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improve the valuable edition published in 1824 by the late Mr. 

 Richard Price. 



For five-and-thirty years he represented the ward of Farringdon 

 Without (in which his business premises were situated), in the 

 Common Council of the City of London, and constantly paid 

 strict attention to his representative duties. Of all the objects 

 which came under his cognizance in this capacity there were 

 none which interested him more deeply than questions connected 

 with education. He took an active part in the foundation of the 

 City of London School, and the formation of the Corporation 

 Library ; and warmly promoted the establishment of University 

 College and of the University of London. His politics were de- 

 cidedly liberal ; but his extended intercourse with the world, and 

 the natural benevolence of his character, inclined him to listen 

 with the most complete tolerance to the opinions of those who 

 differed from him ; and he reckoned among his attached friends 

 many whose political opinions were strongly opposed to his own. 



Early in the summer of 1852 his health gave way, and he found 

 it necessary to withdraw from the excitement of active life. He 

 settled down at Richmond, and once more gave himself up to 

 Ovid, Virgil, and his old friends Paulus Manutius, Justus Lipsius, 

 Ochinus, Fracastorius, &c. Increasing years brought increasing 

 feebleness ; and the severe weather of November last brought on 

 an attack of bronchitis, of which he died suddenly on the 1st of 

 December, in the 78th year of his age. 



The Society has to record the loss, at a very advanced age, of 

 one among the oldest of its members, in the death of Dawson 

 Turner, Esq., which took place at Brompton on the 20th of June 

 in the last year. He was born at Grreat Yarmouth, on the 18th 

 of October, 1775, and was the eldest son of Mr. James Turner, 

 banker, in that place, by Miss Elizabeth Cotman, of Ormesby, 

 Norfolk. For his classical attainments Mr. Turner was mainly 

 indebted to his private tutor, the Rev. Robert Forby, of Forncet, 

 Norfolk. He entered, indeed, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, 

 of which his uncle, the Rev. Joseph Turner, Dean of Norwich, 

 was master ; but instead of continuing his studies at the Uni- 

 versity, he was called, by the death of his father, to take, at a 

 very early age, an active part in the well-known bank of Gurneys 

 and Turner, Grreat Yarmouth. Mr. Turner's love of literature 

 and of languages, especially Latin and Grreck, Italian and German, 

 in all of which he was a great proficient, never forsook him ^ and 

 to these he added, successively, various other pursuits, indicative 



