OUR CHRONICLE. Easter Term 1893. Mr William Lee-Warner (B.A. 1869), of the Indian Civil Service, formerly Scholar of the College and Editor of the Eagle, has received the distinction of being appointed a Companion of the Star of India (C.S.I.). Among the Fellows elect of the Royal Society is Mr W. Burnside, Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, who before he migrated to Pembroke was a member of St John's, and helped to carry the Lady Margaret boat to the head of the river. He is the author of many papers in mathematics and mathematical physics. The University of Glasgow has conferred the degree of LL.D. honoris causa on Dr Alexander Macalister F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy and Fellow of the College. Mr G. T. Bennett (Senior Wrangler 1890, and First Smith's Prizeman), Fellow of the College, has been elected to a Fellowship and Lectureship in Mathematics at Emmanuel College. Mr Bennett has thus followed in the steps of Professor Greenhill and Professor Gwatkin. We heartily congratulate Emmanuel on this accession to their body, but we trust we shall not wholly lose Mr Bennett at St John's. Dr A. G. Marten Q.C. (B.A. 1856), formerly Fellow, has been appointed Treasurer of the Inner Temple. Mr R. Pendlebury, Fellow of the College, has been reappointed a University Lecturer in Mathematics for five years from Lady Day 1893. Mr A. W. Flux (bracketed Senior Wrangler 1887), Fellow of the College, has been appointed Cobden Lecturer in Political Economy at the Owens College, Manchester. At an election held on April 20 Mr W. Bateson, Steward, was chosen a member of the College Council in the place of Mr W. F. Smith, who has resigned on going out of residence. At the annual election on June 3 Dr D. MacAlister, Mr H. S. Foxwell, and Mr J. T. Ward were re-elected for a further term of four years, and Mr Bateson for a term of two years. The Commemoration Sermon on May 6 was preached in the College Chapel by the Rev Professor T. G. Bonney, Senior Fellow. The annual dinner was graced by the presence of five Johnian members of Parliament, and by a large number of other guests of distinction. The Sunday preachers this term have been Mr G C. Allen, Head-master of the Surrey County School, Cranleigh; Lord William Cecil, Rector of Hatfield; Prebendary Sadler, Rector of Honiton; and Mr E. Hill (late Tutor), Vicar of Cockfield. Ds R. S. Clay (Twenty-first Wrangler 1892), Scholar of the College, has been appointed to a Mastership at Mill Hill School. Ds G. H. R. Garcia (Second Class Theological Tripos 1892) has been appointed to the pastorate of Union Chapel, Sunderland. Ds J. A. Cameron (B.A. 1891), late First Captain of the Lady Margaret and Editor of the Eagle, has gained the Brodie Prize in Clinical Surgery at St George's Hospital, London. A grant of £65 from the Worts Travelling Scholars' Fund has been made to Ds H. Woods, Scholar of the College, "to enable him to travel in Saxony and Bohemia to study the palaeontological correlation of their cretaceous rocks with those in England, and to make collections in illustration thereof." Ds Bertram Long (First Class Theological Tripos Part II 1892), Naden Divinity Student of the College, has gained a Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarship and is bracketed for the Mason Prize in Biblical Hebrew, founded in honour of our President and Senior Hebrew Lecturer, Mr Mason. The following is the speech delivered by the Public Orator, Dr Sandys, on March 21, in presenting the Bishop of Qu'Appelle for the degree of D.D. iure dignitatis: Provinciae Canadensis ultra lacus immensos, Principis Ruperti in terrâ, regio late patet quae nomine splendido Assiniboia nuncupatur. Episcopi autem sedem ibidem collocatam quo potissimum nomine appellare debeam nescio. Qu'Appelle appellant. Ibi laboribus strenuis fideliter obeundis annos octo dedicavit vir genere nobili oriundus, qui, sedis illius episcopus primus consecratus, gregis sui late dispersi inter desideria nuper patriae redditus est. In locum eius nuperrime electus est alumnus noster, vir disciplinâ mathematicâ excultus, qui primum in rure nostro suburbano, deinde in Angliâ septentrionali Baedae Venerabilis inter vestigia, in laboribus sacris feliciter versatus est. Regio illa remota, alumno nostro credita, quasi catenâ ferreâ cum oceano utroque nuper coniuncta est: vinculo magis tenero sed eodem diu duraturo ipse nobiscum est in perpetuum consociatus. Duco ad vos Collegii Divi Ioannis quondam Scholarem, WILELMUM IOANNEM BUrn. We congratulate Ds A. Hill (B.A. 1889) on being elected Master of the "Isaac Newton University Lodge of Freemasons for the ensuing year. The question of providing better accommodation for the work of the kitchen department has been under the consideration of the College for some time. It has now been settled that the alterations shall be carried out during the Long Vacation. The whole range of buildings in the Back Lane will be pulled down, and the Kitchen and Butteries will be re-arranged. The floor of the Kitchen will be raised, and to give additional height two sets of rooms above the Kitchen will be destroyed. One of these is the set occupied by Wordsworth while at St John's. Some references in the press to the fate of these rooms will be found under Johniana. While the building is in progress there will be a temporary Kitchen on the south side of the First Court. The architect who has direction of the work is Mr H. C. Boyes. The College Library has recently been presented with a cast of the bust of the Rev Thomas Gisborne, a former member of the College. It is the gift of his grandson, Thomas Matthew Gisborne, Esq., of Walton Hall, Burton-on-Trent. The Dictionary of National Biography supplies us with the following account of his distinguished ancestor : Thomas Gisborne, the elder (1758-1846) was a descendant of a family, members of which during two centuries had been Mayors of Derby, and eldest son of John Gisborne, of Yoxall, Staffordshire, by Anne, daughter of William Bateman, of Derby. He was born 31 October 1758. He was for six years under John Pickering, Vicar of Mackworth, Derby, and entered Harrow in 1773. In 1776 he entered St John's College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1780 as Sixth Wrangler and First Chancellor's Medallist. A political career was open to him, but he preferred the quiet life of a country squire and clergyman. He took orders, and in 1783 he was presented to the perpetual curacy of Barton-under-Needwood, settling in the same year at Yoxall Lodge, inherited by him on his father's death in 1779. within three miles of his church. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Babington, of Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, in 1784, and passed the rest of his life at Yoxall. His son James succeeded him as perpetual curate of Barton in 1820. In April 1823 he was appointed to the fifth prebend in Durham. He died 24 March 1846, leaving six sons: Thomas (1794-1852), John, William, James, Matthew, and Walter; and two daughters, Mary, wife of William Evans, of Allertree, Derby, and Lydia, wife of the Rev E. Robinson. Mr Gisborne was an intimate friend of Wilberforce, whom he had known at College, and who spent many summers at Yoxall and Rothley Temple. Among his other friends were Bishop Barrington, of Durham, Hannah More, and most of the eminent evangelicals, His ethicals writings are directed against Paley's expediency, and endeavour to provide a basis of absolute right; but his criterion is mainly utilitarian. His sermons were held to rank with the best contemporary performances; but he shews more refinement and good feeling than intellectual force. The then unenclosed Needwood Forest was to him what Selborne was to Gilbert White, and his enjoyment of natural scenery is impressed in forms, modelled chiefly upon Cowper. Many of his books went through several editions. The Rev Father Wallace D.D., Priest of the Order of St Benedict of the Beuron Congregation,' has published a Life of St Edmund of Canterbury (Kegan Paul & Co.) in which he has made considerable use of the MS Life, (C. 12, 9) in the College Library. In his account of the MS, which occupies 24 pages, he notes that it was formerly in the possession of William Crashaw (brother of the Poet), and was presented to the College by the Earl of Southampton in 1635, and adds the following observations: "This Life must be the one written by Robert Bacon. It is certainly a different composition from any of those preserved in the British Museum or elsewhere. It is evidently a transcript, as appears from a singular blunder of the scribe, who has misplaced one chapter; for the chapter De muliere cujus manus in prædicatione beati Eadmundi arefacta est, et per ipsum sanata, which properly belongs to the period of St Edmund's preaching the crusade, has been inserted in the middle of the narrative which relates Edmund's interview with his dying mother. The scribe having finished this chapter had begun the next, of which he had written the first words when he discovered his blunder. These words are erased and he resumes the narrative of Mabel's address to her son. This MS is the only copy of this Life known to exist, except the first folio which is found as a fragment at the end of the Lambeth Codex, 135. It is printed in this work by the kind permission of the authorities of St John's College, Cambridge. Notwithstanding the interesting details which it furnishes of St Edmund's youth, it has been quite ignored by modern writers." A copy of the portrait of Richard Neale (Archbishop of York 1632-1642) in the Master's Lodge has been executed under the directions of Mr Colnaghi for the present Archbishop. The following have been added to the Collection of Johnian portraits in the smaller combination-rooms:(1) A copperplate engraving of "THE REVEREND Mr THOMAS VOL. XVII. 4 R BAKER S. T. B., Late Fellow of St John's College in Cambridge, Car. Bridges pinxit memoriter, I. Simon fec. Printed and sold by Thos. Bakew ll, in Fleet Street." The historian of the College and 'Socius ejectus,' died 1740. Presented by the Rev E. Hill, late Tutor. (2) A beautiful portrait of "THE REV THOMAS GISBORNE M.A.," whose bust has lately been placed in the Library. Presented by Professor Cardale Babington. A characteristic portrait with a sympathetic biographical notice of Professor T. G. Tucker, late Fellow of the College, appears in the Melbourne Australasian of February 18. The portraits of Dr A. S. Wilkins and Mr W. S. Sherrington, formerly Editors of the Eagle, have been kindly given by them for the collection in the Editorial Album. In the new edition of the first volume of Sir William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, recently published in two volumes under the Editorship of the Rev J. M. Fuller, late Fellow of the College, the article on the Book of Ecclesiastes has been contributed by our Master; and those on Athens, Corinth, Cyprus, Diana, and Ephesus have been revised and in part re-written by Dr Sandys. From the list of University Prizeman 1892-1893' it seems that St John's has won seven University distinctions during the year, namely the Chancellor's English Medal (J. H. B. Masterman), both Bell's Scholarships (J. M. Hardwich and A. J. Smallpeice), a Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarship (B. Long), a Crosse Scholarship (Harold Smith), the Hebrew Prize (B. Long), the Mason Prize (B. Long). A memorial tablet to Professor Adams has been placed in the north transept of Truro Cathedral. It bears the following inscription, composed by the Archbishop of Canterbury (first Bishop of Truro): IN SANCTO AC DEBITO LOCO IOANNEM COVCH ADAMS QVEM INTER INFINITAS RERVM TENEBRAS SCIENTIARVM IDEM VIAS FIDELITER INDAGANS NOTVM IN CHRISTI VOLTV DILEXIT DEVM ALTERA ALTERI ACCEPTVM REFERVNT D XXI M IAN AD MDCCCXCII V A LXXIII M VI D XVI |