MEMOIR OF WILLIAM YARRELL. 



WILLIAM YARRELL was a man rather below the middle 

 height, having a robust, well-knit frame, a sagacious 

 and pleasing countenance, and frank and agreeable man- 

 ners. His aspect was that of a stout yeoman, such as those 

 who in times past have contributed with head and hand 

 to elevate their native England to its present rank among 

 the nations; or rather his demeanour may be said to have 

 indicated exactly what he was in fact a citizen who had 

 thriven in the greatest of commercial cities, but who, 

 strong in native honesty and self-respect, had passed un- 

 scathed through the perils of money-making, his cheerful 

 countenance bearing no lines traced by the thirst of gain 

 or the debasing passion for hoarding : on the contrary, his 

 mild but fearless eye, and his open forehead, showed, 

 even to a stranger, a man at peace with himself and with 

 his fellow men. 



He was born on the 3rd of June, 1784, in the parish 

 of St. James's, where his home continued to be for the 

 seventy-two years of his life. In Duke Street his 

 father and uncle carried on in partnership the business 

 of newspaper agents. On the death of his father, his 

 mother removed to a private residence in Great Ryder 



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