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Stainton,* Philip Withers,! Richard Patrick,^ 

 Francis Wrangham, John Healey Brom- 



with Mr. Milner. An affectionate correspondence was continued between 

 the master and the scholar, until it was closed by the death of the former. 

 See " Memorial Sketches of the Rev. David Brown, with a selection of his 

 " Sermons, preached at Calcutta," p. 5. 



* Vide ante, p. 25. 



fThe Rev. Philip Withers, D.D., was the son of a blue dyer, at West- 

 bury, in Wiltshire. He became a pupil of Mr. Milner, at the age of 20 

 years, and went to Cambridge in 1777. After a residence of a year and 

 a half, at Trinity College, he removed to Queen's College, where Mr. 

 Milner's brother was tutor. His knowledge of the Greek language was 

 considerable. In 1789, he brought out a work entitled " Aristarchus, 

 " or the principles of composition ; containing a methodical arrangement 

 " of the improprieties frequent in writing and conversation, with select 

 " rules for attaining to purity and elegance of expression." At the con- 

 clusion of a second edition of this work, Dr. Withers put forth proposals 

 for publishing, by subscription, in two quarto volumes, "a new English 

 " Dictionary," on the principles laid down in " Aristarchus." Unfor- 

 tunately for his reputation he did not confine himself to compositions of 

 a useful nature. He was the author of several pamphlets of a libellous 

 character ; and, by his attack in one of these upon Mrs. Fitzherbert, he 

 exposed himself to a prosecution. Being convicted of the libel, he was 

 brought up for judgment on the 21st November, 1789, and was sentenced 

 to pay a fine of 50, and to be imprisoned twelvemonths in Newgate. 

 He died during his imprisonment, under forty years of age, and was buried 

 on the 29th July, 1790. (See some particulars respecting him, taken 

 from the MSS. of the late Dr. Michael Lort, in Lysons's " Environs of 

 " London," vol. 2, p. 142.) 



f Vide ante, p. 16. 



The Venerable Francis Wrangham, M. A., F. R. S., and Archdeacon 

 of the East-riding of the county of York, was born on the llth June, 

 1769. He passed nearly two years with Mr. Milner, previously to October, 

 1786, when he entered upon his residence at Magdalen College, Cambridge. 

 In January, 1790, he became third Wrangler, and gained not only Dr. 

 Smith's second Mathematical Prize, but also the Chancellor's first Clas- 

 sical Medal. Of the life of this distinguished scholar, a short Memoir is 

 given in the 8th number of the " National Portrait Gallery of illustrious 

 " and eminent Personages of the nineteenth century ;" to which is added 

 a list of hi? numerous publications, and of his minor compositions, printed 



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