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consistent member and class-leader of the 

 Wesleyans. 



May 8. WESTCOMB, CHARLES, an English 

 publisher and editor ; died in London, aged 48 

 years. He was born of poor parents in Exeter, 

 and was educated in one of the public schools 

 of St. Sidwell's. At the age of eleven he un- 

 dertook his first public duty that of keeping 

 the cholera-books of the visitations of 1832. 

 Being a skilful accountant, he early enlisted in 

 the management of several mining enterprises, 

 and his love of work was so absorbing, that for 

 many years he accomplished what would have 

 overtaxed the energies of three ordinary men. 

 In 1859 he became proprietor of the Exeter 

 and Plymouth Gazette, and subsequently pur- 

 chased in succession the Maidstone Journal, 

 the London Globe, and the Edinburgh Courant. 

 Besides his editorial duties, he was the main- 

 spring of several mining and commercial un- 

 dertakings, and devoted much time and atten- 

 tion to public affairs. He was for several years 

 high sheriff of Exeter. Of the School of Art 

 and the Albert Memorial Museum he was one 

 of the originators and most earnest supporters. 

 In politics he was a stanch Conservative. 



May 10. DILKE, Sir CHAELES WENTWORTH, 

 Bart., LL.D., F.R.G.S., F.S.A., a journalist, 

 art connoisseur, and author ; died at St. Peters- 

 burg, aged 69 years. He was the only son of 

 Charles Wentworth Dilke, the founder, pro- 

 prietor, and first editor of the Athenaeum news- 

 paper, and an author of great ability. Sir 

 Charles was born in London, February 18, 

 1810; educated at "Westminster School and 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating LL. B. 

 in 1834. He was associated with his father 

 for a number of years in the editing of the 

 Athenceum, and greatly improved its tone and 

 ability, but for the last twenty years had de- 

 voted most of his time to art matters, in which 

 his tastes were exquisite. He was one of the 

 earliest and most active promoters of the first 

 Crystal Palace Exhibition, and was a leading 

 member of the executive committee. He was 

 offered the honor of knighthood and a large 

 pecuniary remuneration for his great services 

 in this connection, but declined both. He was 

 a commissioner to the New York Crystal 

 Palace Exhibition in 1853, and one of the five 

 royal commissioners of the second London In- 

 ternational Exhibition in 1862, and was made 

 a baronet by the Queen in January, 1862. He 

 had also taken an active interest in the meet- 

 ings and transactions of the Society of Anti- 

 quaries and the Royal Geographical Society. 

 He was a member of Parliament for Walling- 

 ford, in the liberal interest, from July, 1865, to 

 November, 1868. He had visited St. Peters- 

 burg at the time of his death, to attend the 

 Imperial Horticultural Exhibition about to be 

 held there. 



May 11. BADEN, MATTHEW, a centenarian 

 of Oare, in the parish of Wilcot, Wilts ; died 

 there, aged 106 years and 3 months. He was 

 born at Pewsey in February, 1763. He left a 



numerous family of descendants to the fifth 

 generation. 



May 11. JOHNSTONE, JAMES, M. D., an emi- 

 nent physician and medical professor of Bir- 

 mingham ; died at Leamington, England, aged 

 63 years. He was the last of a distinguished 

 family of physicians and surgeons, who, for 

 one hundred and fifty years, had stood at the 

 head of the medical profession in Birmingham 

 and the midland counties. He had been for a 

 number of years professor of medicine in the 

 Queen's College, Birmingham, consulting phy- 

 sician of the Children's Hospital, governor of 

 the Grammar School for thirty years, physi- 

 cian of the General Hospital, and president of 

 the British Medical Association. 



May 17. RICHARDSON, EDWARD, sculptor; 

 died at Brighton, England, aged 57 years. He 

 formerly resided in South Lambeth, and first 

 became known to the public in 1842, from his 

 work of restoring the well-known effigies of 

 the Knights Templar that lie in the Round 

 Church of the Temple. His work was severe- 

 ly and perhaps unjustly criticised, and in a 

 volume which he subsequently published upon 

 that subject, describing his method of pro- 

 cedure at length, he concludes with the asser- 

 tion that " he found in almost every instance 

 ample authority for adding the missing parts," 

 that "no part of the originals was removed, 

 and that the extent of every restoration may 

 be traced." In 1848 and 1849 he restored 

 eight ancient effigies in the church of Elford, 

 in Staffordshire. He was commissioned to 

 make and procure many of the casts of sepul- 

 chral effigies which form the interesting se- 

 ries exhibited in the museum of the Crystal 

 Palace at Sydenham. He also executed some 

 work in a military connection in bronze and 

 in marble. He was an active member of the 

 London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 

 and prepared valuable reports for both the 

 Archaeological Journal and the Gentleman's 



May 18. CUNNINGHAM, PETER, an English 

 author and critic; died at St. Albans, Herts, 

 aged 53 years. He was the third son of Allan 

 Cunningham, the poet ; was born in Pimlico, 

 April, 1816, educated at Christ's Hospital, and 

 in 1834 was appointed by the late Sir Robert 

 Peel to a clerkship in the Audit Office. In 

 1834 he became chief clerk of that department 

 of the public service, from which he retired in 

 1860. He was the author and editor of several 

 descriptive works, guide-books, biographies, 

 etc. Among these were: "Hand-Book of 

 London," 2 vols. (1849); "Guide to West- 

 minster Abbey" (1842); and "Modern Lon- 

 don " (1851). "Life of Inigo Jones " (1848) ; 

 " Story of Nell Gwynn " (1852). His critical 

 works were: the "Works of Drummond" 

 (1833); "Specimens of the British Poets" 

 (1841); "Works of Oliver Goldsmith" (1854); 

 "Johnson's Lives of the Poets" (1854); and 

 "The Letters of Horace Walpole" (1857-'59). 



May 20. AYRE, Rev. JOHN, an eminent 



