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She died at Upper Church Street, Bath, on 8 Jan., 1801, and Bain then moved to London. ' Their issue was one son and two daughters. ; The son, John Rodbard Bain (b. 18 March, | 1794), was the - Bain who left West- minster School in 1810 (Barker and Stenning, ' West. School Reg.,' p. 12), and matricu- lated from Christ Church, Oxford, on 23 Dec., 1811. His degrees were B.A. 6 Dec., 1815, and M.A. 11 March, 1819. He was ordained in the English Church, and was instituted, on the nomination of the Bishop of Salisbury, on 21 Jan., 1819, to the desirable rectory of Winfrith New- burgh in Dorset, about five miles from his father's seat.

On the evening of the 9th of July, 1820, he and his two sisters, with William Baring, M.P. (fourth son of Sir Francis Baring), then residing at Lulworth Castle, and his wife, walked from the castle to Arish Mell gap on the sea-coast. The sea was calm, and the two men embarked in a small boat belong- ing to Baring. When about a hundred yards from the shore they attempted to change places in the boat, but it over- turned, and they were drowned within the sight of the three women. A tablet to Baring's memory is in the church of East Lulworth. Bain was buried at Winfrith Newburgh on 14 July, 1820, and a tablet to him was placed in the church, on the north wall of the chancel.

The afflicted father never got over the shock. He died at Heffleton on 29 April, 1827, and was buried at Winfrith New- burgh on 5 May. A tablet, the inscription on which was written by Dr. Howley, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, is next that of his son. Both tablet and register record that he was in his sixtieth year at the time of his death, but that seems hardly compatible with the date of his degree. Sympathetic letters from the Princess Sophia Matilda and Tom Moore on the doctor's death are printed in Fitz- gerald's ' Sheridans,' ii. 281.

A half-length portrait, by Sir Thomas La \vivnce, of the son is at Heffleton. He is I 1 - 'I uvsented in a blue coat with brass buttons, and wearing a white cravat, and about the ji-tical building in the background are appa- rently those of Westminster Abbey. There i- also at Heffleton a portrait of Dr. Bain \\hni approaching fifty. It is the work of an unknown artist, whom he attended without taking any fee.
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Bain's elder daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married at Wool, on 6 Aug., 1828, as his second wife, James Chamness Fyler. She

died at Heffleton on 7 June, 1857 ; and he died there on 24 Feb., 1858. The Heffleton estate was her share of the property. The second daughter, Sarah Frances, married (1) the Rev. Henry Magan, and had one son, who died in infancy ; and (2) Thomas Hawkesworth, by whom she had one son and two daughters. She inherited her mother's property at Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, and died more than twenty years ago.

See Munk's ' Physicians,' 2nd ed., iii. 116 ; Sichel's ' Sheridan,* ii. 221, 223, 380, 386, 436, 438 ; Gent. Mag., 1801, pt. i. 94 ; 1809, pt. ii. 1228 ; 1820, pt. i. 94 ; 1827, pt. i. 476 ; Hutchins, ' Dorset, 2 3rd ed., i. 418-19, 443, 446 ; Foster, ' Alumni Oxon.' ; and John Taylor, 'Records of My Life,* ii. 178, 204-6. Taylor mentions that Dr. Bain's sister married Hardie, an official in the East India House. Soon after his retirement on a hand- some pension, he slipped on some stairs,, fell backwards, and was killed on the spot. I am also indebted for information to the Rev. S. W. Nash, Rector of Winfrith New- burgh. W. P. COURTNEY.

STOTHARD'S VISIT TO ITALY.

I DO not find from the notice of T. Stothard in the ' D.N.B.,* or elsewhere, any recog- nition of the fact that he visited Italy perhaps an important omission. As it may be well to put a few details on record con- cerning his journey, I venture to append the following from a MS. diary of his, in my possession.

Stothard left London on 27 March, 1824, lodged at Quillay's Hotel in Calais, and next day visited Dessein's Hotel in order to see the room once occupied by Sterne. Leaving for Paris, where he arrived on 5 April ( ?), he visited Abbeville and Beauvais, looking in at the famous cathedral of the latter town to admire the rich "stained- glass windows," but was much ** interrupted by filthy beggars.'*

In Paris he visited the ruins of the Bastille, Pere la Chaise, and the Opera Comique, where he witnessed a performance of ' Blaise et Babet l and ' La Neige.* " The dancing, dresses, and decorations are very splendid." Thence he went by diligence to Dijon, where he slept one night, and remarks that the cathedral has been much injured during the late revolution. From Poligny he began to ascend the snowy Jura, with the aid of seven horses, which rested at ' ' Cham- pagnole." He breakfasted next day at St. Laurent. Thence the journey was con- tinued in sledges to Geneva. Here he was