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Isle of Ely. Thomas carried on a business as wholesale 

 merchant in Thames Street, City, but retired in 1776 and 

 took up his residence at South Lambeth. He was a man 

 of considerable attainments, wrote on various subjects in 

 the c Gentleman's Magazine/ and was elected F.R.S. in 

 1777. " It was largely at his instance and. owing to his 

 solicitations that ' The Natural History and Antiquities of 

 Selborne ' was prepared for publication/' and he it was who 

 reviewed his brother's book in the ' Gentleman's Magazine/ 

 1789, pp. 60 &c, 144 &c. 



(2) Benjamin (1725-1794), the publisher, of Fleet Street, 

 who produced the ' Natural History and Antiquities of 

 Selborne/ besides most of the important zoological works 

 of his day, including those'of Ellis, Pennant, Montagu, &c. 

 After his retirement fit>m his Fleet Street residence he 

 settled for a time at South Lambeth, near his brother Thomas, 

 and finally at Marelands Mr* the parish of Bentley, Hants, 

 near Selborne, Avhere he died. He was succeeded in the 

 publishing business by his sons, Benjamin and John, but the 

 enterprise afterwards fell on evil times and passed out of 

 the family. 



(3) John (1727-1780), who was educated at Corpus 

 Christi, Oxford. He was ordained in 1753, manned in 1754, 

 and became chaplain to the Garrison at Gibraltar in 1756. 

 Like his brother Gilbert, John had a keen taste for natural 

 history; he was a correspondent of Linnaeus and Pennant 

 on that subject, and also of his brother Gilbert. He wrote 

 a Zoology of Gibraltar which he entitled ' Fauna Calpensis/ 

 but it was never published and is now lost. The intro- 

 duction to this work with some of his original sketches 

 of Gibraltar were published in the l Selborne Magazine,' 

 vol. xxiii. 1912. In 1772 he became Vicar of Blackburn in 

 Lancashire, where he died and was buried. He left a son 

 John, known in the family as " Gibraltar Jack/' who 

 was his uncle Gilbert's pupil and amanuensis, and who 

 subsequently became a doctor at Salisbury. 



(4) Henry (1733-1788), Vicar of Fyfield, near Andover, 

 Hants. He kept meteorological observations at Gilbert's 



