Page:The Maclise Portrait-Gallery.djvu/181

 Rural Residences (1825, small 4to), a cento of extracts from Price, Repton, Papworth, and others; his Memoirs of the Life and Works of William Wyon, Esq., A.R.A., Chief Engineer of the Royal Mint, with postscript and supplement as to the relative merits of Wyon and Pistrucci (1837, 8vo); his Concise Account of Foreign Orders of Knighthood, etc. (1839, royal 8vo); and other works. He died August 27th, 1849.

Then follows W. H., who died May 27th, 1848, aged 56. He became a Fellow in 1823, and was a constant attendant upon the meetings, the reports of which he had the credit of contributing to the Literary Gazette. In 1835 he exhibited the body of an Egyptian ibis, or ardea, the mummy of which he had unrolled. (See Archæologia, xxvi. 483.) He afterwards amplified his paper, and published it, with engravings, in the Gentleman's Magazine, August, 1836, p. 145. Among other peculiarities of costume or appearance, it may be noted that Mr. Rosser refused to muffle his neck in the fashionable "stock" or cravat, and disdained to adopt the Wellingtonian investment for his nether limbs, adhering to the manly Hessian boot as long as he lived.

With short interval, departed, Clarenceux King of Arms, who died June 3rd, 1848. He entered the College of Heralds as Bluemantle Pursuivant, June 17th, 1797; was made Windsor Herald, April 24th, 1819; Norroy King of Arms, February 5th, 1839; and Clarenceux, April 28th, 1846. He had also filled the office of Treasurer of the College of Arms since 1840.

Just two months later,—alas!—

died, at the early age of 49, in the vicinity of Boulogne, Sir, a Knight of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and Chancellor and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Few names on the roll of antiquarian literature, especially that branch of it which is devoted to Genealogy, deserve so high a place as that of this gentleman, who may claim a place after Camden, Dugdale, and Selden. I can only just allude to his Notitia Historica (1824), on which was modelled the very useful Chronology of History (1833), published in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia; the Synopsis of the Peerage (1825); his edition of Davidson's Poetical Rhapsody (1826), and of the curious Flagellum Parliamentarium, attributed to Andrew Marvell (1827, 12mo); the Memoirs and Letters of Joseph Ritson (1833, 2 vols. 8vo); the Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey (1826); and a long shelf-ful of other works of equal value and interest. In 1826 he became, in conjunction with Henry Southern, editor of the Retrospective Review, of which a new series was then commenced.

The next to depart of our group was Author:Henry Hallam,, the celebrated historian of The Middle Ages, and The Literature of Europe, etc., works which are too well known to need comment here. He died in January, 1859, in the eighty-second year of his age. It was to his son, Arthur Henry Hallam, a young man of remarkable promise, who died in 1833, that his friend Tennyson inscribed that remarkable series of poems, which are published under the title of In Memoriam. All this is known; but how the historian became "renowned for Greek" may be forgotten, and will bear telling again. It appears that Richard Payne Knight had