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

1880, January 26th (Earl of Beaconsfield). Miss MARY ANN SYDNEY TURNER.

"In consideration of the services rendered by her father, the late Very Kev. Sydney Turner, as Inspector of Reformatories and Industrial Schools. 75?."

1881, February 5th (W. E. Gladstone). MRS. MARIA RODGERS.

"In consideration of the services of her late husband, the Rev. John Rodgers, in the cause of public elementary education. 75?."

1882, August 16th (W. E. Gladstone). MRS. EMMA ROBINSON.

"In recognition of the services of her husband, the late Canon Robinson, in the cause of public education. 80?."

1892, January 2nd (Marquis of Salisbury). MR. THOMAS WOODHOUSE LEVIN.

"In consideration of the services he has rendered to education and philosophy and mental science, of his blindness, and of his inadequate means of support. 50?."

Examiner and teacher of Moral Science at Cambridge ; ' Six Lectures on Cicero,' Cam- bridge, Deighton (Sonnenschein's 'Best Books')-

1892, June 20th (Marquis of Salisbury). Miss LETITIA MARIAN COLE, Miss HENRIETTA LINDSAY COLE, and Miss ROSE OWEN COLE.

"In recognition of the services rendered by the late Sir Henry Cole to the cause of artistic and scientific education. 30?. each."

Sir Henry Cole, 1808-82 (Athenceum, April 22nd, 1882; 'Fifty Years of Public Work,' 2 vols., 1884 ; 'D.N.B.,' vol. xi.).

1897, June 2nd (Marquis of Salisbury). MR. ARCHIBALD HAMILTON BRYCE, D.C.L.

"In recognition of his services in the cause of secondary education in Scotland. 50?."

1898, June 9th (Marquis of Salisbury). Miss ADELA CLARA SCHMITZ and Miss LINA

THEODORA SCHMITZ.

" In consideration of the services of their late father, Dr. Leonhard Schmitz, to classical education and learning, and of their in- adequate means of support. 25?. each."

Dr. Leonhard Schmitz, 1807-90 (' Cham- bers's Biographical Dictionary'; Athencevm, June 7th, 1890).

1898, June 9th (Marquis of Salisbury). Miss JANE KATE WALLIS and Miss ROSA WALLIS.

" In consideration of the services of their late father, Mr. George Wallis, to artistic

education, and of their inadequate means of support. 25?. each."

BIBLICAL SCHOLARS. 1847, October 4th (Lord John Russell). Miss MARGARET PARKER CHALMERS.

" Daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Chalmers. In consideration of his piety, eloquence, and learning. 25?."

Thomas Chalmers, D.D., 1780-1847, was the sixth of fourteen children. At the parish school was "one of the idlest, strongest, merriest, and most generous-hearted boys." Pure geometry had a strong attraction for him from childhood ; desired to be a minister of the Gospel ; wrote the article on ' Chris- tianity' for the ' Edinburgh Encyclopaedia.' He preached in London with as great an effect as in Glasgow. Wilberforce wrote in his diary : " All the world wild about Chalmers " (' D.N.B.,' vol. ix.).

1868, February 14th (Earl of Derby). Miss FEROOZA KITTO (now QUENNELL), Miss HELEN RHODA KITTO (now FEARNSIDE), and Miss FRANCES EDITH TRACY KITTO (now PER AY).

" In consideration of the services of their father, the late John Kitto, D.D., as a critical and theological writer. 100?."

Kitto's ' Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature/ 3 vols. (Sonnenschein's ' The Best Books ').

1892, January 2nd (Marquis of Salisbury). Miss FRANCES EMILY SCRIVENER, Miss EDITH AGNES SCRIVENER, and Miss CLARA ANNE SCRIVENER.

" In consideration of the eminence of their father, the late Rev. Frederick Henry Am- brose Scrivener, as a Biblical scholar, and of their inadequate means of support. 25?. each."

Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, 1813-91 (' D.N.B.,' li.).

1895, January 8th (Earl of Rosebery). DR. CHRISTIAN GINSBURG.

"In recognition of the value of his re- searches into Biblical and Hebrew literature. 150?."

Born at Warsaw, 1830 ; Rabbinical scholar; came early to England (' Chambers's Bio- graphical Dictionary'; Sonnenschein's 'The Best Books ').

1897, April 10th (Marquis of Salisbury). Miss BEATRICE HATCH, Miss ETHEL HATCH,,

and Miss EVELYN HATCH. "In consideration of the services of their father, the late Rev. Edwin Hatch, in con- nexion with ecclesiastical history. 30?. each." Edwin Hatch (1855-89); at Oxford he