At

Southrop, in Gloucestershire, where his father was then officiating as curate. an early age he was placed at school, under Dr. Morris, of Brentford, for three years; he was then removed to the new proprietary school at Kensington, under the Rev. J. T. Evans, a friend of his father. In the session 1831-32, being in his 14th year, he was entered at University College, London, beginning his studies with the classes of experimental and natural philosophy, under the late Dr. Ritchie; in the session 1832-33, he obtained the second honour in that class. In the following session he was placed as laboratory pupil to the late Dr. Turner, and attended the lectures on chemistry under that eminent professor, and obtained the gold medal and first honour in competition with the whole body of medical and arts students. In 1834-35 he took the class of botany, in which he stood sixth. In 1835-36 he became a private pupil to Mr. Quain, the professor of anatomy, and may be said now to have begun his medical studies. In the honours we find him standing fourth in anatomy and physiology, and fourteenth in anatomy. This low position on a subject requiring so much pure memory shows that his mind was better adapted to subjects involving systematic theories and speculations than to one of mere facts; it also affords encouragement to those who sometimes despair of learning anatomy, when it is coupled with the perfect acquaintance and distinction he afterwards attained on that subject. In 1836-37 he obtained the highest honours in anatomy and physiology, and comparative anatomy and zoology. In the three following years he devoted himself to the practical study of medicine and surgery in the wards of the hospital, filling the offices of clinical clerk to Dr. Williams, dresser to Mr. Liston, and subsequently house-surgeon to Mr. Liston. In 1841 he took his M.B. degree at the University of London, and obtained the great distinction of the highest honours in anatomy and physiology, and in surgery, with a scholarship in each of 50%. per annum.

He was chosen to the honourable office of junior demonstrator in session 1843-44, and continued to perform its arduous duties, in company with Mr. Ellis, up to the time of his illness, with uniform kindness and zeal towards the students, all of whom express their deep regret in the loss of one so admirably suited for the office. Scarcely a fortnight before his illness, he was appointed assistant-surgeon to the University college Hospital.

His death was occasioned from poison received in dissecting the body of the dwarf Harvey Leach, on the 22nd of April. It was communicated merely through a small puncture made on one of his knuckles: and it was twenty-five days before his sufferings were terminated. His funeral took place on Saturday, May 22, at Kensall Green, and, besides his immediate relatives, upwards of 200 professors, students and friends, assembled to pay his remains the last tribute of respect a speaking testimony of the regard felt for him. Death has in this sad case inflicted an irreparable loss upon the sorrowing relatives and friends, and indeed upon the profession and society in general.

The "Lancet," from which we have copied the present memoir, also makes the following remarks on his character: "Those who, like ourselves, have sat side by side with the late Mr. Potter, pursuing together the same path of study, day after day, cheered on in the toil by his lively and happy company, and others, who have since then received the benefit of his excellent teaching, will know that we cannot say too much in eulogy of his talents and amiable character. Any one more universally accomplished, whether in his peculiar studies, literature, manners, and the polite arts, we have never had the good fortune to be acquainted with : never was a young man so fitted to win praise and reputation, or whose short course has been attended with more complete respect and deep esteem from all who knew him."

MR. JOHN READ.

May 3. Aged 86, Mr. John Read, of Regent-circus, Piccadilly, inventor of the stomach pump, and other valuable patented inventions for medical and agricultural purposes.

Mr. Read was the son of a small far. mer at Ticehurst in Kent, and at an early age went to Horsmonden, in the service of the Rev. Mr. Marriott, where his talents were first displayed in ornamental gardening, and his improved plans of oast building were carried out with such success, that they have been adopted in all hop districts. Here he also turned his attention to draining land, by means of hollow cylindrical tiles, and to the construction of pumps, and various other hydraulic instruments, until he invented the stomach pump; which, on its first trial, now about twenty years ago, obtained the unqualified approval of the heads of the medical profession, and is now used throughout the civilised world

as the only efficient means of extracting poisons. By other inventions he gained several medals from the Royal Agricultural Society; and he was in consequence encouraged to enter into business as a machinist in London.

Enjoying as he did the favour of the most exalted in rank, and possessing the confidence of men of the first station in the medical profession, he was still essentially humble; and, if outward demeanour be any proof of inward sincerity, from the right motive. Seldom when in town was he absent from his accustomed place in the aisle of St. James's church; and when he visited his favourite Horsmonden, he would take his old seat in the gallery of the church, where, when in humbler circumstances, he had been a member of the village choir. Beneath the shade of the venerable tower of that church it was his wish that his earthly remains should repose; and his spirit, let us hope, has become a denizen of those blest abodes where there is no pain and no trouble to need his remedial skill.

MR. G. S. TAYLOR.

Lately. Mr. George Sutherland Taylor, of Golspie.

Mr. Taylor was the confidential local agent of the noble family of Sutherland, and, apart from his laborious duties in that capacity, he applied himself to literary pursuits, particularly to the history, antiquities, and traditions of the North. His success in those studies was greatly promoted and enriched by his having access to the Charter Room of Dunrobin Castle, and the various interesting documents there deposited. He was anxiously meditating a History of the Rebellion of 1715-comparatively little known-and for the illustration of which the depositaries of the Duke of Sutherland had copious and valuable resources, hitherto unexplored. In the last number of the Quarterly Review, various extracts are given from Mr. Taylor's collections relative to the great Montrose. He contributed largely to Mr. Scrope for his work on Deer-stalking,-wrote the articles "Sutherland" and "Zetland" for Mr. Charles Knight's Cyclopædia -and was one of the most valuable assistants in the "New Statistical Account of Scotland." He wrote, for the private gratification of the late Duke and Duchess-Countess, the traditions of the county; and was engaged when he died, in the historical account of the family, which is understood to be nearly completed.—(Inverness Courier.)

CLERGY DECEASED.

March 9. At Armagh, of typhus fever, caught in the discharge of his duties, aged 30, the Rev. Robert Haig, M.A. fifth son of the late Robert Haig, esq. of Dublin.

March 12. In his 84th year, the Rev. William Bird, Perpetual Curate of Stretton, and Master of the Grammar School at Church Eaton, Staffordshire. He was presented to Stretton in 1806 by Lord Hatherton.

At Hildersham, Cambridgeshire, aged 72, the Rev. Charles Goodwin, Rector of that parish, to which he was instituted on his own petition in 1806. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1796, as 3rd Junior Optime, M.A. 1799.

March 13. At an advanced age, the Rev. Samuel Settle, Vicar of Berwick St. James and Winterbourne Stoke, Wilts. He was of Magdalen college, Cambridge, B.A. 1798, as 14th Senior Optime, M.A. 1801; was presented to Winterbourne Stoke in 1816, and to Berwick St. James in 1817, both by Lord Ashburton.

At Bishop's Auckland, the Rev. Robert Thompson, for thirty-three years Master of the Grammar School at that place, and Perpetual Curate at Escomb, Durham. He was formerly for many years the junior Curate of St. Andrew's Auckland with Escomb and St. Anne's, and until lately Evening Lecturer at St. Anne's chapel. He was collated to Escomb by Bishop Van Mildert in 1827.

March 14. Aged 75, the Rev. Edward Bulwer, M.A. Rector of Sall and Vicar of Guestwick, Norfolk. He was of Pembroke college, Cambridge, B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797; was presented to Guestwick in 1796 by his own family, and to Sall in 1818 by Pembroke college.

March 15. At Lynn, Norfolk, aged 92, the Rev. Stephen Allen, Vicar of Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, and for fifty-six years Perpetual Curate of St. Margaret with St. Nicholas, King's Lynn. In early life Mr. Allen was a pupil of Archdeacon Paley; and by his mother's marriage with Dr. Burney he enjoyed frequent opportunities of mixing in literary circles, in the pursuit of which he took great interest. He was of Christ's college, Cambridge, but did not graduate. He was presented to Lyme Regis in 1791 by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, and to Haslingfield in 1800 by C. Mitchell, esq.

March 16. At Great Barford, Beds. aged 68, the Rev. John Clarkson, Vicar of Great Barford, with Roxton. He was formerly a Fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1805 as fourth Wrangler, M.A. 1808,

and was presented to his living by that Society in 1817.

At Naish house, Wilts, the Rev. 'John Scurr, fourth son of the late Rev. Thomas Scurr, Vicar of Allendale, Northumberland.

March 20. At Dublin, the Rev. C. Sheridan Young, of Trin. Coll. Dublin.

March 22. At Spalding, aged 75, the Rev. William Wilkinson, M.A. Vicar of Sproxton with Saltby, Leicestershire, to which he was presented in 1820 by the Duke of Rutland.

March 24. At Canewdon, Essex, aged 80, the Rev. William Atkinson, M.A. Vicar of that parish. He was formerly Fellow of St. Catharine's hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1787, M.A. 1790, and was collated to Canewdon in 1809 by Dr. Porteus, then Bishop of London.

March 25. The Rev. Michael Hughes, of Kildare.

March 26. At Pera, aged 71, the Rev. Samuel Bennett, D.D. Chaplain to the English embassy at Constantinople, Rector of Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, and formerly the chaplain and intimate friend of H. R. H. the Duke of Kent. He was of Queen's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1797, as 8th Junior Optime, M.A. 1800, and D.D. as a member of Peterhouse, 1823. He was instituted to the rectory of Walton-on-the-Hill in 1822.

At Gambia, West Coast of Africa, aged 41, the Rev. Francis John Harrison Rankin, B.A. her Majesty's garrison and colonial chaplain.

March 28. At Mydrim, Carmarthenshire, aged 73, the Rev. John Jenkins, Vicar of that parish and Llanfihangel Abercowin, Perpetual Curate of Newchurch, and a magistrate for the same county. He was presented to Newchurch in 1802, and collated to Mydrim with Llanfihangel Abercowin in 1812 by Dr. Burgess, then Bishop of St. David's.

March 30. At Bath, in his 45th year, the Rev. William Penrice Borrett, M.D. Rector of Siston, Gloucestersh. He was of Gonville and Caius college, Cambridge, B.A. 1826.

March 31. The Rev. John Rose Pine, Fellow and Assistant Tutor of St. Catharine's hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1846.

April 1. The Rev. J. R. Cotter, Rector of Innishannon, co. Cork.

April 2. At Ballivor glebe, co. Meath, the Rev. Joseph Greene, incumbent of Ballivor.

April 3. At the Glebe, Westport, co. Mayo, the Rev. Patrick Pounden, Vicar of that place. He died of fever, contracted in the discharge of his numerous additional duties, rendered too laborious in

the administration of relief to the starving poor.

April 5. The Rev. William Godfrey, Rector of Kenmare, co. Kerry.

At Gateforth parsonage, in his 63rd year, the Rev. William Snowdon, B.D. Rector of Swillington, Yorkshire, to which he was presented in 1837 by Sir John Lowther.

April 6. Aged 85, the Rev. James Parsons, B.D. Incumbent of Newnham and Little Dean, co. Gloucester, an Hon. Associate of the Royal Society of Literature. Mr. Parsons entered the university of Oxford as a member of Trinity college, from whence he was elected to Wadham, and took the degree of M.A. in 1786. In 1808, on the death of Dr. Holmes, Dean of Winchester, he returned to Oxford at the invitation of the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, to undertake the continuation of the edition of the Septuagint, which he completed in the year 1827, when he retired to his preferment in Gloucestershire. During his residence in Oxford he was for some years Vice-Principal of St. Alban's hall. He was presented to Newnham with Little Dean in 1800 by the Corporation of Gloucester.

At Bowness, Cumberland, aged 35, the Rev. George William Dixon, of Sidney Sussex college, Camb. B.A. 1835.

April 7. At Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devonshire, the Rev. Nicholas Lightfoot, Rector of that parish, to which he was collated in 1831 by the Bishop of Ex

eter.

April 8. Aged 57, the Rev. John Coates, Perpetual Curate of St. Mark, Longwood, Huddersfield, and Master of the Grammar School at Almondbury. He was appointed to his church in

1822.

At Tyfos, Merionethshire, aged 50, the Rev. Robert Townshend Passingham.

April 10. At Felpham, Sussex, aged 76, the Rev. John Bishop Beed, Vicar of that parish, and Rector of Middleton. He was presented to the vicarage of Felpham by the Rector thereof in 1805, and to Middleton in 1832 by the Lord Chancellor.

April 10. At Versailles, the Rev. Edward Brodie. He was of Trinity hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1807.

April 11. At Truro, aged 31, the Rev. Joseph George Venables, youngest son of the late Rev. Joseph Venables, of Oswestry. He was of Jesus college, Cambridge, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841.

April 12. At Bentworth, Hants, the Rev. Thomas Mathews, Rector of that parish, to which he was instituted in 1806, it being in his own patronage.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

May 6. At Stoke Newington, aged 69, Mary, relict of Patrick MacLachlan, esq. of Stamford-hill.

May 7. At Paddington, Augustus Gordon, esq. late of 33rd Regt. of Foot.

May 8. Aged 61, Harold Daniell, esq. of Blackheath, Kent.

May 9. At Camberwell, aged 62, John Kay, esq. formerly of the E. I. Company's Civil Service, St. Helena.

In Hart-street, Mark-lane, John Frederick Heath, esq.

At Greenwich, aged 20, Thomas, youngest son of Thomas Goodsir, esq. formerly Collector of her Majesty's Customs at Barbados.

In Queen Anne-st. aged 41, George Barne Barlow, esq. of the Crown Office, second son of the Rev. G. F. Barlow, Rector of Burgh, Suffolk.

At Chester-pl. Hyde Park-sq. the wife of William Cowell, esq. many years judge of Bareilly, Bengal.

May 11. At Fulham, aged 47, Joseph Holmes, esq. surgeon.

In Hornsey-road, aged 54, John Adam Cawthorne, esq.

May 12. In Langford-pl. St. John'sroad, aged 66, Benjamin Boyes, esq.

In Cork-st. aged 44, Eliza, wife of Benjamin Jackson, esq.

May 13. In Cloudesley-st. Islington, aged 63, George Kirkpatrick, esq.

Aged 48, George Suttell Wilson, esq. M.A., Barrister-at-law. He was of St. John's college, Samb. B.A. 1821, and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, Nov. 16, 1831. He went the Northern circuit. May 14. At Dulwich, aged 20, John Hawkesley Gowan, fifth son of Philip Gowan, esq.

May 16. At the Club Chambers, Regent-st. aged 61, John Lovewell, esq. formerly Capt. in the 7th Dragoon Guards.

In Cadogan-st. aged 76, Miss Susannah Helena Macdonald, only dau. of the late General Alexander Macdonald.

In Montagu-sq. aged 59, Mary, wife of Charles King, esq. of Broomfield-place, Essex.

Mrs. Caroline Bowes, of Streatham-pl. Brixton-hill, relict of James Bowes, esq. May 18. In Canonbury-sq. Islington, William Moule, esq. of Lloyd's.

May 19. John Macdowall, esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, eldest son of the late William Macdowall, esq. of Woolmet, N.B.

May 20. Aged 82, Mary Ann Lamb, sister of the late Charles Lamb, author of "The Essays of Elia." Residing with her brother, she participated in his tastes and

predilections, and was equally esteemed by his friends.

May 21. In Middlesex-pl. New-road, aged 44, Richard Willan, esq. of the Grange, Hillingdon, Middlesex, and the Hill, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, only child of the late Robert Wiilan, M.D. of Bloomsbury-sq.

At the residence of her son-in-law, in Berkeley-sq. Ann, wife of William Cooke, esq. of Long Ashton, Somerset.

In Margaret-st. Cavendish-sq. John Bunney, esq. of Coventry.

May 22. In Bryanston-sq. Emily Susan, second dau. of the late Edw. Lee, esq.

In London, Arthur Saunders, esq. late of the 12th Royal Lancers, in which regiment he served as Capt. in the Peninsula. At Islington, John Fox, esq.of the Stock Exchange.

In Tavistock-sq. aged 77, Grace, relict of Wm. Smythies, esq. Colchester.

May 23. In Albert-road. Regent's Park, aged 60, John William Innes, esq. the first of the senior clerks of the Admiralty.

At the residence of her daughters, Belgrave House, Turnham Green, aged 83, Mrs. Penelope Graham.

Aged 74, Miss Fortnum, of Piccadilly. May 24. At the residence of his daughter, aged 58, Thomas, the youngest son of the late Rev. David Bradberry.

In George-st. Portman-sq. aged 81, Elizabeth-Maria, widow of Perry FitzHerbert, esq.

In Montagu-pl. Russell-sq. aged 57, Mary-Ann, widow of Col. John Murphy, of Malaga, a Knight of Alcantara, &c.

At her son's house, Woburn-place, aged 65, Ann, relict of Joseph Pullen, esq.

May 25. Aged 33, Charlotte-Amelia, wife of Mr. Francis Benjamin Dalton, Surgeon, and third dau. of the late John Bott, esq. Secretary to the Privy Purse of his late Majesty William IV.

In Manchester-st. Manchester-sq. aged 79, James Colvin, esq. of Old Broad-st. and of Little Bealings, Suffolk.

At the house of her son-in-law, Great Coram-st. Brunswick-sq. aged 92, Mrs. Francis Colebatch.

At Upper George-st. Bryanstone-sq. aged 67, Francis Diggens, esq. late banker,

of Chichester.

Aged 59, George Anderton, esq. of the Albany-road, Camberwell, formerly of High-st. Southwark.

May 27. At the house of his brotherin-law, T. Barnes, esq. Upper Park-pl. Regent's Park, aged 69, W. Prince, esq. late of Lloyd's.

May 28. In Church-pl. Piccadilly, Guido Sorelli, translator of "Paradise Lost."

In Park-st.Grosvenor-sq. Sophia, widow of Chas. Welstead, esq. Valentines, Essex. May 31. In Inverness-road, Bayswater, aged 51, Emma-Jane, widow of Major Hugh Scott, Deputy Adj.-Gen. of the Madras Army, and eldest dau. of the late Henry Harris, esq. M.D. Member of the Madras Medical Board.

June 1. Aged 62, Lieut.-Col. Elton, late of the 1st Dragoon Guards.

Aged 72, William Johnston, esq. of Camberwell.

In Chapel-st. Grosvenor-pl. aged 75, Lady Madelina Palmer, aunt to the Dukes of Richmond and Manchester, the Marchionesses of Abercorn and Tweeddale, &c. &c. She was the second daughter of Alexander 4th Duke of Gordon, by his first wife Jane, 2d daughter of Sir William Maxwell, Bart.; and sister to Charlotte late Duchess of Richmond, Susan late Duchess of Manchester, Louisa Marchioness dowager Cornwallis, and Georgiana Duchess dowager of Bedford. She was married first in 1789, to Sir Robert Sinclair, Bart. who died in 1795; and secondly, in 1805, to Charles Fysche Palmer, esq. of Lockley Park, Berks, M.P. for Reading, who died in 1843.

June 2. Aged 72, Thomas Hurst, esq. who first carried on business as a bookseller in Paternoster-row, in partnership with Mr. Orme. Both these gentlemen afterwards joined the firm of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Unfortunately Mr. Hurst involved himself in difficulties with his brother, who was partner in the firm of Hurst and Robinson, and was obliged in consequence to retire from the firm of Longman and Co. He tried business in St. Paul's Churchyard on his separate account, but was unsuccessful; and at last this worthy but unfortunate gentleman found a retreat as one of the Brethren of the Charterhouse in 1842.

At Walthamstow, aged 87, John Little, esq.

June 3. Mary-Ann, wife of William Tubb, esq. of the Castle Brewery, Southwark, and Little Bookham, Surrey.

In Connaught-sq. aged 80, Mrs. Mary Dagley.

In Piccadilly, John Baiggie Rebecca, esq. June 4. At Hammersmith, aged 70, Miss Anna Patterson, formerly of Phillimorepl. Kensington.

June 5. At Holloway, aged 64, John Lawson, esq. of Shooter's Hill and Bexley Heath, Kent, second son of the late John Lawson, esq. of Bowness Hill, Cumberland.

In Billiter-st. the residence of her son, aged 83, Louisa, widow of the late C. Clarance, esq. of Lodge Hall, Essex.

In Montague-st. Portman-sq. aged 74,
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Thomas Farrant, esq. of Northsted House,
Kent, and Great Hale, Lincolnshire.
At Hammersmith, aged 41, Dr. Ludwig
Calmann.

Aged 56, Lewis Evans, esq. Grove-lane, Camberwell.

June 7. At the house of her brotherin-law, the Rev. J. Fearnley, Lincoln'sinn-fields, Emma, eldest surviving dau. of the late Matthew Buckle, esq. of Norton House, Chichester.

At Kensington, aged 57, George White, esq. of the War Office.

June 8. Aged 15, Octavius-Plunket, son of William Bell, esq. of Woburn-pl. In Woburn sq. aged 70, Cabel Rocpe, esq. late of Oporto.

Aged 66, Andrew Henning, esq. of Lloyd's, and of Stoke Newington.

June 9. At East Dulwich, aged 73, Timothy Thorne, esq. of the Westminster Brewery.

Aged 49, Lieut.-Col. Richard Irton, of the Rifle Brigade. He was the younger son. of the late Edmund Lamplugh Irton, of Irton, co. Cumberland, esq. by Harriet, dau. of John Hayne, esq. of Ashbourn Green, co. Derby; and married Sarah, dau. of Joseph Sabine, esq. He was promoted to Lieut.-Col. of the Rifle Brigade in 1841.

At Gloucester-terr. Regent's-park, Louisa-Decima, youngest dau. of the late Joseph Cotton, esq. of Layton, Essex.

Samuel Housley, esq. of Gloucesterterr. Regent's-park.

June 10. At Hampstead, aged 36, Emma, wife of R. G. Slade, esq. of Gloucester-st. Portman-sq.

In Upper Berkeley-st. aged 86, the Rt. Hon. Elizabeth dowager Lady Colchester. She was the eldest dau. of Sir Philip Gibbes, Bart. and was married in 1796 to the late Rt. Hon. Charles Abbot, Speaker of the House of Commons, created Lord Colchester in 1817, and who died in 1829, having had issue two sons, the present Lord Colchester and late Hon. Philip Henry Abbot.

June 11. In Hyde Park-pl. West, Frances, widow of the Rev. Henry Smith. Suddenly, at Melbury-terr. Dorset-sq. aged 65, Thomas Bush, esq.

William Botsford Chandler, esq. barrister-at-Law, eldest son of the Hon. E. B. Chandler, of Dorchester, in the province of New Brunswick.

June 12. At Pimlico, aged 73, Miss Sophia Burt.

At Ham Common, John V. Bridgman, esq. surgeon.

At Gray's-inn, aged 75, John Perry, esq. one of the Benchers of that Society. He was called to the bar June 13, 1804, and practised as an equity draftsman,

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