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Life, Walk, and Triumph of Faith.

The following epitaph is in the church of St. Anne’s, Blackfriars:—



. — Mr. Des Granges “was descended from ancestors who were professors of the pure religion in France, and left their native country in order to preserve a good conscience.” He was a native of London where, and latterly at the Mission Seminary at Gosport, he was educated. In 1805 he went to Madras, which he left in order to found a Christian Mission at Vizagapatam along with Mr. Cran. The two missionaries translated the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, into the Talinga or Gentoo language. For eighteen months after the death of his colleague Mr. Des Granges conducted that work alone. The two reverend though youthful evangelists had similarities and diversities which combined to form an admirable missionary staff. Mr. Des Granges died of a violent fever, on 12th July 1810, aged thirty, leaving a widow and two children. (See a Funeral Sermon entitled. The Voice of God to the Churches — a sermon on the death of Rev. George Cran, Augustus Des Granges, and Jonathan Brain, missionaries in India from the Missionary Society, preached at Gosport, March 17, 1811, by David Bogue.)

. — This gentleman, whose name I have already recorded as proprietor of Christ Church Park, near Ipswich, was born in 1732, and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of LL.B. in 1753. A society was formed in 1772 at the Feathers’ Tavern, London, by many clergymen to petition parliament for the removal of all subscriptions to human formularies of religious faith, and one of the signatories was William Fonnereau, LL.B., of Christ Church, Ipswich. In 1773 he was presented by the Lord Chancellor