1 42 A HISTORY OF 



Among those who had recently joined the ranks of 

 the Society were Dr. Thomas Leland (i), Gorges Edmond 

 Howard (2), and Hely Hutchinson (3). Rev. C. Chais, 

 minister of the Walloon Church at the Hague, Mr. 

 Vavesseur, secretary to the Royal Society for Agri- 

 culture at Rouen, and the Lady Arabella Denny (4) had 

 been elected honorary members. 



1. Thomas Leland, d.d., born in Dublin in 1 722, was 

 a pupil of Dr. Sheridan. He became a Fellow of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, in 1746, in which for twenty years he filled 

 the professorship of oratory. Leland has been spoken of as 

 "the eloquent divine of whom Parr and Johnson speak 

 with enthusiasm, and who carried on a controversy with the 

 redoubtable Warburton." 1 He was author of editions and 

 translations of Demosthenes, of a Life of Philip of Mace don, and 

 of a well-known History of Ireland. His sermon " Love of 

 our Country " is in the Haliday collection (1782, ccccxlv. 5). 

 Leland died in Dublin in August 1785. 



2. Gorges Edmond Howard, a poet, and dramatic, legal, 

 and political writer, was also educated by Sheridan. He 

 was an attorney by profession, and his History of the Irish 

 Exchequer did for Ireland what Madox's History of the Ex- 

 chequer did for England. Howard also wrote on Chancery, 

 and on the Revenue and Trade of Ireland. His miscel- 

 laneous works were published in three volumes in Dublin 

 in 1782. He appears to have been registrar to the com- 

 missioners for making a proper street and approach to the 

 Castle about 1760. Howard died in 1786. 



3. The Right Hon. John Hely Hutchinson was at one 

 time prime serjeant at law, and subsequently became 

 provost of Trinity College and Secretary of State. He 

 was also m.p. for the city of Cork. Hely Hutchinson 

 never obtained Fellowship, but was admitted Provost under 

 letters patent of King George III. He was a master of 

 oratory, and his success at the Bar was remarkable, while 



1 Trinity College, Dublin, by W. Macneile Dixon. 



