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 12 S. VI. MARCH, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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WAINEWRIGHT. He does not appear in the list of vicars of Boxgrove. Thos. Boxfeld was vicar in 1523 and the next name is John Hull resigned in 1612, so that he might well occur between the two dates. The list is evidently not complete

CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

NEWTON, R.A. : PORTRAITS WANTED (12 S. v. 236, 277). The following portraits by Gilbert Stuart Newton, R.A., were ex- hibited at the Royal Academy in the years stated :

1818. Portrait of himself.

1819. T. Palmer, Esq.

1822. Washington Irving, Esq.

1824. T. Moore, Esq.

1825. Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 1832. Lady Mary Fox.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

ST. CASSIAN (12 S. iii. 473 ; iv. 28). The cathedral at Imola in North Italy is dedicated to the saint. JOHN B. WAINWRIGHT.

" EPATER LE BOURGEOIS " (12 S. vi. 11). Is this not a paraphrase of the famous saying attributed to Baudelaire by Th. de Banville on the occasion of his visit to a government official to solicit help for a friend in distress. The official was amia- bility itself to Baudelaire, but could not restrain himself from asking one question :

''Je voudrais savoir ponrquoi avec votre magnifique talent, avec ce don que vous avez de creer 1'harmonie et de susciter la plus puissante illusion, vous choisissez des sujets s>i

" Si quoi ?" dernanda froidement Baudelaire.

"Mais," reprit le fonctionnaire, "si atroces ! '

Et se reprenant aussitob : " Je veux dire si peu

aimables."

" Monsieur," dit le poete d'une voix aiguisee et coupaute comme le tranchant d'un glaive, "c'est pour etonner les sots ! "

I have always thought that the phrase epater le bourgeois originated in this way, and do so still. W. A. HUTCHISON.

32 Hotham Road, Putney, S.W.

EDMUND UVEDALE (12 S. v. 316). MR. WILLIAMS asks if there is a place in the family pedigree connected with Dr. Robert Uvedale, the seventeenth-century botanist alluded to at 12 S. ii. 361 et seq., for an Edmund Uvedale, who was appointed an officer (cornet ?) in Harrington's 13th Regi- ment of Dragoon in 1710/11. May I, as the writer of the articles upon Dr. Robert Uvedale, tell MR. WILLIAMS all I can first xvpon the matter ?

In the Uvedale" pedigree given in Hut chins' s ' History of Dorset ' (3rd ed.,

vol. iii., p. 144), the name of Edmund appear* several times ; but, with the exception of the two I will presently mention, these occurences are at too early a date to make it possible that they can refer to a person joining the army in 1710.

With regard to the two others these also partake more or less of some improbability as to either of them being the Edmund Uvedale inquired after by your correspon- dent. They were Edmund Uvedale, born in 1671, the son of William Uvedale, who died in 1679, and Edmund Uvedale, the youngest brother of the botanist himself r who was born in 1653. The former, there- fore, would have been about 39 years of age, and the latter about 57 in 1710. I think the latter must be considered out of the running ; whilst the age of the former must be excep- tionally high at which to join the army as a^ cornet.

Nothing is stated in Hutchins as to whether either of these two persons married or not, so it is quite possible, of course, that the Edmund Uvedale of 1710 may have been a son of the Edmund who was born in 1653. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

THE REV. AARON BAKER (7 S. xii. 407). From family papers and some recent in- quiries I am able to answer this query, and to sort out the seven of these names, who' are to be found in Foster's ' Alumni Oxon.'

Aaron Baker (1), after whom all the others were named, was a native of Alphing- ton, near Exeter, who acquired a con- siderable fortune' in the East India trade. He purchased Bowhay in the adjacent parish of Exminster, died there in 1683 r aged 73, and was buried at Dunchideock. His co -heiresses were Ann, married to Daniel Michell, who succeeded him at Bowhay, and Mary, married to Edward Cheeke. He left his study of printed books- to the Rev. Aaron Baker, son of his brother John. This nephew,

Aaron Baker (2), was M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford, and Rector of West Alvington, Devon, 1679 until his death in 1729. He had four sons, Aaron, George, John, and Anthony, three of whom were of Wadham College, and George of King's College, Cambridge. The eldest son,

Aaron Baker (3) was at Eton College, 1696 ; M.A. of Wadham, 1707 ; and a barrister-at-law. He lived at OxfordTand, had two sons, Aaron and John, both, born there. The eldest son,

Aaron Baker (4), was M.A. of Pembroke College, 1736 ; and Vicar of Altarnon,,