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DUYCKINCK, G. L. 



ELGIN, JAMES BRUCE. 



an anti-mendicity society, and the establish- 

 ment of public baths and wash-houses, toward 

 the erection of which he contributed, at differ- 

 ent times, 2,000. After holding his fel- 

 lowship at New College for half a century, he 

 resigned his position, thinking that its emolu- 

 ments were, by this time, due to some more 

 youthful successor, thus adding one more to 

 the long list of acts of unselfish liberality 

 which had characterized his life. He was a 

 man of pure life, simple habits, and noble im- 

 pulses, and his declining years exhibited a 

 beautiful example of a quiet passage from tune 

 to eternity. His published works are " Po- 

 litical and Literary Anecdotes of his own 

 Times," by Dr. William King, Principal of St. 

 Mary's Hall, edited by Mr. Duncan, 1 818 ; " Es- 

 says on Various Subjects," " Railway Read- 

 ings," " Motives of War," "Reliquiae Romance; 

 or, Specimens of the Arts of the Romans 

 found in England and Whales," "Essays on 

 Conversation and on Quackery," 1835, "Liter- 

 ary Conglomerate," 1839. 



DUYOKINCK, GEORGE LONG, an American 

 author, born in the city of New York, October 

 17th, 1822, died there, March 30th, 1863. He 

 was a descendant of an old Knickerbocker fam- 

 ily, dating from the early settlement of the isl- 

 and by the Dutch. His father, Evert Duyck- 

 inck, was for many years one of the leading 

 book publishers in New York. He retired 



from business one year previous to his death, 

 which occurred in 1833, leaving two sons, 

 Evert A. and the subject of our sketch, both 

 of whom inherited his literary taste. George 

 L. Duyckinck was educated at Geneva College, 

 N. Y., and at the university of the city of New 

 York, graduating at the latter institution in 1843. 

 After the completion of his college course, he, 

 in company with William Allen Butler, a class- 

 mate, made a tour in Europe in 1848, and on his 

 return became connected with his brother in the 

 editorship of " The Literary World," a journal 

 published weekly, in quarto, and which was 

 continued until 1853, when it closed with its 

 thirteenth volume. Mr. Duyckinck then, still 

 associated with his brother, prepared the 

 " Cyclopedia of American Literature," an able 

 and extensive work requiring great research, 

 the first edition of which was published by 

 Scribner, of New York, in 1856. After visiting 

 Europe a second time, he prepared several 

 biographies, published by the Church Book 

 Society in New York, among which are : 

 " George Herbert," " Bishop Ken," " Latimer," 

 and "Jeremy Taylor." In 1855 he became a 

 corresponding member of the N. E. Historical 

 Genealogical Society. For some years pre- 

 vious to his death, he was threatened with a 

 pulmonary affection, but his energetic nature 

 prevented" his yielding to the disease until 

 toward the end. 



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EARDLEY, SIR CULLING E., baronet, born in 

 Hatfield, in 1805, died at his residence in Bed- 

 well-park, Hatfield, May 21st, 1863. He was a 

 son of the late Sir Culling Smith, baronet; was 

 educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where, in 

 1827, he was placed in the second class in class- 

 ical honors, but did not graduate, having con- 

 scientious scruples as to subscribing to some por- 

 tions of the oaths then administered in taking the 

 degree of B. A. He succeeded to the baronetcy 

 in 1829, and represented Pontefract in one 

 short Parliament previous to the Reform Bill. 

 In 1846 he was a candidate for the representa- 

 tion of Edinburgh, in opposition to Lord Ma- 

 caulay, on the appointment of the latter to the 

 office of paymaster-general of the forces. Sir 

 Culling based his claim chiefly upon his de- 

 cided Protestantism and his opposition to the 

 Maynooth Grant, but he only polled about 

 half as many votes as his adversary. In 1847 

 he assumed, by royal license, his maternal 

 name of Eardley, his mother having been a 

 daughter of the last Lord Eardley. He was 

 well known in public life for his zealous asser- 

 tion of Protestant principles, and for the ac- 

 tive part which he took in the proceedings of 

 the Evangelical Alliance and other religious 

 associations. His death resulted from revac- 

 cination, which, from some constitutional 

 causes, had not the desired effect. 



ELGIN, JAMES BRUCE, eighth earl of, and 

 twelfth earl of Kincardine, an English states- 

 man and, at his death, viceroy of India, born in 

 London, July 20th, 1811, died at Dhurumsala, in 

 Cashmere, Nov. 25th, 1863. He was educated 

 at Eton, and from thence went to CLri>t 

 Church, where he was a fellow-collegian with 

 Lord Dalhousie, Lord Canning, and Mr. Glad- 

 stone. He was of the first class in classics, in 

 1832, and subsequently became a fellow of 

 Merton College, being known then as Lord 

 Bruce. In 1841 he entered Parliament as a 

 member for Southampton, and as a support- 

 er of Sir Robert Peel ; and in the same year 

 he succeeded to the earldom, which, being a 

 Scotch peerage, did not interfere with his seat 

 in the Lower House ; but this he resigned in 

 1842, on being appointed to the governor-gen- 

 eralship of Jamaica. When difficulties present- 

 ed themselves in Canada, Lord Elgin was 

 selected, in 1846, as the best man to manage 

 affairs in that colony. While there he carried 

 out the conciliatory policy of his father-in-law 

 Lord Durham, and by preserving a neutrality 

 between parties, by developing the resources 

 of the country, and by seeking in every possi- 

 ble way to study the wishes of the colonists 

 he did more than any other man to quell dis- 

 content, and to knit the Canadian provinces 

 more closely to the mother country. As a re- 





