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The rev. Richard Stainfby, more than 40 
years le€turer of St. Mary, Strand. 
At Hackney, Lieut. Colonel James, Chaf- 
well, of the firft royal regiment of the Tower 
Hamlet militia. 
In Weftminfter, Arthur Kelly, efq. the 
Fate Heutenant-colonel of the South Devon 
Militia. Mr. Kelly was defcended from an 
antient and diftinguifhed family in Ireland, 
the dignity of which he well maintained. 
After fhewing the danger and honor of a 
Britifh foldier during the feven years war, 
he returned home and married Mifs Parker, 
fifter to the late and aunt to the prefent Lord 
Boringdon, and coufin to the prefent Earl 
Poulett. To the Lady Mr. Kelly had been 
Jong att-ched. He was a truly amiable 
chara@ter, being eminently diftinguifhed by 
his benevolence to the poor, his extraordinary 
tendernefs and affection to his relatives and 
friends, and by an uniform endeavour to ren- 
der happy all with whom he was connected. 
At Kentish Town, aged 34, John Little, 
efqg. Some days previous to his death, his 
phyfician perfuaded him to take a little wine, 
as indifpenffbly. neceflary to recruit his decay= 
ed ftrength, occafioned by his miferable and 
parGmonious living. Mr. Little, fearful of 
trufting his fervants with the key of the wine 
cellar, infifted. upon his carrying him down 
fiairs, to get a fingle bottle; when the fud- 
den tranfition from a warm bed to a damp cel- 
jar brought on a fit of apoplexy, which occa- 
fioned hisdeath. On examination, it appeared 
hat he poffefled upwards of 25,0col. in the 
different tontines; 11,0001. inthe4 per cents. 
befides 2000 per ann. of landed property ; 
which now devolves to a brother, to whom he 
never afforded the leaft affiftance, on account 
ef his beings married, matrimony being a ftate 
into which he himfelf never entered, and for 
which he always entertained the areatet de- 
teftation., He refided upwards of forty years 
in the fame houfe, one room of which had no 
been occupied for the {pace of 14 years: but 
which on his death was found to contain 173 
pairsof breeches, with a large proportion of 
other articles af wearing apparel, all which 
werein fucha w rched. ftate of decay, that 
they were foldtoa ea: for a fingle bal BiH 4 
in the coach- houfe. ete difcevered, fecre 
in different parts of the building, 180 w 
which had been bequeathed to him by aif 
ent relatives, and in Which x fet grea eee 
At Iflington, cen eee Spril 5th, as 
rev: John V He was bor 
at. Lampeter, rdiga 
on the 25th of mae 
refpeétable tanner, p him at the free- 
{fchoul in that town. Having fe ea aay ex- 
preffed 2 {trong inclination for the miniftry, 
when he had acquired a- competent know- 
ledge of the claflics, he wes admitted a fu- 
dent at the diffenting academy, at Carmar- 
then. Here he afiiduouily cultivated thofe 
ftudies that would qualify him for the office 
of a chriftian minifter, and made confiderable 
jmprovement in the mathematics. On the 
gompletion of his academical courfe, he ac- 


His father, .a 
South W ae , 
. Marriages and Deaths iw and near London? 
cepted an invitation from. the fev. Ms 
Howell, of Birmingham, to affift him in the 
finétintandadte of a ee fchool, In 1752, 
he was chofen paftor of a congregation at 
Stamford, Lincoinfhire, where he continued 
near thrée years, when he removed to Woks 
ingham}; Berks. During his refidence at this 
place, he conep leted his ** Concordance to the 
Greck Toffament, wath an Engl ifb verfion, and 
ort Critical Notes’ printedin 1767. Being 
defirous of a Gtaatian near London, where he 
had formed an extenfive acquaintance, on 
the death of the rev. Mr. Baron, he accepted 
the paftoral charge of the Diflenting chusch 
at Sydenham. in 31768 he married Mrs. 
Martha Still, the widow of a very refpectable 
member of oe late congregation at Woking- 
ham. - On. her deceafe im’ 1777, he: was 
elected curator of Dr. Daniel Williams’s li- 
brary, in Red Crofs ftreet: a library, from 
its fituation, little known to the public, 
though it contains a large colleétion of fearce 
and very valuabie books, and almof all the 
works of the Nonconformifts. The advan- 
tages of this fituation, enabled him to pro- 
cure every information he could with, on ¢ 
fubjeét that had much engaged his antes : 
the authenticity of the two firft chapters of 
St. Matthew’s ‘gofpel. The refult of his in- 
quiry he publithed in his ¢* Thoughts on the 
Origin of Languages. While he relided at the 
library, he married, in. Jan. 1731, Mifs 
Elizabeth Dunn, one of the daughters of 
Jofhua Dunn, Efg. of Newington Green, 
formerly a very refpeétable merchant of the 
Se of ‘London, and one of the moft uferul 
laymen among the diffenters. From the 
filu@tuations which frequently take place in 
the villages near London, the number of 
diffenters had fo far ceriowet, that, on the 
expiration of the leafe of the chapel, the 
Dotter, finding the infirmities of age rapidly 
advancing, refolved to refign the office of the 
miniftry, and devote Ba remainder of his 
life to ftudy and the fociety of « few friends. 
At the time of his deceafe,; he had nearly 
completed the printing of a tranflation of 
ce Coeitonses uss Greco- Barbara Nowi Tefiamenti,” 
&c. which will be thortiy publithed. “A 
Dp to explain fome difficult pai- 
He was the au tho® of fe~ 
on different fubjects, and 
printed a few feparate Yermnons. is focial 
virtues sepieS to him the efteem.of his ac- 
q(oainiante and friends; and his deceafe will 
be long and deeply felt by his’ mourning 
widow. 
On the 3d of Aptil, after a few. days ills 
nefs,-at lis houfe near Hermitage Stairs, 
Vapping, in the 6gth year of his age, Mr, 
Jonn Livie, a gentleman well known in the 
literary world, for his deep and accurate 
kaowledge of the learned languages. His 
fmall, but begutifal and correct edition of 
ripture. 
Horace, will be a lafting monument to his” 
memory ; and the benevolence and integrity 
ot his pa salt ies render his lofs a fub- 
iaobinet or ie scare 
