Oct. 17. In George-st. Hanover-sq. aged 65, W. Orlebar, esq.

Aged 8, Mary-Margaret, third dau. of Sir John and Lady Jane Ogilvy.

At Rotherhithe, aged 72, Rich. George Woodruff, esq.

Oct. 18. At Regent's Park Barracks, aged 38, Lord William Beresford, 1st Life Guards, in which he was made Capt. 1837.

Aged 2 months, the Hon. Marcia Louisa Pitt, youngest child of Lord Rivers. In Hans-pl. Chelsea, aged 56, Mr. Jasper de Sainte Croix.

Oct. 19. At Camden-road-villas, aged 27, Cornelia, wife of H. Griffies Williams, esq. and dau. of James Stewart, esq. of Brecknock-cresc.

Oct. 20. In Little Ryder-st. aged 55, Capt. Charles Crole, R.N. He entered the navy in 1806, served afloat 18 years, and was made Captain 1828.

Oct. 21. In Halkin-st, West, Sophia, relict of Sir James Harington, Bart. She was Miss Steer, of Chichester, was married in 1816 in India, and left a widow in 1835.

In Upper Gower-st. Margaret, 3d dau. of the late Lancelot Hare, esq. M.D.

At Somerset House, Dorothy-Margaretta, wife of Walter Ruding Deverell, esq.

In Endsleigh-st. Tavistock-sq. aged 88, Nathaniel Nathan, esq.

Aged 73, Mr. Joseph Boulcott, late clerk of the cheque under the Board of Ordnance. He served with the Guards in the Walcheren expedition and in Holland, in Corsica, and in the retreat to Corunna in 1809. In 1812 Mr. Boulcott was present at the sieges of Burgos and Cadiz, and in 1815 at Waterloo. He was baggage-master to the Duke of Wellington in France until the withdrawal of the army in 1818, in which year his Grace appointed Boulcott clerk of the cheque, which office filled till 1849, when he retired on a pension.

Oct. 22. In Upper George-st. Portman-square, Harriet Ward, dau. and only surviving descendant of late John Ward, esq. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Aged 91, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas.

At Upper Grosvenor-st. Harriet, wife of Capt. Henry T. B. Collier, R.N. and dau. of the late Robert Nicholas, esq. M.P. of Ashton Keynes, Wilts.

Oct. 24. In Albert-st. Regent's park, Mr. Richard Cockle, for 40 years Depositary of the Brit. and For. Bible Soc.

In Kent-terr. Regent's-park, W. Brown Ramsay, esq.

Aged 37, George Bromfield, esq. late of Great Dover-street.

In the Abbey-road, St. John's-wood, John Adams, esq. civil engineer, &c. many years an inhabitant of IIawkhurst, Kent.

Oct. 25. At Chester-st. Belgrave-sq. aged 76, John Greathed Harris, esq. He had been a Commissioner of the Insolvent Debtors' Court for nearly 30 years. The situation will not be filled up. The salary was 1,5007. a year, but the cases will now be divided among the three remaining Commissioners.

Aged 53, Ann, wife of Adam Dickson, of the Strand, and Queen's-road, St. John'swood.

Aged 35, John Lane, D.C.L. Barristerat-law, the only child of John Lane, esq. R.N. of Keppel-st. Russell-square.

At Colebrooke house, Islington, Frances, widow of J. L. Woodhouse, esq. of the Customs.

Very suddenly, Sarah, wife of W. Trewheela, esq. of Stoke Newington.

Aged 79, Rob. Evans, esq, late of Oxford-st. and Maida-hill.

Oct. 27. At South Lambeth, aged 78, Mrs. Crapper, late of Brixton.

Aged 80, Peter Mitchell, esq. of the North-terr. Camberwell.

Oct. 28. Aged 78, G. Randell, esq. of Croom's-hill, Blackheath.

Oct. 29. At Clapham, Emily Hooper, youngest dau. of the late James Hill Hooper, esq. surgeon, of the Paragon, New Kent-road.

In Upper Gower-st. Paul Tatlock, esq. At Knightsbridge, aged 50, Capt. T. Roberts, formerly of the 51st Bengal Inf. 2d son of the late J. Roberts, esq. of Waterford.

Oct. 30. In Charles-st. Westbourneterr. aged 82, Lucretia, youngest dau. of the late Matth. Carrett, esq. of Lisbon.

At Greenwich, aged 33, TheodosiaMary, wife of J. Wm. Sloper, esq. solicitor.

Aged 68, Sarah, wife of Mr. Woodward, of Cannon-st. City, and York-terr. Kennington.

Aged 82, Mr. Walter Allanson, sen. of Castle-st. Holborn.

Oct. 31. Mary Ann, dau. of the late Sam. Dickinson, esq. of Great James-st. In Great Bedford-st. Miss Vandeleur, dau. of the late Gen. Vandeleur.

Nov. 1. At St. John's Wood, aged 37, Mary, wife of Rev. J. H. Godwin, of New College, London, and dau. of Thomas Brightwell, esq. of Norwich.

Aged 72, Miss Hebert, of Gibson-sq. Islington, late of Clapton.

In Upper Bedford-place, aged 49, Miss Pidding.

At her son's, aged 62, Mrs. Mary Love, formerly of Southampton-st. Bloomsburysquare.

Nov. 2. In Harley-st. Col. James Bogle Delap, of Stoke Park, Surrey, and Lillingstone Lovel, Buckinghamshire.

At Clerkenwell-close, aged 73, Ann

Cutler, a maiden lady of independent circumstances but of eccentric and miserly habits, who was found dead in a room in which she had had no fire for two years. She has bequeathed 1007. to the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews; 100l. to the London Missionary Society; 1007. to the Spitalfields Ophthalmic Hospital; and 100l. to Lady Huntingdon's College; Mr. Austin, her executor, 197. 198.; and, after enumerating various sums to private individuals, she left the residue of her property to the Aged Pilgrims' Asylum, for the erection of almshouses. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of Natural Death.

W. T. Brown, esq. of Watling-st. In Cirencester-pl. Fitzroy-sq. aged 88, Mrs. F. Kean.

Aged 76, John De Fleury, esq. of Upper North-pl.

Aged 75, Edward Medlicot, esq. of Earlst. Blackfriars, and Granby-pl. Northflect. At York-st. Portman-sq. aged 63, W. F. Patterson, esq. of Leamington.

Nov. 3. In Baker-st. Portman-sq. aged 76, Lieut. Col. Francis Andrew Daniell, late of the H.E.I.C. Service. He was brother to Colonel John Daniell, Lieut.-Col. 98th Regt. being the younger son of the Rev. Averell Daniell, Rector of Lifford in Ireland, who was one of the sons of the Rev. Thomas Daniell, (of the Daresbury family, co. Chester,) by Susanna, sister and coheiress of the Right Rev. Dr. Averell, Bishop of Limerick. He entered the Hon. Co.'s service in 1792; was present at the taking of Pondicherry and the capture of Seringapatam, for which he received a medal; and served with distinction in many parts of India, in command of the body-guard of the Marquess Wellesley, when Governor-General.

Surah-Elizabeth, youngest dau. of the late Louis Albert, esq.

Nov. 4. Emma, wife of James Fennings, esq. of Fennings'-wharf.

Aged 58, Joseph Freeman, esq. of Spring-gardens.

At St. John's-wood, aged 74, ElizaAnn, relict of Samuel Bristowe, esq. At Norfolk-road, St. John's-wood, aged 47, Major Bingley Broadhead.

Nov. 5. In Bell-yard, aged 16, Valentine Richard, eldest son of Mr. V. Stevens, law bookseller and publisher.

In Finsbury-sq. aged 34, James Charles Curtis, esq. of Gt. St. Helen's, merchant. At Brompton, aged 58, James Hughes, eldest son of the late Capt. Galbreath, of Fulford, York.

In Pentonville, aged 56, John Thorne, esq. surgeon, eldest son of the Rev. John Thorne, formerly of St. Teath, Cornwall. Nov. 6. In the Clapham-road, aged GENT. MAG. VOL. XXXIV.

86, Anne, relict of John Bean, esq. of Jamaica.

In Keppel-st. aged 82, John Lane, esq. R.N.

Nov. 7. Aged 39, Francis Morgan King, esq. 2nd son of C. King, esq. of Broomfield Place, Essex.

Nov. 8. At North Brixton, Margaret, wife of H. Harvey, esq. late of the Stock Exchange, and dau. of the late W. Stephenson, esq. of Stockton-upon-Tees.

At Blackheath, aged 79, Charles Whitlaw, esq. of Argyll-st.

Aged 68, Isabella, relict of T. Palmer, esq. of Russell-pl. Fitzroy-sq.

Nov. 9. At West Brixton, Jane, relict of T. Froggatt, esq. of Sutton-lodge.

Nov. 10. At Camberwell, aged 80, Hannah, relict of Charles Alsager, esq. of Walworth.

Nov. 11. At Clapham, of apoplexy, Percival White, esq.

In the Old Kent-road, aged 61, Lieut. Charles Lloyd, of the Royal Marines.

Nov. 12. In Lower Grosvenor-place, aged 60, Maria-Dover, wife of Charles Wentworth Dilke, esq. and dau. of Edward and Frances Walker.

Nov. 13. Aged 65, Nathaniel Huson, esq. At Green-terrace, New River Head, aged 55, Bowyer Mewburn, esq. of Chancery-lane, solicitor, brother to Francis Mewburn, esq. of Darlington.

BERKS.-Oct. 20. At Reading, aged 85, Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler.

Oct. 30. At Sulhampstead, aged 88, Jane, relict of W. Thoyts, esq.

Nov. 1. Capt. Blount, of Mapledurham, son of Michael Blount, esq. of Mapledurham House, near Reading.

Nov. 2. Aged 26, Rebecca, only dau. of late E. Bovington, esq. of Windsor.

Nov. 3. At Uffington, aged 22, EmilyClara, 2d dau. of Rev. G. Tufnell.

CAMBRIDGE.-Oct. 22. At Cambridge, aged 84, Christopher Pemberton, esq.

Nov. 4. At Cambridge, Ernest Frederick Fiske, M.A., of Emmanuel coll., son of the late T. Fiske, esq. of Cambridge.

CHESHIRE.-Nov. 1. At Nantwich, aged 53, Mr. M'Clure, solicitor.

Nov. 8. At Abbot's Grange, near Chester, aged 72, W F. M. Ayrton, esq.

CORNWALL.-Oct. 27. At Truro, aged 88, Mary, relict of Matthew Vivian, esq. of Rosewarne, Camborne.

CUMBERLAND.--Oct. 17. At the rectory, Knaresdale, the wife of the Rev. T. Bewsher.

DEVON.-Oct. 26. At Honiton, aged 69, Mary, widow of Capt. Conry, of the 49th Regt.

Oct. 31. At the rectory, Virginstowe, aged 69, Miss Jane Martyn, of Lifton. 4 R

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He was born at Harrow, and entered at Eton school, where he speedily acquired distinction, and in due time proceeded to King's college. Here he was created B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, and in the same year he was made a Fellow of the college. was shortly afterwards appointed one of the Assistant Masters of Eton, where he continued until, on the decease of Dr. Sumner, he was appointed in 1814 Provost of King's college in preference to Dr. Rennell, the eloquent Master of the Charter House. He was created B.D. in 1813, and D.D. in 1814 (by royal mandate), on his election to the provostship, and served the office of Vice-Chancellor of the University the same year. In one of Dr. Parr's letters is a passage, probably rich in inuendo, which congratulates the Fellows of King's on having chosen a Provost whose manners and temper had not been spoilt by "Archididascalian fooleries." As long indeed as Parr lived, he and the Provost appear to have been friends: they interchanged inscriptions and silver cups -their joint appreciation of elegant Latin was a natural link; while an asthmatic affection gave the Provost a reason for sharing the fragrance, without tolerating which no one could approach the throne of the most tyrannical though most goodhumoured of pedants.

Unhappily, within a year or two of his elevation, the new Provost's wife died in childbirth, and this sad event threw an air of gloom and desolation about his house, from which it never altogether recovered. No estimate of the man's cha

racter would be a fair one, which did not make large allowance for the effect of this early loss. It did not, indeed, prevent him from often devoting his keen sagacity to the transaction of University business, or from occasionally enlivening such society as he mingled in with a profusion of varied and racy anecdotes. It threw him, however, for his general companionship upon Erasmus and Propertius, black-letter bibles, and odd books generally-for there was not a vendor of literary curiosities in London who had not some reason for knowing the Provost of King's. Among the consolations of a life so spent, must be reckoned that manly yet exquisite delicacy of taste which Dr. Thackeray brought to bear upon most subjects connected with Latin. His own verse, indeed, when he could be prevailed upon to show it, was unsurpassable. His prose had the usual Eton fault of being too much a mosaic of poetical idioms, yet after allowance for this drawback it was very elegant in its kind. Nor was the Provost's enjoyment of literature confined to the Latin language. He could repeat by heart whole poems, such as the Glenfinlas of Sir Walter Scott; and miscellaneous books, but especially those bearing on the history of birds, which was one of his favourite studies, were treasured up in a memory, which, though not methodically arranged, was still retentive.

From his union of such accomplishments with great integrity of character, the Provost was very useful as an University examiner. His knowledge indeed of Greek was rather of the ante-Porsonian kind;-but whenever the question lay within his proper beat, it was absolutely impossible for him either to be mistaken or to do wrong. He took the most lively interest in each examination, and would remember for years the point on which it had turned.

Nor was he less attentive, as may readily be imagined, to questions of the same kind in his own college. A good scholar was almost certain to be his pet. In his discipline generally there was something of almost Roman firmness, or, as some would say, of old-fashioned vigour. Yet under the rigid manner lay the kindest sympathy. Scarcely any act, apparently severe, cost the sufferer more than it did the feelings of him who inflicted the penalty. The Provost never met the Tutor, if a member of his own college, without the minutest inquiries about some one or other of his flock. When, however, the more distinguished of his Fellows had been drafted off to more lucrative offices elsewhere, the Provost did not hesitate to consult the true interests of his college by selecting an alien lecturer of acknowledged eminence,

rather than any member of his own body whose merits might not be so generally recognised.

It is generally found, that men who have raised themselves to eminence attach its full value to the money which they have laboriously acquired. Nor was the late Provost any exception to this remark; yet he would often do far more liberal actions than men apparently more easy or careless in giving. Many charities have lost in him a munificent supporter; and it deserves mention, that if one of his younger Fellows, whom he thought favourably of, was travelling in ill health, and "dividends" were slack, the Provost would offer him pecuniary aid, with a delicacy of manner which doubled the kindness of the act. In his management of college property, no opportunity of grasping immediate gain ever disturbed the clear view which he acted upon of the permanent interests of the college. On this account he deserves record among its benefactors; for, though his policy of refusing the immediate temptation of fines ultimately repaid him, he practised it at a time when no such re-payment could have been foreseen as probable. Many men have been more widely popular; few, within the circle where they were appreciated, have been more justly respected. Dr. Thackeray held the appointment of chaplain in ordinary to George III. and the succeeding Sovereigns, including her present Majesty. He was an erudite classic, and an eminent naturalist; and his collection and library, in connection with his study, are reputed (as private ones) to rank among, even if they are not the best in England. Dr. Thackeray suffered for some years before his decease from an internal complaint, which finally carried him off.

Dr. Thackeray married in 1816 MaryAnne, eldest daughter of Alexander Cottin, esq. who was in the commission of the peace for Herts, and died Sept. 2, 1794. This lady died in Wimpole-street, at the house of her sister Miss Cottin, on the 18th Feb. 1818. Her death in childbirth was attended with the melancholy circumstance of Sir Richard Croft, M.D. (who had recently attended the Princess Charlotte of Wales,) committing suicide in the house. The death of Mrs. Thackeray occurred three days after this tragic occurrence. (See the Gentleman's Magazine for Feb. 1818, p. 188.)

Dr. Thackeray leaves one daughter, who is the heiress of his great wealth. His executors are the Bishop of Lincoln, Mr. M. Thackeray, and J. Packe, esq. His body was deposited in a vault of the antechapel of King's College Chapel on the 29th Oct.

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P. W. BANKS, ESQ.

Aug. 13. Aged 44, Percival Weldon Banks, esq. M.A. Barrister-at-Law.

Mr. Banks was the "Morgan Rattler' of Fraser's Magazine and other periodicals.

"One of the chosen, but fast diminishing band who surrounded Maginn in all the erratic light of his literary success, Mr. Banks wore no small resemblance in many respects to that ill-fated genius. Like Maginn he was an accomplished scholar and a perfect gentleman-variously endowed by nature, highly cultivated by study, of quick feelings, and with a warm and generous heart; like him, too, in addition to a social and ardent temperament, which rendered him the delight of every convivial assemblage, he possessed a large share of that improvidence which unfortunately characterised his clever countryman.'

He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn on the 30th Jan. 1835.

DR. NEANDEr.

July 14. At Berlin, aged 61, John Augustus William Neander, Upper Consistorial Councillor, and Professor of Theology in the University of Berlin.

Neander was born at Göttingen of Hebrew parents, on the 16th June, 1789. He studied at Halle and Göttingen; and at the early age of twenty-three was appointed professor at Heidelberg. He had occupied the chair of Divinity at the University of Berlin from the year 1813. He was one of the chief promoters of the changes operated in the Protestant establishment of Prussia, and of the compromise of the Lutheran and Calvinistic confessions in the so-called United Church. Though opposed to the offensive rationalism of the Friends of Light," he was himself one of the luminaries of the unsound school of theology which has superseded the ancient traditions of the Protestant communions of Germany.

Neander has published a great number of works:-among which the principal are, Memoirs of the History of Christianity and of the Christian Life; A History of St. Bernard and his Time; A History of St. Chrysostom and of the origin of the Eastern Church; the Developement and Explanation of the various Gnostic Systems; and a History of the Establishment and Government of the Church by the Apostles. Most of these have appeared in English versions in this country; and a translation of another work, entitled " Light in the Dark Places," presenting memorials of Christian life in the mediæval centuries, has just been published.

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MR. JOHN RAY.

April 8. At his residence, Brunswickterrace, Windsor, Mr. John Ray, where he had been well known and respected for nearly fifty years.

He was, by his father's side, of the same descent, it is believed, as the Rev. John Ray, M.A. F.R.S. of Black Notley, in Essex, and the Meads of the same county.

Mr. John Ray was born Sept. 5, 1776, at Sudbury, Suffolk, and was the second son of the Rev. John Mead Ray, the revered minister for sixty-three years of the Congregational Protestant Dissenters, assembling in Friar-street meeting-house, in the afore-mentioned (now disfranchised) borough. His mother was Miss Elizabeth Shepherd, daughter of William Shepherd, esq. of Braintree, Essex, the son of the Rev. Thomas Shepherd, M.A. who, after being vicar of St. Neot's, Hunts, and having other preferment, seceded from the Church of England, and founded one of the largest congregations of Independents in Essex, at Bocking. His father also before him dissented, resigning the rectory of Tillbrook, Beds, soon after the passing of the Act of Uniformity. The Shepherds were a highly respectable family, bearing Ermine, three battle-axes in chief. There is in the College of Heralds a pedigree of them and the Saviles, of descent from the Mexborough family.

The subject of this record was married Aug. 27, 1807, to the widow of Mr. Robert Legge of Windsor. Her maiden name was Sarah Naish, of the county of Hants. She died Nov. 24, 1844, in the 74th year of her age. By her Mr. Ray had two sons, who both survive their parents, the Rev. Henry William Gainsborough Ray, presbyter, Lancaster, and the Rev. Alfred Shepherd Ray, Independent minister at Sydenham, Kent. The latter has issue, by Miss Ann Frost, Mead Alfred Shepherd Ray.

Mr. John Ray retired from business in 1823, upon an ample fortune inherited and acquired; and afterwards, being a man of leisure, integrity, and good sense, he was invited and elected to many important offices, which he filled with credit to himself and advantage to others. Twice he was returned town-councillor for the borough of Windsor, and sat between the years 1838 and 1844, when he retired, from the infirmities of age. He was a commissioner of the highways, was on the committee of the dispensary, and of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and was sometime treasurer and secretary of several other institutions. As a conscientious and hereditary protestant dissenter, he was a deacon and treasurer of the church and congregation of Independents at New

Windsor; and a liberal supporter of the worship of God, and all those societies which have for their object the extension of Christianity, the dissemination of useful and religious knowledge, and the improvement of the condition of his fellow-townsmen and mankind generally.

Mr. Ray died after an attack of the influenza, of a ruptured artery on the chest, which almost immediately dismissed him from the body, and returned his spirit into the hands of his "faithful Creator," in the 74th year of his age.

On the 15th of March last his elder brother, Shepherd Ray, esq. justice of the peace, died at Ipswich in the 75th year of his age, in a manner similar and as suddenly. He married Miss Mary Ann Jarrold, sister to Thomas Jarrold, esq. M.D. of Manchester, author of "Instinct and Reason," &c. &c., and has left a son and four daughters surviving.

Their youngest brother, Mr. Charles Ray, by a second marriage, with Elizabeth Fenn, daughter of Thomas Fenn, esq. of Sudbury, Suffolk, and of the Fenns of Suffolk and Norfolk, is still surviving, and has a son, John Mead Ray, at Sudbury. MR. CHARLES HARMAN.

Oct. At Taunton, Mr. Charles Harman, a very old and respectable inhabitant of that town.

The deceased was formerly an industrious and honourable tradesman of Taunton, and having a passion for music, especially for the solemn tones of the organ, sedulously devoted himself to that instrument, and accepted the appointment of organist to St. Mary's church, which he held until a recent period. His latter years have been employed in the processes of building, and the elevated villa on the height of the sylvan scenery at Stoke Saint Mary, near Taunton, employed, if not profitably, at least agreeably, much of his time and attention. By prudent and unostentatious habits, he had accumulated considerable property, which he has be queathed in numerous legacies with considerable regard to the positions in life of the persons thus benefited. Some houses, which he called "Harmony Row," he has charitably devised to trustees for the benefit of eligible female occupants, respectively belonging to the parishes of Taunton St. James and Taunton St. Magdalen; and for keeping them in repair has adequately endowed them. Among the bequests is 2001. for reparations of the tower of St. Mary Magdalen. A powerful organ constructed for his own amusement, for the reception of which, in building his house in East-street, a large room was erected, is given to the Incumbent of