270 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. 



P. 164. Sept. 3 1852. Wilson. "William Parkinson Wilson, senior -wrangler, 

 of St. John's, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850 (his brother John, of Clare, took the same 

 degrees at the same times). A native of Peterborough, son of the late Mr. Wilson, 

 watchmaker in Bridge Street ; educated at the cathedral grammar school, under the 

 Rev. William Cape {Camb. Gkr. Jan. 30 1847). Professor of mathematics in Queen's 

 College, Belfast, appointed mathematical professor in Melbourne University {ibid. 

 Aug. 5 1854). Died suddenly Dec. 11 1874 {Athenaeum 20 Fehr. 1876) ; he was in 

 charge of the station at Mornington, for the observation of the transit of Venus, and 

 died two days after the transit, from the rupture of a blood-vessel on the brain 

 {Camb, Ind. Press Febr. 27 1875). He published a treatise on dynamics. 



P. 166. May 5 1863. Hiley. Simeon Hiley, fellow of St. John's, sometime 



dean, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1854. In later years his mind gave way. He 



died at Field House, Elland, near Halifax, Jan. 4 1871, aged 51 {Times Jan. 9). 



Once, I remember, a mouse ran across the floor of his room. I was for killing it, 



but he forbad. " They have as good a right to their lives as we have." So Burns 



{to a mouse) 



Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie, 



what a panic's in thy breastie ! 

 Thou need na start awa sae hasty, 



Wi' bickering brattle ! 



1 wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, 



Wi' murd'ring pattle ! 



P. 184. Sept. 18 1856. The Rev. George Owsley Fenwick, of St. John's Coll., 

 Cambr., B.A., 1806, M.A. 1809. Vicar of Kempston 1816-33 ; rector of St. Giles', 

 Blaston 1833-50; died 11 Oct. 1864, at 4 Dowry Square, Clifton, aged 82 years 

 {Gent. Mag. 1864, ii 662b). 



P. 189. June 10, 1858. Clay. William Eeatinge Clay, diligent and exact 

 as a liturgical scholar and antiquary, wrote histories of his own parish and of three 

 others in the county. A ten-year man of Jes. Coll., B.D. 1834. He died Apr. 26 

 1867, aet. 69 {Gent. Mag. 1867, i p. 825a. B.N.B. Boase. Works in Crockford). 

 His widow Mary Anne, second daughter of the late Admiral'GeorgejMcKinley, died 

 at Anglesey, Gosport, July 15 1882, aet. 81. 



J.E.B.M. 



ille uelut fldis arcana sodalibus olim 

 credebat libris, neque si male cesserat usquam 

 decurrens alio neque si bene : quo fit ut omnis 

 uotiua pateat ueluti descripta tabella 

 uita senis. 



HORAT. Sat. II 1 30-34. 



each secret of his soul he frankly penn'd, 

 and made his book his confidential friend; 

 whate'er befel, did Fortune smile or frown, 

 thither he flew and there he stamp'd it down: 

 hence in the old man's prattling page we find 

 a full-length picture of his life and mind. 



FRANCIS HOWES. 



