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  alone, but in 1875 he was forced to visit the Nilgiri Hills to recruit his health, and afterwards to pay a second visit to England. He returned to Benares in 1878, and died of cholera on 10 Aug. 1880. He left issue.

He was the author of:
 * 1) ‘The Indian Church during the Great Rebellion,’ edited by Mather, London, 1859, 8vo.
 * 2) ‘Journal of Missionary Tours during 1861–2,’ Mirzapore, 1862, 8vo.
 * 3) ‘The Ancient City of the Hindoos: an Account of Benares,’ London, 1868, 8vo.
 * 4) ‘The Bhar Tribe,’ Benares, 1869, 8vo.
 * 5) ‘Hindoo Tribes and Castes,’ 1872–81, 3 vols. 4to.
 * 6) ‘The History of Protestant Missions in India,’ London, 1875, 8vo; 2nd edit. by E. Storrow, London, 1884, 8vo.
 * 7) ‘The Hindoo Pilgrims: a Poem,’ London, 1878, 8vo.
 * 8) ‘The Life and Labours of the Rev. William Smith,’ Benares, 1879, 8vo.



SHERRY or SHIRRYE, RICHARD (fl. 1550), author, was born about 1506 in the neighbourhood of London. In 1522 he became a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. on 21 June 1527 and M.A. on 10 March 1531. Whether he was a fellow is uncertain, but in 1534 he was appointed headmaster of Magdalen College school. He held this post until 1540, when he was succeeded by Goodall. Subsequently he established himself in the neighbourhood of London, and devoted himself to literary work both in the shape of original writings and of translations. He died shortly after 1555.

He was the author of:
 * 1) ‘A very fruitfull Exposition upon the Syxte Chapter of Saynte John. Written in Latin by … John Brencius and translated by Richard Shirrye,’ London, 1550, 8vo.
 * 2) ‘A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes gathered out of the best Grammarians and Oratours. … Whereunto is added a declamation … written fyrst in Latin by Erasmus,’ London, n.d. 16mo; 1550, 8vo.
 * 3) ‘St. Basill the Great his letter to Gregory Nazaanzen translated by Richard Sherrie,’ London, n.d. 8vo.
 * 4) ‘A Treatise of the Figures of Grammer [sic] and Rhetorike,’ London, 1555, 8vo.

Richard Sherry has sometimes been identified with (d. 1551), who was in 1541 archdeacon of Lewes and rector of Chailey in Sussex; he became precentor of St. Paul's, London, in 1543, and died in 1551 (, Fasti Eccles. Angl. ed. Hardy, ii. 350;, Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 189).

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SHERWEN, JOHN (1749–1826), physician and archæologist, is said to have been born in Cumberland in 1749, and to have been related to the family of Curwen. He was a pupil at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and passed as a surgeon. In 1769 he was at Acheen in Sumatra, the voyage thither from Falmouth having taken five months, and he was afterwards at Calcutta and in the Bay of Bengal. At this time he was in the service of the East India Company. In 1771 he returned to England and practised as a surgeon at Enfield in Middlesex, where he was friendly with Richard Gough, and frequently contributed to the medical journals. The titles of several of his papers are inserted in Watt's ‘Bibliotheca Britannica,’ and a silver medal for his contributions was given him by the Medical Society in March 1788.

Sherwen was admitted M.D. of Aberdeen University on 14 Feb. 1798 (, Aberdeen Graduates, 1893, p. 143), and on 4 May 1802 he became an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians in London. In 1802 he paid a visit to Paris. His first wife was Douglas, posthumous daughter of Duncan Campbell of Salt Spring, Jamaica. She visited Bath for her health, and died there on 16 June 1804, when a monument to her memory was erected in Bath Abbey. A year or two later Sherwen settled permanently in Bath, occupying 18 Great Stanhope Street, and obtaining some medical practice. He had made a patient study of the early English writers, and his library contained some rare volumes of Elizabethan literature. From 1808 to 1813 he was a frequent contributor to the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,’ mainly on the authenticity of the ‘Rowley’ poems, of the genuineness of which he was a keen advocate. He assisted Britton in his work on Bath Abbey (Preface, p. xii), and Britton dedicated to him the view of the abbey church from the south side (p. 60). Though he retained his house at Bath he made frequent trips to Enfield, and died there on 2 Sept. 1826. He married, on 12 Nov. 1807, Lydia Ann (1773–1851), daughter of the Rev. Mr. Dannett, of Liverpool.

Sherwen published in 1809 his ‘Introduction to an Examination of some part of the Internal Evidence respecting the Antiquity and Authenticity of certain Publications,’ by Rowley or Chatterton. The copy at the British Museum was corrected by him for a