1804.] 
juft fentiments of his excellent predeceffor, 
Mr. Thomas Hollis 3 the annals of whofe 
life he publifhed in 1780, in 2 vols. 4to. 
A durable monument it will bes: it is en- 
riched with fine engravings, of Milton,, 
Sydney, and other great and excellent charac- 
ters, from defigns chiefly by Cipriani, who 
was held in merited refpect and eftimation by 
both the Mr. Hollis’s ; and of his engravings, 
it is fufficient farther to fay, that they are by. 
Bartolozzi. Mr. Brand Hollis re-publifhed 
about the fame time, with the above me- 
moits, the Areopagetica of Miitan; and 
his other noble and perpetually ufeful work, 
the Traétate on Education. He greatly ef- 
teemed the late Mr. Wakefield, that excel- 
lent fcholar and moft truly eftimable man. 
He was a fub({criber to his works, and upon 
his death prefented tool. to his widow: and 
there is the beft authority for remarking that 
his manners to his domeftics were uniformly 
kind and confiderate. All of them he remem. 
bered in his will: to one he gave an annuity 
of §cl. to another of 301. Toothers, legacies 
of 60l. 30]. He was buried, as he defired, 
privately, at Ingateftone, where his father 
and mother were buried. He left a confider- 
able annuity, by way of rent-charge, to his 
fitter Mifs Brand. To the library of the Uni- 
yerfity of Glafgow, where he was educated, 
under the excellent Dr, Francis Hutchinfon, 
whom he always greatly honoured and revered, 
he gave rool. To the College of Cambridge, 
New England, he has given the fame fum to 
improve their library. What hasbeen ftated 
as to the rental of his eftate has heen obferved 
to be incorre&t; and a mifapprehenfion ought 
here to be obviated. The expreflion with a 
view, Ge. has been interpreted, as the writer 
of the article never imagined it would, to 
import a condition in the defign and requeft to 
_ Dr. Difny, It was only meant by that ex- 
prefiion, and it was not fufpected that it could 
be otherwife underftood, that Mr, Hollis had 
chofen, in the difpofal of his property, a 
- friend whom he: had reafon to be perfuaded 
would liberally and properly employ it for 
purpofes beneficial to the community and +to 
haman fociety. ] 
[The Rev, Timothy Kenrick, whofe untimely 
death we mentioned in a late Number, was 
born at Ruabon, in Denbighthire, June 
26,1759. He received his early education 
at the grammar-fchool, in Wrexham, and 
having made choice of the miniftry among 
the Diffenters for his profeffion, was fent at 
thé age of fifteen to the academy at Da- 
ventry, then fuperintended by the Rev. Dr. 
Ashworth, and foon after by the Rev. Mr. 
Robins. Afcer he had completed his edu- 
cation at that feminary, he was thought 
qualified to undertake the office of one of the 
affiftant-tutors, which he occupied, under the 
fuperintendance of the Rev. Thomas Bei- 
fham, during five years, with great appro- 
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bation. In 1784, he accepted an invitation 
to Exeter, as one of the paftors of the two 
united congregations in that city, in which 
fituation he fucceeded the Rev. Micaijah 
Towgood. His zeal for promoting the caufe 
of rational religion led him, foon after his 
fettlement there, to adopt a plan for the 
inftru€tion of the younger part of his con- 
gregation in theological knowledge, which 
he purfued with great afftduity and fuccefs, 
and laid before the public in a Sermon, en- 
titled ** An Enquiry into the beft Methed 
of Communicating Religious Knowledge to 
Young Men, printed in 1783. The progrefs 
of enquiry having produced in his mind a 
change from the opinions in which he had 
been educated, to thofe maintained by the 
Unitarians, he thought it his duty openly to 
avow, and defend from the pulpit, the doc- 
‘trines held by this clafs of Chriftians, re- 
gardlefs of the offence which he might and 
did give by this affertion of principle: but 
they who did not concur with him in opiniony 
were forced to refpeét the purity of his mo- 
tives, and the integrity of hisconduét. The 
difgraceful riots at Birmingham, in 1791, 
fuggefted to him a difcourfe, which he 
preached on the sth of November, in that 
year, and publifhed with the title of <‘ The 
Spirit of Perfecutors exemplified, and the 
Condu& to be obferved towards their De- 
{cendants”” This is written in a manly but 
moderate and truly liberal firain, calculated 
rather to allay, than to inflame, party ani- 
mofity. Upon the inftitution of an Unita 
rian Society in the Weft of England, in 1792, 
Mr. Kenrick became a zealous member of 
it, drew up its rules, and compiled two fets 
of prayers, one for families, the other for 
individuals, upon its principles. He alfo 
preached a fermon before the fociety at Taun- 
ton, in 1793, which was publifhed. The 
decline of various inftitutions for the educa- 
tion of Proteftant Diffenters of the liberal 
clafs, induced. him to adopt the fcheme of 
fetting on foot a new academical inftitution 
for that purpofe at Exeter, which he opened 
at his own houfe, with the ailiftance of one 
colleague, in September, 1799. Sub{criptions 
were raifed for its fupport with increafing 
fuccefs, but it was merely in an infant ftate, 
when it was deprived of his able and aftive 
fervices by his death. This melancholy 
event took place on Auguft 22, 1804, as he 
was walking in the fields, near Wrexham, 
He was feen fuddenly to fall bya perfon who 
followed at a little diftance, and he foon after 
expired, probably from an apoplectic feizure. 
Mr. Kenrick was aman highly refpeéted by 
all who knew him, for the firmnets and in- 
dependence of his charaéter, for {trict inte- 
grity, generofity, and warm benevolence. 
He left a family of five children by his firft 
wife. His ftecond, who furvives him, was 
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