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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1911,.

CONTENTS. No. 256.

NOTES : The Rev. John Kempthorne, D.D., 401 Holcroft Bibliography, 403 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 405 Spy shot at the Tower of London Inscriptions at Cadenabbia Sponge Cake Vanishing City Land- marks, 407 " Any " : its Pronunciation Dictum attributed to Lord Fisher Dr. Edmond Bailey's Ancestry, 408.

QUERIES: Modern Advocate of Druidism Warrington : Poem Wanted Author Wanted : " A man of the world " William Parker, Lord Morley and Mont/eagle, 408 " Hielanman ! Hielanman ! " Murphy and Flynn Ger- man Street- Names Robert Leyborne Bishop Henry Ryder Biographical Information Wanted Cotterell and its Variants Dickens and Wooden Legs Prints in 1837 : " Protean Scenery," 409 Przemysl : Language of Oalicia Eighteenth-Century Marriages : Scotland and Ireland " Table of Peace "Old Etonians Robinson of H in ton Abbey, 410.

BEPLIES : Groom of the Stole, 410 " Sparrowgrass," 411 " Kultur" Author and Correct Version Wanted Voltaire in London Mourning Letter-Paper, 412 Floral Emblems of Countries " Mid - Keavel " Periodicals published by Religious Houses, 413 Rectors of Upham and Durley The Original of 'Aladdin ' Wilkes and Lord Thurlow, 414 Earls of Derwentwater Avanzino or Avanzini De Bruxelles and d'Anvers, 415 Walter Scott Old Charing Cross " Boches," 416 Gothic Mason- Sculptors France and England Quarterly, 417 Cross- legged Effigies The Apocrypha : Story of Judith "Brother Johannes "Will of Mary Kinderley : Peter Pegge-Burnell ' Chickseed without Chickweed,' 418.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'The Titled Nobility of Europe' ' Berkeley and Percival ' ' The Scottish Historical Review.'

Notices to Correspondents.

THE REV. JOHN KEMPTHORNE, B.D.

THE family of Kempthorne derives its name from an ancient estate in the parish of Clawton, co. Devon, which about the beginning of the fifteenth century passed to a younger branch of the Leys of Beer Ferrers, who settled at Kempthorne, and whose descendants in course of time wrote them- selves Ley, Ley alias Kempthorne, or Kemp- thorne only (Sir John Maclean, ' History of Trigg Minor,' 1873).

John Kempthorne, hymn -writer, the sub- ject of these notes, was born at Helston, 24 June, 1775, being the eldest son of Admiral James Kempthorne of Helston, and Eleanor, daughter of the Rev. Sampson Sandys of Lanarth, St. Keverne. He was educated at Helston and Truro Grammar Schools. At Truro he met Henry Martyn (1781-1812), and the friendship then formed remained during college life and in after years. A

notice of Martyn in The Eagle (December, 1912, p. 95) states that he

" was attracted to Cambridge by Kempthorne, who had been his protector at school and had just [1796] distinguished himself at St. John's College, coming out Senior Wrangler."

In the ' Life ' of Henry Martyn by J. Sargent (1819) there are several references to the religious influence which Kempthorne had on him during his early years ; in these his friend is referred to as " K." Kemp- thorne was elected a Fellow of St. John's in March, 1796. He was ordained deacon 25 April, 1802, and married, on 8 June following, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Richard Whish, Rector of Northwold, Nor- folk. Shortly after he held a curacy at Langford, Essex, where his first two children were born in 1803 and 1804.

In 1806 or 1807 he became curate of Claybrooke, Leicestershire, and in the latter year took the degree of B.D. Henry Ryder, successively Bishop of Gloucester (1815-24) and of Lichfield and Coventry (1824-36), was Vicar of Claybrooke from 1806 to c. 1808, and to him Kempthorne must have owed much of his preferment in later years. The inscription on the memorial tablet in Gloucester Cathedral bears testimony to the friendship between them. His removal to Gloucestershire was due to the Bishop's influence, for in ' The Pastor's Parting Appeal,' a farewell sermon preached at Clay- brooke on Sunday, 16 June, 1816, Kemp- thorne speaks of having ministered in the parish for the space of nearly nine years, and says that his removal (to Northleach)

" resulted from the proposal and request of one, whose long - continued goodness to me would have given him a right to command what he requested. .. .who, though he has resigned his charge over you, has not ceased to care and to pray for you .... Nor have I undertaken the new and arduous trust in his service, to which he has invited. . . .me, without solemn hesitation."

He was instituted to the vicarage of Northleach 27 July, 1816, and to Preston 4 Oct., 1817. The latter was resigned in 1820. Kempthorne, in the letter printed below, writes of "Preston Vicarage"; and though I have not been able to trace certainly that this would be Preston, near Ledbury (in the deanery of the Forest), I am strongly of opinion that it is. In the same letter he says he could not officiate at Pres- ton personally ; and through the kindness of the present incumbent of Preston, Ledbury, the Rev. Clement W. Dixon, I learn that all the entries in the registers there during the years 1817-20 are signed by those who style themselves, " curate.' 5 Also, in the ' Clerical