1829.] 



Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 



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Doge's Daughter, with Translations from 

 Anacreon and Horace ; — Carmen Britan- 

 nicum, 1814 ; and a Translation of Ana- 

 creon, 1822. His LorcLhip died at Brighton 

 early in June ; leaving tliree sons : — Ed- 

 ward Thomas, his successor, bom in 1814; 

 Tliomas Hugh, born in 1810 ; and John 

 Edmund, born in 1817. Lord Thurlow 

 assumed the name of Hovell, in 1814, as a 

 descendant, maternally, from Ricliard Ho- 

 vell, Esquire of the Body to King Henry 

 the Fifth. 



JOHN CUnTIS, Jt.D. 



Dr. Curtis was born at Alton, in Hamp- 

 shire, where his family, of the persuasion of 

 Quakers, had been settled for many gene- 

 rations. He was educated at the well- 

 known school at Burford, in Oxfordshire. 

 On leaving Burford, he was apprenticed to 

 Iiis brother, M'^illiam, the late celebrated 

 botanist, who was then practising as a sur- 

 geon. Under him, he acquired a taste for 

 botany, which, at a subsequent period of life, 

 he cultivated with much assiduity, and pos- 

 sessed a choice collection of plants. On the 

 tcrmiaation of his apprenticeship, he walked 

 the hospitals, and attended the lectures of 

 Dr. Fordyce, Mr. CUne, and other eminent 

 teachers. Having thus completed his pro- 

 fessional studies, he commenced practice at 

 IJxbridge. He afterwards married IMiss 

 Davis, of Reading, in Berkshire, by whom 

 he had several cliildren, who have survived 

 liim. 



Of natiu-al history, in general, he was 

 fond ; and ornithology, in particular, formed 

 with him a favourite pursuit. British orni- 

 tliology, he considered, was neither known 

 nor studied as it ought to be. With British 

 birds no one was better acquainted ; and he 

 left a small but interesting collection of 

 them, chiefiy the produce of his own sport. 

 So correct and delicate was his ear, that he 

 could distinguish by its note every bird 

 within hearing. He was a liberal contributor 

 to tJie Zoological Gardens and JMuseum. 



Mr. Curtis piqued himself on his attach- 

 ment to the doctrines of the old school ; yet 

 lie had an excellent knowledge of the treat- 

 ment of fever, and he was the first to intro- 

 iluce vaccination into his neighbourhood. 

 By the profession generally, he was higlily 

 respected, and by none more so tlian by Iiis 

 late friend, Dr. Pope, of Stains, witli whom 

 he maintained an uninterrupted friendship 

 for more than half a century. 



Anxious to limit tlic fatigues of his prac- 

 tice, and to confine Iiis attention to his par- 

 ticular friends, Jlr. Curtis, some years be- 

 fore his deatli, took his degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine. The testimonials of his cha- 

 racter and ac(|uiremcnLs were of the first 

 description. IJ is early liabits, united with an 

 excellent constitution, enabled iiim to enjoy 

 uninterrupted health ; and it was not until 

 Jic had readied his seventy-lifth year, tliut 

 nature began to sink. The symptoms of 

 Ills illness were at first slight, but they soon 



became alarming, and, conscious of the i\i- 

 proachlng event, he met his death with 

 resignation and fortitude. In his last mo- 

 ments he was attended by Dr. Tattersall, 

 ]\Ir. Green, of St. Thomas's Hospital, Mr. 

 Stilnell, and his eldest son, Mr. J. Harrison 

 t!urtis, aurist to his Majesty, and weE 

 known for his improvements in the depart- 

 ment of acoustic surgery. By his death, 

 which took place at Cowley, in tlie neigh- 

 bourhood of Uxbridge, the poor have lost 

 a kind-hearted, liberal, and generotis bene- 

 factor. 



THE BISHOP OF OXFORD. 



Dr. Charles Lloyd, Bisliop of Oxford, and 

 Regius Professor of Divinity in that Uni- 

 versity, was the son of an eminent scliool- 

 master, of Peterley House, in the county of 

 Buckingham. His father, after he had 

 carried his education to a certain point, sent 

 him to Eton ; and from Eton he went to 

 Christ Church College, Oxford, where he 

 was rewarded, by the celebrated Cyril Jack- 

 son, with the Dean's Studentsliip. Enjoy- 

 ing a high reputation for his learning, it 

 was his great good fortune — his natal star 

 must have been in its ascendant at the mo- 

 ment — to be appointed tutor to 3Ir. Robert 

 Peel, a gentleman since well known in the 

 political world, and formerly much respect- 

 ed, if not for his high talents, at least for 

 his presumed honesty, and for the apparent 

 fearlessness with which he advocated the 

 rights of the British Constitution against the 

 claims of Popery. 



On an examination for honours at the 

 University, Dr. Lloyd obtained the first 

 place ; and, on a new modelling of the ma- 

 thematical lecturesliip, at Christ Clmrcli, he 

 was appointed tlie lecturer, at a very early 

 age. He afterwards became, in due course, 

 tutor and censor of his college. It is said 

 that it was in consequence of his reputation 

 as a clergyman, extending with his acade- 

 mical honoia-s, that he was selected, in the 

 year 1819, to succeed the present Bishop of 

 Durham, as preacher at Lincoln's Inn. 

 Sliortly afterwards, on the promotion of 

 tlie present Bishop of Down and Connor, he 

 was appointed Chaplain to the Archbislioj) 

 of Canterbury. In 1822, he was appointed 

 Regius Professor of Divinity in the Univer- 

 siiy, and, in 1827, was promoted to the see 

 of Oxford. 



The immediate cause of Dr. Ijloyd's 

 death, which occurred at his residence in 

 M'hitehall-place, London, on the afternoon 

 of Simday, May the 31st, was an infiani- 

 mation of the lungs, occasioned by a cold, 

 which he liad caught about a nu)ntli before. 

 Dr. Ijloyd married, in lii22, a daiigliter of 

 Colonel Stapleton, of Tlior])e, in the county 

 of Surrey, and lias left a son and four daugh- 

 ters. Notwithstanding his learning, wc are 

 not aware that this prelate lias ever, in the 

 sligiitest degree, distinguished liimself in 

 tile world of letters. 



