248 SIR RODERICK I. MURCHISON’S ADDRESS. [Mat 24, 1858. 
the rank of Eear- Admiral in July, 1851, and died in November, 
1856. 
By the death of the Rev. Sir Henry Dukinfield, Bart., I lose one 
of my oldest and most stedfast friends. He was the third son of 
Sir Nathaniel Dukinfield, Bart., of Stanlake, Berks. 
Educated at Eton and Oxford, and there forming intimacies which 
lasted through life, Henry Dukinfield had been for many years a 
zealous and devoted provincial clergyman before he succeeded to 
the title by the death of his elder brother Sir Lloyd. After he had 
performed his duty in an exemplary manner for 18 years as Vicar 
of St. Giles’s, Reading, that eminent scholar the late Dr. Blomfield, 
Bishop of London, selected Sir H. Dukinfield to assume the im- 
portant duties of Vicar of St. Martin’s in the Fields, most of the 
parishioners of which were, at that time, in avowed hostility to their 
pastor. And never were duties more earnestly, sedulously, and 
honourably performed. His influence throughout that populous 
parish became so felt from the peer to the humblest artisan, and he 
so laboured in calming rivalries and disputes in the vestry, that 
when from the state of his health he found himself compelled to 
retire from the active scene, he received the heartiest thanks from 
all his flock, as well as from numerous Dissenters ; with the expres- 
sion of their deep regret at being deprived of his aid and counsel. 
Having long thought that habits of cleanliness were essential to 
the raising of the humbler classes in their moral condition and well 
being, he worked out and completed a favourite scheme at which 
he had been labouring for some years, of establishing cheap public 
baths and wash-houses ; and though necessarily excluded by his 
profession from a seat in Parliament, the Act which sanctioned these 
highly useful adjuncts to the comfort of the people is, and will 
always be, known as Sir Henry Dukinfield’ s Act. 
After retiring from St. Martin’s, and during his latter years, far 
from being contented to live a life of idleness, he never failed 
(and, as I can testify, often when unwell) to assist his overworked 
brethren in the Church. Lie also took the liveliest interest in esta- 
blishing the New Hospital for Sick Children, and so supported it 
for six years by personal superintendence, preaching sermons, and 
procuring subscriptions in addition to his own, that as chairman of 
the Committee he was justly considered the mainstay of that useful 
establishment. 
With these legacies to his country, Sir Henry Dukinfield left 
behind him such a character for probity, kindness of heart, and un- 
