DEATHS.-OCT. Coventry, which have now been the means of educating thousands of poor children. 26. At his residence in Philadelphia, U.S., Richard Cowling Taylor, esq., Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Member of the American Philosophical Society, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, of the Albany Institute, New York, and of various other Scientific Societies in Europe and America. Mr. Taylor was born at Hinton, in Suffolk, in 1789. He was articled to a land surveyor, and, on the expiration of his term, executed surveys of some extensive properties with such skill that he was employed on the ordnance survey of Buckingham and Bedford shires. He then settled in Norwich, and, in partnership with Mr. J. Brown, executed the surveys for the Diss and Bungay Navigation, and for the projected harbour at Lowestoffe. While resident at Norwich he became distinguished for his antiquarian researches, and published, in 1821, his "Index Monasticus; or, the Abbeys and other Monasteries, Alien Priories, &c., of the Diocese of Norwich and the Ancient Kingdom of East Anglia," illustrated with accurate maps. This is a folio volume of great labour, and diligent research. From the establishment of the "Magazine of Natural History," in 1829, to its last volume, published in 1836, Mr. Taylor was a frequent contributor, not only during his residence in this country, but after he had left England for America. In 1827 Mr. Taylor published an 8vo volume "On the Geology of East Norfolk." In this work he points out with remarkable clearness the facts, which admit of positive proof, respecting the successive formations of the strata. The business at Norwich not proving sufficiently lucrative, Mr. Taylor embarked with his family for the United States, in 1830. In that country he met a larger field for his talents, and we are indebted to his exertions for an accurate knowledge of many extensive districts of the New World. Mr. Taylor's most important work was that which he published in 1848, "The Statistics of Coal," an 8vo vol. of 754 closely-printed pages, with numerous illustrative maps and diagrams, containing a mass of facts, brought together with marvellous labour, and mostly from personal obser vation. Mr. Taylor's death was owing to an illness caught when surveying near Chagres. 27. At Craighall Rattray, co. Perth, in his 56th year, Robert Clerk Rattray, esq., a magistrate for Mid-Lothian and Perthshire, and deputy-lieutenant of the latter county. He was the son and heir of James Clerk, esq., a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland, who assumed the name of Rattray, on inheriting, through his grandmother, the estates of that family. 29. At Otford Castle, Kent, aged 52, James Selby, esq. He At the Hague, Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, G.C.H., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Great Britain; a deputy-lieutenant of the county of Derby. He was descended from an old Derbyshire family, and was the son of Colonel Edward Disbrowe, of Walton, in that county, by Lady Charlotte Hobart, fourth daughter of George, third Earl of Buckinghamshire. was for some time Secretary of Lega tion in Switzerland, and had subsequently passed through other grades of diplomatic employment at the courts of Russia, Wirtemberg, and Sweden. He had for some years resided as Envoy Extraordinary at the Hague. Sir Edward was nominated a Knight Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order in 1831. At his residence, Quarry-place, Shrewsbury, after a few days' illness, aged 49, John Thomas Smitheman Edwardes, esq., a magistrate of the county of Salop. This gentleman was de scended from an ancient and respectable Shropshire family, Hugh Edwardes being distinguished as having solicited and succeeded in obtaining from King Edward the Sixth, in the year 1551, a grant for the foundation of the Royal Free Grammar School in Shrewsbury. He was the only son of the late Major Benjamin Edwardes. Mr. Edwardes was an alderman of Shrewsbury, and served mayor in that town in 1843. He was also a trustee of Shrewsbury School. At Brighton, in his 57th year, William Wyon, the celebrated medallist and die-sinker, a member of the Royal Academy. Mr. Wyon was of German descent. He came of a race of diesinkers and metal-chasers of much eminence. His father was Peter Wyon, a die-sinker at Birmingham, in partner DEATHS.-OCT. ship with his elder brother Thomas. William Wyon was born in 1795, at Birmingham, and was apprenticed to his father in 1809. When a boy he met with a copy of Flaxman's " Dante." Of Flaxman he knew nothing, but he was so enraptured with his works that he begged permission to study them, which being granted, he copied many, if not most, of the outlines. To these studies he always attributed his advancement in art, and called Flaxman his real instructor. In the year 1811 William Wyon engraved a head of Hercules, which was shown to Nathaniel Marchant, R.A., then the best English gemengraver, who was so struck with its merit that he recommended that the youth should be employed upon objects of higher art than those which his father was accustomed to receive from the tradesmen of Birmingham. This advice was not lost sight of. Among Wyon's other youthful works were an Antinous, which his father set in gold for his own seal; and a copy of Westall's Woodman, which, when employed in stamping gilt brooches, obtained so large a sale that the manufacturers were anxious to have other similar designs executed by the same hand. In 1812 he visited London, on the invitation of his uncle, Thomas Wyon, and executed a die to compete for the premium offered by the Society of Arts. The subject was a head of Ceres; it obtained the prize, and the Society purchased and used it as their gold agricultural medal; as, previously, they had adopted his cousin Thomas Wyon's head of Isis for a similar purpose. He also received another prize from the same Society for a die designed for a naval medal, being an original composition of Victory in a marine car attended by Tritons. In 1815 his uncle Thomas again invited him to London, to assist in engraving the new great seals which were then required. His cousin Thomas had engraved the Great Seal for England; William engraved those for Scotland and Ireland, and also assisted in the execution of many colonial seals. In the same year Mr. Thomas Wyon, jun., was promoted to be chief engraver of the Mint, the number of engravers being then limited to two. It was arranged that a second engraver should be elected by competition, and as the Master (Lord Maryborough) had expressed some objection to the prospect of both engravers being of the same family, William Wyon determined to compete anonymously. He consequently submitted, without a name, a head of the King, which, upon the judgment of Sir Thomas Lawrence, to whom the decision was referred, obtained for him that appointment, he being then in the twentieth year of his age. Mr. Wyon had now a fair field and an honourable career before him; but his hopes were darkened, first by the untimely death (in 1817) of his cousin, the chief engraver, and secondly by the appointment to that office of Mr. Pistrucci. Mr. Pistrucci was a skilful artist, but an indolent one; and much of his work devolved on Mr. Wyon. In 1823 Mr. Pistrucci wholly withdrew his services, in consequence of the King commanding that his portrait on the coinage should be taken only from his bust by Chantrey. From that period Mr. Wyon became, in fact, the chief engraver, though the title was retained by Mr. Pistrucci, with the salary of 500l., Mr. Wyon's being only 2007. This injustice remained without a remedy until 1828, when by an arrangement Mr. Wyon became actually the chief engraver, but the salary of that and his former office were directed to be equally divided; so that, from that time, Mr. Wyon and the non-operative, Mr. Pistrucci, each received 350. the sum of 500l. having been awarded to Mr. Wyon as a compensation for his extra services from 1823 to 1828. From that time until the present, all the coinage of this country and of the colonies has been executed by Mr. Wyon, or under his superintendence. His attention was not limited to the discharge of his official duties. His ardent zeal for the improvement of the coinage of his country induced him to submit numerous patterns of new coins from time to time for approval. Mr. Wyon's works may be classified under the several heads of coins, pattern-pieces not coined, medals, and seals. His coins of George the Fourth and William the Fourth are from the models of Chantrey; his Queen Victoria coins from models by himself. Excepting Simon, the engraver of the Commonwealth, Mr. Wyon is undoubtedly the first of English medallists; and the current coins of the English sovereigns, especially those of the Queen, executed from his own models, are immeasurably DEATHS.-OCT. superior to those of any other State in Europe. The five-sovereign piece of Queen Victoria, bearing on its reverse Her Majesty in the guise of Una directing the lion of Great Britain by her sceptre, is held by good judges to be the noblest coin in the English series, and as defying the competition of any coin of any continental mint. In 1846 Mr. Wyon designed and engraved a pattern crown of the Queen in the medieval style, which received the Royal approbation, and, by Her Majesty's commands, was issued as a coin in 1847. Eight thou sand crowns were coined and divided among the London bankers, by whom they were distributed to their customers; but so highly and universally were they prized by the public, that scarcely any strayed into general circulation, and they were sold by coin dealers at the price of 308., or six crowns. On the reverse of this fine coin the ancient "windmill" arrangement of the shields is restored with good effect. The great triumph of art, however, is the obverse. The relief is extremely low, that severe test of an artist's ability to produce effect, while the diadem is placed on Her Majesty's brows with unequalled taste and skill. By keeping in its rim, the facial line ascends, without interruption, to the spring of the arch, giving increased intellectuality of countenance; and from the same elevation, at the back, a continuous graceful outline descends to below the shoulders. For the two-shilling piece, or florin, Mr. Wyon engraved several patterns, one of which was a reduction of his mediæval crown, obverse and reverse, and this was finally issued as the coin. The most undoubted testimony to the superiority of Mr. Wyon's portraits of Queen Victoria is afforded by the fact, that Her Majesty's bust, by no other artist but Mr. Wyon, has been copied in the countless medals and tradesmen's tokens which have been engraved and issued for sale and circulation since the Queen came to the throne. Mr. Wyon's skill and taste as a medallist obtained him a high reputation on the Continent as well as at home. In 1835 he was invited to Lisbon to make a medallic portrait of Queen Donna Maria, and he received a commission to engrave dies for a series of coins of Her Most Faithful Majesty. At home his talents were so highly appreciated, art. that he was elected, in 1831, an Associate, and in 1836 a Member, of the Royal Academy; an honour never before conferred upon this department of About the year 1839 Mr. Wyon visited the Mint of Paris, on the subject of their mode of hardening the dies; and, the English Mint having been most unreservedly thrown open to the officers of the French Mint some years before, he received the most courteous attention in return. When he was about to leave Paris it was intimated to him that the King expected to be waited on by him. His interview with this able but unfortunate Sovereign, whose coinage is a fine example of the state of the arts in his reign, was most cordial; an interesting conversation on art ensued; Mr. Wyon presented to the King some of the finest examples of his own skill, and received in return a fine medallion portrait of the Royal Family, of gold, whose intrinsic value was 501. Mr. Wyon's medals include the recent war medals of the Peninsula, Trafalgar, Jellalabad, and Cabul; the medals of the Royal Academy, the Royal Society, the Royal Institution, the Geological Society, the Geographical Society, the Bengal Asiatic Society, and indeed of almost every learned society, home and colonial. Mr. Wyon was married, in 1821, to Catherine Sophia, third daughter of John Keele, esq., of Southampton. This amiable lady died on the 14th of February in the present year. Mr. Wyon was much shaken by this loss; but his engagement to produce the prize medal for the Great Exhibition for a time diverted his thoughts. The complete success of his own work produced for this occasion-the magnificent obverse busts of Her Majesty and Prince Albert for the Exhibition medals-and his son Leonard's reverse of one, which also obtained great approbation, had naturally gratified him as an artist and a father; but it is to be feared that they also created an excitement which, in its revulsion, had a baneful effect on his physical powers. He was attacked by paralysis, which deprived him of the use of his left side, at Brighton, and died there after a month's illness. Mr. Wyon's eldest son, Charles Leonard, is already an artist of great fame; and while yet very young, won the appointment of second engraver of Her Majesty's Mint. 30. In Moray-place, Edinburgh, in DEATHS.-Nov. his 89th year, the Right Hon. Charles Hope, of Granton, Lieut.-General of the Royal Archers of Scotland, and a Member of the Honourable Board of Trustees for Manufactures, Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Mr. Hope was the eldest son of John Hope, esq., a merchant in London, and M.P. for co. Linlithgow, and grandson of the first Earl of Hopetoun, and was the elder brother of the late Lieut.Gen. Sir John Hope, G.C.H., and the late Vice-Adm. Sir William Johnstone Hope, G.C.B. The family have been chiefly distinguished as lawyers, from the time of their famous ancestor Sir Thomas Hope, the covenanting Lord Advocate of Charles I., who pleaded in court with two of his sons as judges on the bench. Following this hereditary bias, Mr. Charles Hope was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1784. In 1786 he was appointed Deputy Judge Advocate of Scotland; in 1791, Sheriff of the county of Orkney and Zetland; and in 1801, His Majesty's Advocate. At the general election in 1802 he was returned to Parliament for Dumfries. He resigned that seat at the close of the same year, in order to stand as a candidate for the city of Edinburgh, when the Right Hon. Henry Dundas was created Viscount Melville. Mr. Hope was elected without opposition, and sat for Edinburgh during two sessions. On the 20th of November, 1804, he was appointed a Lord of Session and Lord Justice Clerk. In 1822 he was advanced to the offices of Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session, and was sworn a Privy Councillor. He retired from his judicial functions in 1841. On the formation of the Edinburgh volunteers, Mr. Hope was appointed, by commission dated 26th of May, 1803, one of the Lieut.-Colonels of the First Regiment, which proved a very efficient corps. Mr. Hope married, Aug. 8, 1793, his cousin, Lady Charlotte Hope, eighth daughter of John, second Earl of Hopetoun, and had numerous issue. 30. At Geneva, aged 36, the Hon. James Fitzroy Henry William Wellesley, younger son of the Earl of Mornington. At Hyde-park Corner, Lady Cockerell, of Sezincote, Gloucestershire, widow of Sir Charles Cockerell, bart., and sister of Lord Northwick. She was the second daughter of John, first Lord Northwick, and became the second wife of Sir Charles Cockerell in 1808, and was left his widow in 1837. 31. At Dover, Mary, second daughter of the late James Dease, esq., of Turbotston, and of the Lady Teresa Dease, and niece of the late Earl of Fingall. Lately. At Paris, M. de Savigny, a member of the Zoological Section of the Academy of Sciences, well known for his labours during the French expedition into Egypt, and for his researches into the anatomy of insects and crustacea. Lately. At Moscow, M. de Saint Priest, member of the French Academy, and formerly a Peer of France; author of several historical works. NOVEMBER. 1. At Christchurch, in consequence of being thrown from her carriage, Lady Huddart. She was second daughter of Andrew Durham, esq., of Belvidere, co. Down, and was married to Sir Joseph Huddart in 1808. In the skirmish at Waterkloof, Lieut. A. Carey, 74th Highlanders. At Gloucester-gate, Regent's Park, aged 77, Dame Eliza Lydia, mother of Sir J. Y. Buller, bart., M.P. for South Devon. She was the only daughter and heir of John Holliday, esq., of Lincoln's Inn and Dilhorne Hall, co. Stafford; was married in 1791, and left a widow in 1834. At Poonah, aged 26, the Hon. Henry Lysaght, youngest son of Lord Lisle, and late Ensign 86th Foot. In Torrington-square, aged 55, Thomas Galloway, esq., F.R.S. and F.R.A.S., Registrar of the Amicable Life Assurance Office. Aged 24, Elinor Mary, second daughter of Capt. Edridge, R.N., of Pockeridge House, Wilts. 2. In Hyde-park Place West, aged 72, Colin Alexander Mackenzie, esq. In Warwick-square, Belgraveroad, aged 11, Edith, second daughter of Sir James Emerson Tennent. Aged 66, Mary Magdalene Ann, relict of Joseph B. Wilks, esq., of Chesterford Park. At Madrid, the Hon. Urania Caroline, widow of the Hon. Lieut.Gen. John Meade, and youngest daughter of the late Hon. Edward and Lady Arabella Ward. DEATHS.-Nov. 4. At Augher Castle, co. Tyrone, aged 70, Sir James Mervyn Richardson Bunbury, the second baronet (1787). He was the second son of Sir William Bunbury, the first baronet, by Miss Eliza Richardson, whose name he assumed by royal sign manual, April 20, 1822. At his residence, Pradoe, co. Salop, aged 71, the Hon. Thomas Kenyon, third son of the first Lord Kenyon, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. Having married into a wealthy Shropshire family, he became an active and useful magistrate of that county. For nearly 20 years he filled the important office of Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions in a manner which won universal honour and respect. Mr. Kenyon took a most prominent interest in all that concerned the welfare of his county. He was high steward of Oswestry, and served the office of treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in 1818, and was also a trustee of the Royal Free Grammar School, and other public institutions in Shrewsbury. Mr. Kenyon was for many years an officer of the Volunteer and Yeomanry corps of the county, and on two occasions received valuable tokens of the esteem in which he was held by that constitutional force; and the inhabitants of Oswestry were not behind in offering their acknowledgments of the services of their high steward. Mr. Kenyon married, April 12, 1803, Louisa Charlotte, second daughter of the Rev. John Robert Lloyd, of Aston Park, Salop, by whom he had a numerous family. At Dublin, aged 70, Susanna, relict of Cæsar Colclough Duffery Hale, esq., Chief Justice of Prince Edward's Island and Newfoundland. Anne Catherine, widow of the Hon. D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, and second daughter of the late Rev. William Douglas, Chancellor and Canon Residentiary of Salisbury. At Newington-place, Kennington, aged 77, Ann, relict of Emanuel Silva, esq., justice of the peace for Surrey. 5. At Rise (the seat of his brother, R. Bethell, esq.), aged 76, James Bethell, esq., of Brighton. 6. At the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, brevet Major Johns, R.M. At the Hall, Darley-in-the-Dale, Derbyshire, aged 77, Benjamin Potter, esq. In the action of Waterkloof, in Caffraria, Lieut.-Col. John Fordyce, commanding H.M. 74th Highlanders. This gallant officer was the eldest son of the late Thomas John Fordyce, esq., of Ayton, co. Berwick. Having entered the army in 1828, he went through the duties of peace service in a manner to acquire great reputation. In 1844 he became major of the 74th Highlanders. In 1846 he became lieut.-colonel and commanding officer of this regiment, in which important position he gained the esteem of the military authorities and the affection of all who served under him. In March, 1851, he embarked with his regiment for the Cape of Good Hope, where, after months of severe and harassing warfare, he fell at the head of his gallant and beloved Highlanders, in the prime of his manhood. In a division order announcing his death, Major-Gen. Somerset paid the following tribute to his merits :"From the period of the 74th Highlanders having joined the 1st division their high state of discipline and efficiency at once showed to the MajorGeneral the value of Lieut.-Col. Fordyce as a commanding officer; the subsequent period during which the MajorGeneral had been in daily intercourse with Lieut. Col. Fordyce, so constantly engaged against the enemy in the field, had tended to increase, in the highest degree, the opinion which the MajorGeneral had formed of Lieut.-Col. Fordyce as a commander of the highest order, and one of Her Majesty's ablest officers, and whom he now so deeply laments (while he truly sympathizes with the 74th Highlanders in their irreparable loss) as an esteemed brother soldier." Of wounds received in action with the Kafirs on the heights above the Waterkloof, Lieut. John Gordon, 74th Regt., eldest son of the late Sir Charles Gordon, of Drimnin, knt. 7. In the Harrow road, aged 55, Capt. Edward Foord, H.C.S., and one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity Corporation. At Albano, Rome, aged 5, Con |