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donderry, was M.D.Edin. 1862, M.R.C.S. Eng. 1861, L.M. 1863, L.A.H.I. 1862, also L.M.Edin. and Rotunda Lying-in Hospital, Dublin. He studied at Edinburgh University, Trinity College, Dublin, and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. James T. L. Carson resided at The Diamond, Coleraine, co. Londonderry ; he was M.D. and C.M. of Glasgow University 1837, L.A.H.I. 1841, and L M. Anglesey Hospital, Dublin. He was physician and surgeon to the Workhouse Infirmary and Fever Hospital, certifying factory surgeon for Coleraine, and medical examiner to twenty-five assurance companies. He was the author of 'The Form of the Horse,' 'Capital Punishment is Murder Legalised,' 'The Fundamental Principles of Phrenology in Regard to the Immortality of the Soul,' and five works on religious subjects. William Carson resided at Ardmayle Vicar- age, Cashel ; he was B.A. T.C.D., M.D.Glas- gow 1842, F.R.C.S.I. 1846, L.R.C.S.L and L.M. 1841, Lie. Pharm. 1841, and a member of the Royal Surgical Society of Ireland. He was formerly medical superintendent to the Trillick and Lisbellaw Dispensaries and the Clabby and Lisbellaw Fever Hospitals. Richard B. Carson was staff assistant-surgeon in the army in 1870, he was M.B.DubHn 1857, and M.R C.S.Eng. 1858. William Carson was Deputy Inspector-General of Army Hospitals (retiring on half-pay about forty years ago) ; he was L.R.C.S.Edin. 1834, M.D.Edin. 1835. The whole of these erst- while medicos are now deceased. The Rev Alexander Carson, M.A. T.C.D., was curate of St. Simon's, Kensington, up to 1898. The Rev. Robert Burton Carson, M.A. T.C D resided up to 1899 in Switzerland. He was formerly vicar of Haynes, Beds. The Rev Thomas Carson, M.A., St. Peter's College, Cambridge, was appointed rector of Seaming, Norfolk, in 1848. These clerical gentlemen are also dead.

The Rev. Alfred Carson, B.A. T.C.D., is incumbent of Drumholm, co. Donegal he was ordained by the Bishop of Down in 1899. The Rev. Charles Oliver Carson, B. A., Bishop's College, Lennoxvilie, Ontario, Canada is the rector of Osnabruck Centre, diocese of Ottawa I he Rev. James Carson, M.A. TCD was ordained by the Bishop of Killaloe in'l857 he is the rector of Newton-in-Makerfield -Lanes. The Rev. John Carson, B.A. B.D. I T.C.D., resides at 4, Herbert Place, Dublin and up to 1900 was curate of St. Mark's,' Uubhn ; he was ordained by the Bishop of Cashel in 1892. The Rev. Robert James l Carbon was ordained in 1896 by the Bishop of Toronto ; up to 1902 he was a missionary

at Havelock, Ontario. The Rev. Trevor Joseph Hamilton Carson, M.A. Ch. Coll. Cantab., was ordained by the Bishop of Liver- pool in 1887, and is now the vicar of West Thurrock with Purfleet, Essex. The Rev. William James Carson, of Warrninster, Ontario, was ordained by the Bishop of Toronto in 1902, and is now a missionary at Medonte, in the diocese of Toronto. The Rev. Gustavus Carson, A.K.C. 1856, was late vicar of St. Augustine's, Everton, Liverpool. The Rev. Hugh Henderson Carson, M.A. Glasgow 1848, was late vicar of Gweedore, Ireland ; and the Rev. William Carson, L.Th. St. Bees 1866, late vicar of St. Philip's, Bradford.

There are twenty-three authors of the name of Carson in the Catalogue of the Library of the British Museum ; perhaps the most interesting works to your correspondent H. C. C. will be ' Memorials of the Family of A. Carson' and 'Bibliotheca Carsoniana.' The name Carson has come prominently ; before the public since early in last cen- tury, members of the family having been distinguished in theology, law, and medi- cine. Bishop Carson, of Kilmore, published only one work.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

On p. 693 of Taifs Magazine for 1856 will be found a statement that Elizabeth Corsan, Corsane, or Carson, who flourished in the eighteenth century, was a descendant of the Corsans of Mickleknox, who for seventeen generations were Provosts of Dumfries, and at one time owned a third of the borough. A member of the Corsini family came from Italy in the train of an Abbot of New Abbey in 1280, and settled in Kirkcudbright. He afterwards moved to Galloway. Elizabeth Corsane was one of my great-great-grand- mothers, and I believe she was the last of the Corsanes ; but no doubt these generations of Provosts begat other sons who may have degenerated into Carsons. I have never been able to verify the statement in Tait's Maga- zine, and I am not sure I believe it.

W. R. B.

CHARLES READE IN BOLTON Row (9 th S. xii. 248). I have always found a difficulty in getting a sight of directories for any time back but at the Westminster City Library, in Great Smith Street, there is one for 1862, in the Court Guide of which is the following entry: "Charles Reade, D.C.L., 6, Bolton Row, Mayfair, W." ; but I am unable to say how long before it had been, or how long a jterwards it remained, his residence. The D.N.B.' says, " In middle lifeReade's London