all his public virtues met in concentra-
tion.

To his friends at large (whom he se-
lected cautiously by reason rather than
by impulse, and to whom he was attach-
ed by the bonds of religion rather than
by those of mere human feeling) he was
always their best friend-whether in
advancing their worldly or their religious
interests, or in assisting them out of
their earthly or moral difficulties. As
a Theologian he was most learned and
most discreet, and no bad authority pro-
nounced that his work on the Apo-
calypse is the most original, and the
most true, that any commentator on
that mysterious book has yet produced.
The errors of the splendid Michaelis
were gently but perfectly removed; and
his translator, Dr. Marsh, acknowledg-
ed with the candour ever attending
Christian learning, that it was so.

Dean Woodhouse presented to the
cathedral of Lichfield the painted glass
of the north transept window, represent-
ing nine of the most remarkable bene-
factors to the Church.

His death took place after an illness
of only eight days. He was on horse-
back a fortnight before, when, it is sup-
posed, he took cold, by which, added to
his extreme old age, his frame became
exhausted. His funeral took place
Nov. 23.; and, in conformity with his
wish, was as plain as was consistent
with the dignity and rank he held in the
Church. The ceremony was attended
by the Bishop of the Diocese, the Ven.
Archdeacons Hodson and Hamilton,
by the latter of whom the service was
read; the Rev. Chancellor Law, the
Rev. Canons Newling and Madan, and
by all the other officials of the Cathe-
dral. Among the Parochial Clergy
who attended, were, the Rev. T. Levett,
Rev. T. G. Parr, Rev. Dr. Harwood,
Rev. H. G. Lonsdale, and others. H.
D. Acland, Esq., son-in-law to the la-
mented Dean, was chief mourner, and
was supported by two grandsons of the
deceased. The bells of all the churches
in the city were tolled, and the shops all
closed.

Dr. Woodhouse had one son, Chappel
Woodhouse, Esq., who died Feb. 8.
1815, in the 35th year of his age, having
married, in 1812, Amelia, youngest
daughter of Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart.,
by whom he left two children Gen-
tleman's Magazine.

WOOLL, the Rev. John, D.D.,
for twenty-one years Head Master of

Rugby School; November 23. 1833;
at Worthing.

He was educated at Winchester, un-
der Dr. Warton, and at New College,
Oxford, where he graduated M. A.
1794, B. and D. D. 1807. Whilst at
Oxford, he published in 4to., 1793, a
poem entitled "The King's House at
Winchester; an edifice which had
then been recently appropriated to the
reception of the French refugees. In
1796, he was presented by Lord Sto-
well to the Rectory of Blackford, in
Somersetshire, which he held for seve-
ral years.
In 1806, he published in
4to. Memoirs of his old Master, Dr.
Warton, (see the Monthly Review,
N.S. vol. iii. p. 225–235.).

From 1799 to the close of 1806,
Mr. Wooll was Master of the Free
Grammar School at Midhurst, in
Sussex, the character of which he con-
siderably raised by introducing the
system of tuition practised at Win-
chester. In 1807, he succeeded the
late Dr. Henry Inglis at Rugby, and
he remained in that situation until
1828. During his mastership, the
school was entirely rebuilt, and the boys
increased to the unprecedented number
of 380. The many very excellent
scholars who, from his previous tuition,
have distinguished themselves at both
our Universities, will long continue to
bear ample testimony to his merits as
a teacher; and he had most justly the
reputation of being so excellent a Dis-
ciplinarian, that he had rarely occasion
to resort to that extremity of punish-
ment expulsion, either private or
public.

Firm and consistent in his
conduct, he duly upheld the dignity of
his station; whilst, mild and forbearing
in practice, he commanded the love
and esteem of his scholars. Courte..
ous and pleasing in his manners, in
conversation entertaining and instruc-
tive, as a neighbour hospitable, as a
friend kind, so long as a Rugbeian
taught by bim shall survive, so long
will his memory be respected. Gen-
tleman's Magazine.

Y.

YATES, the Rev. Richard, D. D.,
F.S. A., Rector of Ashen, Essex, and
for 36 years. one of the Chaplains of
Chelsea Hospital; August 24. 1834;
at his house at Penshurst, Kent.

Dr. Yates was a native of St. Ed-

mund's Bury, born in 1769; and was
admitted to his degrees at Cambridge,
as a member of Jesus College, B. D.
1805, D. D. 1818. He was presented
to the Rectory of Ashen in 1804, by
the Earl of Chichester, as Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Dr. Yates has long been known to
the public, and few men have passed
through life with more honour and
usefulness. In his religious character
he was respected, in his literary cha-
racter admired, and in his moral and
social character beloved by all to whom
he was known. He had a benevolence
of disposition which was unwearied in
the service of those whom he had power
to benefit; and his talents, his time,
and his strength were never employed so
agreeably to himself, as when he could
make them profitable to others. He
was an active and liberal promoter of va-
rious institutions of charity, and, among
these, the Asylum for the Deaf and
Dumb, the Literary Fund*, the Clergy
Orphan Society, the School for the In-
digent Blind, and the Philanthropic
Society, were favourite objects of his
regard. At the Chapel of the last-
mentioned institution he was, for some
years, a zealous and earnest preacher.
He published: –

1. "An Illustration of the Monastic
History and Antiquities of the Town
and Abbey of St. Edmund's Bury.
Part I. 4to. 1805."

2. "A Sermon preached at the An-
niversary of the Royal Humane So-
ciety. 1809."

3. "The Work of an Evangelist,
a Visitation Sermon preached at Hal-
stead, Essex. 1813."

4. "The Church in Danger: a
Statement of the Cause, and of the
probable Means of averting that Dan-
ger, attempted, in a Letter to the Earl
of Liverpool. 1815."

5. "The Basis of National Welfare,
considered in Reference chiefly to the
Prosperity of Britain, and the Safety
of the Church of England, in

a

Of this Society he was for thirty
years one of the Treasurers. To mark
their high sense of his zeal and exer-
tions in that office, the Committee have
lately had a copy made, for their apart
ments, of a good portrait of Dr. Yates,
by S. Drummond, A. R. A., of which
an engraving was published in the Eu-
ropean Magazine for July, 1818.

Second Letter to the Earl of Liver-
1817."

pool.

6. "The Gospel Kingdom, a Visit-
ation Sermon preached at Halstead,
Essex. 1818."

7. "A Catalogue of the Evidences
of Christianity, which may be used as a
Sequel to the Catechism of the Church
of England. 1820."

8. "Patronage of the Church of
England concisely considered, in re-
ference to National Reformation and
Improvement, and the Permanence
of our Ecclesiastical Establishments.
1823."

In all the productions of the pen of
Dr. Yates are evident marks of high
Christian principle, strong sense, and
kindly feeling. The most popular of
his publications was "The Church in
Danger," printed at a time when the
deficiency of places of public worship
for the members of the Church of
England was a subject of great and
just alarm to the friends of that com-
munion. This work was eminently
serviceable in drawing the public atten-
tion to a grievance affecting not only
the interest of the Establishment, but
the good order and morals of the
country, and it was owing to the state-
ment of such facts as Dr. Yates de
tailed, that the Government of that day
proposed parliamentary grants for the
erection of new churches and chapels
in the metropolis and other places of
crowded population. Mr. Vansittart,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a
speech advocating the measure, said,
that " he had derived much valuable in-
formation from the very useful pub-
lication of Mr. Yates, which he could
recommend to every gentleman who
might wish to turn his attention to the
subject." The Reviewer of "The
Church in Danger," in the British
Review (Nov. 1815), thus expresses
himself: "Now that Mr. Yates has
put his hand to the plough, we entreat
him not to withdraw it.
The subject

is, in a great measure, his own. The
fervent effectual labours of a pious man
will avail much. Let Mr. Yates per-
severe. His prudence will secure him
from excess, his sincerity will support
his zeal, his intelligence will arm his
wishes. While others are cumbered
about much serving with respect to the
Church, he will be busy about that
which is essentially needful. The city
of God, with its rising glories, will in
part own him for its founder; and if