590 BALCH— SOME FORMER MEMBERS. [April i&, 



than the celebrated expounder and architect of maritime law — Sir 

 William Scott, later Lord Stowell.^^ 



The Rev. Charles Magnus von Wrangel, of the Church of 

 Sweden, was a member. Bishop Wrangel was born in Sweden 

 about 1730, and was descended from Karl Gustaf, Count Wrangel, 

 a general of the Thirty Years' War, who served under Gustavus 

 Adolphus and Bernard of Saxe-Weimar. Educated at Vestras and 

 the University of Upsala, Wrangel received in 1757 from the Uni- 

 versity of Gottingen the degree of D.D., and was shortly afterwards 

 nominated as court preacher to the King of Sweden. In 1759 he 

 was called to the provostship of the Swedish churches in " New 

 Sweden," and arrived in Philadelphia the same year. He at once 

 took charge of the Wicaco parish (Gloria Dei), which was first 

 organized in 1677 and was the second oldest parish of the Church 

 of Sweden in this state, the first having been established on Greater 

 Tinicum Island shortly after Governor Printz landed there in 1643. 

 Dr. Wrangel also had the oversight of all the Swedish congregations 

 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Returning to Sweden in 1768, 

 he was given the pastorate of Sala. In this country, according to 

 the instructions of the Archbishop of Sweden, he cordially and ac- 

 tively cooperated with the German Lutheran ministers. 



The Rev. Dr. Robert Blackwell, of the Church of England, was 

 a member. A son of Colonel Jacob Blackwell, of Long Island, who 

 belonged to the family that long possessed and from whom was 

 named Blackwell's Island in the East River, he was ordained to the 

 ministry of the English Church, and after serving several parishes 

 in this country, he ministered to Saint Peter's church. His house, 

 on the south side of Pine Street, number 224, still stands with its 

 imposing front of alternating black and red bricks. While Dr. 

 Blackwell lived in it, all the ground westward to Third Street formed 



" Montague Bernard, " Notes on Some Questions suggested by the Case of 

 the Trent," Oxford and London, March, 1862 ; Sir William Vernon-Harcourt, 

 "Letters by Historicns on Some Questions of International Law reprinted 

 from The Times," London and Cambridge, 1863; Arthur Irwin Dasnet, 

 " John Thadeus Delane, editor of The Times, His Life and Correspondence," 

 London, 1908; Arthur Christopher Benson, "The Letters of Queen Victoria," 

 New York, 1907; Thomas Willing Batch, "The Removal of Mason and 

 Slide!! from The Trent," The Nation, New Yorlc, February 11, 1909. 



