Obituary Notice 
OF THE 
hiv. FRED. WM. HOPE, MA, D.C.L, E:R.S., F.L.5., 
ETC., ETU., ETC., 
BY 
T. J. PETTIGREW, Eso., F.R.S., F.S.A,, 
PHIL. DOCT. GOTTING, V.P. AND TREAS. OF THE BRITISH ARCHHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 
From the Address delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Association, May 13, 18638. 
I now arrive at a name in the obituary of the year at which we must all repine, 
the Rev. Freperick Winiiam Hors, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., etc., one distinguished in private 
life by his most amiable and benevolent character, and who in public will ever be regarded 
as a distinguished contributor to natural science, and the founder of a much-needed Profes- 
sorship in the University of Oxford. I look back to a period of thirty years’ communion 
and friendship with pride and satisfaction, and the regret I feel at his loss is commen- 
surate with the gratification and information I derived from his society. 
The Rev. Mr. Hope was born on the 3rd of January, 1797, in Upper Seymour Street, 
Portman Square. He was the second son of John Thomas Hope and of Ellen Hester 
Mary, only child of Sir Thomas Edwardes, Bart., of Ealing, Middlesex, and Netley, Shrop- 
shire. Mr. Hope received a portion of his earlier education from an old and respected 
friend of mine, the Rev. Mr. Delafosse, of Richmond ; after which he was entered at Christ 
Church, Oxford, where he graduated as B.A. in 1820, and took the degree of M.A. in 1823. 
His health was always delicate, but his activity was great; for his mental energy was 
sufficient to carry him through any object which called for his attention. He selected 
the Church as his vocation, and was ordained to a curacy at Frodesley, Shropshire, one 
of the livings in the gift of his family. The pursuit of natural history was, it may be 
said, a passion in which he indulged from the earliest period of his useful life. Under 
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