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on the 28th of August at his seat of Lake House, at the age of 73. 

 His election into the Linnean Society dates from the year 1810. 



The Rev. Henry Hasted, M.A., was born on the 17th of September 

 1771, at Bury St. Edmunds, in the county of Sufifolk, where his 

 father was an Apothecary. He was educated at King Edward's 

 Grammar School in that town, and afterwards at Christ's College 

 Cambridge, where he took his Bachelor's degree as sixth wrangler 

 in 1793, and his Master's degree in 1796. He became a Fellow of 

 his College, and was believed to be on the eve of being elected 

 Master, when he was appointed by the Corporation of his native town 

 to the preachership of St. Mary's in the year 1802. In 1812 he 

 was presented to the Rectory of Braiseworth by Sir Edw. Kerrison, 

 and in 1814 to that of Horringer or Horningsheath by the Marquis 

 of Bristol. In 1842, in consequence of the continued debility caused 

 by a paralytic attack, he resigned the preachership of St. Mary's ; 

 but he continued to hold both his Rectories until his death, which 

 took place at Bury St. Edmunds on the 26th of November last, in 

 the 82nd year of his age In 1807 he married the only daughter of 

 Dr. Ord of Fornham, by whom he had a son and a daughter, who 

 survive him. Mr. Hasted filled a large place in the circle of his 

 native district. Gifted with considerable intellectual faculties, which 

 he had diligently cultivated, and endowed with great activity of 

 mind, and a capacity for continued mental exertion, he laboured 

 incessantly in promoting the best interests of the town of Bury and 

 its neighbourhood. To his zeal and influence the Sufi'olk County 

 Hospital mainly owes its existence ; and numerous Societies for the 

 promotion of religious and educational objects found in him an active 

 patron and promoter. He was an attractive and impressive preacher, 

 and when fifteen years before his death a paralytic stroke deprived 

 him of the use of his right hand, he set himself to learn to write 

 with his left, and continued thus not only to w'rite his sermons, but 

 also to keep up an extensive correspondence. His attainments were 

 considerable in diflferent departments of philosophy, especially in 

 mathematics, in botany, and in other branches of natural histor}^ ; and 

 his disposition was cheerful, hospitable and benevolent. On his resig- 

 nation of the lectureship of St. Mary's a service of plate was pur- 

 chased for him by a subscription of 250/. ; and it has been resolved 

 to perpetuate his memory by a public subscription for the endow- 

 ment of a new ward to the Bury Hospital, and by erecting tablets 

 in each church of the town to record that endowment. He became 

 a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1810, and of the Royal Society 

 in 1812. 



