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successfully for the prize in English prose composition, though it was after-
wards found that he had not completed the four years' residence necessary
to qualify him for receiving the prize awarded. I have not seen this Essay,
hut the subject was ' Duelling ', and we may well believe that the feeling of
the gentleman, as well as the scholar's accomplishments, wei-e conspicuous
in a composition which on such a theme could bear away the palm from
many high-spirited competitors. The Principal and Fellows of Brazenose
testified their sense of his merit on the occasion, and their sympathy with
the accident that diverted its due reward from himself to another member
of their college, Mr. Allen, by voting him, out of the college funds, a
magnificently bound copy of the three splendid quartos of Musgrave's
Euripides, which to the last day of his life occupied the most conspicuous
place in his little library at Lilies, and from which I copy the following
inscription : ' Honoratissimo Domino, Geokgio Geenville, cui in Cancellarii
Oxoniensis certamine Palmam ob ingenii splendorem Academia lubenter
adiudicavit, earn tamen reportandam ob Quadriennium nondum exactum
victori invita denegavit, hoc munusculum ut eius merita et suam ipsorum
comprobationem testentur, D.D., Principalis et Socii Collegii Aenei Nasi,
MDCccvii.' [Some Memorials of John Hampden, hia party and his times.
By [George Grenville] Lord Nugent. Third edition, revised with a Memoir
of the writer. London ; Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1854, p. xi.]
1805.
Assheton, William, d. 8 Aug. 1858.
Blackburne, John. d. 21 Apr. 1837.
Cator, Charles, d. 17 Dec. 1872.
Hassall, William, d. 20 Dec. 1849.
Le Mesurier, John Thomas Howe.
AVoEK : Garrison Sermons.
1806.
Austen, William. 3 CI. 1809.
Garden, Kobert Theophilus. 1 CI. 1809.
Gordon, Thomas, d. 20 Apr. 1841.
Gregson, William.
The Lafe William Ch-egson. A Sketch by several Friends (N. Waterhouse and
D Thomson), 1863.
Latham, Peter Mere, dele ' Manchester ' and substitute 'Maccles-
field'.
Manch. Reg. i.
Lewis, John Henry, d. at Weymouth, 1845.
1807.
Andrews, Robert Nuttall. Buried in ante-chapel.
Broughton, Peter, d. 27 Mar. 1870.
Chetwynd, William Fawkener. d. 25 Apr. 1841.
Jones, Wythen. Capt. of Montgomery Yeomanry, 1819-28.
1808.
Buchanan, Alexander Henry. P.C. of Hales, 1856.
Camplin, George, d. 1828.