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Good Earl." This was also erected during

the lifetime of the subject. On a bronze

panel in front of the pedestal is inscribed :

William Reginald

llth Earl of Devon

A tribute of respect

and affection from

many friends.

A.D. 1880.

Carved in the granite on the back are the following lines from Wordsworth :

Who, not content that former worth stand fast, Looks forward, persevering to the last. From well to better, daily self-surpast.

Concerning the choice of these lines I am allowed to make the following statement, kindly furnished to me by the Right Hon. G. W. E. Russell :

" In 1880, the late Lord Fortescue wrote to my father, Lord Charles Russell, for an inscription for the Devon statue. His reason for writing to my father was that the latter was a great Shake- spearian, with a wonderful memory for the text. Lord F. asked him if he could find in Shakespeare anything suitable to a man still living, and quoted the A eland inscription as a model. My father could find nothing very apt, and referred to me. I am not a very good Shakespearian, but im- mediately suggested those three lines from Wordsworth's ' Happy Warrior.' I remember that Lord F. wrote back approving, especially as Lord Devon was a Wordsworthian ; but till to- day I never knew that the lines had actually been inscribed."

In the Castle Yard is a marble statue of the father of the above-mentioned Earl Fortescue, Hugh, the second Earl, who died 14 September, 1861. It was erected in 1863, the sculptor being the above- mentioned Edward Bowring Stephens.

Bristol. Samuel Morley, who represented Bristol in Parliament from 1868 to 1885. is commemorated by a statue erected near the Bridge. It is the work of Mr. J. Haward Thomas, a native of Bristol, and sculptured from a single block of white Carrara marble. The statue is 8 feet high, and is placed on a red granite pedestal 10 feet high. It was unveiled by Sir Joseph Weston on 22 October, 1887.

In Colston Avenue a statue of Edmund Burke, who represented Bristol in Parlia- ment from 1774 to 1780, was unveiled by Lord Rosebery on 30 October, 1894. It was the gift of the late Lord Winterstoke (then Sir W. H. Wills), the sculptor of this also being Mr. J. Haward Thomas. On the pedestal is inscribed the following sentence from Burke' s last speech in Bristol :

I wish to be a member of Parliament, to have my share in doing good and in resisting evil.

Ripon. In the centre of the quadrangular Market Place is an obelisk 90 feet in height. It was erected in 1781 by John Aislabie, Esq., sometime Chancellor of the Exchequer and for sixty years representative in Parliament of the borough of Ripon.

Mansfield. In the Market - Place was erected in 1850 a Gothic structure com- memorative of Lord George Bentinck. It is from designs by Sir George Gilbert Scott, and contains the following inscription :

To the memory of Lord George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck second surviving son of William Henry Cavendish Scott, 4th Duke of Portland. He died the 21st of September 1848 in the 47th year of his age. His ardent patriotism and uncompromising honesty were only equalled by the persevering zeal and extraordinary talents which called forth the grateful homage of those who in erecting this memorial pay a heartfelt tribute to exertions which prematurely brought to the grave one who might long have lived the pride of this his native country.

I shall be obliged to any one who will kindly furnish particulars direct of the following memorials : Villiers, Wolver- hampton; Lewis, Hereford ; Peel, Hudders- field ; Grey, Newcastle ; Palmerston, Southampton ; Wynn, Wynnstay ; Bright, Rochdale ; Gladstone, Blackburn ; the Vivians, Swansea. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

(To be continued.)

INSCRIPTIONS IN THE PROTESTANT CATHEDRAL, GIBRALTAR.

I MAY supplement my lists of inscriptions in the Trafalgar Cemetery, Gibraltar (11 S. i. 104, 165), and in the Sandpits Cemetery there (US. ii. 423, 483), by the inscriptions in the Protestant Cathedral :

SOUTH WALL, BEGINNING AT THE EAST END.

1. Marcus Hill Bland, Esq., resident of this city for 25 years, d. at Liverpool, 28 July, 1856, a. 59.

2. The Venerable Edward John Barrow, D.D., F.R.S., Archdeacon and Civil Chaplain of Gib., d. at Honiton, Devon, 6 Aug., 1861, a. 76. Civil Chaplain from 1835, Archd. from 1842.

3. Anne Theresa Elizabeth, w. of the Hon. Sir James Cochrane, Chief Justice of Gib., b. Feb. 16, 1806, d. Dec. 26, 1873 ; bur. at the Sand- pits Cemetery.

4. General Sir George Don, G.C.B., G.C.H., G.C.M.M., Col. of the 3rd Begt., and Governor of Scarborough Castle, after 60 years' service, d. 1 Jan., 1832, a. 76, having been entrusted by his Sovereign through a series of 39 years with many high commands. He was Lieut.-Governor of Gib. for 17 years.

5. General Sir Lothian Nicholson, K.C.B., R.E., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar,