the London Missionary Society, and the Society for Printing the Hebrew Scriptures, 1007. each.
To the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1000l.
All the foregoing legacies are 3 per cent. Consols. The following are in sterling money:
To the Church Missionary Society, 1000l., 3007. of which to be applied towards the Mission among the Syrian Christians at Travancore, near Madras, in Southern India.
To the Society for Educating Clergymen's Daughters, by the Rev. Carus Wilson, 2007.
For the Diocese of Ohio, 2001.
To the Trustees of the New Church at Mangotsfield, 150l. To and for the purposes, Societies, and Institutions after mentioned, viz. — For the Bristol Strangers' Friend Society, the Bristol Society for the Relief of Small Debtors, the Bristol Penitentiary, the Bristol Orphan Asylum, the Bristol Philosophical Institution, the London Strangers' Friend Society, the Commissioners of Foreign Missions in America, towards the School at Ceylon, called Barley Wood, the Newfoundland Schools, the distressed Vaudoise, the Clifton Dispensary, the Bristol District for Visiting the Poor, the Irish Society, and the Sailors' Home Society, 100%. each.
To the purposes, Societies, and Institutions following, viz. -The Christian Knowledge Society, the Bristol Misericordia Society, the Bristol Samaritan Society, the Bristol Temple Infant School, the Prayer Book and Homily Society, the London Lock Hospital, the London Refuge for the Destitute, the Gaelic School, the Society for Female Schools in India, the Kenysham School, the Cheddar School, for Books for Ohio, the Bristol and Clifton Female Anti-Slavery Society, the Clifton Lying-in Charity, the Clifton Infant School, the Clifton National School, the Clifton Female Hibernian Society, the Temple Poor, and for Pews in Temple Church, 50%. each.
To the Bristol Harmonia and Edinburgh Sabbath Schools, 19 guineas each.
To the Shipham Female Club, 50%.
To the Cheddar Female Club, 19 guineas. To the Poor Printers' Fund, 19 guineas. For the Shipham Poor, 50l.
To the Ministers of Wrington and Cheddar, for their respective poor, 19 guineas each.
To the Minister of Nailsea, for the poor, 51.
To my old pensioners at Wrington, 17. each.
To the Kildare-Place School Society, Dublin, 100%. sterling, and 2007. three per cent.
In addition to the foregoing munificent legacies, this pious lady has bequeathed the whole of her residuary estate, which, it is expected, will amount to a considerable sum, to the New Church, in the out parish of St. Philip, in Bristol.
In addition to the above, the following munificent bequests were, by the will of Mrs. Martha More, directed to be paid on the death of Mrs. Hannah More:
To the Bristol Infirmary, 1000%.
To the Bible Society, 10007. To the Bath Hospital, 100%.
To the Taunton Infirmary, 100%.
To the Baptist Missionary Society, and to the Society for the Conversion of the Jews, 50%. each.
To Zachary Macaulay, Esq., to be disposed of at his discretion, for the service of Africa, 500l.
To the Bristol Clerical Society, the amount of stock reserved for the payment of a lapsed annuity of 30l.
To the Bristol Orphan Society, the Blind Asylum, the Penitentiary, and the Poor Man's Friend Society, the amount of stock reserved for an annuity of 301., to be payable on the death of the annuitant.
To be disposed of in charities, omitted to be named by the testatrix, but which is intended to be appropriated by the executors, the amount of stock reserved for the payment of a lapsed annuity of 40l.
To be also disposed of, under similar circumstances, the
amount of stock reserved for the payment of an annuity of 201., on the death of the annuitant.
To the Bishop of St. David's (now Bishop of Salisbury), for his charities, 2007.
To each of the Female Clubs of Cheddar and Shipham, 251. To the Moravian Missionary Society, 1007.
To the Rev. Mr. Berkin, for the Church in the Forest of Dean, 100%.
To the London Poor Clergy Society, 100%.
AFFLECK, Sir James, the third Baronet of Dalham, Suffolk (1782), a General in the army, and for thirty- eight years Lieut.-Col. of the 15th Dragoons; August 10. 1833, at Dal- ham Hall, aged 74.
The first Baronet of the family was Sir James's uncle, Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Affleck, so created in con- sequence of his having been Com- mander of the centre division in the memorable engagement between Sir George Rodney and the Comte de Grasse. The title having been con- ferred with remainder to the Admiral's brothers, it was first inherited by his nephew Sir Gilbert, who dying in 1808 without issue, it devolved on his cousin-german Sir James; and he also having now deceased unmarried, it descends a third time to a collateral heir.
Sir James was the only son of the Rev. James Affleck, by Miss Mary Proctor, and was born the 29th of April, 1759. He commenced his military career as Ensign in the 43d foot, February 29. 1776; in the fol- lowing April he went out to America, where he remained until the end of 1778; when, in consequence of a severe wound received at Rhode Island, he returned to England, with the rank of Captain. In the following spring he again went to America, but re- turned in the same year with the regi- ment. In Sept. 1779, he received a company in the 26th, which he ex- changed for the Captain-Lieutenancy of the 23d Light Dragoons, in Jan. 1782, and sailed for India in March following. In 1786 he returned to
England in consequence of ill-health; and in July of that year obtained the Majority of the 19th Light Dragoons. In the spring of 1789 he went a second time to India, and in 1791 again re- turned from ill-health.
He received the brevet of Lieut.- Colonel in 1794, and in 1795 the Lieut.-Colonelcy of the 16th Light Dragoons, which he retained to his death. He was promoted to the brevet of Colonel, Jan. 1. 1798; was ap- pointed Brigadier-General in Ireland in May, 1803; a Major-General 1805; Lieut.-General 1811, and General
Sir James Affleck succeeded to the Baronetcy July 16. 1808. He has died unmarried, and is succeeded in the title by the Rev. Sir Robert Affleck, Rector of Silkstone in Yorkshire, and a Prebendary of York. - Gentleman's Magazine.
AIREY, Lieut.-General Sir George, K.C. H., Colonel of the 39th regiment of foot; Feb. 18. 1833; at Paris.
This officer entered the army in 1779, as an Ensign in the 91st Foot, and in January following sailed with that corps to the West Indies, where he served a year at St. Lucie, and then returned home in ill-health. Having obtained a Lieutenancy in the 91st in 1781, he exchanged into the 48th in Jan. 1782. In Jan. 1788 he again sailed with the latter to the West In- dies, where he purchased a company in November following; in 1790 he came home on leave, and joined the regiment again in 1792. On the expedition un- der Sir C. Grey coming out, the 48th was drafted, and Capt. Airey volun- teered his services; he was employed in the succeeding campaign, and com-
manded the light company of the 65th regiment; on the conclusion of the campaign he rejoined his regiment at Plymouth, in Oct. 1794.
He was next appointed aid-de-camp to Lieut.-Gen. Tonyn. In the winter of 1795 he again sailed with his regi- ment to the West Indies, and served there as Assistant Adjutant-General. On the 1st of May, 1796, he received the Majority of the 68th, and returned to England; on the 4th of May, 1798, he purchased the Lieut.-Colonelcy of the 8th foot. In that year he went out with his regiment to Minorca, and from thence proceeded with the army under Sir Ralph Abercromby to Cadiz and to Malta; he was then again sent to Minorca, as Deputy Quartermaster- General under General Fox, and after- wards to Elba as Commandant of the British troops serving in Porto Ferrajo, while that place was beseiged by the French, and retained possession until the peace of 1802, when he rejoined General Fox as Deputy Quartermaster- General, and remained with that officer until his return to England. He was next appointed to the staff in Ireland under Gen. Fox, and afterwards accom- panied him to Gibraltar as Military Secretary; from the latter place he went with the General to Sicily, where (with the exception of going to Egypt as Secretary to Lieut.-Gen. Mackenzie Fraser) he served until 1813, as Deputy Adjutant-General. He received the brevet of Colonel in 1808. In 1810 he commanded a brigade in Sicily, during the threatened invasion of Mu- rat, in addition to his duties of Deputy Adjutant-General. He vacated that situation in February, 1811, on being appointed Brigadier-General. In June following he became Major-General on the staff of Sicily; and in December proceeded to take the command of the Ionian Islands, where he continued until 1813. He then received the ap- pointment of Quartermaster-General to the forces in Ireland, which he retained for several years. He attained the rank of Lieut.-General in 1821, and was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 39th regiment in 1823.
Sir George Airey married the Hon. Catherine Talbot, third daughter of Lady Talbot of Malahide, by whom he has left a numerous family. His eldest daughter, Margaret, was married in 1830 to the Hon. and Rev. Sir Francis Jervis Stapleton, Bart., son of the late Lord le Despencer, and uncle
to the present Baroness.- Royal Mili- tary Calendar.
ALLEN, Mr. Thomas, July 20. 1833, in the City Road, of cholera, after an illness of less than twelve hours; aged 30.
This ingenious young man was the son of the late Mr. J. Allen, an en- graver of maps, and at a very early age undertook a history of the parish of Lambeth, which he completed in a creditable manner in 1827, under great disadvantages. He subsequently be- came the author of various works pub- lished in a periodical form, at the time when the rage for cheap and embellished publications first engaged the public attention. The "Survey of London" was his second work, in which is con- densed a greater degree of information than in any of the modern histories of the metropolis. The writer of these lines, who now so unexpectedly pays this last tribute to his industry and ex- ertions, accompanied him in many of his surveys, and was a witness to the difficulties which attended the publica- tion. As the sheets were composed, they were issued, in many cases with errors of the press and otherwise un- corrected; yet when he looks back to the work, he feels a satisfaction that so much has been rescued from the hands of time, and only regrets that the author had not more control over the publication.
At the same period, in conjunction with a gentleman of the legal profes- sion, he projected a history of the borough of Southwark, and proceeded to make many collections for the pur- pose, when the publication was aban- doned in consequence of the want of co-operation which he was induced to expect.
In 1829 he engaged with Mr. Hinton to survey and publish a history of the county of York, in pursuance of which he visited the greater part of the county, and in the course of his travels made a multitude of valuable sketches of interesting objects of anti- quity.
The plates of Lambeth and London were etched by himself from his own drawings; some of them are very cre- ditable to his talents.
Mr. Allen also projected a histori- cal and topographical atlas of England and Wales, announced in vol. xcix. ii. p. 356; on a plan which, had it been completed, would have formed a very useful work.
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