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Dowager of Ahoyne, in her 80th 

 year. 



26. John Disney, D.D. aged 

 70. Tliis estimable person was 

 descended from an ancient family 

 in Lincolnshii'e, and received his 

 academicfd education at Peter - 

 house, in Cambridge. After taking 

 orders he was presented to a rec- 

 tory and \icarage in his native 

 county, where he exercised with 

 assiJuity his parochial duties. 

 Being- led by his enquiries to dis- 

 sent from the articles of the 

 church of England, and seeing no 

 prospect of alter.itioii in its ser- 

 vice or subsci'iptions, he resigned 

 his preferments in ITi^'S, and re- 

 moving to London became first, 

 assistant, and afterwards sole mi- 

 nister, of the Unitarian chapel 



founded by Mr. Lindsey, in Essex- 

 street. His upright and disin- 

 terested conduct so much ingra- 

 tiated him with Brand H oil is, 

 esq. that he bequeathed to him 

 his estate at the Hyde, near In- 

 gatestone, Essex, whither Dr. 

 Disney retired, and iionourably 

 passed the remaining years of his 

 life. He left two s-ons and a 

 daughter by the eldest daughter 

 of Archdeacon Blackburne. He 

 was the author of Memoirs of 

 Sykes, Jebb, and Jortin, of a vo- 

 lume of Sermons, and of vai ious 

 tracts. 



Erratum in the Deaths of the last 

 year. — In the account of Sumuel 

 If'liitbread, Esq. the (hite is given 

 September 6ch instead of July 6th. 



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