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ments, and was honored by being made a mem- 

 ber of the Committee of Reference, the Coun- 

 cil of Science, and other like committees in- 

 stituted by successive Governments for the im- 

 provement of naval architecture. He assist- 

 ed materially in the establishment of the In- 

 stitution of Naval Architects, to the " Transac- 

 tions " of which he contributed several valu- 

 able papers, and, as an acknowledgment of his 

 services, was recently elected to the honorary 

 membership of the society. His published 

 writings upon the higher branches of his pro- 

 fession were numerous and of a very high or- 

 der, and in particular, the " Reports on Naval 

 Construction " have taken their place amongst 

 the standard works of the shipbuilding pro- 

 fession. 



Sept. 8. BEAUCHAMP, Earl. (See BEAU- 

 CHAMP.) 

 Sept. 14. GWILT, JOSEPH. (See GWILT, Jos.) 



Sept. 16. KILVEBT, Kev. FRANCIS. (See 

 KILVERT, FRANCIS.) 



Sept. 17. COCKEBELL, CHARLES ROBEET. 



(See COCKEEELL, C. R.) 



Sept. 20. GRIMM, JAKOB. (See GRIMM, JA- 

 KOB). 



Sept. 23. HOPE, Admiral Sir HENRY. (See 

 HOPE, HENRY). 



Sept. 28. CHITTY, EDWARD, Esq., an Eng- 

 lish barrister, died at Waltham-green, aged 59 

 years. He was called to the bar by the 

 Society of Lincoln's Inn, July 7th, 1829. 

 He was the author of "New Orders of the 

 Court of Chancery," 1831 ; " Index to Equity 

 and Bankruptcy Cases," 1837; and a portion 

 of a " Digested Index to all the Common Law 

 Reports relative to Conveyancing and Bank- 

 ruptcy," 1851. 



Sept. 30. BUCKLE, WILLIAM, Esq., vice-pres- 

 ident of the Society of Mechanical Engineers, 

 died at his residence, Royal Mint, London, 

 agd 69 years. He was the builder of the first 

 locomotive engine which, made the journey 

 from Liverpool to Manchester, and was the 

 contemporary and friend of Watt and Stephen- 

 son. He superintended the arrangements of 

 the visit of George IV. to Ireland. Subse- 

 quently he became connected with the Soho 

 Works of Messrs. Boulton and Watt, at Bir- 

 mingham, where he held a responsible post 

 till 1851, in which year he was appointed by 

 Sir John Herschel to an important office in the 

 coining department of the royal mint. 



Oct. 8. WHATELY, Right Hon. RICHARD. 

 (See WHATELY, RICHARD.) 



Oct. 12. LYNDHURST, Lord. (See LYND- 

 HUEST.) 



Oct. 13. BILLAULT, AUGUSTS ADOLPHE M. 

 (See BILLAULT.) 



Oct. 18. HOPE, G. W. (See HOPE.) 



Oct. 19. NICHOLS, JOHN BOWYER. (See 

 NICHOLS J. B.) 



Nov. 2. BUNKING, J. B., Esq., an English 

 architect, died at his house in Gloucester Ter- 

 race, aged 61 years. His professional train- 

 ing was obtained mostly in the office of his 



father, a surveyor, in London. In 1885 his 

 design for the City of London School was se- 

 lected in a competition, and the building erect- 

 ed under his superintendence was opened in 

 1837. In the same year he was appointed sur- 

 veyor to the London Cemetery Co., and sub- 

 sequently laid out the Nunhead Cemetery, with 

 all the roads and approaches. At this time 

 he was surveyor to the Haberdashers' Company 

 and attended to the erection of a large number 

 of buildings on the Company's estate. In 1841 

 or thereabouts he was appointed surveyor to 

 the London and County Bank, erecting build- 

 ings in Canterbury, Chatham, Brighton, &c. 

 He was surveyor of the Thames Tunnel, Victoria 

 Life Office, and architect of the Bethnal Green 

 Union Workhouse, Chelsea Waterworks, and a 

 mansion in Regent's Park, for the late Baron 

 Vaughan. In 1843 he was elected to the office 

 of clerk of the " City's Works," and in 1847 the 

 designation was changed to that of architect, 

 which important position he occupied for twenty 

 years. He carried into effect many valuable street 

 improvements. In 1849 he completed the Coal 

 Exchange. In 1852 the City Prison, Holloway. 

 In 1853 Billingsgate Market, and in the follow- 

 ing year the Freemasons' Orphan Schools, at 

 Brixton; in 1855, the Metropolitan Cattle 

 Market in Copenhagen Fields. In 1858 was 

 commenced the entire reconstruction of New- 

 gate Gaol, and in the same year Rogers's Alms- 

 houses in Brixton. He designed the decora- 

 tions of the annual banquets of the Lord Mayor, 

 also for the entertainment of the Emperor and 

 Empress of the French, the King of Sardinia, 

 of the same year, and the International Exhi- 

 bition Ball, July, 1862 ; also the decorations of 

 the city at the reception of the Princess of 

 Wales which were unsurpassed by that of any 

 capital in Europe. His death was probably the 

 result of the exposures in superintending these 

 preparations during unfavorable weather. 



Nov. 12. DUNCAN, PHILIP BURY. (See DUN- 

 CAN, P. B.) 



Nov. 13. COMONFORT, YoNACio. (See COM- 



ONFORT.) 



Nov. 15. FREDERICK VII., King of Den- 

 mark. (See FREDERICK VII.) 



NOV. 20. CONINGTON, FRANCIS TniRKlLL, 



M.A., fellow of Corpus Christi College, Ox- 

 ford, died at Boston, aged 35 years. He had 

 held the office of scientific examiner in the 

 University, and for some years had been a 

 contributor to periodicals. He was the author 

 of the " Handbook of Chemical Analysis," 

 published in 1858, which has taken its place 

 among the text-books of the subject. 

 Nov. 20. ELGIN, Lord. (See ELGIN. Lord.) 

 Dee. 4. HARDING, DUFFIELD J., an English 

 artist, died at Barnes, Surrey, aged 65 years. 

 He was a native of Deptford, was apprenticed 

 'to an engraver, but studied for an artist, and 

 at the age of 18 received the silver medal from 

 the Society of Arts. He was one of the first 

 to work on stone with a brush instead of a 

 crayon, whereby greater facility in labor was 





