near Retford, and was the second son of the Rev. John Holmes, M. A. formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and for 24 years Vicar Choral of the collegiate church of Southwell. After being articled to an attorney, Mr. Holmes settled early in life at East Retford, and at his decease was nearly its oldest inhabitant. In the course of a few years he rose to the summit of his profession, being generally known and appreciated as a highly upright and conscientious man, and an eminent solicitor and conveyancer. For a great number of years he was Coroner of the northern division of Nottinghamshire, from which office he retired some time back, on account of his advanced age. Notwithstanding the arduous nature of his multifarious duties, and the strict attention with which he applied himself to the practice of his profession, Mr. Holmes became, by degrees, the proprietor of a most excellent and valuable library,-perhaps the most extensive in the possession of any private individual in the county of Nottingham. Among them were several curious volumes of the old printers, together with a collection of bibles rarely to be excelled. His attention, however, was not altogether directed to the attainment of a quantity of books, but to their value and rarity. He compiled a descriptive catalogue of his library, and it was privately printed, in four octavo volumes and two supplemental parts; containing, besides, biographical notices of authors and printers, altogether displaying considerable research. The first volume of this interesting work was finished in the year 1828, when its author was upwards of seventy years of age, and was dedicated to the Venerable and Reverend John Eyre, M. A. Rector of Babworth, and Archdeacon of Nottingham. second was printed in 1830, and was dedicated to his friend Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bart. of Bury St. Edmund's. The third, printed in 1832, was dedicated to his affectionate friend, Seth William Stevenson, esq. F.S.A. the then mayor of Norwich; and the fourth, pub. lished in 1834 (with a portrait), and dedicated to his faithful brother antiquary, Thomas Amyot, esq. F.R.S. Treas. S. A. In 1837 a supplemental part was added, dedicated to John Maude, esq. of Moor house, near Wakefield; and in 1840 a second supplemental part was issued from the press, dedicated "to his kind friend and liberal patroness, Miss Frances Mary Richardson Currer, of Eshton hall, in the county of York."

The

His library, together with his collection of ancient carvings, pictures and engravings, and old china, has been sold by Mr.

S. Leigh Sotheby, at the Town-ball in East Retford, on the 18th October, and eight following days.

For the last twelve years of his life, Mr. Holmes was one of the magistrates of his native county. He was an upright and conscientious member of the Established Church, towards which he entertained an ardent and sincere attachment; and though his devotedness to literature was ardent in the extreme, yet he did not neglect those duties of a higher and more important nature, to which he has well alluded in the preface to the third volume of his catalogue, in the following words: "Had I more books, I should most probably amuse some of my remaining hours with their contents: yet it is doubtless better for me that those hours should be passed more profitably, in preparation for my great change. I have already, by God's goodness, lived beyond the appointed age of man, and, in the sublime language of holy Job-'I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand in the latter day upon the earth.'"

Beloved and lamented by his family and connexions, the memory of this intelligent and venerable character will long be cherished in a wide circle of personal and of literary friends, to whom his private worth and intellectual attainments had equally endeared him.

Mr. Holmes had been twice married, but was a widower at the period of his decease. By the first union he had three children, viz. two daughters, whom he survived; and an only son, G. K. Holmes, esq. solicitor, of East Retford.

THE REV. WILLIAM GUNN, B.D. April 11. At Smallburgh, Norfolk, in his 92d year, the Rev. William Gunn, B.D. Rector of Sloley, Norfolk, and Vicar of Gorleston, Suffolk.

Mr. Gunn was a member of Caius college, Cambridge, where the degree of B.D. was conferred upon him in 1795. He was presented to the rectory of Sloley in 1784 by the Earl of Orford, and in 1786, by Dr. Bagot, then Bishop of Norwich, to the consolidated livings of Barton and Irstead. The latter he resigned in 1832, upon receiving the vicarage of Gorleston, Suffolk, from Mrs. Browne, the widow of Dr. Browne, formerly Master of Christ College, Cambridge, the previous incumbent.

Mr. Gunn was a gentleman of the most polished taste in the fine arts, and few possessed a more classical knowledge or a more exact judgment in matters connected with them, as his several publications have evinced. The principal of these

were

An Inquiry into the Origin and Influence of Gothic Architecture. 1819. 8vo.

The Historia Brittonum, commonly ascribed to Nennius, from a MS. lately discovered in the Vatican Library. With an English version, fac-similes of the original, notes, and illustrations. 1819. 8vo.

Cartonensia; or, an historical and critical account of the Tapestries in the Vatican. 1831. 8vo.; a second edition of which appeared the following year.

Mr. Gunn had completed his 91st year four days before his death, which took place after an illness of a very few hours. He preserved his faculties to the last, and few men have been more sincerely regretted.

REV. S. E. HOPKINSON, B.D.

July 17. At Morton, near Bourn, Lincolnshire, aged 87, the Rev. Samuel Edmond Hopkinson, B.D. Vicar of Morton with Hacconby, and a magistrate for the parts of Kesteven and the liberty of Peterborough.

Mr. Hopkinson was born on the 20th Aug. 1754 at Sutton near Wansford in Northamptonshire, where his father the Rev. William Hopkinson, esteemed for his piety and learning, then resided on a considerable leasehold estate held by his family under the cathedral church of Peterborough, of which he was a Minor Canon, holding the united curacies of Sutton and Upton, until his death in 1788. The subject of our present notice was first placed at the Grammar School of Peterborough Cathedral, of which the Rev. Thos. Marsham was the master, and afterwards at Uppingham and Stamford Grammar Schools, under the Rev. H. Knapp, a master of considerable classical attainments. In 1773 he was entered in at Clare-hall, Cambridge; where, by a course of great regularity, and undeviating diligence, he obtained the first fellowship of six others, admitted in the same year. He married in May 1782, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Mr. John Portington of Northampton. She died in Sept. 1838.

He was ordained to the curacy of Islip in Northamptonshire, where he resided for four years; after which, in the year of 1786, he came to London, where he was for three months curate to his relative the Rev. Thomas Cockayne, Rector of Rotherhithe, and afterwards, for six years, was curate and lecturer of Christchurch Surrey. Concurrently with the latter appointment, he received, by the patronage of Earl Fitz William, the rectory of Etton in Northamptonshire. In 1792 he went to reside at Peter

borough, in order to undertake the care of his parish, and to attend to the educa tion of his children. In 1795, he was collated by Dr. Pretyman, Bishop of Lincoln, to the united vicarage of Morton and Hacconby, and removed to Morton, (which is within thirteen miles of Etton,) and rebuilt the parsonage there. In 1828, after having held Etton rectory for forty-two years, he resigned it, and Earl Fitz William kindly presented it to his

son.

In 1834, Mr. H. was presented by his eldest son to the vicarage of Thorpe St. Peter near Wainfleet, and, in consequence of an attack of paralysis, he resigned the same in 1838.

As a parish priest, Mr. Hopkinson was ever assiduous in his duty, courteous to all, promoting industry and all useful works of improvement, and constantly attentive to the poor. Every Sunday two poor men in rotation through the parish, dined at the vicarage. He was firm in the faith and principles of the Church of England, and a strict adherent to her forms; but ever mild, liberal, and tolerant. He reaped the fruits of such conduct in an united congregation, for, in a population of nearly 1500, dissent was unknown. In truth it may be said, that he loved his flock from his heart, and that their feelings were reciprocal. He was also an active magistrate for about thirty years, and by his exertions contributed much to the suppression of vice and disorder. For his personal activity, he was very remarkable; he enjoyed the sports of the field, and to this circumstance, united to his abstemiousness and early rising, may be attributed his length of days, and his vigorous and happy old age.

Mr. Hopkinson was attached to literature, and occasionally ventured to appear in the character of an author. The following are the titles of his publications :

"Two Discourses preached in the Asylum for Female Orphans, March 8, 1789." 4to.

Prayers, Directions, &c. for a Sunday School, 1794. An enlarged edition, with Reflections on various subjects, addressed to his patron the Bishop of Lincoln. 1813.

"A Sermon preached at the Visitation held at Grantham, May 14, 1798."

"Causes of the Scarcity investigated," and "An Account of the most striking variations in the weather from October 1798 to September 1800. To which is prefixed" the Price of Wheat every year from 1610 to the present era. 8vo. 1800."

A correspondence with Sir Joseph Banks on the Toad. 1808.

Essays, Religious, Moral and Practical. 1825. (Reviewed in Gent. Mag. xcvi. i. 249.)

Mr. Hopkinson has left two daughters, Ann and Elizabeth, unmarried; and two sons, William Hopkinson, esq. solicitor, of Stamford; and the Rev. John Hopkinson, M.A. Rector of Etton, and Domestic Chaplain to the late Earl FitzWilliam, (whose Funeral Sermon he preached at Marholm,-printed at Peterborough in 1833) and also Rector of Alwalton, Hunts, to which he was presented in 1833 by the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough, of which Cathedral he was Precentor.

THE REV. S. H. CASSAN, F.S.A.

July 19. Of apoplexy, in his 51st year, the Rev. Stephen Hyde Cassan, M.A. Perpetual Curate of Bruton and Wyke Champflower, Somerset, and Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and to the Earl of Caledon; F.S. A.

Mr. Cassan was born at Calcutta, Oct. 27, 1789, the only son of Stephen Cassan, esq. barrister-at-law, by Sarah, daughter of Captain Charles Mears, of the Egmont East Indiaman. He received the name of Hyde from his godfather, the Hon. John Hyde, one of the Justices of Bengal, whilst his father was High Sheriff.

He entered as a gentleman commoner of Magdalen hall, Oxford, the 30th May, 1811, and as a student of the Middle Temple on the 24th Oct. following. He took the degree of B.A. 14th Jan. 1815; proceeded M.A. 22d Jan. 1818; was ordained deacon 26th March, 1815, and priest on the 24th March, 1816.

In 1820 Mr. Cassan was Curate of Frome, where he contracted a stolen mar.. riage with Fanny, third daughter of a former Vicar of that parish, the Rev. William Ireland, M.A. (who died in 1813) and niece to Thomas Everett, esq. of Biddesden House, M.P. for Ludgarshall. This occasioned much unhappiness to various parties, and the circumstances were brought before the public by legal discussion. There are two pamphlets, both printed at Bath in 1821, one a Report of the Trial, Cassan v. Ireland, for Defamation; and the other, by Mr. Cassan, entitled, "Who wrote the Letters? or, a Statement of Facts connected with the Trial of Cassan v. Ireland." By Mrs. Cassan, who survives him, he had a very numerous family.

He afterwards was for several years Curate of Mere in Wiltshire; where his literary inclinations received the kind encouragement of Sir Richard Hoare, of Stourhead, by the use of whose library he

materially benefited, and who in 1831 presented him to the living of Bruton with Wyke Champflower, of the annual value of 1381.

In 1824 Mr. Cassan published a biographical work, entitled,

Lives and Memoirs of the Bishops of Sherborne and Salisbury, from the year 705 to 1824. 8vo. 1824.

This work was followed by

The Lives of the Bishops of Winchester, from Birinus, the first Bishop of the West Saxons, to the present time. 1827. 2 vols. 8vo.-To this collection is prefixed a reprint of Gale's History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Winchester.

The Lives of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, from the earliest to the present period. 1829. 2 vols. 8vo.

He also published a volume of Sermons, in 1829, and a pamphlet against the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts.

As a biographer, Mr. Cassan shewed himself scarcely worthy of the name. Not merely was he deficient in the power of original writing, but he even wanted the more humble tact of arranging the materials accumulated by former authors, and discriminating between their correct and inaccurate statements. His biographical works form the most extraordinary examples of unnecessary quotations, endless repetitions, and the impartial juxtaposition of obvious errors with evident facts, merely because they had once before been in print, that we have ever chanced to meet with. Of original documentary materials he acquired few or none; but his "memoirs" are generally formed of extracts from such printed authors as were within his reach, either at his own residence or in the library at Stourhead.

His object of making books, in order to meet a body of subscribers previously collected, was certainly thus accomplished; still it must have been more from want of skill, than want of matter, on such a subject, that such extraordinary jumbles of shreds and patches were put together.

Mr. Cassan's forte was genealogy,— that is, the genealogy of his own family and connexions. We find a communication of this kind to the Gentleman's Magazine at so early a period in his life as the year 1806; and he never afterwards relinquished this favourite pursuit. Of various genealogical memoirs contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine, on the occasion of deaths among his family connexions, we are able to specify a few.

1806. Capt. John Cassan, vol. lxxvi,

p. 781.

1810. Richard Cassan, esq.vol. lxxx. ii. 668 and vol. lxxxi. 1. 185.

1814. Mrs. Seymour, widow of A. C. Seymour, esq. of Drogheda, and daughter of Matthew Cassan, esq. vol. lxxxiv. ii. 301.

1830. Mary, widow of the Rt. Hon. Col. Richard FitzGerald; vol. c. i. 182. Rev. Joseph Cassan; ibid. p. 568. William Everett, esq. vol. c. ii. 87. Mr. Cassan contributed to Burke's "Commoners," or "Landed Gentry," a memoir of the family of Cassan, which is printed in vol. 1. of that work.

To the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Extracts from the parish register of Seton, co. Rutland, relative to the family of Sheffield, in vol. I.; and the pedigree of Sheffield continued, to its junction with that of Cassan, in vol. IV.

He incurred considerable expense on several occasions in printing privately the pedigree of his own family; sometimes showing his relationship to certain members of the peerage, or his descent (in common with so large a proportion of the English gentry), from King Edward the Third. These were sent round in search of church patronage, but we never heard that they obtained any thing more substantial than his chaplaincies_to_the Duke of Cambridge and the Earl of Caledon.

At length, about two years ago, his mind gave way under the pressure of disease and pecuniary embarrassment, and he was obliged to be removed from the service of his benefice.

Mr. Cassan was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Jan. 8, 1829. There is a portrait of him dated the same year, lithographed by Day and Haghe. He communicated a view of his church and parsonage at Bruton, to one of the early numbers of the British Magazine.

CLERGY DECEASED. Aged 46, the Rev. J. Bunting, late of Yelding, Bedfordshire, and brother to the Rev. E. L. Bunting, Rector of that parish. He was formerly of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1817.

At Templemore, the Rev. Richard Forsayeth, Rector of Kilfithmore, in the diocese of Cashel.

Aged 72, the Rev. Richard Foster, for 33 years Perp. Curate of Hunslet, in the parish of Leeds. He was of Catharine hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1793, M.A. 1806.

Aged 52, the Rev. William L. Jones, M.A. Rector of Llanddemiolen and Llanegan, Carnarvonshire, and Chaplain to the Earl of Uxbridge.

The Rev. Peter L. Langley, M.A.

Vicar of Ballymore Eustace, in the diocese of Dublin.

The Rev. George Madder, D.C.L. Precentor of Emly, and Rector of Ballybrood, co. Limerick, in the patronage of the Bishop of Cashel. He was appointed Precentor of Emly in 1814.

The Rev. Montague L. Short, Chaplain of St. Patrick's cathedral, and Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Dublin.

At Forfar, aged 72, the Rev. John Skinner, of the Episcopal Church, son of the late Bishop Skinner, primus of the Church of Scotland.

July 19. At Jerusalem, aged 26, the Rev. Robert Jewell Oliver, formerly of Pemb. coll. Oxford, Chaplain of Her Majesty's ship Rodney, son of R. M. Oliver, esq. navy agent, Devonport. His body was interred at Sarfend, near Sidon. He has left a widow, and an infant child, whom he never saw.

July... At the rectory, St. George's, Barbadoes, the Rev. William Pinder, son of the late Hon. William Pinder, Chief Judge of the Island.

Aug. 16. Aged 72, the Rev. Charles Johnson, Vicar of South Brent, and of Berrow, co. Somerset, and a Prebendary of Wells; and formerly Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. He was presented to Berrow in 1792 by the Archdeacon of Wells, and to South Brent by the same patron; and collated to the prebend of White Lockington in 1816.

Aug. 17. Aged 75, the Rev. John Cleathing, for fifty years Vicar of Thorpe Arnold with Brentingby, Leicestershire. He was of Trinity college, Cambridge, B. A. 1788, M. A. 1791, and was presented to his living in the latter year by

the Duke of Rutland.

Aug. 19. At the Belle Sauvage, Ludgate hill, aged 68, the Rev. William Rush Cobbold, Rector of Selborne, Hants. He was of Magdalene college, Oxford, M.A. 1797, B.D. 1805; and was presented to the rectory of Selborne in 1813 by that Society. The death of this gentleman was occasioned by his being knocked down, six days before, by the Oxford mail cart at the end of Ludgate hill. Being a very corpulent man, it was two days before it was discovered that his ribs were broken. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death, accompanied by a censure on the surgeon, who had not paid the case sufficient attention.

Aug. 20. Aged 48, the Rev. John Long, 20 years Perpetual Curate of Winster, in the parish of Kendal, Westmorland.

Aug. 21. At Limerick, the Rev. John Duddell, M.A. Rector of St. Munchin's in

that city, and a Prebendary of the cathe dral. He was formerly Fellow and Tutor of Pembroke college, Oxford, where he proceeded M. A. in 1789. He held for some time the vicarage of Westbury, Bucks, and resigned it in 1797 on obtain. ing his preferment in Ireland. He was brother-in-law to D. Stockford, esq. of Cowley, near Oxford.

Aug. 22. At Bridstow, Herefordshire, aged 77, the Rev. Love Robertson, Vicar of Bridstow, Sellack, and Capel, and a Prebendary of Hereford. He was of Caius college, Cambridge, B.A. 1786, M.A. 1789; was collated to the prebend of Moreton and Whaddon in 1804 by Bp. Cornewall; to the vicarage of Bridstow in 1808; and presented to Sellack with Capel, in 1831 by the Dean and Chapter.

Aug. 24. In his 60th year, the Rev. John Wilson, Vicar of Mitton, Yorkshire, to which he was instituted in 1814,

Aug. 27. At Edinburgh, aged 66, the Rev. Charles Maitland Babington, Rector of Peterstow, near Ross, Herefordshire. He was a brother of Dr. Babington the eminent London physician. He was of Balliol college, Oxford, M.A. 1800; and was presented to his living in 1819 by Guy's Hospital.

Aug. 29. At Drewsteignton, Devonshire, aged 36, the Rev. John Pitts, late Curate of Street, Somerset.

Aug. 31. At Finchingfield, Essex, aged 72, the Rev. James Westerman, for 16 years Curate, and 30 years Vicar of that place. He was formerly Fellow of Magdalene college, Cainbridge, B.A. 1791, as 12th Junior Optime, M. A. 1795.

Sept. 1. Aged 84, the Rev. Thomas Horncastle Marshall, Vicar of Pontefract, Yorkshire. He was formerly Fellow of Clarehall, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1780; M.A. 1783; and he was presented to Pontefract in 1809 by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Sept. 2. In his 80th year, the Rev. John White, Vicar of Exminster, Devonshire, to which he was presented in 1805 by the Governors of Crediton school.

Sept. 3. Aged 76, the Rev. John Welchman Wynne, Perpetual Curate of Plaxtol, Kent, to which he was presented in 1821 by the Rev. George Moore, Rector of Wrotham. He was of of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1790.

Sept. 5. Aged 40, the Rev. William Sturgeon, Assistant Curate of St. George's church, Leeds.

Sept. 6. At West Heath, Erith, Kent, aged 50, the Rev. George Preston, M.A.,

for twenty-three years usher and undermaster of Westminster School.

Sept. 13. Aged 70, the Rev. Robert Boyle, M.A. of Handsworth,

At his residence, in co. Tyrone, in his 85th year, the Very Rev. Robert Burrowes, D.D. Dean of Cork, and formerly a Fellow of Trinity college, Dublin.

Sept. 18. In his 80th year, the Rev. William Nettleship, Rector of Churchill, near Kidder, Worc. and of Irby, co. Linc. He was of Worcester college, Oxford, M. A. 1787; was presented to Churchill in 1811 by Lord Lyttelton, and to Irby in 1814 by Lord Yarborough.

Sept. 19. Aged 81, the Rev. Robert Farington, D.D. Rector of St. George's in the East, London. He was of Brazenose college, Oxford, M.A. 1784, B. and D.D. 1803, and was presented to his living by that society in the latter year.

Sept. 24. At Oswestry, the Rev. John Sheil, for thirty years Perpetual Curate of Cannock, Staffordshire, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield.

Sept. 26. At Cheltenham, aged 76, the Rev. John Law Willis, B.C.L. late of Clifton. He was of Christ church, Oxford, and took the degree of B.C.L. in 1792.

In Portland-road, London, aged 55, the Rev. William Nickson, M. A. late of Brazenose college, Oxford; Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Dowager Countess of Errol. He had been many years Curate of West Cowes, Isle of Wight, and on his leaving was presented by the inhabitants with the sum of £400; and subsequently, on his leaving Farnham Royal, in Buckinghamshire, where he officiated for eighteen months, he was presented by the parishioners with a handsome piece of plate, as a testimony of his unwearied zeal and worth.

Sept. 27. In the Tything, Worc. aged 77, the Rev. Thomas Davies.

Sept. 28. At St. Mabyn, Cornwall, Cornwall, aged 53, the Rev. Granville Leveson Gower, Rector of that parish, and a magistrate for the county; cousin to the Duke of Sutherland. He was the third and youngest son of Adm. the Hon. John Leveson Gower, fifth son of John first Earl Gower. He was of Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1808; M.A. 1812; and was presented to his living in 1818 by the Earl of Falmouth.

Sept. 29. At Bloxham, Oxfordshire, in his 80th year, the Rev. Harry Davis, Perpetual Curate of Barford St. Michael, in the same county. He was of Merton college, M.A. 1789; and was presented to his living in 1826, by John Hall, esq.