relaxation from all the cares and toils of business, had an intense enjoyment only to be compared to the happiness of a school boy during his holidays. Hither, in 1829, he retired altogether, and, until his health began to fail, found in his farm, his books, and his gun, constant occupation and amusement. Perhaps no better notice of Dr. Latham's medical career could be supplied, than the following observations extracted from a late number of the London Medical Gazette. "He was," says the writer, "the father of the College of Physicians. None of his immediate contemporaries are now alive, and his juniors by ten years are almost all past away. He had himself long retired from the world, so that of the physicians now in active practice, few could have known him. Yet he was eminent in his time, and enjoyed a large share of the esteem and confidence of mankind. "Half a century ago, there were three physicians of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who, each in succession, and each in early life, and unaided except by their own strenuous industry and talent, ran a rapid career of success. These were, Dr. David Pitcairn, Dr. Austin, and Dr. Latham. The fortunes of all three were peculiar and instructive. "Dr. Austin, in the midst of great business, and the brightest prospects, was cut off by a fever at the age of forty. "Dr. Pitcairn, between 40 and 50, had his prosperity arrested by hæmoptysis, and retired to Lisbon in search of health. He returned to a less practice but an undiminished reputation, and died about his 60th year, from acute inflammation of the larynx. "Dr. Latham, at the age of 46, was worn out by the hard labour of his early success. He was believed to be consumptive, and retired into the country (it was thought) to die. But he recovered, and returned to town, and resumed the exercise of his profession. "He felt, however, that, if he was to keep the health he had regained, he must never again put it to the same hazard. 66 Accordingly he now removed from the sphere of his former business. He left Bedford-row, and settled in Harley-street. And here, for twenty years, he enjoyed, with a more moderate practice, a larger share of health than he had known during the days of his greater labour and greater success. "In the year 1814 Dr. Latham was elected President of the College of Physicians. In 1816 he founded the Medical Benevolent Society. He contributed se veral papers on practical subjects to the Medical Transactions. In 1809 he wrote a small volume entitled, Facts and Opinions concerning Diabetes.' "In 1829, having reached his 68th year, Dr. Latham finally left London. Fourteen years of life yet remained to him. For two-thirds of this period he enjoyed the comforts which are still within the reach of a vigorous old age. For the last third was reserved the sharpest of all bodily afflictions, the formation and gradual increase of stone in the bladder. Under this he sank and died. "The fame of physicians, except the few in any age who have pushed forward the boundaries of physiological and pathological knowledge, does not outlive the recollection of those who knew them, or have derived benefit from their skill and care. Those who knew Dr. Latham, both his patients and his fellow physicians, speak of him with great esteem and affection. His patients remember the confidence and encouragement which accompanied his address, his sincerity, his straight-forwardness, and his liberality; and there are physicians, now grey-headed, who speak of the kindness and countenance they received from him in the days of their youth." Dr. Latham married 12th April, 1784, Mary, eldest daughter and co-heiress of the Rev. Peter Mayer, B. A. Vicar of Prestbury, in the county of Chester, who died 7th Dec. 1841. By her (besides several sons and daughters who died infants, and Frances, who died unmarried in 1829,) he had the following issue, all now surviving: 1. John Latham, D.C.L. sometime Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, born March 18, 1787, married Elizabeth-Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Dampier, late one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, who died in 1839, and by whom he has surviving issue three sons, and one daughter. 2. Peter Mere Latham, M.D. of Brasenose College, Oxford, and one of her Majesty's Physicians Extraordinary, born July 1st 1789, married 1st, Diana- Clarissa, daughter of Major-General the Hon. Granville Anson Chetwynd Stapylton, who died issueless; and, 2ndly, Grace-Mary, daughter of David Chambers, R.N. by whom he has surviving issue two sons and one daughter. 3. Henry Latham, M.A. Vicar of Selmeston with Alceston, in Sussex, born Nov. 4, 1794, married Maria, daughter of James Halliwell, esq. of Broomfield, in Lancashire, by whom he has issue one son and two daughters. Sarab, married in 1808 to George Ormerod, esq. D. C.L. F.R.S. now of Sedbury Park, Gloucestershire, by whom she has issue seven sons and three daugh ters. Two portraits of Dr. Latham have been engraved. One is in Dance's collection. The other was engraved by Sievier, from a painting by Jackson (now at Bradwall) representing Dr. Latham as President of the College of Physicians. A duplicate of this painting, executed by the same artist, is one of the portraits in the Hall of Brasenose College, Oxford. ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ. LL.D. March 21. At Keswick, aged 68, Robert Southey, esq. LL.D. Dr. Southey was born at Bristol on the 12th August, 1774. His father was a linen-draper in Wine-street. He was sent to school when six years of age to Mr. Foote, a Baptist minister; was subsequently taught by a Mr. Flower, at Corston, near Newton St. Loe, and by Mr. William Williams, a Welshman, from whom little scholarship was to be got; was subsequently placed at Westminster, in 1788, by his maternal uncle, Mr. Hill; and finally at Baliol College, in 1792, with the design of his entering the Church. But Southey's Oxford career closed in 1794; for his tendency towards Socinian opinions made the plan of life chalked out for him altogether distasteful. In the same year he published his first poems, in conjunction with Mr. Lovell, the friends assuming the names of Moschus and Bion. About that time, too, he took part in the famous Pantisocracy scheme, to which all the eager contributors brought golden theories, but of more tangible coin so little, that the Utopian project was necessarily relinquished. In the November of the following year, 1795, he married Miss Fricker, of Bristol, the sister of Mrs. Coleridge. In the winter of the same year, while the author was on his way to Lisbon, "Joan of Arc" was published. He returned to Bristol in the following summer; in the subsequent year removed to London, and entered Gray's-Inn. He passed part of the years 1800-1 in Portugal, and was for a short time resident in Ireland, (as secretary, we believe, to Mr. Corry or to Mr. Foster). His final establishment at Keswick, in the lake-country, took place early in the present century. On the decease of Mr. Pye, in the year 1813, Southey was appointed laureate; he received his Doctor's degree from the university of Oxford in the year 1821; and June 4, 1839, contracted a second marriage with Caroline-Anne, daughter of the late Charles Bowles, esq. of Buckland, North Lymington, one of the most pathetic and natural among contempo rary authoresses. That he was at different times offered a baronetcy and a seat in parliament are facts well known to his friends; the rest of his career is to be traced in the works which he poured forth, with a versatility, a care, and a felicity unrivalled in these hasty and superficial days. To give a complete list of his labours would be difficult. The principal poems are Wat Tyler, Joan of Arc, Thalaba, Metrical Tales, Madoc, The Curse of Kehama, Carmen Triumphale, Roderick, The Vision of Judgment,—to say nothing of fugitive pieces. His prose works comprise translations of the poems of the Cid, of Amadis, and Palmerin of England:-Essays, allowing the Letters of Espriella, Sir Thomas More's Colloquies, and the slighter Omniana to bear his name:-Histories, among which are The Book of the Church, the History of the Peninsular War, the History of the Brazils:-Criticism, including his voluminous and important contributions to the Quarterly Review,-and Biography. Foremost in this last department were-the Life of Nelson, one of the most popular and perfect specimens of its class which our language possesses, noble in feeling, and faultless in style,-the Life of Chatterton, the Life of Kirke White, the Life of Wesley, and the Life of Cowper, all of which are in different degrees valuable contributions to our literature. For the last three years Mr. Southey had been in a state of mental darkness, and a twelvemonth ago he was not able to recognise those who had been his companions from his youth. Scarcely could his wife console herself with the poor hope that he recognised even her. Excess of mental labour in every department of literature-poetry, history, biography, criticism, and philosophy, continued from year to year, without cessation, bowed his strong spirit at last, and obscured the genius which had so long cast a glory upon the literature of the age. As a poet, with an exuberance of imagination seldom equalled, and a mastery of versification never surpassed; and as a prose writer, at once elegant and forcible, his name will endure as long as the language in which he wrote. In all the relations of life Mr. Southey was universally allowed, by those who knew him best, to be truly exemplary. His house at the Lakes was open to all who presented themselves with suitable introduction, and there are few persons of any distinction who have passed through that picturesque region who have not partaken of his hospitality. He enjoyed a pension of 300%, a year from the government, granted in 1835 by Sir R. Peel, and has left personal property amounting to about 12,000. By his will, dated the 26th of August, 1839, he has bequeathed to his wife all the personal property possessed by her previously to their marriage, together with the interest of the sum of 20001. during her life. The residue of his property, including the above 20007. he has bequeathed to his four children, Charles Cuthbert Southey, Edith Mary Warter, Bertha Hill, and Katharine Southey, equally, and, in case of the death of any of them before the testator, their share is to be divided amongst their children (if any). The executors named are his brother Henry Herbert Southey, M.D. of Harleystreet, and Mr. Henry Taylor, of the Colonial Office, who possesses a voluminous and valuable collection of his letters, which we presume will be published. The library is consigned to the charge of Mr. Leigh Sotheby for public sale, and will speedily be brought to London. The collection, inasmuch as very many of the books bear internal evidence of their constant use by the late Poet Laureate, will no doubt create considerable interest. Dr. Southey was ardently fond of Spanish literature, in which his library is particularly rich. The remains of Dr. Southey were interred in the burial ground attached to the parish church at Crosthwaite, where repose the ashes of different members of his family, and were followed to their final resting place by all the wealth and respectability of the neighbourhood, CLERGY DECEASED. March 11. At Child Okeford, Dorsetshire, aged 69, the Rev. John Mills Kinier, M.D. March 14. Aged 82, the Rev. Christopher Roberts, for fifty-four years Vicar of Edston, and for thirty-four years Vicar of Bugthorpe, both in Yorkshire. March 18. The Rev. Thomas Jackson, for forty-three years Minister of the New Chapel, Stockwell. March 28. At Ryhope, Durham, aged 71, the Rev. John Hayton, Perpetual Curate of that chapelry, to which he was presented by the Rector of Bishop's Wearmouth in 1828. April 2. At Pitminster Lodge, near Taunton, aged 51, the Rev. Henry Proctor Gale, formerly Perpetual Curate of St. James's, Taunton, to which he was presented in 1824, by Sir T. B. Lethbridge, Bart. April 7. At Bibury, Gloucestershire' aged 57, the Rev. Sackville Cresswell' Vicar of Bibury and Arlington, and for thirty-four years Commissary of Bibury cum Winson. He was the second son of the late Estcourt Cresswell, esq. of Pinkney Park; was formerly of Pembroke college, Oxford, and was presented to Bibury (value 10237.) in 1809, by Lord Sherburne. April 9. At Aylesford vicarage, Kent, at an advanced age, the Rev. George Lockyer Perry. April 14. At Kneesal, aged 79, the Rev. John Ison, Vicar of Kneesal, and Perpetual Curate of Boughton, Notts., to both which churches he was presented in 1831, by the collegiate church of Southwell. At Crux Easton, Hants, aged 85, the Rev. Thomas Shephard, D.D. Rector of that parish, to which he was presented in 1827, by James Bagge, esq. April 18. At Monmouth, aged 73, the Rev. Charles Nosworthy Mitchell, Rector of Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, Monmouthshire, and of St. Maughan's, near Monmouth. He was of Oriel college, Oxford, M.A. 1797, and was presented to the former church, in 1818, by Thomas Philips, esq. At Montacute, Somersetshire, aged 60, the Rev. Bennet Hoskyns, Vicar of that parish. He was the third son of the late Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, Bart. of Harewood, Herefordshire, by Catharine, dau. of Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, Bart. He was of Balliol college, Oxford, M.A. 1808, and was presented to the vicarage of Montacute in 1838 by William Phelips, esq. He married in Sept. 1815 Amelia second dau. of Adm. Chamberlain, of Crickhowell. April 19. At Gresford, Denbighshire, in his 77th year, the Rev. Christopher Parkins, B.A. upwards of fifty years Perpetual Curate of that parish. He was the son of the Rev. Thomas Parkins, of Chesham, Bucks, and educated at a Grammar School in that neighbourhood. He from thence proceeded to University college, Oxford, where he took his Bachelor's degree, about the year 1787. He was immediately after ordained Curate of Shenley, Herts, where he remained for a few years, and from thence removed to Gresford, where he continued till the time of his decease. He married the second dau. of William Boscawen, esq. the translator of Horace, who died early; and has left an only son. April 23. At Phibsborough, co. Dublin, the Rev. Arthur Smith Adamson, M.A. incumbent of that parish, and Rector of Timahoe, co. Kildare. Aged 73, the Rev. Ambrose Goode, Vicar of Terrington, Norfolk, and of Waddingworth, Lincolnshire. He was of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1797. He was presented to Waddingworth in 1794 by the Lord Chancellor, and to Terrington in 1803 by the King. April 26. Aged 84, the Rev. William Mann, M.A. Senior Chaplain of St. Saviour's, Southwark, having been elected by the parish in 1803. He was also Chaplain of the Surrey county prison for 36 years, and for the like period to the Fishmongers' Company. April 28. At Ventnor, Isle of Wight, aged 31, the Rev. Joseph Blades Palmer, M.A. formerly Minister of Brathay church, Ambleside, and late Curate of Holy Trinity church, Ely. He was of Trinity college, Cambridge, B.A. 1834. In the City Road, near London, aged 48, the Rev. William Thompson, M.A. Minister of St. Barnabas, King's Square, Goswell-street-road. He was of Trinity college, Cambridge, B.A. 1821. April 29. At Brotherton, Yorkshire, aged 31, the Rev. John Dixon, Vicar of that parish. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1834, and was presented to Brotherton by the Dean and Chapter of York in 1836. April 30. At Kildwick, Yorkshire, aged 80, the Rev. John Pering, M.A. Vicar of Kildwick and Skipton. He was formerly a student of Christ Church, Oxford, when he graduated, M.A. 1791, and was presented to the churches above mentioned in 1806 by that society. Lately. At Cheltenham, aged 74, the Rev. William James Aislabie, Rector of Holywell with Needingworth, Hunts. He was of Pembroke college, Cambridge, A.B. 1789, as 2d Junior Optime, M.A. 1792; and was presented to his living in 1804 by the Duke of Manchester. At West Clifton, aged 42, the Rev. Harry Jelly, M.A. formerly of St. Alban hall, Oxford, and late Perpetual Curate of Trinity church, Bath. The Rev. G. Lloyd, Rector of Newton Purcell, Oxfordshire. Aged 82, the Rev. Richard Loxham, Rector of Halsall, and Minister of St. John's, Liverpool. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1783; was presented to St. John's, Liverpool in 1815, and to Halsall in 1816. At Allington, near Bridport, Dorset, aged 79, the Rev. David Williams, late Rector of Bridport. May 1. Aged 75, the Rev. John Henry Browne, Vicar of Runhall, Rector of Crownthorpe, and Master of the Endowed Grammar School at Hingham, Norfolk. He was formerly of Pembroke college, Cambridge, LL.B. 1800; was presented to Runhall in 1815 by Lord Wodehouse, and to Crownthorpe in 1817 by the same patron. In his 90th year, the Rev. John Gibbons, for fifty-three years Rector of Collington and Thornbury, Herefordshire, and for thirty-eight years Rector of Brasted, Kent, the last in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury. At Wolsingham, Durham, aged 85, the Rev. William Wilson, for nearly fiftyseven years Rector of that parish, where he had constantly resided. He was formerly Fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1784, as third wrangler, M.A. 1787, B.D. 1794, and was collated to Wolsingham, in 1786, by Bishop Egerton. May 2. Aged 76, the Rev. Thomas Upjohn, Rector of High Bray, Devonshire, to which he was presented, in 1836, by T. P. Acland, esq., and formerly Rector of Honeychurch, to which he was presented in 1832. May 3. At Kingstown, Dublin, aged 71, the Hon. and Very Rev. Joseph Bourke, Dean of Ossory, brother to the Earl of Mayo, and the late Right Rev. Richard Bourke, the last Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. He was the third son of Joseph-Deane the third Earl of Mayo, by Elizabeth, only dau. of Sir Joseph Meade, Bart., and sister to the first Earl of Clanwilliam. He married, in 1799, Mary, eldest dau. and co-heir of Sackville Gardiner, esq. and had issue two sons, of whom the eldest died in 1824, and three daughters. May 4. At Vastina rectory, near Kilbeggin, Ireland, the Rev. Henry Rochfort, second son of the late Colonel Gustavus Rochfort, M.P. for Westmeath. May 5. At Hallaton Hall, Leicestershire, aged 78, the Rev. Calverley John Bewicke, Rector of Hallaton cum Blaston, and Vicar of Loddington. He was the eldest son of Benjamin Bewicke, esq. of Hallaton, and a merchant in London, by his second wife Anne, dau. and sole heiress of John Glessell, of Putney, esq. He was of Christ Church, Oxford, M.A. 1812, and was presented to Hallaton, by the trustees of his mother, in 1789, and to Loddington, in 1812, by C. Morris, esq. At Uxbridge, aged 65, the Rev. John Bright, formerly Curate of Pikewell, near Melton Mowbray. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1800. Aged 76, the Rev. Charles Eaton Plater, for forty years Vicar of Seasalter, and Perpetual Curate of Whitstable, Kent. He was of Emanuel college, Cambridge, B.A. 1790. He was instituted to both his livings in 1803, Seasalter being in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, and Whitstable of the Archbishop. May 6. Aged 79, the Rev. Henry Stephen Milner, D.D. Rector of Thribergh and Adwick-le-Street, Yorkshire, and a justice of the peace. He was of All Souls college, Oxford, B.C.L. 1788, D.C.L. 1793, and was presented to both his churches in 1811. May 9. Aged 80, (eight days after the Rector, who was 90,) the Rev. Thomas Lewes, Curate of Thornbury, co. Hereford, for 19 years, and until within the last twelve months. April 14. Caroline Emily, third dau. of John Stevenson, esq. Conduit-st. April 16. At Hampstead, aged 59, Lawrence Ormerod, esq, late of Oporto. At Knightsbridge, aged 60, Hester, wife of Edward Sterling, esq. April 17. In Grafton-st. Harriet, relict of the Rev. Edward Markham Willan, of Betchworth, Surrey. In Eccleston-st. Henry, fourth son of the late Col. Crewe, E. I. C. S. In Pall Mall East, aged 49, Capt. Spencer Cooper, of R. Eng. April 18. In Gloucester-place, Susanna, wife of Charles Gonne, esq. April 19. In Grosvenor-sq. aged 2, Frances Augusta Charlotte, youngest dau. of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Charles Stanley. At Upper Brook-st. aged 76, Samuel Boddington, esq. In Hawley-terr. John Mushet, esq. late of Albany-st. only son of the late Dr. Mushet, physician, and brother to the late Lady Crawford Pollok. In Chester-sq. Thomas Henry, only son of the Rev. J. G. Hall, of King's college. Aged 89, Mrs. Grissy Wells, a native of Charlestown, South Carolina, last surviving dau. of the late Robert Wells, Merchant in London, and sister of the late William Charles Wells, M.D. F.R S., and aunt of the Rev. R. Wells Whitford, Chaplain to the Hon. E. I. Comp. Service at Madras. GENT. MAG. VOL. XIX. April 20. In Stamford-st. Blackfriars, aged 74, Ann, relict of Benj. Philpot, esq. In Montague-pl. aged 14, Frederic William, third and youngest son of the Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge. In Dover-st. aged 85, George Parkin, esq. late of her Majesty's Dock-yard, Chatham. April 22. At Camberwell, aged 55, Capt. John Burton Gooch, late of the Hon. East Ind. Comp's Maritime Service. Jane, wife of Francis Hobler, jun. esq. Solicitor, of Bucklersbury. April 23. In South Audley-st. the Hon. Gertrude Cecilia Hughes, the infant daughter of Lord Dinorben. April 24. At Ladbroke-terr. Notting Hill, Mary, wife of Frederick James Perceval, esq. The wife of Charles Davy, esq. of Upper Thames-st. At Deptford, aged 80, Sarah Moggridge, a member of the Society of Friends, and sister of the late Samuel Laundy, esq. of Chesterton, near Cambridge. In Leicester-st. aged 54, Mr. George Macfarren, a well-known Music Composer, and Editor of the Musical World. April 25. At Greenwich, Caroline, wife of Lieut. Bowers, R.N. At the residence of his brother, Great Surrey-st. Blackfriars, Frederick Tanner, esq. of Exeter, and son of J. N. Tanner, esq. of Sherwell House, Plymouth. In Upper George-st. Portman-sq. Lieut. James Robert Maxwell, 3d West India Regiment. April 27. In Upper Wimpole-st. aged 63, William Crawford, esq. April 28. At Kensington, aged 63, James Harting, esq. April 29. Thomas Best, esq. surgeon, late of Tavistock-st. Lately. In the Old Kent Road, aged 76, Mrs. Everina Wolstonecroft. Aged 11, the Hon. Geoffrey William Penn Fielding, third son of the Earl of Denbigh. May 1. In Clapham road, aged 67, Sarah, relict of Herbert Jefferie, esq. of Upper Clapton. At Hammersmith, aged 75, William Rosser, esq. solicitor, formerly of Gray'sinn and Pentonville, father of William Henry Rosser, esq. F.S.A. In Northumberland-st. Strand, aged 37, Henry Barron, late of the Strand. In Upper Norton-st. aged 74, Francis Corbaux, esq. Aged 35, Robert Ashford, esq. of Lyon's-inn, Strand, solicitor. In Somerset-st. Portman-sq. aged 55, Miss Mary Whitfield. May 5. At Kensington, aged 58, N. P. Bradley, esq. Surgeon R. Art. 4 P |