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    b £ s death , ^ hisra repu tation : " above all Greek , all Roman fame , " Besides his attention to literature and theology , Dr . G . had acquired a considerable knowledge of Mechanics . This lie very laudably employed as one of the Committee of the Humane Society > in promoting the benevolent objects of that institution .

    As a divine , he had the reputation of jpopular talents , and frequently preached extempore . " His discourses" are said to &ave been " generally plain and practical ;" but surely , although * ' he deprecated controversy » ' * he could hardly be " convinced that the proper object of a Christian teach-

    er , was not to rouse the undertstanding , ' but" merely" to touch the heart . " This abhorrence of controversy has been felt by many an enlightened clergyman , who could not bring himself to believe the unscriptural creeds of ignorant ages * and yet did not possess the effrontery

    «* To make his mother a mere scoff , And , like a truant , graceless son , Revile his father ' s every one . " I 3 r- G . was most liberally disposed towards Dissenters of all denominations , and it is highly probable that while he could conform to the Church , as by law established , he would gladly have beheld her further reformation . From

    Wakefield ' s , early companion , and Bishop Watson ' s domestic , chaplain , ( an office * f which it would have puzzled an Apes * tie to understand the design ] , nothing less could be fairly expected . T . JU N . On March the 30 th , 1808 , after a very short illness died at Taunton , sincerely lamented by his neighbours , friends ,

    and family , the Rev * N . D > Symowds , brother of Mr . H . D . Symonds ^ the fcockseller , in Paternoster Row . This -worthy man was born near Ross , in the county of Hereford , in the year 1740 , and attached himself early in life to a small congregation of Baptists in that neighbourhood , and by it was encourage ed to undertake the work of the mini *

    stry amongst Protestant Dissenters . From thence he was recommended about the year 1769 to the patronage of the Rev . H . and , C . Evans , father and son who at that f ime presided over the . Baptist Academy , in Bristol . ^ Aher remaining in that situation as long as it was thqught proper , he accepted an invitation , with t )\ e full concurrence of his tutors , to settle with a society of £ ) isse ' nters at Bovy Tracy , in Devonshire , "where h « remain *

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    ed eome years , discharging with uprig ht * ness and credit to his character ,, the dutice of the pastoral office . It was in this situation that he formed a matrimonial alliance" with Miss Crisp , the respectable and accomplished daughter of Mr . CHsp , a citizen of JLonddn , still , 1 doubt not , well remembered by the , survivors of his Numerous acquaintance in the metropolis and its vicinity .

    This lady and sister had then esta * blished , at Bovy , a seminary for the education of young ladies , and conducted it whilst they remained in that place , much to their own honour and tae benefit of their pupils . This seminary ,

    some years since , was removed to Taunton , in order to be in a more central , situation , and has been conducted by the same ladies and proper assistant * with increasing patronage and reputation to this day ^ to which no doubt their worth entitles them .

    The subject of this memoir in consequence of a failure of voice , was for sc » ¦ veral years past obliged to relinquish preaching altogether . But his benevolence and attention- to his friends and numerous acquaintance , the simplicity and innocence of his manners , together with the liberality of his sentiments ,

    sincere piety and consistency of his life > rendered Kim beloved and respected by all who knew his worth and put a value on virtue . For , though he was obliged , as already stated ,- to drop the . public functions of the Christian minister , yet

    he ever retained the dignity of that cha ^ racter inviolate , by strictly avoiding all deviations from it , and by resisting every temptation to conform vrith the solicitations , of the world in ajiy pwsuit off amusement , which he conceived to be

    injurious to the claims of religion * inconsistent with the character of an evaa- , gelist , and the tf-stimony of a good conscience . Taunttm , April i , i 8 qs . J . D . Died on Friday , April 1 st ,, aged 63 ,. the Rev- Wxjiuam Wood , minister of

    the congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Mill-Hill Chape * , JUeeds . The death of this excellent man is a subject of the deepest regret , not only to tjiose mom immediately connected . witj > him as a teacher of religion , b , ul to all the friends

    of liberty and 6 ? e « inquiry , and : to the literary world in general , He was bor » near Northampton , about the year X 745 his father * . Mr . Benjamin Wood , was & deacon of the religious society of which Dr . JDoddridge was the minister ; and

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    3 ® d ? OUtuary .

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    Re v * //• JX Syjnohds~—M * v . William Wood .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/48/