This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...to have fallen a victim to his exertions during the cholera.--At Washington, commodore Isaac Chauncey, of the American navy, well known for his intrepidity in the war of 1S1.'), on the Canadian Lakes, against the British forces. He was president of the Board of Navy commissioners.--At Coward college, Torringtonsquare, aged 58, the rev. Thomas Morell, late Theological tutor of the college, well known by his useful contrihutions to educational literature.--At Dublin, lady Tynte (Caldwell), widow, first, of sir Charles Tynte, hart, and, secondly, of the late Fitzmaurice Caldwell, esq. brother of the late sir John Caldwell, bart. APRIL. 2. At Dr. Stillwell's lunatic asylum, near Uxbridge, aged 77, Granville William Wheeler Medhurst, esq. of Medhurst-hall, Yorkshire. He had been in confinement from the year 1800, when he was tried at York assizes for the murder of his wife, and acquitted on the plea of insanity. His fortune (said to amount to 7000/. per annum, devolved on his grandson, Francis Hastings Medhurst, who at the time of his graudfather's death was under sentence of imprisonment for the manslaughter of his schoolfellow Joseph Alsop, at Hayes, on the 9th March, 1839. 4. At Cambridge, aged 22, accidentally, in endeavouring to save a fellowcollegian from drowning, Temple Frere, esq. of Trinity college, eldest son of the rev. Temple Frere, prebendary of Westminster. 6. Near Cadiz, after a long illness, aged 43, the rev. Henry Rycroft, a prebendary of Lincoln, brother to sir Ri. chard C. H. Rycroft, bart.--At Stanhope-lodge, near Hanwell, lieut.-gen. sir William Thornton, K.C.B. colonel of the 85lh foot. 7. Aged 75, Abraham Bagnell, esq. M.D. the oldest physician in Bristol, a man of considerable literary attainments.--At Hanbury-hall, Jessie Anna Letitia, ... |