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JOHN STANLEY TUTE, B.A. 
The Rev. John Stanley Tute, B.A., late vicar of Maikington, 
was born at Wakefield, on the 21st April, 1823, and died at 
Markington, on the 24th December, 1897. 
Owing to the early death of his mother, and to the fact 
that his father (after a second marriage) had gone out to Australia 
as a schoolmaster, young John Stanley was left to the care of 
a relative. Miss Stanley, of Leeds, under whose kind, but some- 
what austere tutelage, he passed his earlier years. Ultimately he 
was sent to the Moravian School at Fulneck, and when he 
left that institution, was persuaded to go into the cloth business. 
Not having any taste for this occupation, he went up to St. John's 
College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1846, coming 
out in honours. That same year he married, and was ordained 
deacon. He w^as ordained priest at Ripon in the following year, 
and in 1849 was appointed to the newly-constituted vicarage of 
Markington. 
For 48 years he discharged the duties of a parish priest in 
the same village, and during this long period endeared himself 
to more than one generation of parishioners. His studies also 
turned in the direction of poetry and painting, but his special 
forte was wood carving, in which he had considerable skill and 
excellent taste. To his skill the Church at Markington owes its 
reredos, chancel screen, pulpit, and font cover. He was the 
author of two devotional works, " Holy Times and Scenes," and 
"Meditations on the most Precious Blood and Example of Christ." 
It is not our purpose, however, to speak of him as a clergyman, 
but rather as one interested in science, and in the observation of 
nature. 
Mr. Tute was a man of refined and cultivated tastes, no mean 
artist in his way, and ever ready to impart his information to 
others. His daughter tells us that he was in the habit of giving 
