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Wendover, at the foot of the range of the Chiltern Hills, in Buck- 

 inghamshire ; the duties of which he faithfully exercised for many- 

 years. In 1818 he was collated to the prebendal stall of Sutton- 

 in-the-Marsh, in the cathedral church of Lincoln, by Bishop Prety- 

 man Tomline, on the death of the Rev. Dr. Charles Burney ; and in 

 1825, obtained a dispensation to hold the vicarage of Milton Ernest, 

 in the county of Bedford. He resigned this vicarage, and all other 

 preferments, excepting his prebend, in 1837. Beloved and respected 

 by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, he passed a long 

 life in active utility, and died on the 12th of January, 1853. 



Mr. Tumor was descended from an ancient family of Stoke 

 Rochford, and Penton House in the county of Lincoln. Among 

 his ancestors were Sir Edmund Tumor, Paymaster to the Forces in 

 the reign of Charles L, who was taken prisoner at the battle of 

 Worcester in 1651 ; and his brother Christopher Turnor, one of the 

 Barons of Exchequer in 1660. The property of Sir Isaac Newton, 

 being only three miles from Stoke Rochford, was purchased by the 

 family about four years after Newton's death, and its integrity re- 

 mains much the same as in Sir Isaac's time. This circumstance led 

 Mr. Charles Turnor during a series of years to collect medals, papers, 

 portraits, and all he could find connected with the illustrious philoso- 

 pher, regardless of trouble or expense; and in 1847 he erected an 

 obelisk, 64 feet high, in the park of Stoke Rochford, with an appro- 

 priate inscription written by himself. 



The interest which Mr. Turnor felt in the progress of science, 

 is amply evinced by his valuable and useful donations to various 

 institutions, and the liberal sums he bequeathed them. Besides 

 being a real patron of the sterner branches of knowledge, he was 

 an excellent artist, and a critical judge of all objects of taste. 



There remains but to add, that Mr. Turnor bequeathed the above- 

 mentioned interesting memorials of Newton to the Royal Society, 

 on the understanding that the collection, which he did not live to 

 finish, should be completed. 



On the motion of the Rev. Baden Powell, seconded by Dr. Roget, 

 the best thanks of the Society were given to the President for his 

 excellent Address, and his Lordship was requested to permit the 

 same to be printed. 



The Statutes relating to the election of Officers and Council having 

 been read, and the Rev. John Barlow, and Captain Younghusband 

 having, with the consent of the Society, been nominated Scrutators, 

 the votes of the Fellows present were collected. 



The following Nobleman and Gentlemen were reported duly 

 elected Officers and Council for the ensuing year : — 



President— The Earl of Rosse, K.P., M.A. 



Treasurer — Colonel Edward Sabine, R.A. 



Secretaries- I 'l""'^'- Chn^tie. Esq., M.A. 



|_ Wilham Sharpey, M.D. 



Foreign Secretmy — Rear-Admiral W. H. Smvth. 



