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MEMOIR OF 
scholars, especially of the Royal Society, and the 
great loss of all good men who were acquainted 
with his virtues, and of all learned men who 
could judge of his labours. 
“ The other, Bishop Wilkins, was a person of a 
different temper, and a more extensive genius ; 
who was no loser, but a considerable gainer in the 
late troublesome times. He was educated in the 
University of Oxford, where he was warden of 
Wadham College, and thence removed to the 
mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge, by 
Cromwell, whose sister he had married. 
“He was deprived of this at the Restoration, yet 
afterwards, for his admirable abilities, he was made 
Bishop of Chester ; and surely the Court could 
never have found a man of greater ingenuity and 
capacity, or of more considerable knowledge and 
understanding, being distinguished not only by 
his theology and his excellent preaching, but for 
his skill in mathematics, in philosophy, and in all 
sorts of polite and valuable learning, than whom 
no man ever had a truer taste or a more solid 
judgment.” 
The marble busts of Mr Willughby and Mi- 
Ray stand opposite to each other in the Library 
of Trinity College, Cambridge, at the commence- 
ment of that long succession of resemblances on 
either hand of the great and wise of past ages, 
which deepens the veneration inspired in the 
visiter by the view of their works, assembled 
around him, and who occasionally pauses to com- 
pare the “ features with the thoughts” of those of 
