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monument in Richmond church. 
Mr. Thomas Wakefield is succeeded 
by George Savage, M.A. fellow of 
King’s college, Cambridge, who was 
instituted, 1788, to the vicarage of 
Kingston. In 1796, an act was 
passed for new-modelling this vica- 
rage, by which Kingston vicarage 
was confined to Kingston and Rich- 
mond, and a new vicarage was 
formed of Kew and Petersham. 
Thames-Ditton, and East Moulsey 
curacies were declared perpetual, 
and the patronage of them vested in 
the patron of Kingston. Mr. 
Hardinge, the patron, before the 
passing of this act, presented the 
rev. George Wakefield, who, as 
vicar of Kingston, had aright to ap- 
point to all the curacies ; anda little 
before his death, in 1776, appointed 
his son Thomas to the curacy of 
Richmond, on his own surrender, A 
doubt had arisen whether the cu- 
rates appointed by the vicar, 
vacated their curacies on his 
death or cession. ‘The patron, 
though interested in the ques- 
tion, closed it in favour of what 
he thought the fair side of the argu- 
ment ; and the act declares the cura. 
cies perpetual. Mr. Thomas Wake- 
field, in consequence, held Rich- 
mond during his life. By this act, 
after the then next avoidance of the 
vicarage of Kingston, and of the 
‘chapelry of Richmond, the vicarage 
and chapelry, including the hamlets 
of ffam and Hook, are to bea dis- 
tinct vicarage, by the name of the 
vicarage of Kingston upon Thames, 
with Shene, otherwise Kichmond. 
Mr. Hardinge sold the advowson to 
the provost and fellows of King’s 
college, Cambridge. 
27th. At Cambridge, in his 71st 
_ year, after a lingering illness, Mr. 
Thomas Thackeray, an eminent sure 
geon of that town. In the profes- 
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sion in which he has been actively 
and laboriously engaged for 30 years 
past, his talents were undisputed ; 
and the tenderness and humanity 
with which he exercised its impor- 
tant duties, will be remembered 
with gratitude by numbers whose 
sufferings his skill and experience 
contributed to alleviate. In his dis- 
position he was kind and beneyo- 
lent; in his manners mild and unas. 
suming. His conduct in the various 
relations of life, whilst it strength- 
ened the natural attachment of his 
best and dearest connections, se- 
cured to him the esteem of every man 
to whom his name and character 
were known; and more especially 
as a parent, in the education of a 
numerous family, his example never 
failed to recommend the virtues 
which his instructionsenforced. In 
the pious and assiduous attention 
which he received from them in the 
last and more painful moments of 
his existence, he reaped the best re. 
ward of his Jabours which this world 
was capable of affording; and, 
though they must continue to lament 
in private, with deep and heartfelt 
regret, the heavy loss which the 
have sustained, they will have the 
satisfaction of secing the honour 
conferred on his memory by the 
tribute, not less sincere, of public 
respect. 
30th. Drowned, in Yarmouth 
Roads, Mr. James Jennings, purser 
of 1i.M. S. Sparrow, and a native of 
Halifax, Yorkshire. He was some 
time in the office of Mr, Jackson, 
of New Broad-street, and was clerk 
to the honourable captain Fleeming 
in H. M. S$. Diomede and Egyp- 
tienne. 
Dec. 2d. Aged 83, after a long 
and very painful illness, the rev. 
Thomas Towle, B. D. at his house in 
Cripplegate-buildings, of which he 
had 
