BRIEF PERSONAL NOTES. 
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No. 8. — Wedgwood Medallion (Flaxman). 
appointed astronomer under Captain Phipps, afterwards Lord Mul- 
grave, on his voyage towards the North Pole*. 
He left Oxford in December, 1763, after taking an honorary 
degree (M.A.). In February, 1764, he came of age and took posses- 
sion of his paternal fortune. He received the degree of D.C.L. from 
his University in 1771, in honor of his voyage of circumnavigation 
with Cook. 
In March, 1779, he married Dorothea, daughter of William Weston 
Hugessen, of Provender, in Kent, who survived him. He was created 
• “ Diet. Nat. Biogr.” See also Weld, ii, 105 ; al-o Markham, “ Life of Sir John Franklin,” 
(1891), p. 85. 
