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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. vi. AUG. si, 1912.

" aeroplane " ? Aer is Greek as well as Latin, and plane is perfectly good Greek ; in- deed, Liddell and Scott give the very word aepoVAavos as found in Hesychius. Has the Professor confused the latter half with the Latin planus ? W. E. B.

COL. LOWTHEE, 1739 (11 S. vi. 131). The Lowther referred to by W. S. is almost certainly the Hon. Anthony Lowther, third son of John, first Viscount Lonsdale, some- time a captain in the Guards, and afterwards one of the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland. He was M.P. for Cockermouth 1714-22, and for Westmorland 1722-41. He died, unmarried, 24 Dec., 1741. He was the lover of Miss Sophia Howe.

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

HENRY HUNT PIPER (11 S. vi. 129). He was Unitarian minister at Norton, near Sheffield, for about forty years, and then at Banbury, and was brother-in-law to Sir John Bowring. He published in 1852 ' The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England adapted for General Use in other Protestant Churches.' All the creeds and everything in support of the divinity of Christ were excluded ; but in 1853 a second edition was published containing the Apostles' Creed. The book was sup- pressed very soon after publication. It was attributed to Chevalier Bunsen, and was said to have been issued with the sanc- tion of the Prince Consort ; but in a letter in The Pall Mall Gazette, written by Basil Pickering, son of the publisher of the work, the real author was stated to be Henry Hunt Piper, a Unitarian minister. Piper died at Hampstead, 13 Jan., 1864, aged 82.

FREDERIC BOASE.

A notice of Henry Hunt Piper appears in ' Chantrey Land : an Account of the North Derbyshire Village of Norton,' by Harold Armitage, and published by Messrs Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. The biography of Piper begins on p. 304.

D. B. M.

Upon seeing the query of the RIGHT HON G. W. E. RUSSELL, I communicated with the British and Foreign Unitarian Associa tion (Essex Hall, Essex Street, Strand, London, W.C.), and received the following very courteous and kindly reply, datec 20 Aug., 1912 :

" In reply to yours of yesterday's date, the only information we can find concerning the Rev. H. H. Piper is that he .was minister o

he Norton Church from 1805 to 1843, and of Ban- ury Church from 1843 to 1853. We can find 10 record of his departure from Banbury, so- whether he died or removed we are unable to say. ^here are one or two references to him in The Christian Reformer of 1853. If you wish to see his, you could probably borrow it from Dr- ^Villiams's Library, Gordon Square, W.C."

RONALD DIXON. 46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

" ACCORDING TO COCKER " (11 S. vi. 90). I cannot actually answer this query, but

append certain particulars as to Edward docker which may be considered note- worthy :

Cocker, Edward, b. 1631, d. 1677 ; St. Paul's Churchyard, Gutter Lane, near Cheap- side. Works : 1657, ' Plumse Triumphus. or the Pen's Triumph ' ; 1657, ' Pen's Transcendencie, or Fair Writing's Laby- rinth ' ; 1659, ' The Artist's Glory, or the Penman's Treasure'; 1661, ' Penna Volans ' ; 1664, ' Guide to Penmanship ';. 1668, ' England's Penman,' &c. (brass plates) ; 1672, ' The Pen's Perfection ' [engraved on silver plates) ; 1677, ' Vulgar Arithmetic ' (according to Cocker). Fine writing engraver. JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

THE ROYAL GEORGE : NAME or DURHAM (11 S. vi. 110). Lieut. Philip Charles Calderwood Durham, who was one of those- saved when the Royal George went down, was the third son of James Durham of Largo, Fifeshire. He became a distinguished naval officer, and was commander of the Defiance at Trafalgar, when he was wounded. He was promoted to the rank of flag-officer in 1810, and soon afterwards was appointed Commander-in-Chief at the Leeward Islands. In 1815 he was nominated a K.C.B., and in 1817 he was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral. He was M.P. for Queens- borough in 1830, and for Devizes in 1837. He succeeded his brother, General James Durham of Largo, in 1840, and died in 1845. See Conolly's ' Eminent Men of Fife ' and Anderson's ' Scottish Nation.'

THOMAS BAYNE.

W T EATHERRIME;(H S. vi. 48, 116). I think the line necessary to complete the fragment may be

Dry May brings nothing gay.

If your correspondent does not already know it, he will, I feel sure, be interested in ' Weather Lore,' by Edward Inwards, F.R.A.S., published by Elliot Stock (3rd ed., 1898). A. C. C.