32 Faraday, Correspondence of Lt.-Col. /. L. Philips. 



wards became a prominent dissenter — Unitarian. In 

 1803 he was imprisoned for two years in Dorchester Gaol, 

 as a consequeiicc of a letter he wrote to the Bishop of 

 Llandaff As is well known the prisons at that time were 

 very insanitary, and Wakefield was ruined in health 

 He was liberated, but died immediately after from fever. 

 The other Wakefield was a wealthy sugar refiner 

 of Liverpool, who devoted much attention to agricul- 

 ture and cattle breeding on his experimental farm, 

 a mile out of Liverpool. He successfully raised cattle 

 on the succory plant, or wild endive, which he cropped 

 three times a year. He was associated with Mr. William 

 Roscoe in the latter's undertaking to drain Trafford 

 Moss and Chat Moss. This is probably the man 

 referred to in the letter. Thomas Chubbard was a land- 

 scape and portrait painter of some eminence. He invented 

 a mode of engraving on glass. William Tate was a 

 portait painter, a pupil of the celebrated Mr. Wright, of 

 Derby, a memoir of whom was published by Col. Leigh 

 Philips in 1797. Christopher Pack was born at Norwich 

 in 1750, and afterwards resided in Liverpool and London. 

 He was a fashionable portrait painter and exhibited 

 several times in the Royal Academy. 



The first attempt to found an Academy in Liverpool was 

 made in 1769, when a Society met in a room in John Street, 

 under the Presidency of Mr. P. P. Burdett, other members 

 being Thomas Chubbard, Richard Tate, Richard Caddick, 

 Peter Romney, Mathew Turner, M.D., Joshua Eyes, and 

 Chas. Eyes. It was revived in 1773, W . Caddick being 

 President, and lectures were delivered and an Exhibition 

 held in August, 1774. This attempt, too, had only a short 

 life, the Academy being dissolved in 1775. In 1783 the 

 Academy mentioned here was founded. J^Ir. Henry 

 Blundell of Incc was the President, William Roscoe the 



