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written by Mr. Burnet, and engraved on a plain stone, in 

 Padstow churchyard, runs thus : — 



" In spe beatse resurrectionis, 

 Hie jacet sepultus, Georgius Conon, A.M. 

 Nuper apud Truronenses, novsissime vero in hoc vico, 

 Humanarum Litterarum, Preceptor ; 

 Pras multis eruditus, diligeDS et felix — 

 Vir priscaa virtutis, et Christianas pietatis in homines Exemplar, 

 Et idem propagator eximius — Vita jam Christo patriasque impensa 

 piam animam efflavit vi Cal. Junii 1775, 

 ^Etatis Suas 74. 



Beati qui moriuntur in Domino. 

 On his successor, Br. Gar dew, Polwhele says that "the praises 

 which candour, or even indifference would bestow, may, as 

 coming from his pupil and his friend, be attributed to partial 

 affection. But, to be suspected of an amiable prepossession 

 shall not silence gratitude ; which, though perhaps too lively in 

 its perception of merit, can never be mistaken, where merit is 

 universally acknowledged. A native of Liskeard, and educated 

 under the care of the Rev. Richard Hayden, M.A., rector of 

 Okeford, and of Zeal-Monachorum, in Devon ; and of Mr. John 

 Lyne, Rector of St. Ives, Mr. Cardew carried with him, to Exeter 

 College, Oxford, those promises of a useful life which were 

 amply fulfilled in the discharge of his professional duties. — At 

 first an usher under Mr. Marshall at Exeter School, he came 

 to Truro, with high recommendations from persons of respecta- 

 bility, both in Oxford and at Exeter. And, with classical 

 abilities and taste (to which Mr. Conon, though an excellent 

 linguist, had no pretensions) he succeeded to the care of no more 

 than twenty-seven boys. With that cultivated and refined 

 understanding which naturally gives the preference to genius, 

 he never remitted his attention to the dullest boys ; and, though 

 quick and susceptible, he had full command of his temper. 

 That he acted as a magistrate with equal credit to himself and 

 his connections is not so decided an opinion. But if, in some 

 instances, his conduct as a member of the Corporation of Truro, 

 may have incurred disapprobation, it was the disapprobation of 

 those who viewed the transactions of the borough with an eye 

 of prejudice. And chiefly to this circumstance was owing the 

 decline of Truro School. Yet even those who thought different- 

 ly from himself, never accused him of inconsistency. His first 



