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OBITUARY.
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6 . Thajf a Special General Meeting be called by the Secretary , at the requisition of any two Teachers of the Schools connected with the Union . 7 ; That a General Meeting be held on some convenient day in the summe'r of each ' year , when reports
shall be read of ~ the progress and prospects of each School connected with the Union , and also a General Report orthe state of the Union . 8 . That a Special Committee be appointed by the Quarterly or General Meeting , to transact any business which may call for greater attention than ordinary .
9 . That , as the extension of this Union is highly desirable , other SchoolvS be invited to join it . 10 . That each School connected with the Union shall contribute annually a sum of not less than five shillings . 11 . " That Mr . William Newton Cqupland , of , 15 , Mjobe Road , Mile End , be elected Secretary to this Union .
12 . That Mr . Robert Green , of 42 , Whitechapel Road , be appointed Treasurer to this Union . 13 . That the Secretary be requested to have copies of the resolutions now entered into , printed , and sent to the Editors of the different Unitarian periodicals . 14 . That the cordial thanks of
this Meeting be giyen to , Mr , JPluJp , for his able and impartial conduct in the chair this evening , and for his general attention to the interests of Sunday Schools . W . N . COUPLAND , Secretary , 15 , Globe Road , Mile End .
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August" 31 . At his house , in Brompton Grove , in his 86 th year , the Rev . Thomas Jervis . * Erat in illo viro comitate condita gravitas ; two senectus mores mutaverat Est' enim , «( juiete et pure atque ele-
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gahter actse setatis placida , ac lenis senectus . * The subject of this notice , to whom Cicero ' s description of a green and virtuous old age was strikingly applicable , was born at Ipswich , where his father was a dissenting minister , on the 1 . 3 th Jaauarv , __ Q . ^ ... ^ L 7 JL 8 .-
On the completion of his term of education at the academy at Hoxton , he was chosen to the important office of classical and mathematical tutor to the dissenting academy at Exeter , in 1770 . About the same time he was elected minister of the
congregation atLympston , and immediately afterwards joint-minister at Lympston and Topsham with the Rev . J . Bartlett . In 1772 , an application from the Earl , of . ShelburneV aftervvards created Marquis 6 ? Lansdowne , induced him to resign his three charges in Devonshire , and to remove to
Bowood , to undertake the education of the tvvo sons of that nobleman by his first marriage ; Here -Mr . - Jervis remained in thre enjoyment of highly cultivated society , greatly respected , in the faithful discharge of his important trust during * a period of eleven years ; and continued to be honoured with the kind attention and friends
ship of the Marquis until the time of that nobleman ' s death . Lord Fitzmanrice , the elder of his pupils , completed his education for the university under his first instructor . The younger , the Honourable William Granville Petty , died at a very early
age , to the deep grief of all who knew him , According to Dr . Priestley ' s testimony , he ' had made attainments in knowledge and piety be < - yond any thing he had observed in life ; ' a circumstance which . j&ay , jil . sQ be considered as an evidence of the
knowledge and piety of his instructor and constant companion . In 1783 , on the completion of this engagement , Mr . Jervia accepted the appointment of minister of the congregation at St . Thomas ' s , in the Borough , which he retained until the death of X > t \ Khm in I 79 b > to
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CORRESPONDENCE * 31 *?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1833, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2623/page/29/
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