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mcnts. His manners were simple, 

 and his life exemplary ; he was a 

 scholar of the old school, and no- 

 thing tempted him to relinquish di- 

 vine and polite literature. It was 

 not till after he had compleated his 

 last translation, (that of Sophocles,) 

 that Mr. Potter obtained any pre- 

 ferment in the church higher than 

 that of vicar of Lowestoft. He had 

 been a school-fellow of Lord Thur- 

 low, and had constantly sent his 

 publications to that great man with- 

 ont ever soliciting a single favour 

 from him. On receiving a copy of 

 theSophoclcs, however, his lordship 

 wrote a short note to Mr. Potter, 

 acknowledging the receipt of his 

 books from time to time, and the 

 pleasure they had afforded him, and 

 requesting Mr. Potter's acceptance 

 of a prebendal stall in the cathedral 

 of Norwich, which, with his vicar- 

 age, rendered him comfortable for 

 the remainder of a life devoted to 

 those pursuits which best become a 

 profound scholar and a true chris- 

 tian. The vicarage of Seaming is a 

 niedicty in the gift of the Warner 

 family; the vicarage of Lowestoft 

 in the bishop of Norwich ; and 

 the prebend of Norwich in the 

 crown. 



11th. At Shuckbnrgh park, co. 

 Warwick, aged 53, sir George 

 Augustus William Shuckburgh Eve- 

 lyn, bart. ele6tcd, 1802, for the 

 lifth time, one of the members lor 

 the county of VV arwick. He suc- 

 ceeded his uncle, sir Charles Shuck- 

 burgh, in 1773; and married, first, 

 17S2, Sarah-Johanna, one of the 

 two daughters of John Darker, 

 esq. treasurer of St. Bartholomew's 

 hospital, in London, and many 

 years representative of Leicester in 

 parlianient, who dying the year 

 iollowing without issue, sir George 



married, secondly, 1785, JuHaA 

 Annabella, one of the two daugh- 

 ters, and at length sole heiress, of ] 

 James Evelyn, esq. of Felbridge, 

 Surry; on whose death, 1793, sir 

 George took his name, in addition 

 to his own. He has left one daugh- 

 ter, Julia Evelyn Medley, born 

 0&. 5th, 1791. Sir George was 

 elected F.A.S. 1777, and was also 

 F.R.S. In the Philosophical trans- 

 actions are the following papers by 

 him : — " Observations made in Sa- 

 Toy, in order to ascertain the height 

 of mountains by means of the ba- 

 rometer, being an examination of 

 M. De Luc's rules delivered in his 

 Recherchcs sur les Modijications dc f 

 A/inosphere^'''' 1777. — "Comparison 

 between his and colonel Roy's rules 

 for the measurement of heights with 

 the barometer,'' 1778. — " On the 

 tem peratu re of boiling waters," 1 778. 

 — " An account of the equatorial 

 instrument," 1793. — " An account 

 of some endeavours to ascertain 

 a standard of weight and measure," 

 1798. 



Mrs. Egerton, wife of Willianl 

 Talton Yj. esq. of Tatton park, in 

 Cheshire, and only daughter of 

 Thomas Watkinson Payler, esq. of 

 Ilcden, Kent. Among the catalogue 

 of unfortunate events, none could 

 produce a more general sensation 

 than the loss of this amiable woman, 

 whose death was occasioned by pre- 

 cipitately jumping from a low chair 

 (in which she was taking her usual 

 airing in the park), in consequence 

 of the horse becoming restive. By 

 the fall she became senseless, and 

 expired without uttering a word- 

 Besides those near and intimate con- 

 nexions, to whom her loss is irre- 

 parable, a numerous acquaintance 

 sincerely share the sorrow which it 

 iutlidts ; and a still more extensive 



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