MARRIAGES. 17. At St. John's Episcopal Chapel, Forres, John Henry Jenkinson, esq., to Alice Henrietta, third daughter of Sir William Gordon Cumming, bart. 18. At Teignmouth, the Rev. G. Thomson, of Dawlish, to Wilhelmina, youngest daughter of the late Gen. Dilkes. 19. At Christ Church, Plymouth, William Oakes, esq., of Hatch Court, Somerset, and of Shirland House, Derbyshire, to Sarah, second daughter of Capt. Monday, R.N. 23. At All Souls' Church, Langhamplace, Capt. Colin Campbell, 1st Madras Light Cavalry, to Amelia, youngest daughter of the late Major-Gen. Sir Archibald Galloway, K.C.B. 24. At Wollaton, Notts, Capt. George Thompson Wade, 13th Light Infantry, to Caroline Louisa Henrietta, eldest daughter of Duncan Davidson, esq., of Tulloch Castle. 25. At St. James's Church, the Lord de Blaquiere, to Eleanor Amelia, eldest daughter of Sir William G. H. Jolliffe, bart., M.P. 30. Major H. W. Bunbury, to Miss Cecilia Napier, daughter of Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Napier, K.C.B. Lately. At St. Michael's, Chestersquare, F. S. Tremlett, esq., to Ellen, only daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. George, H.E.I.C.S. DECEMBER. 2. At Leominster, the Rev. Vernon George Guise, Rector of Longhope, Gloucestershire, to Mary Harriet, young. est daughter of Robert Lane, esq., of the Ryelands, Herefordshire. At Niton, Isle of Wight, Alexander Mitchell Innes, esq., to Fanny Augusta, youngest daughter of the late James Vine, esq. At St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Edwin Cobbett, esq., of Marylebone, to Emily Mary Ann, youngest daughter of the late Richard Cobbett, esq., of Esher. 4. At St. James's, Paddington, Robert Peel Floyd, esq., third son of MajorGeneral Sir Henry Floyd, bart., to Mary Jane, only daughter of Henry Carew, esq. 7. At Harleston, Northampton, Cecil William Forester, Lieut.-Col., 52nd Reg., to Henrietta Maria, third daughter of the late Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, and widow of the late Lord Henry Russell. - At Hitcham, T. W. Wing, esq., of Westhorpe Lodge, to Eliza, second daughter of J. Harper, esq., of Hitcham Hall. 7. At St. Marylebone, James Buchanan, esq., to Mary Jane, daughter of the late David Carruthers, esq., M.P. 8. At Coolhurst, Sussex, Henry George Liddell, Esq., M.P., to Mary Diana, only child of the late Orlando Gunning Sutton, esq. At St. Peter's Church, Eatonsquare, John Henry Wyndham King, esq., to Emily Mary, youngest daughter of Lady Elizabeth Dawson and the late Hon. Lionel Dawson. 9. At Horton, Northampton, the Rev. Granville Sykes Howard Vyse, Rector of Boughton and Pitsford, in the same county, to Lilly Anne, second daughter of the late Major Gunning. At St. Austell, F. Hicks, esq., to Mary Frances Elizabeth Graves, only daughter of Sir Joseph Graves Sawle. At Hooton Pagnell, G. H. Lang, esq., of Overtoun, Dumbartonshire, to Catherine Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Christopher Saltmarshe, esq., of Bath. At St. James's Church, Westminster, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Alexander Gordon, second son of the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, to Caroline Emilia Mary, eldest daughter of Sir J. F. W. Herschel, bart. 13. At Edinburgh, James Warburton Begbie, esq., M.D., to Anna Maria Churchill, eldest daughter of the late Neville Reid, esq., of Runnymede, Berks. 14. At Southampton, George Henry Errington, esq., late of the King's Dragoon Guards, to Isabel Lannette, youngest daughter of John Hopton Forbes, esq., of Merry Oak, Hants. At the Abbey Church, Great Malvern, Walter Birch, esq., Capt. H.E.I.C.S., to Jane, eldest daughter of Lieut.-Gen. Birch, C.B., R.E. At Nassau, Bahamas, Capt. Percy F. Gother Scott, to Charlotte, daughter of Capt. Rimington. 16. At All Saints', St. John's Wood, Edward Barnes Goodman, esq., to Lucinda Matilda, only daughter of William Percival, esq., George-street, Hanoversquare. 21. At the Chapel Cally, Gatehouse, N.B., Frederick Madan, esq., of Northwick-terrace, St. John's Wood, London, to Catherine, fifth daughter of the Hon. Montgomerie Stewart. MARRIAGES.-DEATHS.-JULY, SEPT. 1851. 21. At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Right Hon. Lord Erskine, to Anna, widow of Thomas Calderwood Durham, esq. 22. At St. James's Church, Norland, Notting Hill, John Newton, esq., to Charlotte, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Samuel Birch, D.D. 23. At Clapham, the Rev. Edward John Selwyn, M.A., Head Master of the Blackheath Proprietary School, to Maria Sophia Hughes, eldest surviving daughter of W. Hughes Hughes, esq., late M.P. for Oxford. At Benacre, the Rev. Edward Mortimer Clissold, to Florence Jane, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch, bart., M.P., of Benacre Hall. 27. At St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, John Vans Agnew, esq., to Fanny, youngest daughter of the late Col. R. Boycott Jenkins. 28. At St. Mary's, Lambeth, Cornthwaite Hector, esq., to Ann, second daughter of the late William Hayward, esq., of the Temple, London. At Portstewart, the Hon. and Rev. Charles Douglas, brother of the Earl of Moreton, to Agnes, fourth daughter of Capt. Rich. At St. Marylebone, Charles C. Grantham, esq., Lieut. Ceylon Rifles, to Adeline, only daughter of Lieut.-Col. Johnson. At Newcastle-upon-Tyne, James William Balfour, esq., 7th Dragoon Guards, to Isabella, only daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. Craster. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, bart., to the Lady Octavia Grosvenor. 28. At Thurso, Caithness, John Ramsay, Capt. Bombay Fusileers (Brevet Major), to Kate Sinclair, daughter of the late David Laing, esq., Thurso. At Ballycahane, Capt. Arthur Phillpotts, R.A., son of the Bishop of Exeter, to Emilia, eldest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Croker. 29. At Prestwich, the Rev. Charles Evans, to Susannah Sarah, younger daughter of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Manchester. At Bradpole, Dorset, the Rev. Charles John Down, to Alice Mary, youngest daughter of James Templar, esq., of Bridport. 29. At St. John's Church, Paddington, Henry Wakeford, esq., to Rose Emily, second daughter of Sir Henry Rowley Bishop. 30. At Southsea, Rev. Charles Richmond Tate, B.D., Vicar of Send-withRipley, Surrey, to Elizabeth Edmondson, eldest daughter of Josiah Webb, esq. DEATHS. 1851. JULY. William Berry, of Kennington, author 2. At Brixton, in his 77th year, Mr. of "An Introduction to Heraldry, containing the Rudiments of the Science in general, and other necessary Particulars and of many other heraldic works. connected with the Subject. 1810." 4to., SEPTEMBER. In Picton Island, at the southern extremity of America, Allen Francis Gardiner, esq., Commander, R.N., who went out in connection with the Patagonian Missionary Society, of which he was the founder, to open the way for a mission to the natives of Tierra del Fuego. Captain Gardiner was the fourth son of Samuel Gardiner, esq., of Coombe Lodge, co. Oxford. He entered the Royal Naval College in 1808; and in the Phoebe, 44, was engaged (in company with the Astrea and Galatea) in an action, May 20, 1811, with three French frigates, of which the Renommée was then captured, and the Néréide five days after. In 1814, off Valparaiso, the Phabe (then in company with the Cherub sloop) captured the American frigate Essex, which Mr. Gardiner conducted to England as acting Lieutenant, and was confirmed by the Admiralty on the 13th December in the same year. He served afloat afterwards, and was advanced to the rank of Commander in 1826. This was the termination of his professional service; but during the course of it, while he was serving in the Dauntless, on the South American Station, the state of the aboriginal tribes in that country first excited an interest in his mind, the effect DEATHS.-DEC. 1851. JAN. 1852. of which had a powerful influence on all his subsequent history. In 1834 he undertook, on his own account, a journey to the Zoolu country in South Africa, of which he published a narrative in 1836. His object in that expedition was, to open a way whereby the ministers of the gospel might find access to the Zoolu nation. The immediate effect of it was to induce Dingarn, the Zoolu king, to assign him a district on which he might found a Christian mission. Captain Gardiner thereupon returned home, and, besides publishing the narrative mentioned above, endeavoured by other means to excite an interest in that object. In 1836 he returned thither with his family, accompanied by the Rev. Francis Owen, and a catechist, and followed by another clergyman and a surgeon; and he fixed his residence at Hambanarti, within the district assigned to him by Dingarn. In 1838 the Hambanarti Church Missionary Association was formed, to raise funds, and support missionaries, schoolmasters, and catechists. But an incursion of Boors from the Cape destroyed the Mission property, and dispersed the labourers. Upon this Captain Gardiner withdrew his wife and family to South America, and crossed the Pampas and Cordilleras to Chili, intending thence to introduce the Scriptures among the Araucanian Indians. From one chief there he obtained permission to reside among them; but the jealousy of the other chiefs compelled a recal of that permission. Captain Gardiner, therefore, wrote an account of his proceedings to the Bible and Missionary Societies, and, embarking with his family, endeavoured to find an opening for the gospel in other neglected regions, particularly in New Guinea. Being foiled in this undertaking, partly by the Dutch Government, he returned once more to Valparaiso. Here again, finding himself watched and thwarted by emissaries of the Romish Church, he returned to England, and again in 1843 set sail for South America, intending, if he could do nothing else, to distribute tracts. After collecting what information he could, he came home, formed the Patagonian Missionary Society, and at the end of 1844 embarked, with Mr. Hunt as a catechist (who is now Chaplain to the Bishop of Rupert's Land), for Patagonia. They also were compelled to return. But in 1846 he again set out with Frederico Gonzales, a Spanish Protestant, hoping with his aid to penetrate to the Pewenches of the Gran Chaco, in the interior of South America. Once more he found it necessary to come to England for further aid, and after traversing the island, and holding various meetings for that purpose, he embarked in his last fatal expedition in Sept. 1850. Of the dreadful fate of this dauntless Christian Missionary, and his devoted companion, a narrative is given in another part of this volume. Captain Gardiner married, first, in July 1823, Julia Susanna, second daughter of John Reade, esq., of Ipsden House, co. of Oxford, and has left issue; and secondly, Oct. 7, 1838, Elizabeth Lydia, eldest daughter of the Rev. E. G. Marsh, Vicar of Aylesford, Kent. DECEMBER. 14. In Edward-street, Portman-square, aged 57, the Rev. John Hobart Caunter, B.D., Curate of Prittlewell, Essex. Mr. Caunter was a native of Dittis ham, in Devonshire, and in early life served in the army. Having entered holy orders, he was for nineteen years the incumbent minister of St. Paul's chapel, Foley-place, in the parish of Marylebone. În 1846 he took a lease of a proprietary chapel at Kennington. He held for a short time the rectory of Hailsham, in Sussex. Mr. Caunter had considerable literary reputation, and was the author (beside many religious works) of "The Island Bride," in six cantos. "St. Leon," a poem ; 1835. "Posthumous Records of a London Clergyman;" 1835, 8vo. "Illustrations of the Bible;" 1835. 2 vols. The Romance of History;" India. "Illustrations of the five Books of Moses;" 1847. 2 vols.: and other works. For ten years, from 1830 to 1840, Mr. Caunter wrote the letterpress to "The Oriental Annual; or, Scenes of India; from Drawings, by William Daniell, R.A.", 1852. JANUARY. 1. At Halstead-place, Kent, aged 74, John George Children, esq., F.R.S., Lond. and Edinb. F.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S, DEATHS.-JAN. formerly one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society. Mr. Children was the son of George Children, esq., a bencher of the Middle Temple, and a man of large property, to which the deceased was sole heir. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He married a daughter of Governor Holwell (one of the few survivors of the Black Hole) who unfortunately died after a happy union of two years; a loss which made a great change in Mr. Children's life. He now travelled on the Continent, and in America for some years; but, returning to England, settled at his father's seat, Ferox Hall, Tunbridge. His time was now principally devoted to science, which from his early youth he had loved. Mineralogy, chemistry, and galvanism, were his favourite studies, and most of the leading men of science were his acquaintance or friends. Sir Humphry, then Mr., Davy, Mr. Hatchett, Dr. Wollaston, and many more great names of that day were among his intimate friends, and his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1807 was at once the result and the cause of increasing attachment to his scientific pursuits. Many valuable papers of this period are to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society. In 1809 he married a very amiable young lady, the eldest daughter of George Furlong Wise, esq., of Woolston, in Devonshire; but he again experienced the heaviest of all domestic calamities in losing her within eight months of their marriage. After her death, in 1810, he continued to reside chiefly with his father at Tun bridge until the year 1816, when, in consequence of the failure of the Tunbridge bank, in which his father was unhappily a partner, his prospects in life were wholly altered, and he found the necessity of seeking some honourable employment that might enable him to contribute to the comfort of his aged parent. He succeeded in obtaining the situation of one of the librarians of the British Museum, in the department of Antiquities, without relinquishing his love for chemistry. His father died in 1818. In the following year Mr. Children married the widow of the Rev. Johnson Towers, and the affectionate partner of his later years was spared to him. They resided near the British Museum, until one of the houses within the wall of that establishment fell to his lot, when they removed thither. After he had been for some years an officer of the Museum, his post was changed without his own solicitation from the Department of Antiquities to that of Natural History. This post he resigned in 1839. Besides his office in the National Museum, Mr. Children held, for many years, one of the secretaryships of the Royal Society; a position rendered as agreeable to him as it was honourable, by the regard and kindness both of his colleagues, and of the successive Presidents, and which he retained until the state of his health obliged him to relinquish it. He was at this period of his life a member of most of the scientifie bodies of Great Britain, and of some foreign societies, was very instrumental in the formation of the present Entomological Society, and became its first President. He published two chemical works, one a translation of Thenard's " Essay on Chemical Analysis," 8vo., 1819; the other of Berzelius' "Treatise on the Use of the Blowpipe," with additional experiments and notes of his own, Svo., 1822. He was one of the early editors of the Zoological Journal, and a contributor to other learned works. 1. At Buckerell Vicarage, Devonshire (the house of his brother-in-law, the Rev. E. E. Coleridge), aged 27, the Rev. Richard Patteson, late Curate of King's Cliffe, co. Northampton. He was of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A., 1847. At Brighton, aged 88, General Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, G.C.B., Colonel of the 39th Regiment of Foot. He was the fourth son of Colonel Beverley Robinson, son of John Robinson, President of the Council at Virginia, North America, of which province the Robinsons were one of the principal families. Colonel Beverley Robinson was a distinguished American loyalist, and raised and commanded the Loyal American Regiment, which performed great services to the royal cause during the war of independence, and in which young Robinson received an ensigney. He was afterwards transferred to the 17th Foot in the regular army, and in 1779 commanded a company, in the absence of his captain, at the battle of Horseneck, under General Tryron. In July, 1779, being in garrison at the post of Stoneypoint, on the Hudson River, the place was stormed at midnight by a strong force of the Americans under General Wayne, DEATHS. JAN. and after a sharp and close conflict of more than an hour, during which the young ensign was wounded in the shoulder by a musket-ball, he found himself a prisoner of war. He was released before the end of the war, and served as lieutenant in the 38th Regiment. The year 1783, which gave peace to Europe and America, destroyed the hopes of the American loyalists. They were involved in one general proscription, and were obliged to abandon their property, which was declared for feited for their attachment to the royal cause. The Robinsons were amongst these sufferers. The evacuation of New York took place in 1783-the 38th formed one of the six regiments which remained until the final embarcation, and arrived at Portsmouth, January 1784. After serving in England and Ireland during the following nine years, Lieut. Robinson embarked with his regiment at Cork on the 24th Nov. 1793, forming part of Sir Charles Grey's expedition to the West Indies. He was present at the capture of Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadaloupe, including the storming of Fleur-de-l'Epée, and the heights of Palmonte. He was promoted to a company, 3rd July, 1794, and commanded the Grenadiers until after the capture of Guadaloupe, when he returned to England on sick certificate. On the 1st Sept. 1794, Capt. Robinson was gazetted Major of the 127th Regiment, and removed to the 32nd Regiment, 1st Sept. 1795. Some time afterwards he was appointed Inspecting Field Officer at Bedford, received the rank of Lieut.-Colonel in the army, 1st Jan. 1800, and the command of the London Recruiting District, in Feb. 1802. He was actively employed in organizing and drilling the Volunteers in the metropolis. In Dec. 1803, the Bank of England Supplementary Volunteer Corps presented Lieut.-Colonel Robinson with a splendid piece of plate. In 1810 he became colonel in the army, and having from the commencement of the war in the Peninsula most earnestly desired permission to serve with the force under Wellington, his request was at length granted, and in Sept. 1812 Colonel Robinson joined the army in Spain as a Brigadier-General. On the 4th June, 1813, he became a Major-General. opportunity occurred of distinguishing himself until the action at Osona on 18th June, 1813, on which occasion his No conduct was especially noticed. On the 21st of that month the memorable battle of Vittoria took place, in which Gene ral Robinson commanded the brigade which carried the village of GamarraMayor at the point of the bayonet, under a heavy fire of artillery and mus ketry, repulsing the numerous desperate efforts of the enemy to recover it. Sir Thomas Graham (Lord Lynedoch), in his order thanking the column, states— "The attack of the village of Gamarra, by Major-General Robinson's brigade, was justly admired by all who witnessed it. Too much praise cannot be given to Major-General Robinson, and the troops of his brigade, for their persevering defence of a post so gallantly won, against the numerous artillery and great masses of infantry the enemy employed to retake it, in repeated attacks." On the 21st July, 1813, General Robinson took part in the first assault of St. Sebastian, and on the 31st August he commanded the attacking column at the second and successful assault, and was severely wounded. On the 7th of October following, the MajorGeneral was at the head of the leading column at the passage of the Bidassoa; on the 9th November was at the attack of Secoa and the Heights of Cibour; on the 10th December, at the battle of the Nive, was again severely wounded. He recovered to take part in the operations at the blockade of Bayonne, and the repulse of the sortie on 14th April, 1814, when he succeeded to the command of the fifth division. In June, 1814, the Duke of Wellington selected General Robinson to proceed, in command of a brigade, to North America. In September he commanded two brigades intended to attack the works of Plattsburg; but after having gallantly forced the passage of the Saranac, received orders from Sir George Prevost to retire. In November following he was appointed Commander-in-Chief and Provisional Governor of the Upper Provinces in Canada, which he held until June, 1816. He afterwards became Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Tobago, fulfilling the duties to the entire satisfaction of the home Government, and the inhabitants of the colony. On the 2nd Jan. 1815, General Robinson was nominated a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and he was advanced to be a Grand Cross in 1838. He attained the rank of General, 23rd |