am now somewhat better; although not capable of attending any length of time to either business or amusement *. "I ain your faithful and humble servant,

WM. CHAFIN."

* Our venerable old friend survived the writing of this his last letter to his printers about seven weeks. He died at Chettle, in the mansion of his ancestors, at the age of 86, Aug. 14, 1818. He was the last heir male of his family. In July 1826 the whole parish of Chettle, with the manor, advowson, and mansion-house were advertised for auction, by Mr. Robins of Regent-street. The latter was on this occasion described as "a substantial uniform edifice of brick, with handsome stone dressings, built in the style of Sir John Vanbrugh, on a fine eminence commanding views of great extent." The whole estate was calculated as comprising rather more than 1100 acres.

SAMUEL GOODENOUGH, D.C. L.

BISHOP OF CARLISLE.

This learned, pious, examplary, and venerable Prelate was the third son of the Rev. William Goodenough, Rector of Broughton Pogges in the county of Oxford *; and was born at Kimpton near Weyhill in Hampshire, on the 29th of April, O. S. 1743. His father was then holding the Rectory of Kimpton, for a minor and distant relation, Mr. Edward Foyle t; and in 1750, upon Mr.

*Rev. William Goodenough was of Pembroke-college, Oxford, M. A. 1732. He died Nov. 10, 1768.

†The Rev. Edward Foyle was of Merton-college, Oxford, a grand compounder for the degree of M. A. in 1749. In 1753, according to the will of Mrs. Frances Harris, widow of his uncle John Foyle, of Chute in Wiltshire, Esq. (afterwards re-married to William Harris, of Salisbury, Esq.) he succeeded with his elder brother Gorges Foyle, Esq. to several estates in the counties of Wilts and Dorset. He married Jan. 12, 1755, Miss Hayter, with a fortune, according to the announcement of the day, of £10,000 (see Gent. Mag. vol. XXV. p. 42); and, secondly, August 24, 1773, Miss Thomas, of Southampton. He died May 7, 1784, being then styled of West Chelderton, Wilts, Rector of Kimpton, and Prebendary of Minor Pars Altaris in the Cathedral of Bath. His daughter, Miss Foyle, was married June 11, 1790, to John Maurice Eyre, of Botley Grange in Hampshire, Esq.; and his son, the Rev. Edward Foyle, is still living. He was of Queen's-college, Oxford; M. A. 1780; was instituted in the Rectory of Chilcombe in Dorsetshire in 1785, on his own presentation; and was presented to that of Kimpton

Foyle's being of age to take the living, returned to his residence at Broughton, where his family had been settled for nearly two centuries, in possession not only of the advowson of that Rectory, but of very considerable landed property; which had then, however, passed into other hands, through the improvidence of some of its hereditary possessors *.

A school of good repute being at that time establislied at Witney, under the direction of a most excellent man, the Rev. Benjamin Gutteridge †, Mr. Goodenough placed his sons there; from whence, in 1765, the future Bishop was removed to Westminster-school, where, under the kind and able instruction of the late venerable Archbishop Markham, he succeeded in becoming a King's Scholar, and was elected in 1760 to a Studentship of Christ Church, Oxford. He proceeded M. A. 1767; D. C. L. 1772.

at the same period by his uncle Gorges Foyle, Esq. Further particulars of this family may be found in Hutchins's History of Dorsetshire, vol. I. pp. 90, 466; vol. II. pp. 294, 423, 436, 438, (in which last page for George read Gorges); vol. IV. p. 95.

* Mr. Skelton, in his Antiquities of Oxfordshire, has the following paragraghs under Broughton Pogges: "This estate was, for nearly 300 years, in the Goodenough family, who yet present to the living. The church is a small but ancient structure, composed of one aisle. In the chancel, which is one of the neatest in the county, are numerous memorials of the Goodenough family. The principal one of them is over the communiontable, and is to the memory of William Goodenough, who died on the 18th of March, 1673. On this monument is recorded, in a long Latin inscription, several interesting particulars connected with the history of the family."

The Rev. Benjamin Gutteridge was of Emanuel-college, Cambridge, M. A. 1748.

Mr. Carlisle, in his "Endowed Grammar-schools," states of Witney, that, "The present Head-master, the Rev. Thomas Cripps, and three other gentlemen his contemporaries, and now in the Church, received their education in this school." Mr. Cripps took the degree of M. A. at Oxford in 1790, so that his school-days were doubtless long subsequent to those of Dr. Goodenough. It is, however, a honour well worthy of rememb. ince at Witney, that the late Bishop of Carlisle received his early education there.

In 1766 he returned to Westminster-school in the capacity of Usher, and filled that honourable station with much diligence and ability for four years; when, having inherited from his father the advowson of Broughton, and obtained also from his College the Vicarage of Brizenorton, one of the adjoining parishes, he married, April 17, 1770, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr. James Ford*, one of the most eminent medical professors of that time in London, and retired to his living of Broughton. But he was speedily called from this retirement by applications which were made to him to take charge of the education of various young noblemen and gentlemen of high condition. This led, in 1772, to the formation of his establishment at Ealing, and laid the foundation of his future advancement in his profession. During six-and-twenty years that he continued to reside there, he had successively the charge of the children of Lord Willoughby de Broke, Lady Albemarle, Lord George Cavendish, the Earl of Northampton, the Marquis of Bute, the Duchess of Rutland, the Duke of Beaufort, and the Duke of Portland; together with many others of high distinction, among whom may be specified Henry Addington, Esq. created in 1805 Viscount Sidmouth. While ardently devoted to the improvement of these chosen pupils, he still found time to gratify his own peculiar taste and inclination, by the study of theology and the cultivation of science. The retirement of his own closet, and the meetings of the Royal and Linnæan Societies, (of the latter of which he was one of the original framers †,) were his chief recreation after the fatigues of teaching. This procured for him the friendship of Sir Joseph

* He was Physician to the Middlesex Hospital; see the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. IX. pp. 2, 372.

+ Dr. Goodenough had been a member of the parent Natural History Society. At the formation of the Linnæan Society in 1788 he was named for Treasurer. Gent. Mag. XCVIII. i. 416.

Banks, and of nearly every individual eminent in science; and on so solid a foundation were their friendships laid, that it may be truly said they only ceased with the lives of the respective parties. His own personal proficiency in the department of science, may best be shown by referring to his various papers in the Transactions of the Linnæan Society, particularly those upon the genus Carex *. It is certain that they have, amidst all the subsequent improvements in botanical knowledge, continued to be the text-book of all who would wish to master the difficulties of that genus; and how great was his success in horticulture, a pursuitwhich had not then been advanced to the degree of fashion which it has since attained, has been sung by the author of the Pursuits of Literature t. He was, at the period of his death, Vice-president of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Professional advancement, founded upon knowledge of a higher cast, now, however, called him to other scenes. In 1797 he was presented by Dr.

* "Observations on the British Species of Carex," printed in the Transactions, vol. II. p. 126; vol. III. p. 76; "Of the Porbeagle Shark, the Squalus Cornubicus of Gmelin," vol. III. p. 80; "On the British Fuci," ibid. p. 84; "On the Wheat Insect," ibid. p. 224.

↑ "Or good Palamon, worn with classic toil,

Complain of plants ungrateful to the soil." "I allude to a learned, modest, ingenious, and laborious gentleman, who has educated many of the first sons of the first nobility and gentry of this country, between twenty and thirty years, with unremitting personal diligence and ability. He is but just promoted, to the satisfaction of all who know him, and to the shame of those who so long neglected him. "Quis gremio Enceladi doctique PALEMONIS affert QUANTUM GRAMMATICUS MERUIT LABOR?

Pursuits of Literature, 8vo, 1808,

p.

332.

Dr. Goodenough is generally supposed to have been the first cultivator who succeeded in bringing to its present state of perection the favourite vegetable sea-kale.

In a letter of Mr. Tyson in 1799 (see "Literary Anec

"§ Feb. 1798. Need I name the Rev. Dr. Goodenough?"

Smallwell, then Bishop of Oxford, to the Vicarage of Cropredy in Oxfordshire. In 1798 he was appointed to a Canonry of Windsor; in 1802 removed from thence to the Deanery of Rochester *; from that station † advanced in 1808 to the Bishopric of Carlisle. His own merits were in these several steps aided by the warm attachment of his pupil the present Viscount Sidmouth (whose sister was married to the Bishop's brother +), and especially by the generous condescension, it may be said the strong friendship, evinced by the late Duke of dotes," vol. VIII. p. 642) he says: "Dr. Goodenough is preparing a very learned work, called Botanica Metrica, containing the etymology of all botanical names, both technical and also of the plants." See a letter respecting this undertaking in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXXXIV. ii. 205.

*The single decease of Dr. Bagot, Bishop of St. Asaph, occasioned at this period a remarkably long series of changes. Dr. Horsley was promoted to St. Asaph, Dr. Dampier to Rochester, Dr. Goodenough to the Deanery of Rochester, as above stated, Mr. Busby, it is believed, to the Canonry of Windsor. Then, Dr. Vincent succeeded Dr. Horsley as Dean of Westminster, and to him Dr. Ireland as Prebendary. Again, Dr. Wingfield succeeded Dr. Vincent as Head-master of Westminster-school; and not to pursue the transition further in that establishment, to him Mr. Page as Second-master.

In the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. IX. p. 714, in a letter from the learned Jacob Bryant to Edward Roberts, Esq. of Ealing, it will be perceived how much Dr. Goodenough's departure from a place he had enlivened and instructed by his society, was regretted by his circle of friends.

William Goodenough, of Merton-college, Oxford, A. M. 1764; M. B. 1767; M. D. 17... He married Jan. 2, 1770, Anne, eldest daughter of Anthony Addington, M. D.; but died on the 8th of the following August, at Paddington. His lady's decease occurred at the White-lodge, Richmond-park, June 12, 1806.-The Rev. Edmund Goodenough, another brother of the Bishop, was educated with him at Westminster and at Christ Church, and attained the degree of M. A. in 1769. In 17.. he was presented by the King to the Vicarage of Swindon, Wilts. and afterwards, in 17.., by the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, to the Rectory of Littleton in Worcestershire. He died at Bath, Nov. 8, 1807, aged 62, leaving a widow, sister to Sir William-Elias Taunton, of Oxford, and who died in that City, April 11, 1815. Their second daughter, the wife of William Farmer, Esq. of Swindon, died June 23, 1809.