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 for Pugin’s Architectural Antiquities of Normandy. His engravings also adorn the volumes of Neale’s “Westminster Abbey and Churches of England,” and Ingram’s “Memorials of Oxford and Cambridge.” He was held in immense and well-merited reputation. He married, in 1809, Sarah Sophia, daughter of John Lingard (she survived till 1871), and died 1st April 1846, and was buried in Bunhill Fields. He left, with other children, a son, John Henry Le Keux, also an engraver.

Henry Le Keux, brother of John, was born 13th June 1787, and baptized at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney. He also became a pupil of Basire. And as an engraver, he was considered quite equal to his brother. His engravings are to be found in Blore’s “Monumental Antiquities,” Neale’s “Westminster Abbey,” Rogers’ Poems, Whitaker’s “Richmondshire,” and Scott’s Poems and “Provincial Antiquities,” and also in the Annuals. For this catalogue I am indebted to Mr. Thorne. In addition to it, I may mention the facts, that for his large plate of Venice (after Prout) he received 760 guineas; for plates in the beautiful Annuals, with which our boyhood was favoured, he received large prices ranging from 100 to 180 guineas. For these facts concerning him I am indebted to The Register for 1869 (vol. i., p. 132); and on the same authority, I note that “more than thirty years ago he gave up engraving, and retired to Bocking, in Essex, being engaged by the firm of Samuel Courtauld & Co., crape manufacturers, for the chemical and scientific department, and he continued in that employment until the age of eighty-one, his health failing a short time before his death.” He died 3d October 1868, and was buried at Halstead, in Essex.

John Henry Le Keux, son of John Le Keux and Sara Sophia Lingard, was born 23d March 181 2, and baptised at St. Pancras. As an engraver, he has worthily represented his father and uncle. His style is less minute but more spirited. His plates occur in Ruskin’s Modern Painters and Stones of Venice, and in various modern architectural works, annuals, and costly serial publications. He married, first, at Harmondsworth (in 1838), Helen, daughter of Richard Tillyer, and secondly, at Shincliffe (in 1836), Francis, youngest daughter of George Andrews, of the city of Durham, in which city he is now spending the evening of his life.  

John Bulteel, Esq., of Flete, by his wife, the Hon. Diana Bellenden, was the father of John (of Flete and Lyneham), Thomas-Hillesden, Henry-Bellenden (unmarried), and other children. Of these, Thomas Hillesden Bulteel, Esq., married Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Christopher Harris, Esq., of Bellevue, near Plymouth, and had five sons, John, Christopher, Thomas H., Henry-Bellenden (afterwards Rev.), and Francis F.; also two daughters.

The date of the birth of Rev. Henry Bellenden Bulteel was about 1802. He became a distinguished graduate of Oxford University, M.A., and Fellow of Exeter College. He obtained his Fellowship in 1826. For nearly five years he was curate-in-charge of St. Elbe’s, Oxford. He obtained celebrity by a sermon preached before his university at St. Mary’s, on 6th February 1831. Such was the esteem in which he was held that “an audience was attracted such as never perhaps was witnessed within the walls of St. Mary’s;” so wrote Professor Burton, who courteously added, “Every word which was uttered proceeded from conscientious sincerity.” Mr. Bulteel was indeed an undaunted and able preacher of the Gospel; his doctrines were those of the early Protestant Reformers, and it was for no alleged heresy that he was eventually excluded from the Church of England, as appears from the letters of the Bishop of Oxford (Bagot):—

(1.) “, July 16, 1831. — Rev. Sir, — It is not without considerable regret that I address you upon the subject of a complaint which has caused me great anxiety. Various communications have been made to me of your having travelled into several dioceses, and, in many instances, where the pulpit of the Church has been refused to you, of your having preached in Dissenting Meeting-houses and in the open air. I request that you will give me an early answer as to the truth of this complaint, and I earnestly hope that it may prove satisfactory. — I remain, Rev. Sir, your faithful servant,

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(2.) “, August 5, 1831. — Rev. Sir. — After your admission of the truth of those reports which I mentioned to you in a former letter, respecting your having in various instances preached in Dissenting Meeting-houses and in the open air where the pulpit of the Church had been refused to you, I have to inform you that it becomes my duty to withdraw your license to the Curacy of St. Elbe’s. — I remain, Rev. Sir, your faithful servant,

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Mr. Bulteel had during several previous weeks made a preaching tour in 