1322.] 
esq. This gentleman was bred tothe bar, | 
at which he practised many years without 
any signal success, and could only obtain 
the place of commissioner of bankrupts. 
When Mr. Pitt procured the act for esta- 
blishing the six police offices, Mr. Story was 
appointed one of those magistrates, and 
fixed at the Shadwell office. At this office 
he preferred officiating, although he con- 
stantly resided at the west-end of the town. 
Here he continued to act until, by his in- 
firmities, he was unable to go such a 
distance, when he solicited, and, about 
the time of the removal of the office to 
Mary-le-bone, obtained a superannuation 
at the usual income. Mr. Story lately held 
the place of one of the Tam Quam commis- 
sioners of bankrupt. 
[Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL.D. F.R.S. 
&c. whose death we noticed in our last, was' 
born in 1759, at the parsonage-house of 
Rainham, Norfolk, of which his father was 
then curate. He received the rudiments of 
his education from the Rev. John Shaw, of 
Rochdale ; thence he was removed to Gras- 
ington, and in 1775, to St. John’s College, 
Cambridge. He proceeded LL.B. in 1780, 
intending, at that time, to follow the civil 
law, as a profession; but in 1782, the death 
of his father transferred his residence to the 
Holme, and tbree years after he was or- 
dained deacon, and admitted to the order of 
priesthood in the year following. In 1797, 
he became perpetual curate of Holme chapel, 
_took the degree of LL.D. in 1801, was pre- 
sented to the vicarage of Whalley in 1801, 
and to that of Blackburn in 1818. He mar- 
ried Lucy, daughter of Thomas Thoresby, of 
Leeds, a relative of the celebrated antiquary 
of thatname. Asa literary man, in which 
character he is most generally known, Dr. 
Whitaker was distinguished, not less for in- 
dustry and acuteness in research, accuracy of 
reasoning and extent of knowledge, than 
warmth of imagination and vigour of style. 
To the study of English antiquities, he con- 
tributed a valuable and copious store of clas- 
sical information, and an intimate knowledge 
of such modern languages as throw most 
ight on the subject. He must also be con- 
sidered as having materially assisted in the 
revival of a school of topography, which 
was just on the verge of being extinct. From 
so degraded a state the historian of Whalley, 
Craven, and Richmondshire, has redeemed 
this interesting and important branch of study; 
and to him we are chiefly indebted, if it has, 
in modern times, been discovered that topo- 
graphy may be united, with a keen relish for 
natural beauty and the fine arts, the contem- 
plations of the moralist, the edifying pursuits 
of the chronicler of men and ages, and the 
loftiest flights of poetic genius. Dr. Whita- 
ker’s style was nervous and fluent. He ex- 
celled in the faculty of delineating the objects 
before him, with extraordinary readiness and 
fidelity, and of seizing the chief features, 
Mr. Whi haker told r. Vinee. 
18i 
whether of scenery, archifecture, or human 
character. In this respect he strongly re- 
sembled Camden, and had the custom of pub- 
lishing in a learned language prevailed in his 
time, he perhaps would not have fallen short 
of that accomplished master in his Latin 
style. Dr. Whitaker, however, had his pe- 
culiar errors. 'These may be in great part 
attributed to his characteristic warmth ; and, 
consequently, it is not to be wondered that 
his rapidity should accidentally have over- 
looked objects worthy of more notice than 
he at first sight bestowed on them. The 
theological works of Dr. W. were confined 
to occasional sermons: he, however, pos- 
sessed a superior faculty of rendering every 
literary undertaking subservient to our best 
interests, and thus presented an example which 
no clergyman should suffer to escape his view. 
His regulating principles as a divine, included 
a zealous attachment to the great cause he 
represented, and which he ably illustrated by 
his eloquent discourses, which possessed the 
same vigour and fluency of language that 
characterize all his works ; but at the same 
time, they were simple and intelligible to 
the meanest of his auditors. Dr. Whitaker 
is also the author of “ a History of the 
Original Parish of Whalley, and Honor of 
Clitheroe, in the Counties of Lancaster and 
York,” 1801, 4to., which has passed through 
three editions ; ‘‘ History of the Deanery of 
Craven,”? 1805, 4to; “ the Life and Corres- 
pondence of Sir George Ratcliffe,” 1810, 
4to; “ the History of Yorksbire,”’ folio, 
1821. The MS. for ‘‘ Richmondshire,” and 
« Lunedale,”? was completed by Dr.Whitaker, 
previous to his death. These two portions 
will be comprised in twelve numbers, forming 
two volumes. ] : 
[Lately at Ramsgate, the Rev. Samuel 
Vince, M.A. F.R.S. and Plusnian Professor 
of Astronomy and Experimental Philoso- 
phy, at Cambridge. He entered at first as 
a member of Caius College, where, in 1775, 
he obtained one of Smith’s prizes as a pro- 
ficient in mathematics. The same year he 
took his degree of A.M.and was elected 
fellow of Sydney Sussex College. He en- 
tered into holy orders,and was promoted to 
the archdeaconry of Bedford. In 1781, he 
published his first work, ‘ Elements of 
Conic Sections,” and in 1790, a “ Treatise 
ont Practical Astronomy ;” in 1790, “A 
Plan for a Course of Lectures on Natural 
Philosophy ; in 1795, “‘ The Principles of 
Fluxions,” 2 vols; and in 1796, “ The 
Principles of Hydrostatics.” For some 
years he was elected Plusnian professor. 
The lectures comprise mechanics, hydro- 
statics, optics, astronomy, and electricity. 
He soon after published a ‘ Complete Sys- 
tem of Astronomy,” 2 vols, 4to, which has 
reached to asecond edition. The “ Prin- 
ciples of Astronomy,” 1799; a ‘ Treatise 
on Trigonometry,” 1810, and some smaller 
works. He has also contributed many va- 
luable 
