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EXETER COLLEGE.

the Reynolds exhibitions at the College in 1756, three from Eton and three from Exeter. St. John Eliot founded the two Eliot exhibitions from Truro school, and Chancery settled the details of the scheme in 1767.

Some of the fellows of this time redeemed the fame of the College. Joseph Attwell, George Stinton and Francis Milman (a learned physician) were fellows of the Royal society. John Upton was known for his edition of Arrian's Epictetus and of Spenser's Faerie Queen, and for his Observations on Shakspere, Benjamin Kennicott was the leading Hebrew scholar of his day and collated the Hebrew MSS. of the Bible ; William Holwell Carr made a fine collection of Italian paintings which he bequeathed to the National Gallery, Demainbray was royal astronomer at Richmond, and Stephen Peter Rigaud was Savilian professor of Astronomy.

One of the fellows, Thomas Broughton, had already come under John Wesley's influence in 1732, before his election, and was afterwards secretary of the society for promoting Christian Knowledge. John Wesley and his brother Charles had founded the private religious society in 1 730, to which its enemies soon gave the name of Methodists. Some of the fellows after the beginning of this century belonged to the evangelical school in the church, such as John David Macbride and James Thomas Holloway, but when the wave of Catholic reaction spread over Europe and England, after the close of the Revolu- tionary War, the College was somewhat noted for its High Church writers, of whom it may suffice to name

William Sewell, and among those who joined the Church of Rome, John Brande Morris. But here " the fires still glow under the ashes," and we must leave this part of our history to some later writer. The list of Fellows in this century shows some other distinguished names, John Taylor Coleridge and his son the present Lord Coleridge, Josiah Forshall, the editor of Wiclifs Bible, bishops of Chester Oxford and Southwell, Stephen Jordan Rigaud, bishop of Antigua, Thomas Henry Haddan, the founder of "The Guardian," Wharton Booth Marriott, canon Rawlinson, James Anthony Froude, the regius professor of History, professors Ince, Holland, Froude, Sandy, Napier, Lankester, and Pelham, George Herbert Curteis, Francis Turner Palgrave, professor of poetry, Sir Charles Turner ; and among those who were not fellows men like Sir Gardner Wilkinson and Sir Charles Lyell.

In 1854 the University Commission threw all the fellowships open, and, as the College was in want of scholarships, a number of fellowships were suppressed to found scholarships, ten of them open, ten Stapeldon scholarships for (in the first place) the diocese of Exeter, and two for the Channel Islands.

Charles William Boase, M.A.

A further account of the constitution and history of the College by the same author, and from which this is taken, will be found in " Registtuni Collegii Exoniensis" a second edition of which is now in the press.

drake's chair, ashmolean.