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Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 



[Nov 



ber. His Lordship is succeeded by Edward 

 Southwell Ward, Esq., eldest surviving son 

 of the late Honourable Edward Ward, next 

 brother to the late Viscount. 



THE REV. THOMAS THIRLWALL. 



The Rev. Thomas Thirlwall, some years 

 a magistrate for the county of Middlesex, 

 and well known as a Speaker at the India- 

 Hous3, was a son of the Rev. Thomas Thirl- 

 wall, Vicar of Cottingham. near Hull. He 

 took his degree of A. M. at Braze-nose Col- 

 lege, Oxford, in 1786. After he bad taken 

 orders, he obtained the curacy of Trinity- 

 church, in the Minories, subsequently the 

 curacy and lectureship of Stepney ; and, in 

 1814, he was presented to tie Rectory of 

 Bower's Giflbrd, in Essex, by John Curtis 

 Esq. He was also a magistrate of the coun- 

 ty of Essex. 



Mr. Thirlwall appears to have been fond 

 of popularity; be frequently distinguished 

 himself as an author and as an editor; and 

 in his magistrative as well as in his literary 

 capacity, he repeatedly stood forward as the 

 vehement opponent of scenic exhibitions at 

 the Royalty Theatre. In 1792, he married 

 Mrs. Connop, the widow of an apothecary, 

 at Mile End. By that lady he had several 

 children. His eldest son, Thomas Wiggele, 

 is Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge ; 

 and his second, Connop, is Fellow of Trinity, 

 in the same University. Of the early genius 

 of this, his second son, be, in 1809, published 

 some specimens under the title of *' Primi- 

 tiae ; or Essays and Poems on various Sub- 

 jects, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining ; 

 by Connop Thirlwall, eleven years of age : 

 dedicated, by permission, to the Lord Bishop 

 of Dromose." Mr. Thirlwall was, at one 

 time, Minister of Tavistock-chapel, and 

 Chaplain to Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore. 

 He was favoured with that prelate's assis- 

 tance in preparing an edition of Bishop Jere- 

 my Taylor's works ; but, for some reason or 

 other, the intention of publishing was aban- 

 doned. 



In 1795, Mr.Thirlwall published TheAlarm- 



ing Situation of the Times, a Fast Sermon, 

 preached at Stepney ; in 1798, The Dawn 

 of National Prosperity, a Sermon; in 1802, 

 The Instability of Human Power, and the 

 Insufficiency of Human Means; and, in 



1803, The Child Jesus, a Pattern of Early 

 Piety. In 1803, he also published a Diates- 

 iron, seu Integra Historia Domini Jesu 

 Christi, Latine, ex Qualuor Evangelis. In 



1804, he produced a Solemn Protest against 

 the Revival of Scenic Exhibitions and Inter-^ 

 hides, at the Royalty Theatre ; in the same 

 year, a Candid and Dispassionate Address to 

 Sir Francis Burdett ; in 1808, a Funeral Ser- 

 mon, preached at Stratford, Bow, on the Death 

 of the Rev. W. J. French, Rector of Vange, 

 Essex, Chaplain to the Trinity House, and 

 Lecturer of Bow ; and, in 1810, he edited 

 the Theological Works of Sir Matthew Hale, 

 with a Life of the Author, in two volumes, 

 8vo. In 1817, Mr. Thirlvvall published " A 

 Vindication of the Magistrates acting in and 

 for the Tower Division, from the Charges 

 contained in a printed Work, entitled ' The 

 Report of the Committee, on the State of 

 the Police of the Metropolis, together with 

 the Minutes of Evidence, taken before a 

 Committee of the House of Commons.' " 

 This Pamphlet was considered a breach of 

 privilege by the Police Committee; and, 

 having been complained of by the Chairman, 

 its author was obliged to make his apology, 

 before the House. Mr. Thirlwall contributed 

 numerous articles to the Orthodox Church- 

 man's Magazine. He died at his rectory of 

 Bower's Gifford, on the 17th of March. 



MRS. GENT. 



This lady, celebrated for the delivery of 

 a course of lectures on the " Physiology of 

 the External Senses," <fec., a perfect model 

 of elegant composition and refined oratory, 

 was the wife of Thomas Gent, Esq., of 

 Doctors' Commons. She died there, after 

 a month of severe suffering, about the mid- 

 dle of August. A fine bust of Mrs. Gent, by 

 Behnes, was exhibited at Somerset-house 

 two seasons ago. 



MONTHLY MEDICAL REPORT. 



THE prevalent disease of the last month bas been fever, shewing itself in an unusual 

 number of forms. The intermitting and remitting type of fever has been seen in seve- 

 ral parts of the town, and more especially in Westminster. That this has had for its 

 more immediate or exciting cause, malaria, or air tainted by exhalations from the 

 earth, there can be no question. But when we take into our consideration the simul- 

 taneous occurrence of fever in several of its other forms, a reasonable presumption 

 exists, that, but for some peculiar state of atmosphere, favouring the diffusion of 

 such miasmata, ague would not have been so general. The extreme moisture of the 

 air during the last month is, no doubt, the principal of these accessory causes to 

 which the uniform mildness of its temperature (averaging about sixty degrees of 

 Fahrenheit during the day) must also be added. In the treatment of this particular 

 kind of fever, the sulphate of quinine has proved very serviceable, and its claims to 

 the title of a most efficient febrifuge are certainly established beyond the possibility 

 of doubt or cavil. The Reporter is informed that in several parts of the country, espe. 

 cially in and around Cambridge, the ague has been very general this autumn. 



