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99 The Rev. John Hume Spry, D.D., Rector of

St. Mary-le-Bone.

Elected February 20.-Last appearance at the
Club, May 29, 1854.

Prebendary of Canterbury, 1828; Treasurer of Canterbury Cathedral, 1832. Died November 18, 1854. 100 The Rev. Christopher Benson, Master of the Temple, and Rector of St. Giles in the

Fields.

Elected February 20.—Canon of Worcester.

101 The Rev. John Russell, D.D., Master of the Charterhouse.

Elected February 20.

Prebendary of Canterbury, 1828; Rector of Queenhithe, 1831; Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate.

102 William Clayton Walters, Esq.

Elected May 29.-Last appearance at the Club,
February 27, 1829.-Resigned 1829.

1828.

103 Edward Hawkins, Esq., Keeper of the Antiquities of the British Museum.

Elected May 29.

F.L.S. 1806; F.R.S. 1821; F.A.S. 1826; V.P.A.S. 1855; Treasurer to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1846.

104 The Right Rev. Edward Copleston, D.D., Lord Bishop of Llandaff, and Dean of St. Paul's.

Elected May 29.-Honorary Member, 1831.— Last appearance at the Club, Feb. 21, 1831. Born February 2, 1776. Educated by his father till the age of fifteen, when he was elected to a Corpus

scholarship, gained the Chancellor's prize, for Latin poem, 1793; Fellow of Oriel, 1795; Professor of Poetry, 1802. In 1814 he was made Provost of Oriel, and soon afterwards the degree of D.D. was conferred on him by diploma. He was made Dean of Chester in 1826; and in December, 1827, succeeded Dr. C. Sumner to the Bishopric of Llandaff and Deanery of St. Paul's, which offices he held till his death, October 14, 1849, at the age of seventy-two.

He was the author of a variety of works, among which may be mentioned his "Prælectiones," published in 1813; a volume " On Predestination," in 1821; Speeches on Test and Corporation Act, 1828; Roman Catholic Relief Bill, 1829; Maynooth Bill, 1845; besides six Charges, a variety of Sermons, and articles in the “Quarterly Review."

1829.

105 George Jelf, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.

Elected May 29.

For many years Secretary to the Commissioners for Building Churches.-Died 1859.

1830.

106 The Right Hon. Robert Henley, Lord Henley.

Elected February 22.-Last appearance at the
Club, May 31.-Resigned February, 1831.

Educated at Christ Church, Oxford; M.A. 1814; called to the bar in the same year. Master in Chancery, 1826. He succeeded to the Peerage in 1830. He married (in 1824) Harriet, sister of the late Sir R. Peel, by whom he had four sons. He published two volumes of the decisions of the Earl of Northington, Lord High Chancellor (his grandfather), and was the author, in 1831, of a memoir of the same nobleman. His death took place at the age of fifty-one, February 1, 1841.

1831.

107 The Rev. John David Watson, Vicar of

Guilsborough.

Elected May 30.-Honorary Member, December 11, 1846.

108 The Very Rev. George Chandler, D.D., Dean of Chichester.

Elected May 30.-Honorary Member, December, 1853.—Dean, 1840.—Died February, 1859.

109 John Heywood Markland, Esq., D.C.L.

Elected May 30.-Last appearance at the Club,
December 12, 1831.

Author of the Life of Bishop Ken, and of many valuable productions on Ecclesiastical Archæology.

110 The Ven. Joseph Cotton Wigram, Archdeacon of Winchester.

Elected May 30.-Last appearance at the Club,
February 22, 1836.

1832.

111 George Henry Gibbs, Esq.

Elected May 29.-Last appearance at the Club,
December 11, 1839.-Died August 21, 1842.

112 The Rev. Temple Frere.

Elected November 7, 1838.-Honorary Member,
February 20, 1855.

Rector of Roydon, Norfolk, and Prebendary of Westminster, 1838.-Died 1859.

113 Henry Norris, Esq.

Elected December 11.

1833.

114 Rt. Hon. Sir James Wigram, one of the ViceChancellors of the Court of Chancery.

Elected February 19.-Last appearance at the Club, February 21, 1839.-Honorary Member, 1849.

115 Joseph Delafield, Esq.

Elected February 19.-Last appearance at the
Club, December 11, 1840.-Died 1842.

116 The Rev. Allen Cooper.

Elected February 19.-Last appearance at the
Club, February 11, 1850.

Of Oriel College, Oxford. M.A. 1815. In 1828 he was appointed Perpetual Curate of St. Mark's, North Audley-street. He married, in 1842, Harriet Grace, daughter of Sir J. G. Shaw, and died at Brighton, January 5, 1851, at the age of fifty-seven.

1834.

117 The Right Hon. Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart., M.P. for the University of Oxford, Privy Councillor, 1854.

Elected May 29.-Last appearance at the Club,

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Born in London, January 12, 1786, and brought up at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxon. B.A. 1806; M.A. 1809; D.C.L. 1826. He was called to the Bar in 1818, but did not pursue the law as a profession, being for some time in early life employed as Secretary to Lord Sidmouth, and afterwards as a Commissioner for settling the affairs of the Carnatic. He entered Parliament in 1824, as Member for Dundalk, and in 1829 was elected by the University of Oxford in the room of Sir Robert Peel, and continued to represent it till his retirement in

1853. As long as his health permitted, his attendance on Parliamentary duties was assiduous, and his solicitude to defend the interests of the Church, and specially of the University represented by him, was unwearied. died May 5, 1855, leaving no issue.

118 William Lorance Rogers, Esq.

He

Elected May 29.-Last appearance at the Club,
May 29, 1838.

Many years an efficient Police Magistrate of the county of Middlesex, and an Associate of the late Rev. Dr. Bray.-Died 1838.

119 Newell Connop, Esq., Jun.

Elected December 11.-Last appearance at the
Club, February 11, 1846.-Died 1851.

Secretary to the Church Building Society, to which he bequeathed the house in Whitehall, which the Society occupies.

1835.

120 The Ven. Henry Vincent Bayley, D.D., Archdeacon of Stow, and Prebendary of Westminster.

Elected February 20.-Last appearance at the
Club, May 29, 1835.

Born 1777. An elegant scholar, educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he took the degree of B.A. in 1800, and became Fellow of Trinity College in 1802, and Archdeacon of Stow in 1823. He was also Sub-dean of Lincoln, where he took great interest in the restoration of the Cathedral. This preferment he exchanged in 1828 for a stall in Westminster Abbey. In 1826 he was collated to the Rectory of West Meon, where he built a new church, and at which place he died, aged sixty-seven, August 12, 1844.

121 Henry Patteson, Esq.

Elected February 20.

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