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1758, she married Sir Henry Echlin, Bart. from whom she was soon separated, and became notorious for her indiscretions. The newspapers and magazines of the period seem to place her in the same category as Kitty Fisher.

Mr. John Robinson of Newcastle-on-Tyne, the editor of the ' Delaval Papers,' possesses (according to Hist. MSS. Com. 13 Report, Appendix, pt. vi. 202) a French MS. entitled ' An Account of the Family, Life, and Mis- fortunes of Miss Roach.' Perhaps this gentleman can give us some more particulars about Lady Echlin and her sister, Mrs. Quon or Quane. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

SONG WANTED (12 S. i. 189). I heard the Rev. H. W. Bretherton sing this song as a schoolboy at Rugby about 1872.

PRIVATE H. W. FOWLER,

3433, 23rd Royal Fusiliers. France.

I append the first of eight verses. The title of the song is * The Old Bachelor,' and 1 think it could easily be obtained through any musicseller. If not, I have no doubt Messrs. Pitman & Co., 20 Paternoster Row, E.C., would supply it for a few. pence : When I was a schoolboy aged ten, Oh ! mighty little Greek I knew, With my short striped trousers, and now and then With stripes upon my jacket too ! When other boys to the playground ran I threw my old Gradus by, And left the task I had scarce begun : " There'll be time enough for that," said I.

WM. H. PEET.

This is the song called ' The Old Bachelor,' by Thomas H. Bayly (1797-1839), a well- known writer, many of his ballads being very popular in the Early Victorian period. There are nine verses to the song eight concluding as quoted, but the ninth refrain is :

" There's no time to be lost," say I.

If M.D. cannot procure a copy, I would lend mine if required. W. H. WICKES. 16 Oakfield Grove, Clifton.

ROWLAND HILL (12 S. i. 189). -Surrey Chapel has not been demolished. It still stands at the corner of Charlotte Street, Blackfriars Road, but is known as the Ring a boxing theatre and cinema palace com- bined. The Rev. Rowland Hill, who died in the parsonage house adjoining on April 11, 1833, was buried under the pulpit. The congregation migrated, under the pastorate of the late Dr. Newman Hall, to Christ Church, Westminster Bridge Road, on

July 4, 1876. The Primitive Methodists took over the remainder of the lease of Surrey Chapel, and remained there until March 20, 1881. The chapel then ceased to be used for religious worship, and the remains of the Rev. Rowland Hill were removed on April 14, 1881, to Christ Church, where they now remain. Surrey Chapel was opened on June 8, 1783, built for a congregation of 2,500 persons, and Rowland Hill's ministry there lasted fifty years.

R. S. PENGELLY.

[MB. WILLIAM DOUGLAS who mentions that Surrey Chapel before becoming "The Ring" was used for some years as an ironmongery store and MR. ALAN STEWART thanked for replies.]

CHANELHOUSE : ION : ORMONDY : TWISA- DAY (12 S. i. 207). Chanelhouse seems to be a common surname in the country round Ulverstone. It, with the variants Chanon- house, Chanonhowse, Channelhouse, Charnel- house, occurs, according to Bardsley and Ayre (' Ulverston Parish Registers,' Ulvers- ton, 1886), 109 times in the Ulverston Registers. It does not seem to be common elsewhere. A Wm. Channelhouse went from Pennington (where it seems to be the name of a locality as Challin hose, Challin house, Chanan house, Chanen house, Channan house, Channell house, Chann house, Chanom house, Chanonehouse, Chanon house, Channonn house) to Cartmel to be confirmed, July 23, 1725 (Brierley's ' Pen- nington Registers ') ; and Hester Chanell- house, daughter of John of Egton, was christened at Urswick, Oct. 29, 1650 (Brierley's ' Urswick Registers '). There is an interesting note on the name in Bardsley's ' History of Surnames,' in which he says that it is local, and derived from the house iii Pennington which was the residence of the Canon of Conishead Priory, who undertook the parochial charge of the church at Pennington.

Ion is a less common name near Ulverston* It occurs only three times in the Ulverston Registers, and two of these have reference to people from Torver. There it is commoner and sometimes spelt lyon. It occurs thirty- one times in the Parish Registers (Brierley's ' Torver Registers '), and four times in the- Registers of Kirkby Ireleth (Brierley's ' Kirkby Ireleth Registers '). The name, however, seems more widely spread. Five- persons of the name, all, it would seem, from Westmorland, have been members of this College, two of them fellows ; and Bardsley ('Dictionary of Surnames ') has found Ions in Cambridgeshire, London, and Cumberland, as well as at Ulverston.