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into In.ly orders, and in 1^<> was ap- 



1 chap!..' '.rolinc. After 



the t>uke of Sussex; 



..f St. Peter's, Cornhill, in 1824; and 



in 1882. In 1843 be 



nctcy. He took an active 



lni>iness <>f the county, and wns for 



rs chairman of the Braintreo 



. uardians, and twenty-two chnirmnn 



\Vithain bench. Sir John troubled him- 



!tle (oncoming tbo differences between 



-, but was well known as a 



.1 piety, and earnestly strove to 



nil and temporal elevation, of 



ople. 



DONOCGITMORE, Rt. lion. RICITARD 

 HrTciMNxix, fourth Earl of, died in 

 Knocklofty, Tipperary, Ireland, aged 52 years. 

 He wa* educated at Harrow, and was a Deputy- 

 Licutenant for the connty of Tipperary, and 

 :\ magistrate for that of Waterford. In early 

 Hie he held a commission in the army nnd 

 ! in tlie campaign of Cbina, nnd in 1849 

 was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel-Comraandant 

 of the militia. In 1851 be succeeded to the 

 family honors, and from that period devoted 

 himself to public life. Under the Derby Ad- 

 ininistration in 1848, he was appointed Vice- 

 'ent of the Board of Trade, and President 

 of that body, in 1859. He was possessed of 

 rare business powers, and few speakers in the 

 lL>usc of Lords could equal the facility with 

 which ho handled the nicer points of law. 



Feb. 23. HAVILLAMI, Lieutenant-Colonel, 

 THOMAS Flora, formerly an eminent military 

 and civil engineer of the East India Com- 

 pany, died at Do Beanvoir, Guernsey, aged 

 90 years. He was a native of Havilland, en- 

 tered the service of the East India Company 

 Madras cadet, in 1791, and having become 

 a distinguished engineer, was employed in the 

 construction of important military works at 

 Mpatam and elsewhere. In 1814 he was 

 appointed superintending engineer and archi- 

 : the Madras Presidency, and in this posi- 

 tion constructed numerous civil wori^ of great 

 magnitude and utility, the chief of which were 

 the Madras bulwark and pier completed in 

 Upon the death of his father in 1823, 

 lie K-ft the sen ice with the rank of Lieutenant- 

 Colonel, and devoted the rest of his life to the 

 public service of his native island, of which he 

 was one of the justices and legislators. 



Feb. 23. SYKES, GODFREY, an English 

 orativc artist of great distinction, died at old 

 I'.roinpton, aged 41 years. He was educated 

 in the Shetlield School of Art, where he was 

 subsequently teacher and master, and about 

 1861, removed to London to undertake the dec- 

 oration of the arcades in the Royal Horticultu- 

 ral Gardens. Besides being a sculptor and a 

 modeller, he was a skilful painter, and was per- 

 haps the first artist who has ventured to take 

 tlie mere structural forms cf ribs and bolts of 

 ironwork and to make them decorative on their 

 wn surface-^. Hi* hi-t work, and perhaps his 



greatest achievement, was the production of a 

 series of columns for the new.lecture thc;i 

 South Kensington, which in P'IZO and style are 

 worthy of being placed in the hospital at Milan. 



Feb. 25. LEE, JOHN, LL. D., F. R. 8., -r. 

 eminent English physicist, President of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society, born in London, 

 April 28, 1783; died at Hartwell House, near 

 Aylesbury. He was the eldest son of John 

 Fiott, a merchant of London, and was educated 

 at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he 

 graduated in 1806, and in 1816 took his degree 

 of LL. D. He was Fellow and Travelling 

 Bachelor of his College, in which capacity ho 

 journeyed extensively in the East and on the 

 Continent, where ho succeeded in amassing a 

 valuable collection of antiquities. In 1815 he 

 assumed the name of Lee by royal license, in 

 compliance with the will of his maternal uncle, 

 William Lee, devisee of Sir George Lee, Bart., 

 and in 1827 came into possession of the whole 

 family property. In 1864 he was made a 

 Queen's Counsel, by Lord Chancellor West- 

 bury. Dr. Lee was one of the oldest magis- 

 trates of Bucks, having been appointed on the 

 commission of peace in 1819, and his name 

 stood first on the list of high sheriffs for 1867. 

 IK wns Lord of the Manors of Hartwell, and 

 patron of two livings. In politics he was a 

 Liberal, and was several times an unsuccessful 

 candidate for the representation of Bucks. In 

 1863 he still wore in public a blue coat with 

 brass buttons, and a yellow waistcoat. Dr. Lee 

 was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was 

 also a Fellow and for two years the President 

 of the Royal Astronomical Society. He was 

 also a member of the Geological, Geographical, 

 British Meteorological, British Archaeological, 

 the Syro-Egyptian, the Asiatic, the Chronologi- 

 cal, the Numismatic and other learned societies. 

 Among his services to science not the least is 

 the erection at Hartwell of one of the best pri- 

 vate observatories in the kingdom, where for 

 many years competent astronomical observers 

 have been engaged at his expense. Though his 

 public labors in behalf of science have been so 

 great, his only published scientific work is his 

 inaugural address as President of the Royal As- 

 tronomical Society. He was a man of great 

 benevolence of character, was strongly opposed 

 to the use of tobacco in any form, a teetotaller 

 from principle, and a strong advocate for female 

 suffrage. 



Feb. . HAT.AOZ, , a veteran of the Seven 



Years' War, died at Stande, Upper Silesia, aged 

 120 years. He served 88 years in the Prussian 

 army and took an active part in several cam- 

 paigns of the present century. 



. . ROCKERT, FHIKDRICH, a German 

 p"et and Orientalist, died at Neusess, aged 77 

 years. He was a native of Bavaria; was edu- 

 cated at the University of Jena, and after a 

 brief editorship, was, in 1826, appointed pro- 

 of. Oriental language* at Krlanpen. In 

 1840 ho was induced, by Frederick William 

 IV. of Prussia to remove to Berlin, where he 



