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Herts. From 1868 to 1872 he was chaplain at Malta, and from 1872 to 1884 at Palermo, and Canon of Gibraltar from 1868 to his death. The year 1838 is given as the date at which his first volume of poems was published. Mr. Boase refers to The Times of 3 Oct., 1892, p. 9.

In Samuel Waddington's ' Arthur Hugh Clough,' 1883. chap, iv., Burbidge is de- scribed as dough's " early friend and school- fellow. . . .now the Rev. Canon Burbidge, LL.D., Chaplain at Palermo, the Sicilian Shepherd referred to in some of dough's Oxford letters." EDWARD BENSLY.

Thomas Burbidge, whose * Poems ' were published in 1838, and who collaborated with A. H. Clough in ' Ambarvalia,' was born, I believe, at Leicester, where his parents were living during his schooldays. His father was, I think,' Town Clerk 'of Leicester. Thomas Burbidge went to Rueby School, and there formed a lasting friend- ship w T ith Clough, who came to stay with him at Leicester in 1835, and who wrote to him some of his published letters. He took Holy Orders, and I have heard that he died in Italy. CHARLES J. BILLSON.

The Priory, Martyr- Worthy, Winchester.

THE LORD OF BURLEIGH AND SARAH HOGGINS (US. viii. 6, 319, 394). The expe- dition referred to would be probably that to Walcheren in August, 1809, under Lord Chatham, which ended most disastrously.

The well-known epigram,

The Earl of Chatham with his sword drawn Was waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em. Was waiting for the Earl of Chatham,

explains that the failure was due to the want of co-operation between the commanders.

Capt. Thomas Hoggins was buried 11 Jan., 1810, at Brabourne, under the coroner's warrant dated 10 Jan. See ' History of the S5th Regiment,' by C. R, B. Barrett.

R. J. FYNMORE. [W. B. H. also thanked for reply.]

DIVINATION BY TWITCHING (11 S. viii. 187, 237, 273, 417). I lately came upon the following in a MS. written about 1710 by a Dumbartonshire minister. It is headed ' Observes on my Own Life.' The whole paragraph is worth quoting, though the con- struction is somewhat loose :

"I am conscious to myself that I am as little

fven to superstition as any man living, but this must declare, and I do it upon the sincerity of an honest man, that since ever I began to reflect

and make observes, I have found that the itching of my right eyebrowes have proved an indication to me that I was shortly to meet with or hear of something that would prove vexing to me, but what I was thus warned of, and 1 heartily thank God for it, because I have been often thereby put upon prayer to God for patience and composure of spirit as have been heard in that I feared."

A. W. ANDERSON.

WESTON FAMILY, FARNBOROUGH, BERK- SHIRE (11 S. viii. 390). The Bishop of Exeter was said by tradition among his descendants to have been nearly related to Richard Weston, first Earl of Portland.

A. R. BAYLEY.

PICTURE-CARDS (11 S. viii. 408). The picture-card of to-day is the picture postcard, which was not known to Charles Dickens. The ' X.E.D.' notices its first appearance :

" 1904, Daily Chronicle, 15 April, 4/7. There has been some discussion of late as to who invented the picture postcard, and the fad has been traced back to a German it is said in 187-."

The picture-card Dickens was thinking of was the court card in a pack of cards, as in

' Oliver Twist,' xxv. : "He offered to cut

any gentleman. . . .for the first picture card at a shilling a time." The author, in his other novels, uses "knowing card," and "old card." Perhaps some readers nave appre- ciated Sam Weller's humour in addressing Mr. Pickwick as "an old picture-card."

TOM JONES.

Whatever may be the primary meaning now, surely in 1837 picture-cards meant court cards, and not picture postcards.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION : JAMES MORGAN (11 S. viii. 389). A baptism is recorded at St. Anne's, Soho, Westminster, of one James Morgan, son of James and Ann, 24 Dec., 1710 (born 11 Dec.). In the year 1767 James Morgan was Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn. He married at Stratfield- Mortimer, 14 April, 1737, Katherine, eldest daughter of Charles Parry (d. 1730), and coheir of her brother Charles (d. 1740) of Oakfield, Berks. All their children (except the two eldest, Charles, b. 1738, and George, b. 1739) were baptized at St. Andrew's, Holborn, their residence being in Warwick Court. In 1754 James Morgan inherited considerable property in Carmarthenshire, including Abercothi, in Llanegwad parish, under the will, dated 1 743, of Erasmus Lewis. He married a second wife named Hannah ; dated his will 19 June, 1771, describing