566 OBITUARY.-Sir C. H. Chambers.-Edmund Turnor, Esq. [June, which that humane and honourable Judge at all times afforded to the poor and needy part of our countrymen. That he rendered the administration of law less expensive to the inhabitants of this Presidency, thus throwing open to the poor the avenues of justice so long barred against them, is not the least solil advantage derived from a career fertile in benefits. But, great and salutary as was this reform, it did not satisfy that glowing spirit of philanthropy, ever thoughtful to devise and active to execute what might lessen the distresses or increase the happiness of his fellowcreatures. Scrupulous in the discharge of his high functions as a Judge, which alone seemed labour too great even for his energetic mind, he found leisure, and had the condescension, to become himself the advocate of the indigent. "But, amongst the many great favours received at the hands of Sir Edward West, that for which we would chiefly record our gratitude is the manner in which, conjointly with your Lordships, he carried into execution the recent provision of the British legislature, for admitting the natives of this country to sit on juries. The wise and conciliatory methods he took to give effect to the wishes of Parliament-the condescension with which he conferred with every class of the native community the prudent deference he paid to all their national and religious feelingsthe zeal with which be laboured to overcome innumerable difficulties arising out of the multiform constitution of our body, and the solicitude he displayed to set the intention of the enactment in its true light, are fresh in the recollection of us all. To these exertions it is owing that the natives of Bombay are now in the enjoyment of one of the greatest privileges of freemen. "A knowledge of the virtuous and enlightened character of the late Chief Justice cannot fail to have prevailed throughout a large portion of our countrymen in India; but it has only been permitted to the inhabitants of this island to enjoy the immediate fruits of his distinguished judicial administration. However imperfect any further addition may prove to this deep record of our sorrow for his demise, and respect for his memory, we beg to announce that we have raised a sum of money, which it is designed to make over to the Native Education Society, to be vested by them in Government securities for the endowment of one or more scholarships, and the distribution of one or more annual prizes, according to the amount of interest realized from the total fund, to be denominated Chief Justice West's Scholarships and Prizes.' Engaged as the late Judge was himself so earnestly in improving the condition of the natives, we humbly hope that we have devised the most durable and appropriate method of perpetuating the grateful recollection of him among them, and training up our children to the proper discharge of those public duties to which he first showed them the way. "With a firm reliance on the continued favour and kindness of your Lordships, we are, with the greatest respect, my Lords, your Lordships' most obedient and most humble servants. "Bombay, Oct. 1." (Signed by about 140 of the principal Hindoo, Parsees, and Mahommedan merchants and inhabitants.) SIR C. H. CHAMBERS. Oct. 13. At Bombay, five days after receiving the Address inserted in the preceding article, aged 38, Sir Charles Harcourt Chambers, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court. This gentleman was a nephew of the celebrated Sir Robert Chambers, Chief Justice of Bengal, who died in 1803. He was formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1809, M.A. 1814. He received the honour of knighthood, Nov. 21, 1823, being then appointed a Judge in Bengal; and was removed to Bombay in 1827. EDMUND TURNOR, Esq. March 19. At Stoke Park, near Grantham, aged 74, Edmund Turnor, Esq. of Stoke Rochford and of Panton, in the County of Lincoln, F.R.S. and F.S.A.; maternal uncle to Sir William Foulis and Sir Thomas Whichcote, Barts. and brother-in-law to Capt. Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, Bart. K.C.B., to Lieut.-Col. Sir Charles Broke Vere, K. C. B., and to Captain Sir Edward Tucker, K.C.B. Mr. Turnor was descended from a younger branch of the Turncurs of Haverhill in Suffolk, whose representative is the Earl of Wintertoun. His ancestor, Christopher Turnor, became seated at Milton Erneys in Bedfordshire, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, by marriage with Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir Walter Erneys. Their grandson Christopher had two sons, who rose to considerable eminence. Sir Christopher, the elder, was appointed one of the Barons of the Exchequer in 1660, and at his death left as his widow a sister of the celebrated Sir Philip Warwick, a 1829.] OBITUARY.-Edmund Turnor, Esq. lady who lived to the age of 101. From that marriage the families of Byng and Pocock are descended. The younger brother, Edmund, was one of the Farmers of the Customs, and was likewise knight ed in 1663*. By marriage with Margaret, daughter of Sir John Harrison, Knt. he became possessed of the manor of Stoke Rochford, and from that alliance the gentleman now deceased was fourth in descent. His great-grandmother was Diana Cecil, a granddaughter of the second Earl of Salisbury+. His father was Edmund Turnor, Esq. who died in 1805 (and is noticed in vol. LXXv. i. 185); and his mother was Mary, only daughter of John Disney, of Lincoln, esq. by Frances, daughter of George Cartwright, of Ossington in Nottinghamshire, Esq. Mr. Turnor early acquired a taste for topography and antiquities, and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1778. In 1779 he printed, in 4to, "Chronological Tables of the High Sheriffs of the County of Lincoln, and of the Knights of the Shire, Citizens, and Burgesses in Parliament within the same, from the earliest accounts to the present time. London, printed by Joseph White." In 1781, when Mr. Turnor had 66 just returned from his travels," he is thus mentioned in a letter of John Charles Brooke, Somerset Herald ‡, to Mr. Gough: "By letter from young Mr. Turnor, of Lincolnshire, the editor of the Lincolnshire Sheriffs, &c. he desires to know whether your Camden for Lincolnshire is printed, as he will add to it." From a subsequent letter it appears that Mr. Turnor did furnish some contributions to Mr. Gough's Britannia. In 1783 he compiled and printed a neat little pamphlet, intituled" London's Gratitude; or, an Account of such pieces of Sculpture and Painting as have been placed in Guildhall at the expence of the City of London. To which is added, a List of those distinguished persons to whom the Freedom of the City has been presented since the year There is a portrait of Sir Edmund at Stoke Rochford, and an engraving of it in the History of Grantham. + In the house at Stoke Rochford is a fine painting by Zucchero of Robert, the first Earl, King James's Treasurer and Prime Minister. ↑ Mr. Turnor was an intimate friend of Mr. Brooke, who alludes to him in other letters to Mr. Gough; and on Mr. Brooke's melancholy death in 1794, was one of the friends who, with the Duke of Norfolk, the Presidents of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, &c, attended his funeral. 567 MDCCLVIII. With Engravings of the Sculptures, &c." Again in 1783, Mr. Brooke writes, "Mr. Turnor called on me on his way to Lincolnshire from Normandy, but I did not see him; but have had a letter from him since, by which I find he has had some drawings made of antiquities in that country, which he will bring to town to show us next year. He is much delighted with his expedition." In pursuance of this promise, Mr. Turnor communicated to the Society of Antiquaries in the following spring, a "Description of an ancient Castle at Rouen in Normandy, called Le Château du Vieux Palais, built by Henry V. King of England." This was read before the Society, April 1, 1784, and, with a folding plate of two views and a plan of the castle, is printed in the Archæologia, vol. VII. pp. 232-235. We find by the title that Mr. Turnor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy at Rouen. In 1792 Mr. Turnor communicated to the Society, as a supplement to the volume of Household Accounts they had published, "Extracts from the Household-Book of Thomas Cony, of Bassingthorpe, co. Lincoln." These were read, Jan. 19, 1792, and are printed in the Archæologia, vol. xi. pp. 22-33. In the Royal Society Mr. Turnor was associated in 1786, and in 1792 he communicated to that learned body "A narrative of the Earthquake felt in Lincolnshire, and the neighbouring Countries, on the 25th of February, 1792. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks." This was read May 10, 1792, and printed in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. LXXXI!. pp. 283-288. In 1793 Mr. Turnor communicated to Dr. Kippis, for his edition of the "Biographia Britannica" then in progress, a memoir of Sir Richard Fanshawe, the eminent statesman, negotiator, and poet, in the reign of Charles the First, who married the daughter of the Sir John Harrison before-mentioned. This article is printed in the fifth volume of that biographical collection, pp. 661-664. In 1801 Mr. Turnor furnished the Society of Antiquaries with some "Remarks on the Military History of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century." These were read June 11 and 18 that year, and, with a plate giving a plan of the Outworks, were printed in the Archæologia, vol. xiv. pp. 119-131. Of the garrison of Bristol, Mr. Turnor's ancestor, afterwards Sir Edmund, was treasurer for Charles the First. At the close of the year 1802, Mr. Turnor was elected to Parliament for the borough of Midhurst; but he sat 568 OBITUARY.-Edmund Turnor, Esq.-W. Currie, Esq. [June, only until the dissolution in 1806. He served the office of High Sheriff for Lincolnshire in 1810. Having for a considerable time made the topography of his neighbourhood his study, in 1806 Mr. Turnor published the result of his researches in a handsome quarto volume, under the title of "Collections for the History of the Town and Soke of Grantham; containing authentic Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton; now first published from the original MSS. in the possession of the Earl of Portsmouth," This work has a long review in our vol. LXXVI. pp. 529-535, and in the Monthly Review, vol. LVI. pp. 396-407. "A Declaration of the Diet and Particular Fare of King Charles the First, when Duke of York," was in 1802 communicated to the Antiquarian Society by Mr. Turnor, from a manuscript in vellum, in the possession of his brotherin-law Sir William Foulis, the descendant and representative of Sir David Foulis, the Prince's Cofferer. It is printed in the Archæologia, vol. xv. pp. 1-12. We believe Mr. Turnor to have been the editor of "A Short View of the Proceedings in the County of Lincoln, for a limited exportation of Wool," printed in 4to. 1824.. In 1825 Mr. Turner furnished the Antiquaries with an "Account of the Remains of a Roman Bath near Stoke in Lincolnshire," printed, with three plates, in the Archæologia, vol. XXII. pp. 26-32; and immediately before his death, he sent an account of some further similar discoveries in the same neighbourhood, as was noticed in the Report of the Society's proceedings, in our last number, p. 453. Mr. Turnor acted in the commission of the peace for the county of Lincoln, but of late years had ceased to do so. As he was well versed in the laws of his country, and was cool, judicious, and accessible, his retirement from the duties of a magistrate was a matter of regret to his neighbourhood. He has been known to express his dislike of the character of an overzealous magistrate, but no one more exhibited in his own person the just and useful one. Mr. Turnor was twice married, firstly, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Philip Broke, Esq. of Nacton, Suffolk, and by her, who died Jan. 21, 1801, he had one daughter, Elizabeth-Edmunda, the wife of Frederick Manning, Esq.; and secondly, March 22, 1803, to Dorothea, third daughter of Lieut.-Col. Tucker, by whom he had Mary-Henrietta, who died in 1815 at the age of eleven; Edmund, who died at Eten school in 1821, at the age of fourteen*; Algernon and Sophia who died infants in 1807 and 1818; besides five sons and two daughters, who survive, Christopher, Cecil, Algernon, Henry-Martin, Philip-Broke, Charlotte, and Harriet. The remains of Mr. Turnor were interred in the family vault at Stoke Rochford, which was erected in 1801. He had also built for himself an altar-tomb in the wall of the chancel, decorated in front with angels, and divided by Gothie compartments; and over it a Gothie arch, ornamented with foliage, roses, &c. WILLIAM CUrrie, Esq. June 3. At East Horsley, Surrey, in his 74th year, William Currie, Esq. He was the head of the banking-bouse of Currie and Co. Cornhill, and eldest son of Currie, Esq., of Bow, near Stratford. In 1784 Mr. Currie purchased the manor of East Horsley, with a good mansion-house, in which he became a constant resident, and a considerable quantity of land, a good deal of which was scattered in small parcels in common fields. The House had been the residence of George Fox, Esq. nephew of Lady Viscountess Lanesborough. When Mr. Currie became the owner; he formed a design of making a park out of land which adjoined the house, which he effected; grubbing up hedges, leaving trees standing, and planting many others in the most judicious manner, which he lived to see arrive at great perfection. He fortunately had oppor tunities of purchasing nearly all the other land in the parish; and happily for himself, his family, and all the inhabitants of the parish, he had the means with which to make those purchases. We say happily for the inhabitants of the parish, for a more benevolent man, and family, never blessed a village or neighbourhood. He married a lady of the name of Gore, who survives him, and has left two sons and one daughter. * His epitaph and character by his tutor the Rev. C. S. Hawtrey (see vol. XCI. i. 283), were printed as a leaf to be inserted in the History of Grantham, pp. 135*-136*. Another addition which Mr. Turnor made to the copies of the work in the libraries of his friends, was a plate of the tomb of Henry Rochford, Esq. 1829.] R. Wilbraham, Esq.-J. Pytches, Esq. This gentleman, who has long been well known as a patron of literature and science, was the second and youngest surviving son of Roger Wilbraham, of Nantwich, Esq. and uncle to the present George Wilbraham, of Delamere Lodge, Cheshire, Esq. His own uncles, who were of some eminence, were Randle Wilbraham, Esq. LL.D. DeputySteward of the University of Oxford; Thomas Wilbraham, M.D. and F.R.S. Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, and of the College of Physicians; and the Rev. Henry William Wilbraham, Fellow of Brazenose, and Rector of Shelford, Oxfordshire. The family is descended from Richard Wilbraham, who died Common-Serjeant of London in 1601, and whose brother, Sir Roger,* was Solicitor-general for Ireland (see the pedigree in Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. ii. p. 65). Mr. Wilbraham's mother was Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Hunt, of Mollington, in Cheshire, Esq. by Mary-Vere Robartes, sister and heiress to Henry, Earl of Radnor. Mr. Wilbraham proceeded B. A. 1765, and M.A. 1768, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was elected a Fellow of that Society. He was elected F.R.S. in 1782, and F.S.A. in 17... Being desirous of a seat in Parliament, Mr. Wilbraham, at the General Election in 1784, was a candidate for the borough of St. Michael's, and in a double return was first named; but the other candidate, Sir Christopher Hawkins, was successful in his opposition. However, on a vacancy in 1786, Mr. Wilbraham was elected for the borough of Helston. At the General Election in 1790 he was returned for Bodmin, for which he sat till the dissolution in 1796. Mr. Wilbraham was an active member of the Horticultural Society. In the second volume of their Transactions, pp. 58-63, is a "Report of the Fruit Committee," in 1812, drawn up by him. In 1819, he communicated "An Account of Two Mulberry-trees, growing in the Garden of Mr. Coke at Holkham," printed ibid. vol. iii. 394. The exhibitions of his fruit are frequently noticed in the same collection. In 1817, Mr. Wilbraham communi * Sir Roger's residence was in St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, in the very rooms in which, at a subsequent period, the Gentleman's Magazine was first produced. GENT. MAG. June, 1829. 569 cated to the Society of Antiquaries, “An Attempt at a Glossary of some Words in the Archeologia, vol. xix. pp. 13— used in Cheshire." This was published 42; and was afterwards reprinted in a separate duodecimo volume in 1826 (see a critical notice of it in our vol. XCVII. i. 51). In the Repertorium Bibliographicum, published by Mr. Clarke in 1819, it is remarked that "Mr. Wilbraham's fine collection of Italian and Spanish books includes an assemblage of all that is rare and curious in the classes of early poetry, novels, and romances: many of these were procured during his travels abroad, or at the sales of Crofts, Pinelli, and other celebrated collections. Mr. Wilbraham is also in possession of many of the works of the Italian dramatic writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; facetiæ, numerous volumes of old English poetry and plays; and most of the ancient and modern lexicographers." Six pages of Mr. Clarke's work are occupied by an enumeration of Mr. Wilbraham's principal treasures. "A valuable portion of the library of the late Roger Wilbraham, Esq. containing all his rare articles in Italian literature, and a selection from other classes," has recently been sold by auction by Mr. Evans of Pall Mall, on the 10th of June, and five following days. JOHN PYTCHES, ESQ. May 15. In the King's Bench Prison, aged 55, John Pytches, Esq. He was born at Gazeley, in Suffolk, in 1774, and resided for some years at Groton House, in that county. In 1802, he was returned a burgess in Parliament for Sudbury, being elected on the popular interest. In 1805, he joined in the vote of censure moved against Lord Melville by Mr. Whitbread. At the General Election in 1806 he was again returned for Sudbury, as the second on the poll, having 493 votes. At the election in 1807 he again offered himself, but was unsuccessful. The candidates on this occasion were Sir J. C. Hippisley, Bart. who polled 460 votes ; E. F. Agar, Esq. who polled 433; Mr. Wells, who polled 245; and Mr. Pytches, who polled 174. He married the only surviving daughter of the late John Revet, of Brandeston Hall, Esq. by whom he has left issue a son and daughter; the former of whom has assumed the name of Revet. In 1809, Mr. Pytches published proposals for, and a specimen of, an English Dictionary, which should supersede that of Dr. Johnson's, 570 OBITUARY.-John Curtis, M.D. under the following title, " Plan of a New Copious English Dictionary," fol. : but there the project ended. His other publications are, "Speeches in the House of Commons, from 1802 to 1805," 8vo. and "Prize Enigmas" in the Gentleman's Diary. On the 29th of April, 1818, a petition was presented by him to the House of Commons against the oppressive enactments of the Copy-right Act, which was inserted in the Gent. Mag. vol. LXXXVIII. pt. i. p. 445. JOHN CURTIS, M.D. May 12. At Cowley, aged 74, John Curtis, M.D. Dr. Curtis was born at Alton, in Hampshire, and descended of a respectable family there, of the persuasion of Quakers for many generations. He acquired his attainments in classical and general literature at the well-known school of Burford in Oxfordshire, and was apprenticed to his brother, the celebrated botanist, then practising as a surgeon; who may be considered in some degree as the British Linnæus, and whose Botanical Magazine has been so long the favourite publication with every lover of science. On finishing his apprenticeship be diligently attended the lectures of Dr. Fordyce, Mr. Cline, and the other celebrated teachers of the day, joined with the practical instructions afforded by the hospitals; and having completed his professional studies he settled at Uxbridge. He afterwards formed a matrimonial connection with the amiable and accomplished Miss Davis, of Reading, of the same persuasion, and by this lady he had several children, who survive him. From his brother, Dr. Curtis naturally acquired a taste for natural history. He possessed a choice assemblage of plants; and, being particularly fond of ornithology, has left a small but interesting collection of preserved British birds, many the produce of his own sport. So delicate was bis ear, and so much attention had he paid to its cultivation, that he could distinguish by its note every bird within hearing. It may here be mentioned that he was a considerable contributor to the Zoological Gardens and Museum; for it was his general observation that British ornithology was not sufficiently known. The department of a country physician gave him a taste for every thing rural, both in study and conversation. His taste rendered him a fit companion for his patients, and he was enabled both to please himself, and to instruct and amuse others. He was on an intimate footing [June, with the first families in his neighbours hood, and equally domesticated in society as the friend or as the medical attendant. As a physician Dr. Curtiunited great experience with sound judgment; but, though thus gifted, he never showed an over-weening confidence in himself. Few physicians had a better knowledge of the treatment of fever; and, though he prided himself on his attachment to the doctrines of the old school, he was the first to introduce vaccination into his neighbourhood. He was in frequent attendance with the first names of the profession, by all of whom he was highly respected, and by noue more so than by his late friend Dr. Pope, of Staines, with whom he maintained an uninterrupted friendship for more than half a century. Some years before his death, Dr. Curtis felt anxious to limit the fatigues of his practice, and to confine his attention to his particular friends. As a step to this he took his degree of M.D., when the testimonials, both to his character and acquirements, were of the first description. Dr. Curtis's early habits of life, and natural activity, joined to a good constitution, enabled him to enjoy a length of uninterrupted health. He was at last seized with some symptoms which shewed his constitution beginning to give way, and which he himself considered as forebodings of his end. They were not for some time alarming to his medical friends, but they suddenly took an un favourable issue, in spite of the best exertions of his physicians; and he died with that resignation and fortitude which is the consequence of a well-spent life. He was attended in his last moments by Dr. Tattersall, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Mr. Green of St. Thomas's Hospital, Mr. Stilwell, and by his eldest son, Mr. J. Harrison Curtis, Aurist to His Majesty, so well known for his improvements in the department of acoustic surgery. In conclusion we may remark, that the poor in bis neighbourhood have by his death lost their best friend, for his liberality was un, bounded, and whenever applied to by objects of distress it was bis motive to do good to his fellow-creatures, and not to be actuated by views of pecuniary remuneration. CLERGY DECEASED. At York, the Rev. Henry Kitchingman, Prebendary of York, Rector of North Witham, Linc. and Vicar of Kirkby-on-theMoor, Yorkshire. He was of Clare hall, Camb. B. A. 1777, M. A. 1780, was pre |