whom she was mother to George Wil- liam, the tenth Earl of Rothes, who died in 1817, leaving. a daughter, who was also Countess in her own right, but died in 1819, and was succeeded by her elder son the present Earl, who was born in 1809. By Sir Lucas Pepys, the first-named Countess was mother of three children, who, as is usual with the offspring of the heiresses of Scottish peerages, took their mother's name: 1. the Hon. Sir Charles Leslie, who has now succeeded to his father's baronetcy; 2. The Hon. Henrietta, mar- ried, in 1804, to William Courtenay, Esq., Assistant-Clerk of the Parlia- ments, and elder son of the late Bishop of Exeter; and 3. the Hon. and Rev. Henry Leslie, Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, Prebendary of Exeter, Rector of Wetherden, Suffolk, and Vicar of Sheephall, Herts. He mar- ried, in 1816, Elizabeth Jane, younger daughter of the Rev. James Oakes, of Tostock, in Suffolk, but became a wi- dower in the same year.
Sir Lucas was appointed Physician extraordinary to his Majesty in 1779; and elected a Fellow of the Royal So- ciety, November 9. 1780. In 1781, he was appointed one of the Commissioners for visiting Madhouses. By patent, dated January 22. 1784, in which he was styled of Boxhill, in Surrey, he was created a · Baronet; with remainder, on the failure of his own issue male, to his elder brother William Weller Pepys, Esq. Master in Chancery; who was, however, after- wards raised to the same dignity, by another patent, conferred in 1801.
Sir Lucas was appointed Physician- general to the Forces on the death of Sir Clifton Wintringham, Bart. M. D. and F. R.S. in 1794. In 1799, we find 'him resigning the office of Treasurer to the College of Physicians, when Richard Budd, M. D. was elected his successor.
The Countess of Rothes having de- ceased, June 2. 1810, Sir Lucas Pepys married, secondly, June 29. 1813, De. borah, daughter of Anthony Askew, M.D., and has left that lady his widow.
A portrait of Sir Lucas, engraved by J. Godby, from a drawing by H. Ed- ridge, was published in Cadell's "Con- temporary Portraits," in 1819. tleman's Magazine.
PETT, the Rev. Phineas, D.D. Archdeacon of Oxford, Canon and Treasurer of Christ Church, a Preben- dary of Salisbury, Rector of Newington in Oxfordshire, and of Chilbolton in
Hampshire; February 4. 1830, at Christ Church College, aged 74.
The family of Pett was, for several generations, engaged in the superin- tendance of the royal dockyards, having been raised to eminence in that em- ployment by Phineas Pett, who was shipwright to King James the First, and from whose autobiographical diary some interesting extracts are given in the twelfth volume of the Archæologia, and several others are interspersed in Nichols's "Progresses of King James I."
From this honest shipwright Dr. Pett derived his descent and his name; his father resided at Maidstone. was educated at Westminster, where he was admitted King's Scholar in 1770, and elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1774.* He proceeded M. A. 1781, B. D. 179i, D.D. 1797; and served the University office of Proctor, together with Dr. Routh, the present President of Magdalen College, in 1785.
At the close of 1788 he was appointed one of the Whitehall preachers. 1789, being then Chaplain to Dr. Smallwell, Bishop of Oxford, he was collated by that prelate to the vicarage of Orton on the Hill, in Leicestershire; but exchanged in the same year for that of Cropredy, in Oxfordshire, which is in the same patronage. In 1795 he was presented by his college to the rectory of Wentnor, in Shropshire; and in the same year was collated by the then Dr. North, Bishop of Winchester, to the rectory of Chilbolton, in Hamp- shire, which he retained until his death. In 1796 Bishop Smallwell appointed him Chancellor of the diocese of Ox- ford, and in the following year Arch- deacon. In 1801, he was collated by Bishop Fisher to the prebend of Grim- ston and Yetminster in the church of Salisbury; and in 1802, by Archbishop Moore, to the rectory of Newington, in Oxfordshire.
The scholars elected to Christ Church in 1774 were five the Hon. Percy Charles Wyndham; Multon Lambarde, of Seven Oaks, Esq.; Thomas Andrew Strange, sometime Chief Justice of Madras, and knighted; Phineas Pett; and William Frederick Browne, now D). D. and Prebendary of Wells. All these, after the lapse of fifty-five years, were living until the death of Archdeacon Pett.
In 1801, Dr. Pett was elected Master of St. Mary Hall, which office he resigned in 1815, when he was appointed a Canon of Christ Church.
Dr. Pett was tutor to the late states- man, Mr. Canning. On the death of Bishop Goodenough, in 1827, his late Majesty wrote an autograph letter to Lord Goderich, in which he stated, that as he knew it was the intention of the late Premier to appoint his tutor, Dr. Pett, to the first vacant Bishop- rick, if Lord Goderich saw no objection to it, the death of the Bishop of Carlisle would supply the opportunity. The offer was in consequence made; but Dr. Pett, without hesitation, declined it, being perfectly content with that station in the church he already so honourably filled. From the decided manner in which he had expressed himself, the Doctor expected the affair would have at once been set to rest: three weeks afterwards, however, His Majesty order- ed the offer to be repeated, observing, "That no steps had been taken till the Doctor had had time to reconsider his refusal, and that the bishoprick was still at his service." Dr. Pett, however, although entertaining the most grateful sense of His Majesty's liberality and condescension, persisted in his first re- solve, and the see passed into the pos- session of Dr. Percy. We know not which part of this transaction is the more rare- the second offer or the second refusal.
Dr. Pett passed a long and useful life, excepting one short interval, within the precincts of the University of Ox- ford, beloved for the benevolence of his disposition, admired for his taste, wit, and scholarship, and respected for his integrity. Gentleman's Magazine.
brilliant. In addition to the honours conferred upon undergraduates, at the quarterly examinations, for answering in science and the classics, he obtained a scholarship, the gold medal upon graduating, and the mathematical pre- mium, which is the highest distinction that can be conferred upon a student. He was also a leading member of the Historical Society, and gained some high and valuable prizes from the Royal Irish Academy for essays on subjects of general literature, which were charac terised by the same good taste and sound reasoning which distinguish his more mature productions. In 1813 he sat for a fellowship, and, from his superior answering, it was expected that he would be declared one of the suc cessful candidates; but, to the amazement of all his friends, his name was passed over, and three other gentlemen were elected. This circumstance arose from the jumbling way in which the mem- bers of the Board give their votes, all at once, or "simul ac semel," as they term it.
It were tedious to explain the pro- cess; but the reader may form an opinion of its absurdity from this- that had there been no more than two vacancies, Phelan was entitled, by the judgment of the electors, to the second, but, as there were three, he was ex- cluded, according the same judgment, from all. In the following year he was again unsuccessful; and those repeated disappointments visiting a constitution naturally weak and irrita- ble, and now shattered by intense application, induced him to give over. the further pursuits of College honours, and accept the situation of second Mas- ter in the endowed school of London- derry. Upwards of two years had passed in this new occupation, when he was prevailed upon, by the advice of the Archbishop of Dublin (who was the Dean of Cork), to try his chance once more; and, notwithstanding so long a desuetude of familiarity with the austere Muses of the upper end of the Hall, he was easily successful. From this period he devoted himself almost exclusively to the study of divinity, for which, in- deed, the solitary state of his chambers left him abundant leisure; for whatever may have been the cause, he was unpo- pular as a tutor, and either was igno- rant of the arts, or disdained to make use of them, by which pupils were made to swarm around others, his in- Dr. Phelan's college course was very feriors in every respect. A pamphlet
PHELAN, the Rev. William, D.D., Rector of Killynean, co. Tyrone, and of Artray, co. Derry; June, 1830.
Dr. Phelan was a native of Clonmel, and received so much of his education as qualified him for a Sizarship in the University of Dublin at the Grammar- school of that town, which was then conducted by the Rev. Mr. Carey. Amongst the number of his school- fellows were the two O'Sullivans, whose hopes of advancement, like his own, depended upon their own indus- try and abilities. Seldom it happens that three such buds of promise blos- som together beneath the roof of an Irish country school-room.
which he published, intitled, "The Bible, not the Bible Society," operated in some degree against his success. It was praised highly by the High Church party, but it excited the pious indigna- tion of a numerous and influential class in society, than whom there are few more active as friends, and none so bit- ter and indefatigable as foes. No won- der if poor Phelan smarted under the lash. In 1820, he was appointed to preach the "Donnellan Lectures," and his discourses were greatly admired for the beauty of the style as much as for the strength and closeness of the argu- ment. But, although his sermons were masterpieces of composition, he wanted the physical requisites which go to constitute a great preacher. His voice, in particular was bad, and so weak as to be almost inaudible in the gallery even of the College chapel. It was as a controversialist that he shone. In that field the peculiar powers of his mind were brought into action, and the variety of his information, as well as the acuteness and intrepidity of his charac- ter, displayed themselves. This Dr. Doyle found to his cost, when, in 1824, he launched out the first of his fierce tirades against the doctrines and the establishment of the Church, with all that confidence of assertion which goes down with the multitude for superior knowledge. Phelan took his weapons from a store-house into which the good easy Doctor little dreamt of any Pro- testant divine intruding; for, being well versed in the Irish language, not only as it is spoken, but, what is a rare ac- complishment even in Ireland, being familiar with its written character, he ransacked the Manuscript-room of the College Library, and speedily con- vinced the world that he knew more about the introduction of Christianity into Ireland, and even about the re- nowned St. Patrick, than Dr. Doyle himself. A pamphlet which he pub- lished under the signature of " Declan " (after an ancient worthy of the Irish church who flourished before the do- minion of the Pope was recognised in the "holy isle,") placed its author at the head of modern controversialists, and the redoubtable J. K. L. attempted to answer it in vain.
In 1825, Dr. Phelan withdrew his name from the College books and mar- ried, having previously endeavoured to obtain a dispensation from the King to enable him to retain his fellowship. Mr.
Plunkett undertook to procure that in- dulgence for him; but either he did not exert himself as was expected, or the Oxford prejudices of the Home Secre- tary were not to be overcome, and Phelan once more began the world with a wife and a curacy. He met with a munificent patron, however, in the Pri- mate, who never suffers a deserving clergyman to languish in his diocese, and who takes a laudable pride in pro- moting men of learning and ability. Dr. Phelan was soon presented to a good living (Killyman) by his Grace; and the College, to mark their sense of his merit, as well as to compensate him for the loss of his Fellowship, agreed to bestow upon him the first benefice at their disposal (Artray), the choice of which would have fallen to his turn if he had still remained in college. Thus, at the time of his death, he was in the possession of two valuable preferments.
Since Dr. Phelan's examination by the committee of the House of Lords, in 1825, his name has been but little before the public. His time has been chiefly engrossed by the pastoral care of his extensive parishes, and in the cul- tivation of the graces and virtues of do- mestic life, which his many amiable and social qualities so eminently fitted him to adorn. Irish Paper.
RODERICK, the Rev. David, M. A., Perpetual Curate of Cholesbury in Bucks, and Lecturer of Cholesbury and Wigginton; Aug. 21. 1830; at Cholesbury; aged 86.
Mr. Roderick was a native of Wales and descended from one of the most il- lustrious families of that Principality. Having commenced his education at Harrow, he completed it at Queen's College, Oxford, where he attained the degree of M. A. Nov. 15. 1769. He was a Junior Master of Harrow School, at the time of the late Dr. Parr (then Second Master) becoming a candidate for the Head Mastership in 1771; and on that distinguished scholar's failure in that great object of his ambition, was induced from strong personal attach- ment to accompany him to his new establishment at Harrow. The cir cumstance is thus noticed by one of the learned Doctor's biographers, Mr. Field: -"From Harrow Dr. Parr was followed to Stanmore by so large a number as
forty of his former scholars; and these, says Mr. Maurice, were in general the flower of the school in the zenith of its glory. Nor was this all. Another gratifying proof was on this occasion exhibited of the sympathy which unmerited suffering is sure to excite; and of the esteem and admiration which high desert seldom fails to call forth, and to attach with ardent devotion to itself. The second assistant under the late Dr. Sumner was the Rev. David Roderick, who, on the resignation of Dr. Parr, was earnestly solicited by the governor to remain at Harrow, and to fill up the vacant place of head assistant under the new master. But from concern or indignation at the wrong which had been done in defeating claims so just as those of the rejected candidate, he resisted all their entreaties; and announced his determination to follow the fortunes of his friend, and to support by his name and his services the intended establishment at Stanmore. The credit of an honourable name, tendered in a manner so encouraging to Dr. Parr, was joyfully accepted by him; and the services of an instructor of tried fidelity and known ability were received with respectful and grateful regard by all those for whose benefit they were unceasingly exerted. Mr.
Roderick is a man of very considerable powers of mind, of much acquired knowledge, and of great moral worth; and it has always been a subject of regret to his numerous friends and pupils, that none of the preferments of the church have ever been bestowed upon him, who contributed to rear so many of its firmest supporters, and some of its brightest ornaments."
How long Mr. Roderick continued the profession of schoolmaster we are not aware; but it was in 1776 that the school of Stanmore was broken up. Dr. Parr, in his last will, speaks in the warmest terms of " his old and his trusty friend." After having bequeathed a small legacy and a mourning ring to the Rev. David Roderick, he adds, "whose sound understanding, whose various and deep learning, whose fidelity as a friend, and whose uprightness and piety as a Christian, have for the space of fifty years endeared his very name to my soul."
Mr. Roderick made some agreeable communications to Mr. Field's biograpby; and to the larger work written by
Dr. John Johnston of Birmingham, under the auspices of Dr. Parr's family, he furnished much important assistance. (See particularly Vol. I. pp. 58-63, 74-76; Vol. VIII. pp. 233-235.) Two of his letters to Dr. Parr are given in Vol. VIII. pp. 231-233.
The late Rev. Thomas Maurice in his auto-biographical memoirs (Part II. pp. 47-131.), has given a long description of a tour he took to Netherby in Cumberland, and thence to Glasgow, in company with Mr. Roderick, in the year 1775. Mr. Roderick had been the private tutor of the late Sir James Graham of Netherby, and his elder brother Charles.
Mr. Roderick was formerly Vicar of Sherbourne and Windrush in Gloucestershire. He was presented to Cholesbury in 1784.
During many years an irremediable blindness and increasing infirmities wholly incapacitated him for the performance of his ecclesiastical duties, and occasioned his living in great seclusion from society; but his heart was always warm in the cause of literature and benevolence, and he was ever ready to afford the benefit of his advice, and to dispense with promptness and liberality the rich stores of his mind, to all who were desirous or capable of participating in such advantages. — Gentleman's Magazine,
SANDFORD, the Right Reverend Daniel, D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh, January 14. 1830; at Edinburgh; aged 63.
Dr. Sandford was descended from a highly respectable family in Shropshire; and was formerly a member of Christ Church, Oxford, where he proceeded M.A. 1791, B. D. and D. D. 1802. He settled at Edinburgh, as a private clergyman, between thirty and forty years ago. He was much admired as a preacher, his matter being always sound, his manner excellent, his voice clear, distinct, and impressive. He became the happy means of commencing and completing the union of Scottish and English Episcopalians in that part of Scotland, by which the respectability and usefulness of that community were much promoted. His influence in this respect, and the general worth of his
character, induced his reverend brethren to elect him to be their Bishop-an election not unanimous only on their part, but earnestly desired. His promotion was confirmed with equal zeal by the Bishops, by whom he was consecrated on the 9th of February, 1806. As a private clergyman, his merits will be long remembered by his friends and his flock. The mild and conciliating manner in which he exercised the duties of his episcopal office was generally felt, by his clergy in particular. The impressive solemnity with which he performed the religious duties appertaining to that office has been frequently remarked, and was indeed remarkable. His piety was pure and unaffected, and therefore, in the private duties of his profession, in visiting the sick, and in consoling the afflicted, he was particularly admired and eminently useful.
Dr. Sandford was the author of "Lectures on Passion Week," 1797, 8vo. dedicated to the Queen; "Sermons designed chiefly for Young Persons," 1802, 12mo.; "A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Episcopal Communion at Edinburgh," 1807, 4to.; "A Sermon for the Lancastrian Schools;' 1813, 8vo. He was also a contributor to the Classical Journal.
His remains were interred on the 21st of January, in the burying ground adjoining St. John's Chapel. The funeral was private; nevertheless the number of persons who attended to pay the last tribute of respect was very great. The Episcopal clergymen of the diocese preceded the corpse, which was followed by a numerous body of noblemen, gentlemen, and clergymen of the city, including those of the Established Church, as well as Dissenters. The Rev. Mr. Lane, Bishop Sandford's son-in-law, read the service. The Bishop married a Scottish lady; and the Rev. Daniel Keyte Sandford, M. A. of Christ Church, Oxford, and now Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow, is his eldest son. - Gentleman's Magazine.
TOOKE, William Eyton, Esq., B. A., Jan. 27. 1830; at his father's, in Richmond Terrace, on his twentyfourth birth-day.
This much lamented young gentleman was the eldest son of Thos. Tooke, Esq. F.R.S., the eminent Russian
merchant, the well-known author of several standard essays on trade and political economy; and grandson of the Rev. William Tooke, F. R. S., author of "The Life of Catherine II." and of other popular publications relating to Russia, and also of several valuable works in theology and general literature.
Mr. W. Eyton Tooke was educated at Westminster School, and finished his studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he soon so greatly distinguished himself by the depth and extent of his enquiries into the several branches of Moral and Political Philosophy, and by the acute and able expression of his sentiments on those subjects, that he was elected President of the Union Society, an Institution for enquiry and debate, consisting of a numerous and highly gifted portion of the Students of the University. He quitted Cambridge on obtaining his degree of Bachelor of Arts; and, by his own free choice, entered in the mercantile establishment of his father; still devoting his unremitting attention to the same studies, in connection with the great topics of commercial policy in which he was now more immediately interested. He had been for some time a Member of the Committee of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and actively engaged in revising and preparing treatises for publication. The over tension of mind, occasioned by these absorbing contemplations, which were not only unrelieved by the ordinary relaxations and recreations of youth, but too frequently allowed to trespass on needful hours of rest there is every reason to suppose, caused that morbid state of the brain, which, aggravated and accelerated by the unusual severity of the weather, produced the deplorable event - thus prematurely quenching all the fond hopes which his parents were justified in entertaining, but which constituted the least portion of his claims to their attachment, as his high attainments were all subservient to the better feelings of duty and affection, by which every part of his domestic conduct was influenced.
The following tribute to the memory of Mr. W. E. Tooke appeared in the Morning Chronicle:- "The loss of this amiable, able, and accomplished young gentleman, produced a great sensation yesterday. He was a youth of great promise; and, by all who had the hap
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