88 . ° Eeclesiasticat Promotions, 
at this moment ; and indeed itis hut doing 
justice to his brother-artists to state, that 
they are nat back ward in confessing him, 
not merely as the improyer, but rather as 
the father and founder of this branch as 
now practised. Though Mr. Lowry’s 
time was ehiefly occupied with plates in 
the mechanical department—owing to the 
fame he had acqnired, and the consequent 
pressure of business in that particular 
branch—his powers of execution extended 
to every other department, particularly 
to landscape engraving; few of those 
plates, however, bear his own name, having 
been executed for other artists, whose 
fame they have contributed to exalt not 
a little. It way not merely as an artist 
that Mr. Lowry made himself dis- 
tingnisked: his knowledge may be said 
to have embraced every department of 
science. In mathematics and the va- 
rious departments of natural history, 
it was extensive; and in mineralogy, 
in patticular, he had few equals. His 
skill in this branch was of such celebrity, 
that but few precious stones of great 
value have latterly been purchased by the 
first-rate jewellers, without previonsly 
submitting them to bis inspection. Mr, 
Lowry’s manners were unobtiusive, mo- 
dest, and engaging; and the readiness 
with which he imparted to others, from 
his vast stores of knowledge, and the 
happy facility with which he communi- 
cated his instructions, will long be remem- 
bered by numbers who experienced his 
friendship. 
R. Payne Knight, esq. of Downton Cas- 
tle, Shropshire, and formerly m.p. for 
Ludlow. He was long distinguished in 
all the literary circles of England and 
Europe ; with very little assistance from 
teachers he deservedly ranked in the first 
class of Grecian scholars of the present 
day, and was deeply conversant in all 
subjects of literary antiquity. He was 
eminently skilled and generally consulted 
in every material poiut of vertu and taste 
in the Metropolis. He rebuilt the family 
mausion at Downton, and disposed the 
adjacent grounds in the hest style of classic 
decoration and fine effect ; and he erected 
a museum in Soho-square for his splendid 
collection of ancient bronzes, medals, pic- 
tures, and drawings. Mr. Knight was also 
a poet, and displayed great vigour of mind, 
with ease, learning, and tasie. He wasa 
well-qualified and gratuitons contributor 
tothe Edinburgh Review, his ample for- 
tune placing him above all considerations 
of pecuniary recompence. He was ready 
to afford information on all subjects of 
learning which were submitted to his 
jadgment; and his observations were al- 
ways marked by intelligence and acute- 
ness. He was avxious to cultivate the ac- 
quaintance. of those, who, like himself, 
[Aug. I, 
were distinguished by their knowledge and 
talents in the Pine Arts. Uvedale Priec, 
esq. the author of Essays on the Pic- 
turesque, &c. was his particular friend ; 
he was also very intimate with the late Sir’ 
Joseph Banks. Mr. Knight represented 
the borough of Ludlow in several sneces- 
sive Parliaments; in polities he was a ge- 
nnine Whig, lamenting “ the wasteful pro- 
fusion of the British Governments,” coni- 
mencing with that of Mr. Pitt, and ever 
had a strict regard to the rights and in- 
terests of the people. En his manners he 
was reserved, but not repulsive; warm in 
his friendships, and social in his disposition, 
He expired in the 76th year of his age, 
wumarried, leaving, as reported, to the 
British Musewm, his invaluable collection, 
of 30,0001, value, inclnding a volume of 
drawings by the inimitable Claude, which 
alone cost Mr. Knight 16001.; and be- 
queathing his other large possessions to his 
brother, T. A. Knight, esq. President of 
the London Horticultural Society, and to 
his nephew, T. A. Kuight, esq. jan. 
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS, 
Rey. W. Molineux, m.A. to the valuable 
vicarage of Sheriff Hales, Salop. 
Rev. J. Brown, to the rectory of Kid- 
dington, Oxfordshire. 
Rev. James Barus, to the vicarage of 
Warton, near Lancaster. 
Rev. Warwick Oben Gurney, to the 
rectory of Ashton Bottrell, Salop. 
Rev. Francis Bedford, m.a. to the 
valuable living of South Ormsby, with 
Keisby, Calceby, and Driby, annexed, 
Lincolnshire, 
The Rev. Edward Edwards, m.a. to 
the prebend or canonry of Leighton 
Bromswold, in the cathedral church of 
Lincoln, 
Rev. Henry Rycroft, m.a. to the vicar- 
age of Mumby, Lincolnshire. 
The Rev. T. R. Bromfield, M.A. to the 
prebend of Gaia Major, in Lichfield 
cathedral. 
Rev. T. Adin, to the rectory of Char- 
lotte Town, Prince Edward’s Island, 
chaplain to the forces at that station, and 
a missionary to the island. 
Rev. William Milton Hurlock, m.a. to 
the rectory of Hellington, Norfolk. 
Rev. William Clark, M.A. to the vicar- 
age of Arrington, Cambridgeshire. 
Rev. ‘Thomas Musgrave, m.A. to the 
vicarage of Over, Cambridgeshire. 
Rev. Thomas Vaughan, m.a. to the 
rectory of Billingsley, Salop. 
The Rev, Jolhm Page Wood, LL.B, chap- 
lain to the Duke of Sussex. 
Rey. George Hutton Greenall, M.A. to 
the rectory of Moulton, Suffolk, 
Rev. James Baines, to the vicarage of 
Warton, Lancashire. 
Rey, 
