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diately to Trinity College, Cambridge. Previ- 

 ously to taking his degree of Bachelor of Arts, 

 in 1784, he became a Wrangler, and was after- 

 wards elected a Fellow of Trinity College. In 

 1801 he published a Sermon, which he had 

 preached before the Lord Bishop of Litchfield 

 and Coventry, at the Visitation held at Chester- 

 field, July 10, 1800, and which was printed " by 

 " request." He was made a Prebendary of Ely 

 Cathedral in 1809, on the presentation of the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, the stall having 

 been, for that turn, an Archbishop's option.* 



I may now mention the name of one whose 

 unostentatious literary labours have conferred an 

 important and lasting benefit on the members of 

 the Subscription Library in this town, by the 

 skilful manner in which he has executed the 

 arduous undertaking of preparing a scientific cata- 

 logue of the books in that valuable establishment. 

 It is scarcely necessary for me to state that the 

 person to whom I allude is Mr. JOSEPH CLARKE, 

 a native of Hull, and brother of the late Rev. Dr. 

 Clarke, whom I have already had occasion to 



* Mr. King departed this life, aged sixty-nine years, on the 5th of 

 February last, at the house of his nephew, the Rev. Henry Venn, M. A., 

 the present Incumbent of Drypool, in this neighbourhood. Although 

 the latter gentleman could not be included in the above Address, in the 

 enumeration of Hull Authors, the incidental introduction of his name in 

 this note affords an opportunity of stating that he graduated in 1818, when 

 he became a Wrangler ; and that he was afterwards appointed Assistant 

 Tutor of Queen's College. 



