the piety of Marcus Aurelius," says the celebrated Locke, "who, after his death, obtained from the senate publicly to erect a statue to the memory of his preceptor *.' No less memorable was the piety of the Scholars of our revered Friend and Preceptor, to erect an appropriate monument to his memory; which was accomplished in a manner suitable to the subject [A. D. 1810] by a subscription confined to themselves; and inscribed by the classical pen of one of his early Pupils, one of the most learned, most judicious, and most eminent men of the age. EXTRACT FROM THE "NEWCASTLE COURANT." "In the year 1810, a beautiful monument was erected in St. Mary's porch, St. Nicholas' Church, to the memory of the late Rev. Hugh Moises, M. A. of this town. The expences were paid by a subscription among his pupils, amounting to about £400. The monument is of fine white marble, executed by Flaxman, and represents Religion in the form of a female, with her eyes fixed on heaven, and leaning on a cippus, which is surmounted by an urn. * "Tantum honoris magistris suis detulit, ut imagines eorum aureas in lario haberet, ac sepulchra eorum auditu, hostiis, floribus semper honoraret." Capitolinus: apud Locke " Of Education." + Baron Stowell, of Stowell: long known as Sir William Scott, Knight, D.C. L., F. R.S. and F.S.A. This eminently disguished Civilian was for many years one of the Representatives in Parliament for the University of Oxford, and formerly Fellow of University College. He, long, with consummate ability and integrity, filled the important offices of Judge of the High Court of Admiralty of England; Vicar-General to the Archbishop of Canterbury; Master of the Faculties; Chancellor of the Diocese of London; Commissary of the City and Diocese of Canterbury and London; and a Lord of Trade and Plantations; and in all of these dignified situations acquired the highest reputation. He was raised to the peerage by his present Majesty in 1821. The Names of the Subscribers may be seen in p. 120. "On the side of the cippus is an admirably executed medallion of the venerable divine. "A tablet beneath bears the following very elegant inscription: <s JUXTA REQUIESCIT REVERENDUS HUGO MOISES, A.M. COLLEGII DIVI PETRI APUD CANTABRIGIENSES POSTEA PER LONGAM ANNORUM SERIEM PRAEFECTUS, ATQUE IBIDEM IN ECCLESIA OMNIUM SANCTORUM VIR ERAT INGENIO ELEGANTI ET EXCULTO, INDEFESSUS AC FELIX. IN REGENDIS PUERORUM ANIMIS OMNIUM, QUORUM STUDIIS DIRIGENDIS COMMODIS IN OMNI GENERE PROMOVENDIS ET IN CONCIONIBUS SACRIS EXPLICATOR DILIGENS, DOCTUS, DISERTUS. PERMULTORUM DISCIPULORUM FAVENTE ET PECUNIA COLLATA, JUVANTE VIRI DE SUIS OMNIBUS OPTIME MERITI 120 NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS FOR THE MONUMENT . The Corporation of Newcastle. Right Hon. Lord Eldon. J. Forster, Esq. Rev. W. Wilson, Wolsingham. Rev. Philip Hunt, Private Sec. to Lord Lieut. of Ireland. Sir William More, Bart. Sir R. Chambers, Judge in Ind. William Chambers, Esq. India. R. Ward, Esq. Rev. Robert Bates. T. Brown, Esq. Sunderland. Rev. W. Munton. Rev. Dr. Hall, Provost of Tri- nearly at the same period. Rev. George Stephenson. Maddison, Esq. India. William Smoult, Esq. ditto. Notices of Learned Masters of the Grammar-school at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, since the commencement of the last century, to the time of the resignation of Mr. Moises. 1. THOMAS RUDD, M. A. occurs as Master, A. D. 1699 he removed hither from the Mastership of Durham School, to which he returned 1710; and became successively Vicar of St. Oswald's, Vicar of Northallerton, and, in 1729, Rector of Washington, where he died March 17, 1733. In 1707 he published, at Cambridge, in 12mo. "Syntaxis Anglicè et Latinè, et Prosodia. Altera edito. Adjicitur de figuris grammaticis et rhetoricis libellus in usum Scholæ Novacastrensis." He wrote the disquisition concerning the true author of the History of the Church of Durham *, attributed by some to Simeon, and by others to Turgot. It is in Latin, and prefixed to Bedford's edition of that work. The title is, Symeonis Monachi Dunelmensis Libellus de exordio atque procursu Dunelmensis Ecclesiæ. Cui præmittitur Reverendi Viri Thomæ Rud, Erudita disquisitio, in quo probatur non Turgotum, sed Symeonem fuisse verum hujus libelli auctorem," &c. Londini, Typis Jacobi Bettenham. MDCCXXXII. "Editoris præfatio. "Cum vir Reverendus Thomas Rud, cui hoc opusculum ornamentum præcipuum suum refert acceptum, de hac historia Dunelmensi fusè disceptaverit; illamque objectionibus celeberrimi philologi * Mr. Rudd was, for some time, Librarian in the College of Durham, and while he filled that office, compiled the Catalogue of the MSS. belonging to the Library of the Dean and Chapter. This work is a thick folio, in Latin, remarkable for the beauty of his penmanship, containing a minute account of the respective MSS. It notices their contents, the size and form of the letters used by the copyists, the style of their illuminations, and abounds in many learned conjectures respecting their authors, and transcribers, and the period of time at which they were written. It does not appear that this work was originally intended for publication, but it is now in the press. W. N. D. Joannis Seldoni, qui de hac re litem movit, plenè et dilucidè refutatis, vero auctori Symeoni Monacho restituerit; atque ea de causâ illi non tam a me, quem certè multo onere levavit, quàm à toto orbe literario, quem eruditâ dissertatione sibi tantoperè devinxit, gratiæ quam maximæ sint semper habendæ non est, quod te, lector, multis in explicando detineam, quid sit in hâc parandâ editione, præstitum," &c. 2. JAMES JURIN, M. A. a man of great learning, and afterwards of great literary eminence, became Master of this school, Jan. 23, 1710. During the period that he was Master, he published an edition of Varenius's Geography, with this title, "Burnhardi Varenii Geographia generalis, in qua affectiones generales telluris explicantur. Adjecta est appendix præcipua recentorium inventa ad geographiam spectantia continens, a Jacobo Jurin, A. M. Collegii S. Trinitatis socio et scholæ publicæ Novacastrensis Archididascalo." Cantabrigiæ, 1712; dedicated to Dr. Bentley. Mr. Jurin's early attachment to those philosophical studies, which he afterwards cultivated with so much success, was evident during his residence at Newcastle, where, according to Brand, he gave lectures in experimental philosophy, and saved a thousand pounds, which enabled him to prosecute his plans at Cambridge, and take a Doctor's Degree in Physic; and, in due time, to become President of the Royal College of Physicians. He was Fellow of the Royal Society, and elected Secretary, on the resignation of Dr. Halley, in 1721. In April, 1725, he was elected a Physician of Guy's Hospital. His practice was very considerable in London, where he acquired a large fortune by his profession. He died at his house, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, March 22, 1750, bequeathing a considerable legacy to Christ's Hospital, where he was educated. |