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DUDLEY DULWICH. 



iinall spot of ground in an area formed by four pil- 

 lars, in one of the ruined aisles, which belonged to 

 his family. His uncle Kobert Scott, and his lady, 

 are, however, the only members of the family who 

 lie interred there. From the limited dimensions of 

 the place, the body of the author of Waverley, has 

 been placed in a direction north nnd south, instead 

 of in the usual manner, east and west. 



DUDLEY ; a market-town in the county of Wor- 

 cester, twenty-six miles N.N.E. from Worcester. 

 It consists of one long street, with a church ut 

 each end. It is well built, paved, and lighted with 

 gas. It has considerable manufactures of nails, 

 hardware, and glass, and in the neighbourhood are 

 extensive coal mines and quarries of ironstone and 

 limestone. A canal has been cut from hence that 

 communicates with the Birmingham and Worces- 

 ter canal, by means of which the trade of this place 

 has been greatly improved. The family of Ward 

 derive the title of earl from this town, which was 

 a borough, and sent members to parliament in the 

 reign of Edward I., but had lost the privilege, un- 

 til it was renewed by the reform act, 3, William 

 IV. The number of electors is about 800. It is 

 within the jurisdiction of the county magistrates. 

 The market-day is Saturday. Population of town 

 and parish in 1841, 31,232. 



DUDLEY, RIGHT HON. JOHN WH.LIAM WARD, 

 Earl of, of Castle Dudley, county of Stafford, was 

 born August 9, 1781, the only child of William 

 the third viscount, by Julia, second daughter of 

 Godfrey Bosville, of Thorpe and Gunthwaite, in 

 Yorkshire, Esq. His education was remarkably 

 private. He was removed from his father's mansion, 

 in Park Lane, to a small house at Paddington, 

 where he was entrusted to the care of the Rev. 

 Mr James, a fellow of New College, Oxford, and a 

 separate establishment was maintained for his ser- 

 vice. The degree of M. A. was conferred upon 

 him at Oxford, at a subsequent period, Jan. 14, 

 1813. Immediately after his coming of age, he 

 was, at the general election of 1802, elected M. P. 

 for Downton ; and he very soon distinguished him- 

 self in the House of Commons as a young man of 

 extraordinary talents. A vacancy occurring in the 

 representation of Worcestershire, he accepted the 

 Chiltern Hundreds, Aug. 1, 1803; and was elected 

 without opposition for that county. At the elec- 

 tion of 1806, however, lord Lyttleton was re- 

 turned in his room ; but at that of 1807, Mr Ward 

 was chosen for Wareham. In 1812, he was re- 

 turned for Ilchester. Of the parliament of 1818 

 he was not a member ; in 1820 he was elected for 

 Bossiney ; and on the 25th of April, 1823, he suc- 

 ceeded his father in the peerage. On the forma- 

 t'on of Mr Canning's administration, lord Dudley 

 and Ward was appointed secretary of state for for- 

 eign affairs, and sworn a member of the privy 

 council, April 30, 1827. On the 24th of Sept. in 

 the same year, he was raised to the rank of an 

 Earl by the titles of Earl of Dudley and Viscount 

 Ednam, the latter being the name of an estate 

 which he had recently purchased in Roxburghshire, 

 and the birthplace of the poet Thomson. In 

 May, 1828, he resigned the secretary-ship. Early 

 in 1832, he gave a celebrated Olla Podrida fete in 

 Park lane, in honour of Miss Littleton, now Vis- 

 countess Newark. He died on the 6th March, 1833. 



The. earl of Dudley was a man of powerful ta- 

 lents, varied accomplishments, and a most gener- 

 ous disposition ; but his manners had always been 

 so much marked by eccentricities, that few were 



astonished by the. unhappy circumstances under 

 which he \vus withdrawn, about a year before his 

 death, from society. He experienced from that 

 period a succession of paralytic attacks, and sunk 

 latterly into a state of perfect childhood. One 

 of the earnest symptoms of his lordship's malady 

 was that of asserting himself to be married. He 

 is said to have expressed great affection and solici- 

 tude for his imaginary countess. We are not 

 aware of any literary production of his lordship 

 that has found its way to the press, except a 

 well-known article in the " Quarterly Review," 

 on the Life and Character of J. Home Tooke, 

 with whom Lord Dudley had been intimate in his 

 early youth. His parliamentary speeches, and his 

 despatches, while secretary for foreign affairs, un- 

 der Mr Canning, lord Goderich, and during a brief 

 part of the Wellington administration, were al- 

 ways distinguished by a classical elegance of style. 

 All the earl's titles expired with him, except the 

 barony of Ward ; which devolved on the Rev. 

 Humble Ward, rector of Ilimley, Staffordshire. 



DULWICH ; (a.) a hamlet in the parish of Cam- 

 berwell, county of Surrey, four and a half miles S. 

 from London. It is chiefly remarkable for its col- 

 lege, founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a drama- 

 tic performer in Shakspeare's time, who endowed it 

 with property which produces at present about 

 14,000 annually. The college was founded for a 

 master, warden, four fellows (three of whom must 

 be divines, and the fourth an organist,) six poor 

 brethren, as many poor sisters, twelve scholars, six 

 assistants, and thirty out-members. The scholars 

 are received at the ages of from six to eight years, 

 and educated until they Attain their fourteenth 

 year, when they are apprenticed ; some were for- 

 merly educated for the university, which is now 

 discontinued, although, according to the statute, 

 there ought to be four. The master and warden 

 must be of the family of the founder, or in default 

 of persons so qualified, must bear the same sur- 

 name, or that of Allen. On the decease of the 

 master, the warden succeeds him, and a new warden 

 is chosen by lot from among the candidates properly 

 qualified. The two senior fellows must be masters 

 of arts, and they officiate as preachers ; and the 

 juniors, who must be graduates, and in holy orders, 

 act as school-master and usher. The poor brethren 

 and sisters are chosen as vacancies occur, from the 

 out-members, who are taken from the parishes of 

 St Botolph's, Bishopsgate, St Giles's, Cripplegate, 

 and St Saviour's, Southwark, ten from each parish. 

 The buildings of the college, .which exhibit what 

 has been termed the Elizabethan style of architec- 

 ture, were erected from a design of Inigo Jones. 

 The chapel is open to the .inhabitants of the vil- 

 lage. The altar-piece has a fine painting of the 

 Ascension. At the south end of the college a no- 

 ble picture-gallery was recently erected, for the 

 reception of a valuable collection of paintings by 

 Italian, Flemish, and English masters, which was 

 left to the college by Sir F. Bourgeois, who died 

 in 1811, bequeathing also the sum of 12,000 to 

 complete the establishment. A free school was 

 founded here in 1741, by the master of the college, 

 and endowed by him with property producing a 

 rental of 200 per annum, for the education of 

 poor children belonging to the hamlet or living 

 within a mile of it. The school-house is a hand- 

 some building facing the college. A medicinal 

 spring was discovered here in 1739, besides which 

 there are several others in the neighbourhood. 



