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March 9 , at the house of his father-inlaw , Sir William Beaumaris Rush , Bart ., Pall Mall , in his 54 th year , the Rev . Edward Daniei- Clarke , LL . D ., Professor of Mineralogy and Librarian iu the University of Cambridge , Rector of Harlton , *** the said county , and of Great
Yddhain , Essex . By the maternal side , he was great-grandson to the learned Dr . William Wotton . He was educated at Jesus College , Cambridge ; took the degree of B . A . 1790 ; M . A . 1794 ; and became Seaior Fellow of that College .
Soon after taking his degree , he accompanied the present Lord Berwick abroad , and remained sonw time in Italy . In 1799 , he set out with Mr . Cripps on an extensive tour through Europe and Asia , from which he returned in 1802 , His
Travels have been since published in several volumes , which have gained him very high reputation . His University conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL . D ., as an acknowledgment of his merits and his contributions to their institution . Amongst these , is the celebrated MS . of Plato , with nearly one
hundred other volumes of MSS ., and the colossal statue of the Eleusinian Ceres , placed in the vestibule of the University Library , respecting which Dr . Clarke published an erudite treatise . He also published , with great applause from the
learned world , a " Dissertation on the fttmtras Sarcophagus in the British Museum , which he had caused to be surrendered to the British army in Egypt , and which he has proved , from accumulated evidence , to have been the tomb of Alexander . On his travels he made a
very large and valuable collection of minerals , which rs proposed to be purchased by the University . He formed likewise a rare and valuable assortment of plants and a collection of Greek medals . In 1806 , lie commenced lectures on mineralogy at Cambridge , and a professorship being founded in 1868 for the
encouragement of that science , he was appointed to the Chair . His lectures were received with flattering attention . As a preacher , too , he enjoyed celebrity . Of his theologteaVopinions we have no account , but we have pleasure in recollecting that he #
published * in 1811 , c A Letter to Dr . Marsh , " m defence of the Bible Society . Disfitignfehed' honours were paid to him at his finveraL and the u Cambridge Philosophical' Society" hare resolved to procure a bust of him by Chan trey , for presentation to the University .
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April 2 , suddenly , on horseback , while returning from his counting-house to his reinxleuce at Homerton , Mr . John Barton , aged 55 years . He was distinguished
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throughout a wide circle by the sweetness of his temper and the amiablenesa of his manners , and by his constant but uuassuming endeavour to maintain the Chris - tian character . The remembrance of his
domestic virtues is the consolation of an affectionate widow and a numerous family . He was connected by marriage with the late much-esteemed Rev . Ed . inund Butcher , whom in some points he resembled , and both of whom have nearly at the same time entered into their rest
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April 10 , after a short illness , which was scarcely deemed serious , Mrs . Anne Cooper , wife of Mr . George Cooper , of Hackney Road , in the 59 th year of her age : a faithful , affectionate , devoted wife ; a kind and careful relative ; a tender-hearted , charitable neighbour ; and a steady , consistent and exemplary member of a Christian congregation .
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Feb . 2 O , at his apartments in Northumberland Street , Strand , Mr . John Stewart , generally known by the designation of ** Walking Stewart /* from his having travelled on foot through a great part of the world . He was originally educated at the Charter-house , and
afterwards went to India as writer in the service of the Hon . East India Company . He vvas employed as secretary to the Nabob of Arcot , and expended a large sura hi giving official entertainments , by order of his master . At length , having acquired moderate means of subsistence , after travels through every part of the
world except China , he returned to thi . - country , and during the French Revolution vested his money in the French funds . The vast depreciation in those funds , and the uncertainty of payment , reduced him to great distress ; but he was kindly relieved by the husband of his departed sister . He then went to America , and supported himself some
time by delivering lectnres on moral philosophy . The peculiarity of his tenets , however , and the latitude of his op inions on religious subjects , procured him few auditors , and he returned to this country , deriving Ms resources chiefly from 100 * . a year from France , which was regularly paid to him through Mr . Coutts , as ne had agreed to take that annual sum m-
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248 Obituary . —E . D . Clarke , LL . D . —Mr . J . Barton . —Mrs . Cooper .
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April 14 , at Hackney , Mrs . Esther Whitby , aged 45 years . This amiable woman sunk into the grave under the pressure of affliction , disappointment and sorrow ; leaving a numerous family to look up to a revered relative to supply those maternal cares and counsels of which it has pleased Providence to bereave them .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/56/
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