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    tlstfied the rational student , and conveyed some knowledge to the most unthinking . As their friend and adviser he was vigilant and careful , yet his admonitions were tempered with the kindest concern

    for their welfare , and his sincere attachment to them gained him their confidence in difficulty or distress . The remaining years of this period were occupied by his duties as a senior fellow ; these he discharged

    as an active , intelligent and upright member of the Board , uniformly studying the interest of the University , and the advancement of learning . It should be recorded to his honour , that he was always the confidential friend ,

    and in many cases the adviser , of that most highly venerable and truly Christian character Doctor Murray , who was Provost at that time , and also of the present much esteemed Bishop of Ossory ,

    Doctor John Kearney , and of the ingenuous and much belqved Doctor Young , late Bishop of ( ZJlonfert ( then senior fellow ) . Such friendships are the best testimonies to his merit . We are next to attend him

    in a different situation—as an inciimbent of a parish . In the year 1800 he resigned his fellowship and accepted the living of Ardstran , in the diocese of Derry . Of this extensive and populous parish , he soon acquired the love

    and respect , by an assiduous performance of his various duties , by th , « propriety of his religious and moral conduct , by the marked attention to the wants of his parishioners , by his general

    benevdlence and judicious charities , and all this sweetened by affability and kindness tp every rank and description of persons ; so that it may be safely affirmed , that never was pastor in so short a time , so dear

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    to his flock . Their regret on his removal when called to ' the Provostship , was deep and sincere , yet blended with joy for his promotion . But alas ! a late event

    has left them no such consolation i they cannot , however , lorget him , and though his connection with them had been dissolved for several years , and like most others of the kind , would have passed

    away unnoticed , had there not been in it something peculiarly endearing ; they mean to record their veneration for his memory , by setting up a marble tablet in their church , with a suitable

    inscription . Upon his resignation of Ardstran , he was raised to the Provostship of Trinity College , Dublin , an office for which he was eminently qualified by talent ,

    learning , judgment , experience , temper , manners , and every other quality requisite for this arduous and important station . As a man both of science and classical

    erudition he ranked in the first order , neither did he suffer these gifts to lie idle ; from the moment of his elevation he set himself with all diligence to look into the state of every . department , within his government or influence , and he

    introduced such regulations as were thought necesary to supply some defects in the former system of academic education . He declined no task to promote the advantage and honour of the University . When a senior fellow ,

    he for the most part examined mathematics or history for fellowships , and had he studied his own ease and satisfaction , he might , ay Provost , have confined himself

    to the same branches , instead oi which , he undertook different and more important courses , logic and ethics , and was in all so perfect ,

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    Obituary . —The Rev . G . Hall , D- D m late Bishop of Dromore . 187

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/51/