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and successful man of business, and by bis tborougb probity and 

 straightforwardness won the esteem and confidence of all witb 

 wbom be came in contact ; and by bis many acts of benevolence 

 and generosity be endeared bimself to all sorts and conditions of 

 men, and many of the bumbler classes will, by bis deatb, lose a 

 kind friend and benefactor. Mr Grossman in bis latter years 

 paid frequent visits to Holy Island, wbicb be regarded witb 

 peculiar favour as tbe place of bis birtb. When the Club met 

 there in June, Mr Grossman sent a message expressing bis sor- 

 row that he could no longer be present to welcome the Glub as 

 be had done hitherto, when in the neighbourhood. He became 

 a member July 31st, 1862. 3. Eev. John Woodham Dunn, 

 M.A., Yicar of Warkworth, died 18tb September, 1883, aged 71. 

 Mr Dunn was born in 1812, and was educated at Queen's College, 

 Cambridge (being a scholar and prizeman) where he graduated 

 B.A., in 1836, and in the same year was ordained deacon, and 

 licensed to the curacy of Longhougbton, where he succeeded the 

 Eev. Aislabie Procter, and remained for three years. He was 

 curate of Lnsbury, 1839-42 ; vicar of Matterdale, in tbe diocese 

 of Carlisle, 1842-46; vicar of Dalston, 1846-53, when the 

 Bishop of Carlisle offered him the living of Warkworth. In 

 1863 be obtained his M.A. degree. He was an active and 

 laborious clergyman, and greatly esteemed by his people ; a 

 gifted scholar, a man of general knowledge, charitable and 

 companionable. "In 1863 the Parish Church of Warkworth 

 was restored at a cost of upwards of £1000, witb a care and 

 beauty, which must always remind those who see it, and knew 

 him, of the taste, knowledge and energy in such matters which 

 distinguished Vicar Dunn." Mr Dunn's favourite literary theme 

 was tbe history of bis own church and its romantic neighbour- 

 hood. He was elected a member of the Club, 28th Oct., 1857. 

 On tbe 25th of June. 1863, be read an interesting paper on 

 " Warkworth — its Castle, Hermitage, and Church," with Plates, 

 Hist, of Club, y., pp. 42-57, accompanied witb valuable notes 

 by Mr W. H. D. LongstafiFe ; and again, in the same vol. 

 pp. 412-420, he gives " Notices of the Ancient Yill of Wark- 

 worth. " He also, at a meeting held at Alnmouth and Coquet 

 Island, Sept. 28th, 1871, read an excellent prose version 

 of the " Story of tbe Hermit of Warkworth, " which has since 

 been printed by Mr Blair at Alnwick, as an accompaniment to 

 Bishop Percy's Ballad. Still earlier he bad contributed to tbe 



