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    Obituary.

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    Sir , As you have in your last and former numbers , given an account of Dr . Percy , I have thought it not unhkuly that your readers might be gratified with the following sketch of the character of his amiable but short-lived

    successor , drawn up by his intimate friend Dr . Stock , and communicated to me by a near relation of the d < ceased . I am , Sir , very respectfully , V . F .

    Some Account of the Life and Character of the Rev . George " Ball , D . D . late Bishop of Dromore in Ireland . To pay a just tribute of praise to departed virtue , is not only an

    amiable principle of our nature , but a duty which we owe to the living , insetting before them examples worthy of imitation , particularly when such examples may be considered as having a direct

    and immediate influence upon the liberal youth of the rising age , who are justly esteemed among the fairest hopes and most solid supports of a nation . Of this description was the late excellent Bishop of Dromore , whose

    character well deserves a more lasting memorial than the following short account can bestow , yet even here will be found some qualities

    and virtues that may excite an ingenuous mind to laudable exertion . He was born in Northumberland , of a respectable family , © f whom some were men of learning and ability * His father was

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    many years rector of the parisk of Earsden , one of his brothers was a fellow of Cambridge , and the celebrated Brown , who answered Shaftesbury , was nearly related to him . Having received the first rudiments of classical education

    under an able master , he gave so early a promise of capacity , that his friends directed his views to the University of Dublin , whose fellowships are an honourable and independent provision for life ; accordingly , in the year 17 fOf he

    was admitted a student , with very flattering prospects of success . In the undergraduate course , he obtained the highest academic honours , to which was added a character of diligence , sobriety and good conduct so exemplary , that

    he was held in vfery general esteem ; how much he was esteemed by the Board , consisting of the Provost and senior Fellows of the college , we have a striking instance , in their dispensing with a general regulation in his favour , and in con *

    fernng upon him emoluments intended exclusively for the natives of Ireland . And he proved himself worthy of this unusual grace ; for some time after , he became a candidate for a fellowship , and succeeded j by excellent answering , on his first trial . This station he

    filled above twenty-three years the greatest part of the time , as tutor , in which capacity there certainly never was one at any period , superior to him , for fidelity , £ are and judgment , in managing his pupils . He possessed a clearness and precision , in his manner of instructing , which always sa-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/50/