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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 & i. MAE. 25, uu

DR. RUTHEBFOBD.

Newcastle-on-Tyne. A fine drinking foun- "tain erected from designs by C. S. Errington in St. Nicholas Square was unveiled by Joseph Cowen on Sept. 12, 1894. In 190 lit was removed to its present position in Bigg Market. It is 21 ft. high, and octagonal throughout, being executed in Dumfries stone with a red granite basin. On the main panels of the superstructure are shields bearing the arms of Northumberland, Durham, Newcastle, and Gateshead, the alternating sides containing monograms and mottoes, also on shields. Above this is a richly carved entablature, on the frieze of -which is inscribed :

" Erected by the Band of Hope Uni-jn in memory of Dr. J. H. Rutherford, A.D. 1891."

'This is surmounted by a dome and wrought - iron finial. Below the basin on the two principal sides are the following inscrip- tions :

" Presented to the City and unveiled by Joseph Cowen, Esq., September 12th, 1894. Stephen Quin, Esq., Mayor."

" This fountain was removed from St. Nicholas Square and re-erected in the Bigg Market by the Corporation of Newcastle, A.D. 1901. John Seattle, Esq., Mayor."

COMMANDEB CALDEB.

Belfast. In the High Street was erected in 1859 a drinking-fountain, inscribed as follows :

Front. " Erected by public subscription as a memorial of the labours, of Francis Anderson Calder, Commander R.N., in the cause of humanity, and to whom is to be attributed, between the years 1843 and 1855, the erection of ten water- troughs for the use of cattle in Belfast. ' The righteous man regard eth the life of his beast.' A.D. 1859."

Back. " Erected by public subscription in commemoration of Francis Anderson Calder, ommander R.N., founder of the Belfast Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and for twenty years its active secretary. ' Blessed ,re the merciful.' A.D. 1859."

SIMON SHOBT.

Bristol. On Sept. 13, 1902, a drink- ing-fountain was unveiled in Hotwells. It is 12 ft. high, sexagonal in shape, and is mainly constructed of Peterhead granite, being surmounted with a foliated and perforated metal canopy supported on six columns. On one of the six faces is fixed a bronze medallion portrait of Simon Short. The following inscription is contained on a bronze plate :

" To commemorate the life work of Simon Short, who for over half a century, as Seamen's Missionary in this port, and Superintendent of

the ' Bethel ' ship, and as the pioneer of the Cocoa Rooms and Coffee Tavern movement, devotedly laboured for the people's welfare. This fountain is presented to his native city by many of his fellow citizens and members of the National Temperance Caterers' Association."

HENBY DUNCAN.

Dumfries. In a niche on the Savings Bank in this town is placed a statue of Dr. Duncan, designed by Currie. A tablet below it is thus inscribed :

Henry Duncan. D.D.

1774-1846.

Founder of Savings Banks 1810.

SIB GEOBGE LIVESEY.

London. On Dec. 8, 1911, Earl Grey unveiled a statue of Sir George Livesey, erected in front of the offices of the South Metropolitan Gas Co. in the Old Kent Road. It was subscribed for by the shareholders and 6,000 of the workmen. The late pioneer of Co-partnership is represented in a charac- teristic and natural attitude, wearing a morning coat, and holding his hat in his right hand. The statue is of bronze on a plain stone pedestal.

(See also 11 S. v. 146, 233.)

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

(To be continued.)

TBESCO ABBEY, SCILLY, the seat of Thomas Algernon Smith-Dorrien-Smith,Esq., >eems to have been misnamed, as there never was an abbey on the island. According to Kelly's ' Directory of Cornwall ' (1914), at p. 323 : " The isles of Scilly were in 936 granted by Athelstan to some monks who settled at Tresco." These monks appear to have been rather hermits. Davies Gilbert, in his * Parochial History of Cornwall,' vol. iv. p. 169, quotes the grant of the islands of Scilly by Henry I. to the Benedictine Abbey of Tavistock, as follows :

" Sciatis me dedisse in perpetuam elemosinam Osberto Abbati et Ecclesise de Tavystok, et Turoldo Monacho sao, omnes Ecclesias de Sullye cum pertinentiis suis, et terrain sicut unquam Monachi aut Heremiice melius earn tenuerunt tempore Regis Edwardi et Burgaldi Episcopi Cornegallise."

Gilbert also quotes a gift to the monks of Scilly by Reginald de Dunstanville, Earl of Cornwall, illegitimate son of King Henry I., of all wreck excepting whales and any whole ship, on the islands which they hold, viz., Rentemen, Nurcho, St. Elidius, St. SamDSon, and St. Teona.