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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vm. JULY 6, 1901.

1884, December 18th (W. E. Gladstone). Miss EMMA LUBBOCK BROWN.

" In consideration of the services rendered to history by her late brother, Mr. Rawdon

sTwdon Lubbock Brown, 1803-83 (' D.N.B., vol. vii. p. 24).

1885, August 24th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. ROSINA JANE EASTWICK.

"In recognition of the valuable services rendered by her husband, the late Mr. E. B. Eastwick, C.B., M.P., F.R.S., in connexion with Oriental literature. 100J."

Edward Backhouse Eastwick, 1814-83 (' D.N.B.,' vol. xvi. pp. 334-5).

1887, January 14th (Marquis of Salisbury). MR. CHARLES KENT.

" In recognition of the value of his contri- butions to biographical and other literature. 100Z."

Born November 3rd, 1823. Edited the Sun, 1845-70 ; Weekly Register, 1874-81 ; presented to the British Museum the last letter of Charles Dickens and the first of Edward, Lord Lytton (' Who 's Who,' 1901).

1887, September 27th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. JESSIE JEFFERIES.

"In consideration of the literary attain- ments of her late husband, Mr. Richard Jefferies, and of her destitute condition. 100/."

Richard Jefferies, 1848-87, author of ' The Gamekeeper at Home,' 'The Life of the Fields,' and 'The Dewy Morn' ('D.N.B.,' vol. xxix. pp. 265-6).

1888, January 4th (Marquis of Salisbury). Miss CONSTANCE FREDERIC A GORDON GUMMING.

"In consideration of her merits as an author, and of her destitute condition. 501"

See * English Catalogue,' Sampson Low, Marston & Co.

1888, January 4th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. CEIRIOG HUGHES.

"In recognition of the merits of her late husband, Mr. J. C. Hughes, as a Welsh poet, and in consideration of her destitute con- dition. 50."

John Ceiriog Hughes, 1832-87 ; born Sep- tember 25th, 1832. Between twenty-five and thirty thousand copies of his first volume of poetry, ' Oriau'r Hwyr' ('Evening Hours'), were sold. He also wrote fifty songs for Brinley Richards's * Songs of Wales ' (London, 1873). He was the author of the original song for which Brinley Richards wrote the

tune 'God bless the Prince of Wales' (' D.N.B.,' vol. xxviii. pp. 182-3).

1888, January 4th (Marquis of Salisbury). Miss LAURA LIEBE BARNES.

" In consideration of the merits of her late father, the Rev. W. Barnes, as an author and linguist, and on account of her destitute condition. 50J."

Rev. W. Barnes, 1820-86 ; author of 'Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect.'

1888, January 4th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. ANNABELLA BAYNES.

"In consideration of the eminence of her late husband, Prof. T. S. Baynes, as an author and scholar, and of her destitute condition. 75Z."

Thomas Spencer Baynes ; born March 24th, 1823 ; editor of the ninth edition of the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica'; was assistant editor of the Daily News, 1857-64; died May 30th, 1887 (' Chambers's Encyclopaedia,' vol. i. p. 809).

1890, January 15th (Marquis of Salisbury). Miss ELLIN ISABELLE TUPPER.

"In recognition of the services of her late father, Mr. Martin F. Tupper, to literature, and in consideration of her inadequate means of support. 75^."

1810-89. ' Proverbial Philosophy ' was first published in 1838 ('D.N.B.,' vol. Ivii. pp. 318-20).

1891, May 2nd (Marquis of Salisbury). MR. GEORGE BARNETT SMITH.

" In consideration of his services to litera- ture, and of his inadequate means of support. 80."

Born May 17th, 1841 ; author of 'Life of Gladstone,' ' Life of John Bright,' and other works (' Who's Who,' 1901).

1892, March 8th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. MARY GRAY GARDEN.

" In consideration of the literary merits of her father, the late James Hogg (known as the Ettrick Shepherd), and of her inadequate means of support. 40."

Author of " Memorials of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd; with preface by Prof. Veitch" (Alexander Gardner, 1885).

1892, June 20th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. ELEANOR FREEMAN.

"In consideration of the eminence of her late husband, Prof. Edward Augustus Free- man, as an historian. 100?."

Athenaeum obituary notice, March 19th, 1892.