appointed Ophthalmic and Obstretric House Surgeon to the
Queen's Hospital, Birmingham.
At the Middlesex Hospital MrC. H. Reissmann (B.A. 1895),
B.Sc, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. has been appointed House Physician
to Sir Richard Douglas Powell and Mr Fowler.
Ds B. A. Perceval (B.A. 1 896) has gained the Brackenbury
Prize in Medicine at St George's Hospital, London.
Ds G. Elliot-Smith (BA. 1898, M.D. Sydney) has been
elected to the Research Studentship of the British Medical
Association for his work on cerebral anatomy and pathology.
On Saturday, November 19, an election was held to fill a
vacancy on the Editorial Staff of the EagU. P. B. Haigh was
elected.
On Tuesday, November 29, an election took place at the
Union Society, when T. F. R. McDonnell was elected President
and A. W. Foster and E. W. G. Masterman members of the
Committee for the Lent Term 1 899.
The following members of the College were ordained on
Trinity Sunday (June 5) : —
DEAC01I9.
Name. Dime, Diocese,
Bonsey, R. Y. (io97)
Johnson, A. R. (i^^3)
Strangeways, 6. P. (»897)
Gardiner,. H. A. P. (1895)
Bourne, C. W. (1808)
Parish.
Bath and Wells Crewkeme
Exeter
Newcastle
Norwich
Rochester
Assistant Master, Eas-
ter School
St Ann's, Newcastle
St Clement's, Ipswich
All Saints, South
Wimbledon
Priests,
Natne, Degree. Diocese.
Tait, A. J. (1894) London
Keeling, C. P. OS96) Durham
Harries, G. H. (189^ Lincoln
McCormick, J. G. (1896) Norwich
Walker, F. W. (1894) Worcester
The following were ordained on Sunday, September 25 :
Deacons.
Name. Degree. Diocese. Parish.
Greeves, P. (1896) York Whitby
Bonsey, W.H. (1898) Chester Prestbury
Ward, W. D. (1897) Chester Christ Church, Chester
Roberts, H.E. (1897) Lichfield Berkswich with Walton
Douglas, C. E. (1893) Southwell (Public Preacher).
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The following ecclesiastical appointments are announced:
Name
Sharp, Gerald
lioden, A.E.
Barrow, J« A.
Billing, A.
Walker, D.
Franey, J.
Warren, C.
Finch, F. C.
Hopkin, J.
Rowsell, W- F,
Bousfield, S.
Caldecott, A.
Russell, C. D,
Fea, W. H,
Mitchell, W. M.
Powell, C. T.
Vyvyan, H. for-
merly H. V-
Robinson
B,A^ From. To he,
(1886) C. Holy Innocents, Ham- V. Whitkiik, Leeds
niersmith
<i890) C St Stephen's, Hull
<i873) V. Chapel-le-Dale
(1871) V. Stuny
<i885) V- Grintoo, Yorks.
(1855) V. St Mary's, Ely
(1866) R. Gray Ingham
V. St Nickolas, near
Whallcy
V. St John's TunstaH,
Kirby Lonsdale
V. St Mary Plait, Wro-
tham
V. St Matthias, Burley,
Leeds
P.C. ChetUsham, Ely
V. St Michael on the
Mount, Lincoln
(1879) C. St John, Stockton on V.St Alban's, Nottingham
Tees
(1876) R.StJames',Wednesbury V. St Mary's, HuH
(i860) V. Topcliffe, Thirsk V. St MarUn's, Coney
Street, York
(1872) C. Sudbury, Derby R. Shelton, Newark
(i83o) R. North w. South Lop- R. Frating w. Thorlngton
ham
(1865) R. Bleadon, Weston- V. St John's, Burscough
super-Mare Bridge
<iS8i) PX. Mariner's Church, Master of the Charter-
HuU house, Hull
(1886) C. St John's, Leicester R. Wing
(1895) C. Pcrshore Minor Canon of Worcester
Cathedral
(1845) formerly Y. Dawllsh V. Giude with Ruaa
Minor
The Bishop of London has appointed Prebendary W.
Covington, vicar of Brompton (B.A. i866)^ to he one of his
examining Chaplains.
The Rev Henry Russell B.D. (B.A. 1845). Rector of Layhana,
has been appointed Rural Dean of Hadleigh.
The Rev R. G, Fowell (B.A. 1872), was on November 3
elected Secretary of the Church Pastoral-Aid Society, in
succession to the Rev J. Barton. Mr Fowell has had a long
and intimate connection with the work of the Society. For
hs^ years — 1880-85 — ^^ ^^ Association Secretary for the
South- West District, and during the last five years he has held
the office of Assistant Secretary of the Society. He was or-
dained in 1879, his first Curacy was at Christ Churchy
Kensington, and later he moved to St Silas's, Liverpool*
After five years of useful service for the C.P.A.S. in the South-
West District, he was offered and accepted the Principalship
and Divinity Professorship of Huron Theological College,
and with this position he held, for a short time, the Rectorship
of St John's London, Ontario. Returning to England in 1890,
he was for a short while Association Secretary of the Colonial
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and Continental Church Society, before taking np his work
at the C.P.A.S. He will begin his new office amidst the con-
gratulations and good wishes of a large number of friends.
The Rev A. Caldecott (B.A. i88o). Rector of North with
South Lopham, Norfolk, has been presented by the College to
the united Rectories of Frating with Thorington, Essex,
vacated by the death of the Rev Canon R. B. Mayor on
August 15,
The Rev Alfred Griffiths (B,A. 1878}, precenlerand second
Chaplain of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, was in August
last appointed Senior Chaplain.
The Rev C, M. Cocks (B.A. 1884), Rector of Folke, Dorset,
has been appointed Perpetual Curate of North Wootton, to be
held by Dispensation with his Rectory.
The Rev A. J, Walker (B,A. i89S\ formerly Choral Student
of the College, has been appointed Vice-Principal of the
Church Missionary College, Ning-po, China.
The Rev G. Hibbert-Ware (B.A. 1894) and the Rev A. Cooro
(B^. 1^94) has been accepted for Missionary work as members
of the Cambridge brotherhood at Delhi in connexion with the
S. P. G.
The Rev C, A, Anderson Scott (B.A. 1883), formerly Naden
Divinity Student of the College, has been appointed Minister
of St John's Presbyterian Church, Kensington.
The following University appointments of members of the
College have been made since the issue of our last number: —
Dr D, MacAlister to act in place of the Regius Professor of
Physic in reference to the Exercises required for the degrees of
Doctor of Medicine and Bachelor of Medicine during the
absence of Dr Allbutt ; Prof Liveing to be a Governor of the
South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye ; Rev W. Moore Ede
to be a Governor of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle^on-
Tyne ; J. E. Marr and W. J. Sollas to be Examiners in Geology
for the Natural Sciences Tripos and the Special Examination in
Geology for the year ending i November 1899 ; R. W. Phillips
and F. F. Blackman to be Examiners in Botany for the same
examinations ; W. Bateson and A. C. Seward to be Examiners
in Elementary Biology for the First Examination for the Degree
of M.B, for the year ending i November 1899; Dr Sandys to
be an Examiner in Section A, Part II., of the Classical Tripos
in 1899 and to be an Elector to the Prendergast Studentship;
G. F. Stout to be an Examiner for the Moral Sciences Tripos in
1B99; J. Gibson to be an Examiner for the Moral Sciences
Tripos and for the Special Examination in Logic in 1899; Mr
H, S. Fox well to be an Examiner for the Moral Sciences Tripos
in 1899; Prof Gwatkin and Mr W. E. Heitland Examiners for
tb^ Historical Tripos in 1899 ; His Honor Judge Marten to be
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ftn Claminer for the Torke Prize in 1900; Dr Sandys to be
an Elector to the Professorship of Ancient History until 1905 j
Mr J. E. Marr to be Chairman of the Examiners for the Natural
Scinces Tripos 1899.
The following^ books by members of the Colleg^e are
announced : — SeUciions from Browning, by F. Ryland (Bell) ;
The Prometheus Vincius of jEschylus, with Introduction and
Critical and Explanatory Notes, by E. E. Sikes and St J. B.
Wynne Willson (Macmillans); The Autobiography and Letters of
Dean Metivale (Oxford University Press), printed for private
circulation ; Lives of the Elizabethan Bishops of the Anglican
Church, by the Rev F. O. White (Nisbet) ; Cambridge and its
Colleges, A. Hamilton Thompson (Methuens) ; The Clouds of
Aristophanes, Pitt Press Series, Rev C. E. Graves (University
Press) ; St Thomas of Canterbury ; a Study of the evidence bearing
on his Death and Miracles, by the Rev Edwin A. Abbott (Black) ;
The Story of Geographical Discovery, Joseph Jacobs (Ntjwnes) ;
The Amateur Antiquary, His Notes, Sketches, and Fancies
concerning the Roman Wall in the Counties of Northumberland and
Cumberland, by R. H. Forster (Mawson, Swan, and Morgan,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Gay and Bird, London).
Hymns for use at St Olavis Grammar School. Printed for
private circulation, March 1898. The influence of hymns on
the child who is *' father of the man " needs no proof* Clement
Marot's Psalms and Luther's Hymns bore no small part in the
Reformation. Mr Rushbrooke deserves well of his school by
this beautifully printed collection, which more than redeems the
promise of its title. We find, beside 132 hymns, each con-
tained, by the use of various founts of type in a single page,
many extracts drawn with fine taste from very wide reading.
Here are school prayers for morning and evening; here too
the original of the 72? Deum, the Prayer Book Version, and one
in mediaeval rime by C. R. Kennedy. Matthew Arnold, Marcus
Aurelius, Bacon, J. Sr Blackie, Sir T. Browne, Robert Browning
and Mrs Browning, Emerson, Lowell, Ruskin, Tennyson, are a
sample of the names which adorn the index^ Proverbial,
gnomic wisdom, "sapiential books," fed the great minds of
Zion, and Athens, and Rome, and Olavians have here whole-
some and strengthening provision for the journey of life.
Would that every School and every College in the land were as
well endowed. The hymn book which, in the English Church
has almost supplanted every rival, is confessedly disfigured by
mawkish doggerel, and only tolerated for its music.
J, E. B. M.
Mr John L* Blake, of Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A., has
presented to the College Library a copy of his privately printed
book, The English Home of Mr Timothy Dalton B.A., the Teacher
of the Church of fesus Christ in Hampton N.H,from 1639 to
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1661. (Prifatelf printed; the De Vinne Press 1898)- Tha
volume IS beautifollf printed and illostrated with views and
reproductions of documents. It is an example of patient
research in the by-ways of obscure biography. Mr Timothy
Dalton was one of the clergyman who fled from England to
America at the time of the Laudian "persecutions.*' The
earliest recorded fact with regard to him is that he entered as a
Sizar at St John's in 1610. He took the B.A. degree in 1613—
1614, was ordained priest at Norwich June 19. 16 14, and was
instituted Rector of WooWerstone, Suffolk, March 8. 1615-16.
He left Woolverstone in 1636, and appears to have landed in
America cither in that year or in 1637. He was admitted to
the freemanship of Dedham July 18, 1637. He then settled at
Hampton, and was elected teacher of the church in 1639,
serving it until his death in 1661. Mr Blake has failed up to
the present to identify the birth place or parentage of Timothy
Dalton, but he has clearly spared no pains in his search.
Perhaps some leaders of the Eagle who have access to Parish
Registers in the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, or Essex might
help him in his quest
The Navy Records Society announces that a "Calendar of
the MSS in the Pepysian Library" will be edited by Mr J. R.
Tanner (B.A. 1883), Fellow and Lecturer of the College, the
Master and Fellows of Magdalene College having given Mr
Tanner special access to the MSS for this purpose*
Professor Mayor has recently presented the Library with a
copy of Budaeus's Greek Lexicon {Partsiis, m.d. xlviu ), which
bears on the title page the following inscription: YiKoplov
Mopc^vvov naX Tiav <^i\iav. On the fly-leaf the donor has written
as follows :
This book has the autograph erf Sir Ric. Morysine, Ambassador to
Germany, with whom Roger Aschara went as Secretary. They read Greek
together every day, as Ascham tells us. Some years ago I gave to St John's
Library a copy of Hesycbius, presented by Sir John Cheke to Ascham. I
now add a second Grreek Lexicon which we know that Ascham used. I
bought the book fr >m a catalogue and only discovered its historical interest
when I turned to the title-page. Thus after more than three centuries it has
been possible to recover tor the College two relics of one of its most famous
sons.
JOHNIANA.
[The following is an extract from the preface by Tom iTash to Robert
Greene's Menaphon 1589.]
But amongst others in that age Sir Thomas Elliots elegance did sener it
selfe from all eqtialls although Sir Thomas More with his comicall wit at that
time was not altogether idle : yet was not knowledge fullie confirmed in hir
monarchic amongst us, till that roost fortunate & famous nurse of all learning
Saint Johns in Cambridge that at that time was as an Uniuersitie within it
selfe; shining so farre aboue all other Houses Halls and Hospitalls whatso*
euei, that no Colledge in the Towne was able to compare with the tythe of
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lier students, hauing as I haue hearde graue men of crcdite repoit, more
candles light in it euerie winter morning before fowre of the clocke than the
fowre of the clocke bell gaue stroakes ; till she, I sale, as a pittying mother
put too her helping hande and sent from hir fruitefuU wombe sufficient
Schollers both to support her owne weale, as also to supplie all other inferiour
foundations defects, and namelie that royall erection of Trinitie CoUedge
which the Uniuersitie Orator in an Epistle to the Duke of. Somerset aptUe
termed Colonia deducta from the Suburbes of Saint John's
Ralph Gittins of St John's (B.A. as Gyttins 1592-3, M.A. asGitlins 1596)
has the following yerses at the end of the popular editions of Juvenal and
Persius by the famous schoolmaster, Thomas Farnaby. They are followed
by eight elegiacs signed "Ben Jonsonius,'* (p. 128, Londiid, £x Officiua
E. Tyler ^ sumplibus^iV: Brook and E, Thomat MDCLXix).
ihomae famabio.
Carminibus libi verba dedi, vel carmina verbis
Carmina sed mallem, quam tibi verba dare.
Tu mihi das sensus, ego do tibi verba Poetae.
Meque ama, amaque mea; ut teque amo, amoque tua.
I. Vatcs. 2. Hypocritae. 3. Roma urbs. 4. Rhombus. $. parasites.
6. Nupta. 7. arssordec. 8. nobililas vera. 9. irapia. 10. vota. 11. coeua.
12. redux. 13. deposta. 14. parens. 15. Aegyptia. 16. miles.
Tuus,
RODOLPHUS GITTINS.
A duel was fought on Tuesday morning, at the Devirs Ditch, Newmarket,
between a Mr C. of St John's College, and a Mr H. Fellow Commoner of
Trinity College, Cambridge, in which the latter was killed on the spot, by
the shot taking place in the thorax. Mr. C. immediately drove off towards
London.
[London Chronicle^ Tuesday, Jan. 6 — Thursday, Jan. 8, 1795, vol. 77,
P- 32].
"We take the following lines from J'Atf Marufood Church Monthly fo'
June 1898 :
SURSUM CORDA.
Thoughts in Marwood Churchyard.
"Lift up your hearts I " O Lord, to Thee
Our hearts we lift, nor only we.
But all Thy works their heart and voice
To Thee lift upward, and rejoice.
The running rills of water clear.
The lark whose song makes Heaven more near.
The whisp*ring breeze, the rustling tree,
Tiie murmur of the passing bee.
The bleating lambs, the lowing kine,
Seem all to tell Thy Love Divine;
And, blent in harmony, to raise
From earth to Heaven their song of praise.
Yet down beneath the flowers we tread
Sleep their last sleep the silent dead :
"They praise Thee not" — the Psalmist sings;
But the glad news of better things
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Telk us that they in peace who rest
Shall one day wake to rapture blest,
Andy rbing, m Thy presence raise
One song of universal praise.
Therefore, O Lord, to us who liTV
Thy purifying Spirit give,
That when beneath green earth we lie»
Though soul and body seem to die.
We, from past sins aod sorrows free.
Thy glory (ace to face may see.
And with Thy Saints and Angels raise
The song oC everlasting praise.
E. W. BowuKo.
And the following from the September number :
LINES IN MAR WOOD CHURCHYARD.
Stranger, or native of this peaceful spot.
Whoe'er thou be, whate'er may be thy lot,
Pause — 'neath thy feet, each in his hallowed bed.
Sleep, until Christ shall give them light, the dead:
Around thee, both in shower and sunshine fair.
Wood, hill, and valley, blend their beauties rare;
While, all embracing in the arms of love.
The Eternal Father reigns supreme above:
Then shalt not thou who on this scene do4t gaze.
Lift up thy heart to God in prayer and praise ?
E. W. Bowling.
[We take the following note on •* Three Leicestershire Schoolb^yi" front
LeicesUrMre and Rutland Notes and Queries, vol. ii. pp. 137 — 142. Two
of these were of St John's College : Churchill Babington (B^A. 1843), Rector
of Cockfield from 1866 until his death 12 January i88q, and Francis Burge»
Goodacre (M B. 1853, M.D. i860), Rector of Wilby near Attleborough,
Norfolk from 1 863 until his death 14 August 1885].
Some fifty years ago in the village of Thringsione, situated among scenery
as fine as any in the county, the Rev Matthew Drake Babington (of Trinity
College, B.A. 1812) combined the functions of pastor and pedagogue.
Among the inmates of his house were three boys, who in after years more
or less distinguisthed themselves. A common love of natural history bound
them together — Churchill Babington, John Walter Lea, and Francis Burges
Goodacre. The first-named was Senior to the others, but often the more
lengthy vacations of the undergraduate allowed of his becoming the coii>>
panion of his father's pupils. In the schoolroom, every inch of shdf and
table not already occupied by classic tenant, was usurped by the paraphema)i»
of the young naturalists, which at length assumed such dimensions as to call
in the ingenuity of Goodacre to provide further accommodation. With »
mind even then theologically inclmed, he improvised "hanging gardens'*
between th^ book shelves, and here the spoils of the play hour were stored.
Unhappily, not all the rector's pupils were unanimous in their tastes, and the
temptation proving too strong for one of lighter mood, a dexterous slash of
his pocket knife precipitated an avalanche of turpentines and pickled cole-
optera during School hours, with the result that "gardens of Babylon" were
interdicted in the future. Varied were the expedients resorted to in orda- te
extend the forest rambles by an hour or so. Mr Babington was a martyr to
asthma, and smoke was an abhorrence to him. Here was an advantage
which Dame Nature had bestowed upon her favoured children. A slate was
accordingly secieted in the schoolroom chimney, which caused the fire to
smoke in such an unaccountable manner the whole of one chilly autumn
morning, as to necessitate a half holiday in the afternoon. But there were
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no fires during the summer monlhs, and consequently the following somewhat
drastic method had to be adapted on an occasion when a holiday was
particularly desii-ed. The boys were accustomed to take a morning bathe in
a neighbouring pond, where the rector himself presided over their aquatic
antics (10m a fiat*bottomed though not over-st&ble punt. On tlie present
occasion he had pushed off from the shore rather furthei than was his wont.
Again Dame Nature had come to her children's assistance. With dutiful
af&ction the bo3's clambered round the punt which contained their reverend
tutor, until a skilful manoeuvre overturned the craft and plunged the worthy
man into the water, from which he was gallantly rescued by their united
efforts. Giatitude for .«uch a providential deliverance from the pedis of the
deep, of course dictated a holicfay for the rest of the day. Copt Oak Church
was the church usually attended by the boys, and if the weather chanced to
be unfavourable, it was the custom of the establishment that tiiey should each
take with them & change of shoes and stockings. The schoolroom was
unprovided with a bell, and if communication with the servants was required,
it was effected by the slamming of a cupboard door — once for a candle, twice
for water, thrice for boots and s'o on.
It was, then, in this Leicestershire pai^onage, with its curious complement
of inmates, that the friendship between Babington, Lea and Goodacre was
first cemented. On the re.«ignntion of Mr Babington, owing to ill-health,
the pupils separated. Churcliill Babington in course of time oecame ^Tellow
and Tutor of his College, Vice-President of the Royal Societj', and a Fellow
of many other learned bodies among whom his name is now as familiar as a
household name. For many yeai-s he was Disney Professor of Archaeology
at Cambridge, and, late in life, took the Degree of Doctor of Divinity. At
his rectory at Cookfield, in Suffolk, his numi^maLic collections could vie with
any in the country possessed by private individuals, and it was there that he
compiled the work by which, perhaps, liis name is most likely to be handed
down to posterity — his "Birds of Suffolk." A profound scholar and
archaeologist, he was deeply versed in othei branches of i<cieuce where his
massive intellect made him at once a Titan.
It was as a theologii>n thai John WaKei Lea distinguished himself, thongh
Nature having allotted him but one arm at hi& birth, liad denied him ordi-
nation. With a facile pen and the gift of happy expression, his articles in
many of the leading church papers attracted considerable attention, while an
occasional pamphlet gained a wide notoriety. On Scientiac Subjects his
papers were read with avidity. When the promised memoir of his life is
mblished, the public will undoubtedly be the richer for an insight into a
ife as beautiful as it was reclur^e.
Le}«s widely known tlian either of the former was Francis Burgess
Goodacre, and it is of him we would conse(^uently more fully speak. A true
natuialist and deep theologian, be lived a life of almost apostolic saintliness
and self-abnegation in his remote country parsonage.
He was the third son of John Goodacre of Lutterworth, and was born on
the 29th of May 1829, being duly carried out into the cold night of the
following 9th of November to be initiated into the mysteries of Guy Fawkes*
Day, a proceeding which cost the life of his elder end twin brother, and
nearly proved fatal to his own. From very early days he developed a taste
for natural history, and in coup se of time amassed a collection of Zoological
specimens which constituted his museum at Lutterworth, one of the Hnest
in the county. Of his life at Thiing.«tone we have alieady spoken. In 1S48
he entered at St John's College, Cambridge, when his old friend Churchill
Babington was there a tutor, and where he became a pupil of the present
Biiihop of Hereford [i. e. the late Dr Atlay.] Here he contmued his scientific
pursuits, and was chiefly known for his propensity for " boiling bones " in
his rooms to the eiiLtreme indignation of his bedinaker. In those days there
was no Zoological professorship at CamWiidge, and Mr Goodacre, recognising
his son's talents, entered into communication with the University authorities
with a view to founding one, it being expressly stipulated that his son should
be elected to the first professorship, provided he attained certain qualifications.
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Groodacre accordingly turned his attention to the requisite studies, and in 185T
took his M.B. degree, though before this date the arrangemeois for the
founding of the professorship had tallen through, owing, in great measure,
to losses occasioned by the escape of a debtor towards the end of Mr Good-
acre's year of shrievalty, and a heavy lawsuit consequent thereon. The chief
sufferer by these unfortunate occurrences was the subject of our present
memoir, whose hopes and aims were thus dashed to the ground. With little
taste lor medicine as a profession, he pursued the ordinary routine at St
Bartholomew's Hospital, on the completion of which he took up lodgings
with a clergyman in the East of Lonaon. Here be obtained an insight into
parochial work which determined him to seek ordination, and, after consider-
able obstacles occasioned by the course he had followed in his college career,
he was ordained by the Bishop of Exeter to the curacy of St Mary*s, Penzance,
in 1858. Though directed into other channels bis mind still retained its
former love for nature and her works, and it is an interesting little incident to
note, that even on his way to ordination in Exeter cathedral, a favourite slow
worm slid from its master's travelling rug to the terror of his fellow passengers.