of his powerful mind remained to the
last unimpaired; and when the tender
thread of his mortal career was broken,
he was gathered to his fathers as a shock
of corn to the garner fully ripe, ripe in-
deed for that glory which it hath not
entered into the heart of man adequately
to conceive.

His remains were interred near those
of his parents, in the Bishop's Chancel
of Old St. Chad's Church, Shrewsbury,
and on the site formerly occupied by
the handsome altar tomb in memory of
Speaker Onslow, removed some time
since to the Abbey Church in the same
town.

Dr. Scott married his cousin Anne,
daughter of the Rev. Daniel Austin,
M. A. Rector of Berrington, co. Salop,
who survives him, and by whom he had
issue a son and a daughter. The former
died young and the latter, Anna Doro-
thea, married R. W. Stokes, Esq. of
London.

Dr. Scott had four brothers, three of
whom entered early in the Honourable
East India Company's Service. John
the eldest attained the rank of Major,
and interested himself much in the cele-
brated trial of Warren Hastings, esq.;
on succeeding to some extensive estates,
he took the name of Waring, and died
in 1819. Richard entered the service as
a Cadet in 1768, was promoted to the
rank of Lieut.-Col. and retired on full
pay in 1797. In the course of his services
he distinguished himself under the cele-
brated Lieut.-Gen. Sir Eyre Coote, K. B.
in the war with Hyder Ali Khan, and
under the Marquess Cornwallis in the
war with Tippoo Sultaun. Henry Scott,
Esq. of Beslow Hall, co. Salop, the only
survivor of the brothers, and who also
held a distinguished situation in the
Bengal establishment, proposed about
three years ago to publish the Military
Memoirs of Lieut.-Col. Richard Scott,
from the journal which that gentleman
kept from his arrival in Bengal to the
year 1793, and the mass of manuscripts
he has left This proposition not meeting
with sufficient encouragement has been
relinquished, and we are consequently
deprived of much valuable information
respecting the public events of the war-
fare with the French, Dutch, Hyder Ali,
the Mahratta States, and Tippoo Sul-

taun.

The youngest son, Foliott, was a mer-
cer in London, and with his sister Doro-
thea, who married Mr. Stokes, father of
Dr. Scott's son-in-law, has been de-

SHELTON, Thomas, Esq., Clerk
of the Peace, Clerk of the Arraigns,
Registrar of the Lord Mayor's Court,
and Coroner for the City of London; at
the Sessions' House, Old Bailey; July
10. 1829; aged 74.

This highly useful and excellent of-
ficer, and amiable man, was never mar-
ried, and is supposed to have died very
rich. He was one of the most inde-
pendent men in the Corporation. He
never asked a favour of any of his supe-
riors; he never deviated one step from
his path of duty to perform a favour for
them. The despatch of business in his
office was regular and able; and as a
mark of attention to their excellent of-
ficer, the Court of Common Council
suspended their standing orders, and
unanimously elected his nephew, Mr.
John Clark (who had been many years
his assistant) Clerk of the Arraigns.
Mr. Alderman Lucas, in bringing the
subject before the Court, said, that he held
in his hand letters from the Lord Chief
Justice, and others of the Judges, to
Mr. Clark, expressing their sense of the
great loss sustained by the public in the
death of Mr. Shelton, and their opinion
of Mr. Clark's qualifications for the
office of Clerk of the Arraigns. Mr.
Shelton's remains were interred
Datchet, attended by the Lord Mayor,
Recorder, and other civic officers.
Gentleman's Magazine.

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SHORE, Samuel, Esq.; Nov. 16.
1828; at Meersbrook, near Sheffield;
aged 90.

When we have to speak of the early
years of one whose life was extended
through three ages of man, we are car-
ried back to times, and circumstances,
and characters, which may well be sup-
posed to have never come within the
knowledge of the great majority of our
readers, or to have passed from their re-
membrance. Yet some among them
may still be able to recollect the father
of Mr. Shore; for he, like his son,
found of that heavenly Wisdom to
which both were devoted, that length of
days is in her right hand. He lived, in
the latter part of his life, at Meersbrook,
in the parish of Norton, an estate which
he had purchased; but in the early pe-
riods of his life he had been an inhabit-
ant of Sheffield, and there his son, the
subject of this memoir, was born.

The elder Mr. Shore had been en-
gaged very extensively in commercial

undertakings connected with the mi-
neral riches of his district. Some he
himself originated. In others, he fol-
lowed up the well laid designs of his
father, who lived till 1751, and was, in
his day, a most enterprising and suc-
cessful merchant. But the foundation
of the fortune of the family might be
said to be laid still earlier, and to be
connected even with the feudal state of
Sheffield; for the writer of this memoir
has heard the late Mr. Shore speak of
the large purchases made by his grand-
father, when the fine forests of Hallam-
shire were cut down, as having contri-
buted to the advancement of the family.

In the two generations which pre-
ceded the gentleman lately deceased,
the heads of the family were distinguish-
ed not more by that attention to their
extensive private concerns, which was
essential to success, than by an attention
to the public interests of the place in
which they resided, such as became good
townsmen. They were very active
members of the Town's Trust. In
every public undertaking originated in
their time they were foremost, and, in
particular, the improvement of the River
Don Navigation, a measure which has
contributed so greatly to the prosperity
of Sheffield, owed much at the beginning
to the skill and energy of the first Mr.
Samuel Shore. To assiduity, integrity,
and public spirit, there was added in
them an earnest concern for religion.
They were amongst those many persons
at Sheffield, who, not willing to conform
to the restrictions which the Act of
Uniformity imposes upon freedom of
enquiry in affairs of religion and the
public expression of devotional senti-
ment, formed themselves into a society
of Protestant Dissenters. The chapel
in which they met for worship, now
called the Upper Chapel, in Norfolk
Street, was built in 1700, and the first
Mr. Samuel Shore was one of the
founders and original trustees.
second Mr. Samuel Shore was, through
life, a member of that congregation,
and by the minister of that congregation,
Mr. John Wadsworth, was the late
Mr. Shore baptized on Feb. 14. 1738.
He was born on the 5th day of that
month; but to fix precisely the period
of his birth it is necessary to say the
year was 1737-8. He was the second
son; but the eldest, whose name was
Robert Diggles, so called after the name
of his grandfather, a merchant at Liver-
pool, died in his early infancy.

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At a very early age, Mr. Shore was
placed for education under the care of
the Rev. Daniel Lowe, a dissenting mi-
nister then lately settled at Norton.
Mr. Lowe's school enjoyed, during
many years, a high reputation.
of the dissenting youth of the better
condition, in the counties of York, Not-
tingham, and Derby, were educated in
it. Mr. Shore was his pupil for seven
years; so that his earliest recollected
impressions would be connected with
Norton; a place with which, as we shall
afterwards see, he became more closely
united.

The Dissenters of England, in the
early years of Mr. Shore, had made no
provision for the education of their
youth in the higher departments of
knowledge. Their academies were con-
fined to the education of their ministers.
Those amongst them, therefore, who re-
garded the ancient and splendid seats of
learning and science as fenced by bar-
riers which no Nonconformist ought to
pass, were in a manner compelled to
seek, at some risk, in a foreign land, the
advantages which were denied at home.
When sixteen, Mr. Shore was accord-
ingly placed in a French academy in
London, as a preparatory step to his
being sent to Germany. In the summer
of 1754, he proceeded to the Continent;
and after travelling through Holland,
Westphalia, Hesse-Cassel, Hanover,
Brandenburgh, Silesia, and Saxony, he
returned to Brunswick, and was there
entered a student of Charles College in
that city, founded by Charles Duke of
Brunswick. There Mr. Shore remained
for three years; in the course of which
he made excursions to the Hartz moun-
tains, to Hanover, and Gottingen. The
amiableness of his manners, the cor-
rectness of his behaviour, and the assi-
duity of his attention to the duties of
the College, gained him universal esteem;
but the particular favour with which he
was regarded by the Abbé Jerusalem, a
person of considerable note at that time
in Germany, who, when Rector of the
College of Brunswick, assisted him in
the kindest manner with his counsels
and instruction, was a subject ever after
of grateful recollection.

Mr. Shore left Brunswick when the
French army entered the place in 1757,
and returned to England.

There were those who, at this period,
looked forward with an earnest and as-
sured expectation to that high and ho-
nourable course of thought and action

of which the termination has only now
been witnessed; and, in particular, the
friends of civil and religious liberty
looked to the sense and knowledge, the
spirit and activity of Mr. Shore, as
marking him out as one who would
take a lead in the defence of the best
interests of the human race. They
were not mistaken in these anticipa-
tions.

It happened to Mr. Shore to spend
nearly the whole of his long life near
the place of his birth. In the year 1759
he married the elder of two daughters
of Joseph Offley, Esq., a gentleman of
ancient family, who had resided at Nor-
ton Hall, and had been the Lord of
that Manor. Mr. Offley left two
daughters and one son; but the son
dying in early life, and leaving no issue,
the daughters became coheiresses to con-
siderable estates in different counties.
On the partition of them, Norton Hall,
the park, demesne, and manor, were
assigned to Mr. and Mrs. Shore. The
younger daughter became the wife of
Francis Edmunds, Esq. of Worsbo-
rough.

Norton Hall, which thus became the
seat of Mr. Shore, was, in its ancient
state, one of the picturesque old houses
of our country gentry of the higher
order. Some portions of it were of
very high antiquity. Others appeared to
have been built about the first of the
Stuart reigns; and some of the best
apartments had been added by the
Offleys. There was a fine old entrance
hall with a gallery, and in this room
the Nonconformists of Norton and the
neighbourhood had been long accus-
tomed to assemble for public worship,
and continued to do so in the time of
Mr. Shore. Great improvements have
since been made in the house and
grounds; and a chapel has been erected
at a little distance from the mansion, in
which, so long as he was able, Mr. Shore
was duly to be seen a devout and hum-
ble worshipper. During the life of
Mrs. Shore, Norton Hall was their
constant residence.
She died there in
1781; and when some years after Mr.
Shore's eldest son had married, Norton
Hall became his residence; and Mr.
Shore took up his abode at Meers-
brook, which had been the seat of his
father, at a short distance from the vil-
lage of Norton, where the remainder of
his life was passed, and where he died.

The public life of Mr. Shore began
early; for as long ago as the year 1761

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he served the office of High Sheriff of
the county of Derby. He acted for
some time in the Commission of the
Peace; but having never qualified ac-
cording to the terms imposed by the
now abrogated Test Act, nor being will-
ing to qualify, he retired from the Com-
mission, and resumed, so far, a private
station. His public services are, there-
fore, rather to be looked for in what
could be done by a truly conscientious
Nonconformist, and his rewards not so
much in public honours as in the jucun-
da recordationes of his own mind.
the place of his birth he was always a
liberal benefactor. The Sheffield In-
firmary and Schools were the constant
objects of his attention and his bounty.
When there was any peculiar pressure
of distress, his hand was always open.
When projects were devised for the ge-
neral benefit of the population, Mr.
Shore evinced that he had inherited the
fortune and public spirit of his fathers.
He was a member of the Trusts of most
of the old societies of Nonconformists
in his neighbourhood, and one to whom,
in all affairs of importance, especial de-
ference was wont to be paid. He was
also, through his whole life, a very active
member of Trusts connected with Non-
conformity, and embracing higher ob-
jects than the interests of particular so-
cieties; and, in particular, in the Trust
of the Hollis Charity in which Sheffield
so largely participates; and in that still
more important Trust, to which are com-
mitted the lands bequeathed by the re-
lict of Sir John Hewley of York, for the
education of ministers and the support
of dissenting worship in the North of
England, he was, through life, a very
active and efficient member. To the
Nonconformist body of England he
was, indeed, an invaluable friend-one
who was ever attentive to its interests-
one who could represent it with dignity
on all occasions and by whom, per-
haps, more than by any other private
individual, it became connected with
public men, and with those in high sta-
tions who are called to legislate respect-
ing it. The mind of Mr. Shore was,
through life, earnestly directed upon
means for affording suitable opportuni-
ties for education to the ministers and
those of the dissenting youth at large
for whom more was required than was
presented in the ordinary schools. The
Dissenting Academies at Warrington,
at Hackney, and at York, were, in
succession, objects of his constant so-

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