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Captain William Moorsom, r.n., c.b., entered the Royal Navy in 

 1830, passed his examination in 1835, and at the period of his promo- 

 tion to the rank of Lieutenant in 1842, had been serving for some 

 time in the East Indies as mate on board the Endymion. From that 

 period up to his death he served with distinction in different 

 stations, received post rank in 1851, and afterwards the Com- 

 panionship of the Bath, as well as several foreign distinctions. He 

 became a Fellow of this Society in 1853, and died in the early part 

 of the present year. 



The Venerable William Forbes Eaymond, Archdeacon of Durham. 

 — At Lincoln's Inn Mr. Eaymond was appointed Warburtonian Lec- 

 turer, and also filled the post of Assistant-Preacher to Bishop 

 Heber and to Bishop Maltby. He availed himself of this oppor- 

 tunity of applying, with great success, his learning and his skill in 

 the Oriental languages to the illustration of Scripture. When 

 Bishop Maltby resigned the position in 1835, he expressed his 

 deep sense of the faithfulness and ability shown by Mr. Eaymond in 

 the office of his assistant. 



The friendship and assistance of Mr. Eaymond were of the 

 greatest value and comfort to Bishop Maltby during the remainder 

 of his Lordship's life, especially during his episcopal career in the 

 dioceses of Chichester and Durham. As Examining Chaplain he 

 gained the affection of the candidates for holy orders by his ur- 

 banity, and his kind and judicious advice. Whenever he -found any 

 who were anxious to pursue their theological studies in the midst 

 of their parochial ministrations, he not only gave them the most 

 friendly encouragement, but furnished them with such directions 

 as might enable them to employ learning to real practical purposes. 

 Sacred geography was one of his favourite subjects, and he pointed 

 out to the young clergyman how deeply interesting such a subject 

 might be rendered for expositions in the church, as well as for 

 study in private. 



After repeatedly refusing valuable preferment which Bishop 

 Maltby offered him, he at last, in 1846, accepted the Archdeaconry 

 of Northumberland, endowed with one of the reduced canonries in 

 Durham Cathedral. To the great regret of the clergy he resigned 

 the Archdeaconry in 1853. Indeed they were justly grieved at 

 being deprived of the services of one who had gained their 

 confidence and esteem by his sound judgment and ready atten- 

 tion in his official intercourse with them, as well as by his 



