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July 4. Suddenly, at his residence, West Clayton street, Newcastle-uponTyne, aged 64, Mr. Richard Grainger, a man to whom that town owes almost its reconstruction. The deceased, who was born at Newcastle in 1796, was of very humble origin, and being early left an orphan, he received only the merest rudiments of education at the St. Andrew's charity school in that town, He was ap prenticed to a carpenter, but he soon quitted the bench, and, improving his opportunities, he, while still a young man, was able to commence business on his own account, when his industry and talent secured him an ample fortune.

In the course of five years, besides adorning his native town with other ornamental streets and edifices, there were added no less than nine new streets, and nearly one million sterling worth of property to the value of the town, through the industry and energy of one man during the same period.

March 25. At Neemuch, Bombay, the result of an accident in a conflict with a tiger, Lieut. C. N. Grant, of the 2nd European Light Infantry. The details of this terrific struggle are contained in the following letter from an officer, who, writing from Neemuch, under date the 26th March, says :-"A party of officers, viz. Captain Baumgartner, young Hemsted, of the 2nd, Crawford, of the 13th N.I., and poor Grant, proceeded on a shooting expedition to Ruttunghur, 30 miles off. The first day they obtained khubbur of a tiger, which was shot without any accident happening. On Saturday forenoon they were again informed of the presence of a very large tiger some five miles from their camp, to which spot they proceeded, and coming up with the tiger each gave him a couple of barrels, wounding him very severely. The beast then made off for some short jungle, and after beating for him they found the brute again about four or five in the evening, when some shots were fired and he was again hit. He then turned to the right, where poor Grant was in advance of all, and on seeing him fired at him; the brute then seized him, the beaters bolted, and the tiger commenced to bite and claw poor Grant fearfully, carrying him off to some distance." His companions came to the rescue and at

tacked the beast with their revolvers ; seven bullets were fired into its head before it was killed; but before Lieut. Grant could be extricated from the brute's jaws they had to be forced open. The unfortunate gentleman died of his injuries a few days after.

July 17. At Grantown, Inverness-shire, John Grant, Esq., late President of the Chamber of Commerce in Malta. Mr. Grant was the last of an old race of British merchants, whose geniality, hospitality, and benevolence had endeared him to the Maltese people, amongst whom he had lived for nearly half a century. On his resignation of the Presidency of the Chamber of Commerce, he took with him in his retirement that unanimous regret which men must feel at parting with one who, through a long life of spotless uprightness and bright honour, had gained the love of all his friends, and the esteem of every one admitted to his acquaintance.

Aug. 27. At Saugor, Central India, aged 39, Walter Colquhoun Grant, esq., Capt. 2nd Dragoon Guards, Brigade Major Saugor District. He was the only son of the late Col. Colquhoun Grant, Chief of the Intelligence Department of the Army commanded by the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula.

March 23. In Stephen's-green, Dublin, aged 69, the Right Hon. Richard Wilson Greene, late one of the Barons of the Exchequer in Ireland. He was a son of the late Sir Jonas Greene, Recorder of Dublin, and was born in 1791; was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated and obtained the gold medal in 1811; was called to the Irish Bar in 1814, and elected a Bencher of the King's Inns, Dublin, in 1834. Under the Government of Sir Robert Peel he was made First Serjeant. He was Solicitor-General when the present Master of the Rolls filled the office of Attorney-General, and in 1844 he was engaged in the State prosecutions, when the law officers of the Crown had to contend with the most formidable bar ever mustered in the Dublin courts. O'Connell used to say that his opinions had "the sterling ring of legal power." In times of great political excitement he enjoyed the respect of all parties, not only for his judicial qualities, but for his personal worth. He was elevated to the Bench by Lord Derby's Government in 1852.

Dec. 4. At Walton-hall, Warrington, Mary, wife of Gilbert Greenhall, esq., M.P.

Sept. 22. At Cheltenham, aged 67, Lieut. Col. Greenwood, R. A., C. B. He served in the late expedition against China. Nov. 3. In Southwick-street, Hydepark, aged 50, Annie, dau. of the late Dr. Olinthus Gregory, of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,

May 4. At Taplow Court, aged 38, Charles William, eldest son of C. P. Grenfell, esq., M.P. for Preston, and himself late M.P. for Windsor.

Nov. 26. In Eaton-square, aged 86, Mary Elizabeth, the Dowager Countess Grey, the venerable widow of the late Earl Grey. Her Ladyship was the only daughter of William Brabazon, first Lord Ponsonby, and married in 1794 Charles, the second Earl Grey, by whom she had a family of 16 children.

Ang. 31. At his residence in the Palacegreen, Ely, aged 89, the Rev. John Griffith, B.D., Minor Canon in that cathedral, to which he was elected in the year 1800.

Jan. 28. At Waldershare Park, Kent, aged 89, Francis, Earl of Guildford, Lord North. The deceased Earl, the Rev. Francis North, sixth Earl, was born in 1772. His Lordship's connection with the Hospital of St. Cross had affixed to his name a notoriety to which it would not otherwise have attained. The history of that connection would require much more space than we are at liberty to afford in these columns. Suffice it, therefore, to say that, after repeated onslaughts on him in parliament and in the courts of law, Lord Guildford resigned all his preferments in 1850, having realised from them sufficient money to pay off all the mortgages on his ancestral estate near Dover.

March 10. At Longhope, Gloucestershire, aged 37, the Rev. Vernon George Guise, Vicar of the parish, and third surviving son of Gen. Sir John W. Guise, bart.

Sept. 20. At Harbourne, near Worcester, aged 84, John Matthew Gutch, esq. The deceased gentleman, who had been connected for more than half a century with the press, was formerly editor and proprietor of Felix Farley's Bristol Journal. Under his auspices the journal became the best provincial paper in England. Unfortunately, Mr. Gutch was persuaded to embark his fortune and reputation in a metropolitan newspaper, The Morning Journal, to the loss of both; for the paper was unsuccessful as a speculation, and the proprietors were convicted of a libel on the Duke of Wel

lington, were fined and imprisoned; and the journal was abandoned. After these misfortunes, Mr. Gutch was connected with the daily press in a capacity less dignified, though not less honourable, than that of editor and proprietor, and was the author of some excellent and amusing works.

Jan. 22. At Llwn-y-brain, the Hon. Georgiana Marianna Gwynne, youngest daughter of George, 13th Viscount Hereford, and relict of T. H. Gwynne, esq.

July 14. At Clifton, aged 77, Col. Gwynne, of Monachty, Cardiganshire, magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of that county.

Feb. 10. At her residence in Berkeleysquare, aged 80, Maria, Countess of Haddington, widow of Thomas, ninth Earl, who died in 1858. The deceased lady was the only daughter of George, fourth Earl of Macclesfield.

Jan. 21. At his residence, Lansdownecrescent, Kensington-park, aged 80, Sir John Hall, K. C. H., formerly Secretary to the St. Katherine Dock Company. In 1809 the deceased was made chairman for regulating convoys, and for the protection of British commerce and navigation to and from the ports between the Elbe and Calais, and in 1816 was appointed Consul-General for Hanover, in the United Kingdom; and in 1817 he served as High Sheriff of Essex.

Dec. 16. At Beech House, aged 68, the Rev. W. J. Hall, M.A., Vicar of Tottenham, Minor Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, and Priest in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

May 27. At his residence, Malta, aged 53, Edward Knatchball Hughes Hallet, esq., Commander, R.N. He commanded the boats of the Bellerophon at Djebail and Sidon, and was in that ship at the capture of St. Jean d'Acre in 1840.

June 6. In Princes-terrace, Hydepark, aged 40, Albert John Hambrough, esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., of Steephill Castle, Isle of Wight.

Feb. 21. Killed in an engagement with the natives, on the banks of the river Gambia, Western Africa, aged 20, James Hamilton, Mate of H.M.S. Arrogant, younger son of the late Rev. James Hamilton, Rector of Beddington.

Oct. 16. At his residence, Grevillehouse, Cheltenham, Lieut.-Col. Edward Ford Hamilton, late of the Bombay Army.

Oct. 4. At Boxlands, near Dorking, Surrey, aged 70, John George Hammack, esq., a magistrate for the county of Mid

dlesex, and a deputy-lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets. Mr. Hammack, who was by profession an architect and surveyor, enjoyed a very large practice in arbitration cases, and in questions of valuation and compensation. In this capacity he arranged, as much to the satisfaction of all parties as the nature of the case admits, the compensation to the inhabitants of the district swept away by the construction of the St. Katherine's Docks; and he was much employed in cases arising out of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act. Connected by residence and property with the Tower Hamlets, when the elective franchise was conferred by the Reform Act upon that populous division of the metropolis Mr. Hammack was appointed the returning officer for the new borough, a post of some peril in a constituency so peculiarly composed, but which he filled in a manner which gave satisfaction to all parties. Before public attention had been directed to sanitary matters, Mr. Hammack was strongly opposed to the continuance of intramural interment; and was an active promoter of the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery, of which company he was the chairman at the time of his decease. He was also connected with other local public works: for 25 years he was chairman of the Ratcliff Gas Light Company, and he was a director of the Blackwall Railway Company. As a magistrate he was peculiarly fitted to decide on all questions of rating and appeals, while to his practical knowledge were united never-failing urbanity and kindness of manners. He was highly esteemed by a large circle of professional and personal friends, and leaves behind him an honourable name arising from a remembrance of his useful and active life, and of his many social and domestic virtues. Mr. Hammack was twice married, and has left issue.

May 16. At the Rectory House, Hitcham, Suffolk, aged 65, the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, M.A., F.S.A., &c., Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge.

This distinguished naturalist and excellent man was the son of a solicitor at Rochester, and grandson of Sir John Henslow, some time Master of the Dockyard at Chatham. He was educated at the Free School, Rochester, and in 1818 graduated at St. John's College, Cambridge, as 16th Wrangler. On the VOL. CIII.

death of Dr. Clarke, the celebrated traveller, in 1822, Mr. Henslow was elected his successor in the Professorship of Mineralogy, and in 1825 was elected to the Professorship of Botany on the death of Dr. Martyn. In 1837 he was presented to the excellent Crown living of Hitcham, where he greatly improved the neighbourhood by his labours, until Hitcham became known as a model parish. Although a man of extensive scientific attainments, and considerable antiquarian acquirements, his published works were by no means numerous; the principal of them are "A Geological Description of Anglesea," "The Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany," "Le Bouquet des Souvenirs," "Report on the Diseases of Wheat," "Account of Roman Antiquities found at Rougham,' Dictionary of Botanical Terms," "Flora of Suffolk," which last work was the joint production of Professor Henslow and E. Skupper.

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Dec. 19. At Strawberry-hill, aged 76, George Granville Vernon Harcourt, esq., M.P. for Oxfordshire. The deceased was the eldest son of the Most Rev. Edward Venables Vernon Harcourt, Archbishop of York, and Lady Anne Vernon, sister of the first Duke of Sutherland. Shortly after he came of age, he entered Parliament for the city of Lichfield, which he represented until 1831, when, although unknown to the electors generally, he was returned at the head of the poll for Oxfordshire, from which time he continued to represent that county until his death. the year 1830, on the death of the late Earl Harcourt, the deceased assumed the name of Harcourt, and became tenant for life, next to his father, of the ancient estates at Vaneham Courtenay and Stanton Harcourt. Although not the oldest man in the House of Commons, he was the oldest member-the "Father" of the House.

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July 20. At Agra, of cholera, aged 28, Capt. Hastings Edward Harington, H.M.'s Indian Artillery, V.C., third son of the late Rev. John Harington, Rector of Little Hinton.

Feb. 18. In Brunswick-sq., Penrith, aged 71, Major-Gen. A. R. Harrison, Royal Artillery.

Oct. 5. After a few days' illness, aged 30, the Rev. William Henry Hart, M.A. Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, and G G

Chaplain to the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn.

Aug. 20. At her residence, Fulford Grange, near York, aged 79, Miss Hartley.

Aug. 15. At Edmonston, Biggar, N. B., of acute diphtheria, aged 20, Honoria, youngest dau. of the late MajorGen. Sir Henry Havelock.

April 6. In St. James's-place, aged 79, Lieut.-Col. Henry Hawkins, late of the Fusilier Guards.

Nov. 9. At the residence of his sister, Frenchay, Gloucestershire, aged 78, Sir J. Cæsar Hawkins, bart.

March 19. At his seat Dunragit, N.B., aged 71, Sir James Dalrymple Hay, bart., a deputy-lieutenant of Wigtonshire.

May 9. At Malta, aged 74, Robert William Hay, esq., for 13 years private Secretary to the late Viscount Melville, when first Lord of the Admiralty, and subsequently Under Secretary for the Colonial Department.

Sept. 30. At Seaton House, Aberdeenshire, Elizabeth, wife of Lieut.-Gen. Lord James Hay.

Oct. 28. At Haughland, near Elgin, aged 42, William Leith, second son of Col. Sir Andrew Leith Hay, of Rannes, formerly M.P. for Elgin, Clerk of the Ordnance, and Governor of Bermuda.

Aug. 10. At Sydenham, aged 41, Miss Catharine Hayes, the distinguished vocalist. To this lady was reserved the task of rescuing her country from the imputation that it produced no artists capable of competing with those of other nations. Miss Hayes was born in humble life; but the beauty of her voice having accidentally attracted notice, funds were raised and she was placed under the tuition of Signor Sapio, a singer and teacher in Dublin. With him she studied with so much success that she speedily rose to fame as a concert singer. The perform ance of Mario and Grisi in Norma raised her ambition to try the lyric drama; she studied under Garcia at Paris, and made her debut at Marseilles in I Puritani. Her next engagement was at La Scala, at Milan, in the character of Linda di Chamouni; when such was the furore of enthusiasm created by her singing and acting (to which a graceful person added a further charm) that she was recalled before the curtain twelve times! From this time forward her success was uninterrupted. At the Imperial Theatre at

Vienna, at Venice, and in other Continental cities famed for their reputation as art-producing localities, Miss Hayes vindicated her title to the first rank as a lyric singer and actress, and an artist capable of interpreting with due effect the highest order of dramatic music. Miss Hayes was married in 1857 to a Mr. Bushnell, who has since deceased.

Jan. 18. At Tiverton, aged 76, John Heathcoat, esq., for 30 years M.P. for Tiverton. Mr. Heathcoat, who was the son of a small farmer in Leicestershire, was in early life apprenticed to a framesmith, where he contrived to acquire a complete practical knowledge of all the mechanism appertaining to the stockingframe and warp machine manufacture; and of which he availed himself in prosecuting his ideas as to the production of Buckingham or French lace, to which he for a time gave undivided attention. This object he at length accomplished, and in 1808 patented his invention, improving upon it in the following year, the principle involved in both remaining embodied in the bobbin-net machines of the present day.

The success attending his labours was not without its cost, but was achieved by the employment of self-directed talents, during hours of bodily and mental toil, in the face of mechanical difficulties so great, that Mr. Heathcoat said, when describing in 1836 his whole procedure in the affair: "The single difficulty of getting the diagonal threads to twist in the allotted space was so great, that if now to be done, I should probably not attempt its accomplishment."

In 1816, the factory of Loughborough, in which Mr. Heathcoat's business was carried on, was attacked by the Luddites, and the lace frames destroyed; this caused the removal of the manufacture to Tiverton, where it restored the prosperity that had been lost by the decay of the woollen trade. The establishment of Mr. Heathcoat and his partner employs about 2000 persons, for whose benefit schools and a church have been built, and their welfare promoted in other ways calculated to sweeten the advantages of profitable employment.

Mr. Heathcoat was one of the very few members of the House of Commons who had held an uninterrupted possession of a seat in that assembly for so long a period. First returned for the borough of Tiverton in 1881, he only retired from