Mr. Goddard and W. Weller Singer, Esq.

In manners Mr. Douce was a perfect gentleman of the old school; a little reserved on first acquaintance; but, when this was passed, easy, affable, and kind, and no one could be more alive to the common courtesies of life which make intercourse agreeable. He was passionately fond of music, and was well acquainted with the works of Handel, Corelli, and the great composers of the last century. He had also in early life been a toxophilite and an angler; and retained to the last a love of the latter sport, which he sometimes practised in his annual visits to the country, which also afforded him facilities for the study of entomology, in which he took much pleasure. He expired on March the 30th, 1834, in his 77th year.t

P. 703, 1. 7. See Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, i. 373.

P. 718, 1. 15, add note, "See Mr. Denne's remarks on the pillars in the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, in Archæologia, vol. x. p. 41."

P. 721, note, 1. ult. add, " George Risdale (probably his son, called nephew to Mr. Windham) was captain, and marine paymaster and storekeeper at Bombay. His widow, Elizabeth, died Dec. 16, 1821."

P. 725, 1. 3. "Mr. William Julius Mickle died Oct. 28, 1788; and his widow, daughter of Mr. Robert Tomkins, Feb. 20, 1811." (See Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary.)

P. 727. Dr. John Buckner, Bishop of Chichester, died May 2, 1824. See a memoir in Gent. Mag. May, 1824, p. 459; and his portrait in Dallaway's History of Chichester; see also Lit. Illust. Index, VIII. 15.

P. 728, 1. 11 from bottom, "A tablet of white marble was, in 1820, placed in the south transept of Hereford Cathedral, to the memory of Dr. Napleton, with the following inscription by the Rev. John Guard, Rector of Pembridge:

'Sacred to the memory of John Napleton, D.D. Canon Residentiary of this Cathedral, and Chancellor of the Diocese, who died on the 9th of Dec. 1817, in the 80th year of his age; worthy

* Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, K.H. LL.D. F.S.A. died on the 2d April, 1848, in his 65th year, and a memoir of him was given in the Gentleman's Magazine for July, 1848, p. 92.

† Abridged from a memoir in the Gentleman's Magazine. Such parts of the memoir as relate to dissensions between Mr. Douce and his family, and the circumstances connected with Mr. Nollekens' property, are omitted, as they were contradicted in the Gent. Mag. for Dec. 1834, p. 338. A copy of Mr. Douce's will, itself a literary curiosity, follows the memoir in Gent. Mag. for August 1834, p. 216.

to be numbered with the good for his exemplary virtues, and with the wise for the application of high talents to important purposes; distinguished during his academical career by his exertions for the advancement of learning, diligent in the discharge of his judicial duties, an active promoter of the temporal welfare of all who relied on his assistance, he laboured more abundantly at the great work of the eternal salvation of mankind; not ceasing to prove his zeal for Religion, when he grew old in its service; but through the decline of life, as in the prime of his days, and even amidst the afflictive languor which preceded his dissolution, enlightening the world by fresh illustration of the Gospel, to the very last.'

A good likeness of Dr. Napleton was painted by Leeming in 1814, and is engraved by Picart as a private plate. A fine wholelength painting by Devis is preserved in the hospital at Ledbury, where the Doctor was for many years Master. See Gent. Mag. vol. xciv. ii. p. 594, where is added a list of Dr. Napleton's works.

P. 738, note, l. 14 from bottom, "Dr. William Disney died at Pluckley, March 28, 1807, aged 75, and his remains were interred in the family-vault at Cranbrook. His widow survived till the 18th of May, 1820, when she died at Ashford, aged 84, and was buried at Cranbrook."

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P. 753, note, 1. 4 from bottom, omit now."

P. 755, 1. 2, and note, 1. 9 from bottom. "This was the afterwards well-known Lieut.-Gen. Sir Herbert Taylor, G.C.B. and G.C.H., Colonel of the 85th Foot, who died at Rome, April 20, 1839, aged 63."

P. 762, add to note, "Francis, Chief of the province of Chittagong, son of Archdeacon Law, is mentioned in Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, p. 229."

P. 763, note. Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart. was the only son of Sir Hugh Inglis, Bart., by Catharine, daughter and co-heir of Harry Johnson, esq. of Milton Bryant, co. Bedford. His father, who was grandson of Robert Inglis, esq. some time M.P. for Edinburgh, was for many years a leading director of the East India Company, some time M.P. for Ashburton, and created a Baronet in 1801 (see the Gentleman's Magazine for Sept. 1820, and a further memoir published in 1821, 8vo.) Sir Robert was born in London, on the 12th Jan. 1786. He was educated at Winchester College, under the immediate care of the late Bishop Huntingford, and at Christ Church, Oxford, under Dr. Cyril Jackson. He graduated B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; and the degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon him in 1826. On the 8th June, 1818, he was called to the bar, by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn. He was subsequently elected Recorder of Devizes, and was for some years chairman of quarter sessions in Bedfordshire; but he did not pursue the law as a profession, being in early life for some time private secretary to Lord Sidmouth, and in 1812 appointed one of the commissioners for the settlement of the affairs of the Carnatic, which office he retained for many years. He first entered Parliament in 1824, as member for the Irish

borough of Dundalk, through the patronage of the Earl of Roden; and, in 1826, was elected for Ripon, on the nomination of Miss Lawrence. In Feb. 1829, when the change of policy in Sir R. Peel, in regard to the Roman Catholic claims, offended his supporters in the University of Oxford, and when he, in consequence, accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, in order to replace himself in the hands of his constituency, Sir Robert Inglis was selected by the Protestant party as his substitute, and was returned by a majority of 755 to 609. From that period Sir Robert continued to represent the university until his retirement, on account of impaired health, in 1853. So long as he was able to perform his parliamentary duties he was one of the most assiduous and laborious members of the senate. He was not only very attentive to all the actual business of the house, but he was ever ready to take part in debate, in defence of our ancient institutions in Church and State. His firm and consistent assertion of his sentiments was, however, always tempered by good sense and moderation, and by invariable courtesy of demeanour. Few persons have, in that respect, been more remarkable. He had a kind recognition and a few words of conversation for perhaps a larger circle of acquaintance than any other public man who survived him. It will be long before Sir Robert Inglis is entirely forgotten in those societies which he has long cheered by his bonhommie; and the younger members of the House of Commons will, for many years to come, recal to mind, among the early associations of their senatorial life, the member for Oxford University moving quietly on towards his place in the House, with a fresh flower at his button-hole, and with a genial smile and courteous word for every one.

Some of Sir Robert Inglis's speeches in the House of Commons were printed as pamphlets: as, 1. Speech on the third reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, May 10, 1825; 2. Substance of two speeches on the Roman Catholic Question, May 10, 1825, and May 9, 1828; 3. The Universities and Dissenters, substance of a speech, 26th March, 1834.

Sir Robert Inglis took an active part in many public societies, both of the learned and the religious class. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Feb. 22, 1816, and from 1846 was one of its Vice-Presidents, except during the year before his death, when he retired in rotation. He was a member of the Record Commission during the reign of King William the Fourth. He was elected a Trustee of the British Museum in the room of the Earl of Hardwicke in 1834; and was also a Trustee of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. He had for many years been a Vice-President of the Royal Literary Fund Society, and was elected Professor of Antiquity in the Royal Academy in 1850. He was also President of the Literary Club, the same which is usually called Dr. Johnson's Club.

He was an active supporter of the religious and educational societies connected with the Established Church. He was one of

the Royal Commissioners for Building Churches and a Trustee of the Metropolis Churches Fund. He had for many years been one of the Treasurers of the fund for the Sons of the Clergy; he was also a Vice-President of the Clergy Orphan Society, a Life Governor of King's College, London, and President of the National Truss Society. He was a Director of the University Life Assurance Society, and of the Phoenix Fire Office. He was an elegant scholar both in classical and English literature; and in every private relation an upright, charitable, and benevolent man. Sir Robert married in 1807 Mary eldest daughter (by the first marriage) of Joseph Seymour Biscoe, esq. of Penhill, Surrey, but had no issue. The baronetcy consequently became extinct on his death, which took place in Bedford Square, May 5, 1855, in his 70th year. Sir Robert's last surviving sister died at Milton Bryant in Oct. 1853. A characteristic portrait of Sir Robert Inglis, by Richmond, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1855, and one was published some years before in Ryall's series of Eminent Conservative Statesmen.

P. 763, note, 1. penult. r. George Basevi, Esq. F.S.A. This gentleman was unfortunately killed at Ely Cathedral, Oct. 16, 1845, aged 51. He was the youngest son of George Basevi, Esq. of Brighton; was educated at the school of the Rev. Dr. Burney, at Greenwich; and received his first professional instruction as pupil in the office of the late Sir John Soane; after which he studied during three years in Greece and Rome. He soon rose into notice, and executed many public and private works which have been deservedly admired for their general arrangement and exquisite taste. Belgrave Square, erected from his designs, is without a rival in that style of architecture. But his great work is the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, perhaps the finest building in modern times of the florid Italian style. He was also joint architect with Mr. Sydney Smirke of the splendid Conservative Club, in St. James's Street. Among the churches built or restored by him are the small churches in the early-English style at Twickenham and Brompton, and the Norman church at Hove, near Brighton, while St. Mary's Hall at the other extremity of Brighton attests his equal skill in the Elizabethan style. He was highly esteemed for his great talents, integrity of character, and gentlemanly manners, and much beloved in his family and among his friends. He married March 30, 1830, Miss Frances-Agnata Biscoe, whom with eight young children he left to deplore the awful calamity which suddenly deprived him of life. He had been the evening before in company with the Dean of Ely and the Rev. Mr. Stewart to inspect the West Bell Tower of Ely Cathedral, then undergoing some repairs, with the construction of which he was much struck; and on the return of the party to the deanery, where he spent the evening and slept, it was the subject of much interesting discussion. On the following morning he was to have left for Cambridge, but proposed before his departure another visit to the Bell Tower, where it would appear that, while absorbed in con