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Transactions of this Society. A small volume on ' Astronomy 

 by Night,' published early in life ; a volume on the ' Parental Cha- 

 racter of God,' now undergoing a fifth edition ; and an ' Address to 

 the Sailor.' His correspondence with the Admiralty, who consulted 

 him upon all matters connected with the Arctic seas and the search 

 for Sir John Franklin, is voluminous, and with his journals and ob- 

 servations have always been considered most valuable ; and his 

 voyages will long keep their places by the side of those of Cook, 

 Anson, Vancouver, and other great navigators. The high estima- 

 tion in which Parry was held by the Admiralty is marked by these 

 frequent appeals to his opinion, as well as by all his appointments, 

 and by a good- service pension being bestowed upon him ; and lastly, 

 by their reply to the Governor of Greenwich Hospital on being in- 

 formed of hi& death, viz. that it was with deep regret they learnt 

 that Her Majesty's Service had been deprived of so distinguished an 

 ornament as Sir Edward Parry. 



Sir Edward Parry married in 1827 Isabella Louisa, the fourth 

 daughter of the late Lord Stanley of Alderley, who died in May 

 1839; and secondly, Catherine Edwards, daughter of the Rev. R. 

 E. Hawkinson, and widow of Samuel Hoare, Esq., and left several 

 children. 



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RICHARD SHEEPSHANKS was born at Leeds, July 30, 1794. His 

 father was engaged in the cloth manufacture, and destined his son 

 to the same pursuit. At the age of fifteen, however, and after an 

 ordinary school education, the son discovered his own preference 

 for a learned profession, and the father accordingly placed him 

 under the care of James Tate, head of the school at Richmond in 

 Yorkshire, well known as one of the most successful teachers of his 

 day. Here he remained until 1812, when he was removed to 

 Trinity College, Cambridge. He took his degree with honours in 

 1816, obtained a fellowship in the next year, and proceeded to 

 study for the bar, to which he was called about 1822. A weakness 

 of sight, to which he was always subject, is supposed to have been 

 the principal cause of his not practising law : but it must be added 

 that his share of his father's property placed him in easy circum- 

 stances, independently of his fellowship, and his taste for science 

 had become very decided. He took orders about 1824, and soon 



