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burg, where his father was then Chaplain to the factory of the Russian 

 Company. Mr. Tooke was a sohcitor by profession, but amidst the calls 

 of business he was able to devote much time and attention to public 

 affairs, and took part in the formation of various public institutions which 

 were established during the active period of his life. He was long a lead- 

 ing member and Vice-President of the Society of Arts, and was elected 

 President on the vacancy caused by the death of His Royal Highness the 

 Prince Consort. His election to the Royal Society was in 1818. From 

 1832 to 1837 he sat in Parliament for the borough of Truro. Besides 

 a compilation on French history, in two volumes, which appeared in 1855, 

 and occasional contributions to magazines, Mr. Tooke, when a young man, 

 published, anonymously, an edition of Churchill's Poems, with notes and a 

 Life of the Author, which was favourably reviewed by Southey. He died 

 in London on the 20th September 1863. 



Rear- Admiral John Washington was born on the 1st of January 1801. 

 He entered the Navy in 1812, on board the 'Juno,' fitting for the American 

 station, where he served for the next two years, and took part in various 

 active and successful operations against the enemy. In 1814 he returned 

 to England, and entered the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. During 

 the two years he spent as a student in that Institution he applied himself 

 diligently to the scientific study of his profession, and laid the foundation 

 of that skill and accomplishment which he afterwards attained in nautical 

 surveying and hydrography, and through which in the after course of his 

 life he was able to render much valuable service to the maritime interests of 

 this and other countries. 



After serving at sea for some years, and rising to the rank of Com- 

 mander, he returned home for a time, but in 1841 he was appointed to 

 continue the Survey of the North Sea, in which duty he was employed 

 until the close of 1844. In 1842 he was promoted to the rank of Post 

 Captain. 



This Survey was Captain Washington's last service afloat ; but his ex- 

 perience and judgment were turned to public account at different times, 

 when he acted as a Royal Commissioner on important questions affecting 

 the interests of navigation and of our maritime industry. In 1853 he 

 visited some of the Russian fortresses in the Baltic, and the results of his 

 observations proved of the greatest value in the conduct of the warlike 

 operations which soon followed. 



On the retirement of Sir Francis Beaufort, Captain Washington was 

 appointed Hydrographer to the Admiralty, and was promoted to the rank 

 of Rear- Admiral in 1862. His anxious and unremitting application to the 

 various duties of his office is believed by his friends to have shortened his 

 valuable life, which was closed at Frascati, near Havre, on the 1 6th of 

 September 1863. He was a member of various learned Societies at home 

 and abroad, and was Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society from 



