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# Death of Queen Caroline/Sae merry as we hae been

SAE MERRY AS WE HAE BEEN.
A Laſs that was laden’d with care, ſat heavily under yon thorn, I liſten'd a while for to hear, when thus ſhe began for to mourn: Whene'er my dear ſhepherd was here, the birds did melodiouſly ſing. And cold nipping Winter did wear a face that reſembled the Spring!
Sae merry as we twa hae been, See merry as we twa hae been, My heart it is like for to break,
When I think on the days we have ſeen, Our flocks feeding cloſe by his ſide, he gently preſſing my hand. I view'd the wide world in its pride, and laugh'd at the pomp of command! My dear, he would oft to me ſay. what makes you hard-hearted to me? Oh! why do you turn away from him who is dying for thee? Sae merry, &c.
But now he is far from my ſight; Perhaps a deceiver may prove, Which makes me lament day and nights, that ever I granted my love At eve, when the reſt of the folk were merrily ſeated to ſpin, ​I ſet myſelf under an oak, and heavily ſighed for him. Sae merry. &c.
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# Death of Queen Caroline/The busy bee

THE BUSY BEE.
A buſy humble Bee am I. that range the garden funny; From flow'r to flow'r I changing fly, and every flower's my honey. Bright Chloe, with her golden hair, a while my rich jonquile is, Till cloy'd with ſipping Nectar there, I ſhift to roſy Phillis. I ſhift, &c.
But Phillis's ſweet opening breaſt remains not long my ſtation, For Kitty muſt be now addreſs’d, my ſpicy breath'd carnation. Yet Kitty’s fragrant bed I leave, to other flow'rs I'm rover; And all in turns my love receives the gay wide garden over. The gay, &c.
Variety, that knows no bound, my roving fancy edges And oft with Flora I am found in dalliance under hedges: For as I am an arrant Bee, who range each bank that's ſunny, Both fields and gardens are my fee, and ev'ry flower's my honey. And every, &c.
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# Death of Nelson/The Lanarkshire Lads

THE LANARKSHIRE LADS.
# Death of Nelson/Death of Nelson

THE DEATH OF NELSON.
RECITATIVE.
# Death of Justice Marshall

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
506 U.S. vii
Death of Justice Marshall
January 25, 1993
The Chief Justice said:
As we open this morning, I announce with sadness that our friend and colleague Thurgood Marshall, a former Justice of this Court, died yesterday, January 24, 1993, at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1908, Thurgood Marshall was the grandson of a Union soldier, his namesake, and a great-grandson of a slave. His father worked as a dining-car waiter and a chief steward at a segregated club, and early instilled in his son the urge to question the legal status of minorities in this country. His mother taught school for over three decades and devoted herself to her two sons while they were growing up. Justice Marshall worked his way through Lincoln University and excelled at Howard University Law School under the tutelage of Charles Houston.
After a brief period in solo practice in Baltimore, Justice Marshall joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, eventually becoming its special counsel and, later, its director. The most influential civil rights lawyer of this century, Justice Marshall designed and implemented the NAACP's legal strategy to eradicate racial discrimination in education, transportation, housing, and the voting booth. In [p. viii] courthouses across the country, he became the champion of equal opportunity for minorities. As an advocate, Justice Marshall won 29 cases before this Court, including the landmark Brown v. Board of Education.
He left the NAACP when President Kennedy appointed him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1961. In 1965, President Johnson named him Solicitor General and, two years later, appointed him an Associate Justice of this Court.
Justice Marshall's contributions to constitutional law before his appointment to this Court were singular. These contributions alone would entitle him to a prominent place in American history had he never served on this Court. Building on those earlier accomplishments, he became an important voice in shaping the decisional law during his twenty-four years on the Supreme Court bench.
The members of this Court will miss Justice Marshall's wit, warmth and charm, and I speak for them in expressing our profound sympathy to Mrs. Marshall, her sons Thurgood and John, the remainder of the Marshall family, and all those whose lives were touched by this extraordinary man. The recess this Court takes today will be in his memory. At an appropriate time, the traditional memorial observance of the Court and the Bar of the Court will be held in this Courtroom.
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# Death of Nelson/The Greenock Sailor

THE GREENOCK SAILOR.
FINIS.
# Death of Lady Isabel Burton

Appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 2 May, 1896
In speaking of the death of Lady Isabel Burton, widow of Sir Richard Burton, the explorer, who died at her house in Baker-street, London, on 22nd March, the Westminster Gazette says: - "Lady Burton, a most devoted wife, never thoroughly recovered the shock of her husband's death a few years ago. Everyone remembers the sensation caused by her announcement that she had burned the manuscript of a certain work left by her husband, because she did not deem it right to publish it. The destruction meant at least 6000 guineas loss to the plucky widow, but not for 6,000,000 guineas—so she said at the time—would she have brought it out. Lady Burton's stately figure will not be so widely missed now as it would at one time, for she had lived in retirement since her great loss. The tomb of her husband was prepared by her with a view to its reception of her own remains. It is in the Catholic cemetery at Mortlake—Lady Burton was a devout adherent of that faith—and takes the form of an Arabian tent. Her lonely visits to it of late have been numerous".
# Death of Nelson

DEATH OF NELSON.
THE RAKISH SAILOR.
The Lanarkshire Lads,
AND
The Greenock Sailor.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS.
1819.
* Death of Nelson
* The Lanarkshire Lads
* The Rakish Sailor
* The Greenock Sailor
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# Death of Nelson/The Rakish Sailor

THE RAKISH SAILOR.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Mackenzie, Thomas

​MACKENZIE, THOMAS, Lord Mackenzie (1807–1869), Scottish judge, son of George Mackenzie, a tradesman of Perth, was born on 16 May 1807. He received his early education at the Perth academy, and after studying two years at the university of St. Andrews, went to Edinburgh, where, while following the occupation of clerk, he succeeded in qualifying himself for the Scottish bar, to which he was called in 1832. He owed his success at the bar chiefly to the patronage of Lord-advocate Rutherford, to whom he acted as junior, and who highly valued his careful attention to details. In 1851 he was appointed sheriff of Ross and Cromarty, and solicitor-general, and in December 1854 was raised to the bench in the court of session, with the title Lord Mackenzie. He is credited with drafting the Bankruptcy Act of Scotland in 1856. He retired from the bench in 1864, and died on 26 Sept. 1869. 'No warm friendships,' said a writer in the 'Scotsman,' 'had he, no wife, no public explosions of benevolence, no quarrels. He toiled on to the end like a machine. Labour of the brain had become to him a sort of second nature, and in it he found the chief and almost only pleasure in life,' Mackenzie was the author of 'Studies in Roman Law, with Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England, and Scotland,' 1862, a clear and well-arranged text-book, which has passed into several editions.
[Scotsman, 29 Sept. 1869; Men of the Time; Men of the Reign.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Mackenzie, William Forbes

​MACKENZIE, WILLIAM FORBES (1807–1862), of Portmore, Peeblesshire, politician, born on 18 April 1807, brother of Charles Frederick Mackenzie [q. v.], was third and eldest surviving son of Colin Mackenzie, writer to the signet in Edinburgh, deputy-keeper of the signet, and a friend of Sir Walter Scott. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Forbes [q. v.] of Pitaligo, bart. The family was descended from the Mackenzies of Balmanully, a younger branch of the Mackenzies of Gairloch, who claimed as their progenitor Hector, son of Alexander, sixth baron of Kintail. Forbes Mackenzie was educated for the law, and was called to the bar in 1827. He succeeded to the estate of Portmore on the death of his father in September 1880, and in 1881 was appointed deputy-lieutenant of the county of Peebles. He also sat in the House of Commons as member for that county from 1837 to 1841, 1&41-7, and 1847-52. During 1845-6 he was a lord of the treasury. On 9 July 1852 he was elected one of the members for Liverpool, but in the following year he was unseated on petition, and he was not again returned to parliament. His only claim to notice is as the author of the act for the regulation of public-houses in Scotland, 16 & 17 Vict. c. 67, 15 Aug. 1853, known as the Forbes Mackenzie Act, which provides for the closing of public-houses on Sundays and at ten p.m. on week days. He died suddenly while on a visit to the Glen, Peeblesshire, on 24 Sept. 1862. By his wife Helen Anne, daughter of Sir James Montgomery of Stanhope, baronet, he had a son, Colin, and a daughter, Elizabeth Helen, who died young.
[Mackenzie's Hist. of the Mackenzies; Chambers's Hist. of Peeblesshire; Forster's Members of Parliament for Scotland; Official Return of Members of Parliament; Ann. Register, 1862, p. 372.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Mackerell, Benjamin

​MACKERELL, BENJAMIN (d. 1738), Norfolk antiquary, was second son of John Mackerell alderman, of Norwich (Norfolk Archæology, ii. 382), by Anne, daughter of Elias Browne of the same city (Addit. MS. 23011, f. 28). From 1716 to 1732 he was librarian of the Norwich public library, and in the latter year printed a 'New Catalogue of the Books,' 4to, Norwich, together with am 'Account of Mr. John Kirkpatrick's Roman and other Coins.' He died in March 1738 (London Mag. vii. 104), and was buried on April following in the chancel of St. Stephen's Church, Norwich (parish register). He married in 1723, and had several children.
[Blomefield's Norfolk (8vo edit.), iv. 161; Hist. of Norfolk (by J. Chambers); Gough's British Topography, ii. 5, 11, 19; Woodward's Norfolk Topographer's Manual, p. 250 n.; Eye's Norfolk Topography (Index Soc.); East Anglian, new ser. i. 344, 372; Norfolk Archaeology, ii. 403, iii. 241, 315, viii. 334.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Mackenzie, William Bell

​MACKENZIE, WILLIAM BELL (1806–1870), divine, son of James Mackenzie of Sheffield, was born on 7 April 1806, and was educated at the grammar school there. Both his father and mother died in 1822, and Mackenzie began to study law, but by the help of some exhibitions was enabled to enter Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 26 June 1830, graduating B. A. 1834, and M.A. 1837. He became curate of St. James's, Bristol, in 1834, and in 1838 incumbent of St. James's, Holloway, where the poverty of his parish involved him in much hard work. Mackenzie gradually collected a large congregation; he advocated the cause of the Moravian church, and was among the first to start special services in St. Paul's Cathedral. He died at Ramsgate on 22 Nov. 1870, leaving a widow and several children. He was the author of numerous works, the most important of which are:
* 'Gleanings from the Gospel Story,' 1859.
* 'Hand-book for the Sick,' 4th edit. 1861.
* 'Married Life, its Duties, Trials, and Joys,' 1861; new edit. 1867.
* 'Saul of Tarsus; his Life and Lessons,'1864.
* 'Bible Studies for Family Reading,' 1867.
[Life by Gordon Calthrop; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1715-1886; Allibone's Dict. of Engl. Lit.; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
A. F. P.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kymer, Gilbert

​KYMER, GILBERT (d. 1463), dean of Salisbury and chancellor of the university of Oxford, was educated at Durham College, on the site of which the present Trinity College stands. He graduated as master of arts and philosophy, bachelor of laws, and doctor of medicine previously to 1420 (Tanner). In 1412–13 he served the office of proctor, and from 1412 to 1414 was principal of Hart Hall. On 16 Dec. 1420, being still a layman, he was presented to the living of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, by William, lord Ferrers of Groby; this preferment he resigned in 1422. In 1427 he became dean of Wimborne Minster; on 28 June of that year was appointed treasurer of Salisbury, and on 28 Feb. 1427–8 was ordained sub-deacon by William, bishop of London, and priest on 29 May following. From 1431 to 1433 he was chancellor of the university. On 12 Feb. 1434 he was presented to St. Martin's Vintry, London (Newcourt, Repertorium, i. 422), and previously to 1447 became prebendary of Wells and Gillingham, ​and rector of Fordingbridge, Hampshire (Munimenta Acad. ii. 575). In 1446 he once more became chancellor of Oxford, and on this occasion retained his office for seven years, resigning on 11 May 1453. In 1447 he was one of those who became sureties for the carrying out of Cardinal Beaufort's bequest for the building of the new schools at Oxford (ib. ii. 568). In 1451 he is described as of Coventry Hall in St. Martin's parish (Wood, Hist. and Antiq. App. p. 53). On 16 June 1449 he was elected dean of Salisbury, and died in that city on 16 May 1463. He was buried in the cathedral, having made a bequest for the endowment of a chantry. There is an effigy of him, with a Latin inscription, in a window of the south transept.
Kymer was a physician of reputation, and in that capacity attached to the household of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, whom he probably induced to give his library to Oxford. In June 1455 he was called in to attend Henry VI at Windsor (Fœdera, ix. 366, orig. edit.) Kymer was author of a treatise which he addressed to Duke Humphrey, ‘Diætarium de Sanitatis Custodia.’ Two chapters of the work, together with the titles of the remainder, were published by Hearne in the appendix to his ‘Liber Niger Scaccarii,’ pp. 550–9. It exists in manuscript in Sloane MS. 4, ff. 63–98, in the British Museum. The treatise was written in 1424 in Hainault, whither Kymer had no doubt accompanied Duke Humphrey (Lib. Nig. Scacc. Pref. pp. xxxiv. and 559).
[Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hib. p. 461; Le Neve's Fasti Eccl. Angl. ii. 616, 646, iii. 467, 480, 582; Munimenta Academica (Rolls Ser.); Aubrey and Jackson's Wiltshire, p. 386; Maxwell Lyte's Hist. Univ. Oxf. pp. 319, 337.]
C. L. K.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kyle, James Francis

​KYLE, JAMES FRANCIS, D.D. (1788–1869), Scottish catholic prelate, born at Edinburgh on 22 Sept. 1788, was received into the seminary of Aquhorties, on the banks of the Don, in Aberdeenshire, on 23 Oct. 1799; was appointed professor in that seminary in 1808, and was ordained priest in 1812. He remained at Aquhorties till January 1826, when he was sent to St. Andrew's, Glasgow. On 13 Feb. 1827 papal briefs were issued appointing him bishop of Germanicia, in partibus, and vicar-apostolic of the newly formed northern district of Scotland. He was consecrated at Aberdeen 28 Sept. 1828 by Dr. Penswick, vicar-apostolic of the northern district of England, assisted by Bishops Paterson and Scott. He died at Preshome, in the Enzie of Banff, on 23 Feb. 1869.
Kyle collected many early documents, some formerly in the Scots College, Paris, relating to the history of catholicism in Scotland. He computed that his letters and papers connected with the ecclesiastical history of Scotland from about 1597 to a comparatively modern period amounted to thirty thousand. Kyle also supplied Prince Labanoff with valuable materials for his ‘Collection of the Letters of Queen Mary of Scotland.’ Kyle's collections are now in the library at Buckie, on the coast of Moray Firth, together with volumes of materials, collected either by Kyle himself or under his directions, for a history of the catholic religion in Scotland since the Reformation.
[Brady's Episcopal Succession, iii. 474; Catholic Directory, 1891, p. 62; Hist. MSS. Comm. 1st Rep. 120; London and Dublin Orthodox Journal, 1837, iv. 121; Register and Magazine of Biography, i. 290; Stothert's Catholic Mission in Scotland, pp. 509, 643.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kylmington, Richard

​KYLMINGTON or KYLMETON, RICHARD (d. 1361), dean of St. Paul's and theologian, was educated at Oxford, where he graduated as doctor of divinity before 1339. He was afterwards a clerk of Richard de Bury (Wharton, De Episc. Lond. p. 221), and seems to have been a friend of Richard Fitzralph [q. v.] In July 1339 he was employed in the embassy sent to negotiate with Philip of France (Fœdera, iii. 1084, Record ed.) On 18 March 1348 he was appointed archdeacon of London, which position he held for two years. In 1353 he was made dean of St. Paul's (Le Neve, Fasti Eccl. Angl. ii. 311, 321). He died in 1361, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. Kylmington is memorable for his share in the controversy on evangelical poverty between Richard Fitzralph, archbishop of Armagh, and Roger of Conway [q. v.] the Franciscan. According to Wood, Kylmington was the first to oppose Conway (Hist. and Antiq. Univ. Oxford, i. 475, ed. Gutch). Kylmington's contributions to the controversy were: 1. ‘Pro Armachano contra fratres,’ inc. ‘Quod dominus archiepiscopus Armachanus.’ 2. ‘Contra Rogerum Conway,’ inc. ‘Licet ex responsione Armachani mei.’ 3. ‘Contra mendicitatem otiosam.’ None of these seem to be extant. His other writings were: 4. ‘Sermo de Adventu Domini’ (Bodleian MS. Auct. F. inf. 1.2); this MS. contains some seventy other anonymous sermons. 5. ‘Opuscula Logica,’ in MS. at St. Peter's College, Cambridge, No. 37 (Bernard, Cat. MSS. Angliæ, ii. 146). 6. ‘Quæstiones Theologicæ.’ 7. ‘De generatione ac corruptione.’ Leland calls him ‘most Aristotelian;’ in Bodleian MS. Auct. F. inf. 1.2, he is spoken of as ‘fratribus mendicantibus infensissimus.’ His name appears as Kilmyngton, Chillington, Kylvyngton, and Chelmeston.
[Leland's Comment. de Scriptt. Brit. p. 455; Bale, v. 95; Pits, p. 490; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hib. p. 990; Wharton, De Episcopis et Decanis Londinensibus, p. 221.]
C. L. K.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kynaston, John

​KYNASTON, JOHN (1728–1783), author, born on 5 Dec. 1728, was son of Humphrey Kynaston, mercer. On 20 Feb. 1744–5 he was admitted to Manchester grammar school; proceeded with an exhibition to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 20 March 1745–6; was elected a scholar on 1 Aug. following, and graduated B.A. in 1749, M.A. in 1752 (Foster, Alumni Oxon. 1715–1886, ii. 807). He was elected fellow on 14 June 1751, and died at Wigan in June 1783.
Kynaston published in 1761 a Bridgman oration spoken in Brasenose College chapel, ‘De Impietate C. Cornelio Tacito falso objectata.’ In 1764 he issued ‘A Collection of Papers relative to the Prosecution now carrying on in the Chancellor's Court in Oxford against Mr. Kynaston, by Matthew Maddock, Clerk, … for the charge of Adultery alleged against the said M. Maddock.’ ​He was a frequent contributor to the ‘Gentleman's Magazine.’ Nichols, in his ‘Literary Anecdotes’ (ii. 42 n.), acknowledges valuable help from Kynaston. The Latin inscription on the monument of Dr. Peter Francis le Courayer [q. v.] in Westminster Abbey was written by him. He also took an active part in behalf of Mary Blandy [q. v.]
[Smith's Reg. Manchester Grammar School (Chetham Soc.), i. 27, 224; Chalmers's Biog. Dict. xix. 435–7; Gent. Mag. LIII. ii. 627–8, 803.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cheshire, John

​CHESHIRE, JOHN, M.B. (1695–1762), physician, is stated to have been educated at Oxford, although he does not seem to have graduated there. He practised medicine in Leicester and the surrounding district, but never entered the London College of Physicians. He attained local celebrity and wrote two medical books: ‘A Treatise upon the Rheumatism,’ first published at Leicester in 1723, and afterwards in an enlarged edition, London, 1735; and ‘The Gouty Man's Companion,’ Nottingham, 1747. A case related (p. 14, ed. 1728; p. 26, ed. 1735) shows that Cheshire did not clearly distinguish between gout and chronic rheumatism. Of acute rheumatism his account shows little clinical knowledge, and is mixed up with trivial passages from other authors and much self-praise. For chronic rheumatism he recommends the waters of Kedlestone (p. 148), and for acute rheumatism advises cold baths and sweating between blankets (p. 75). ‘The Gouty Man's Companion’ is more interesting, but contains no important observations. Cheshire advises temperance as a preventive, draws up a diet scale, recommends tea in the afternoon, calomel and emetics during the attack, mercury in the intervals. He had observed that sciatic pain was sometimes a part of a general gouty condition, and this is almost the only weighty remark in all his pages. Of his personal history and character his medical writings give some glimpses. They show that he himself suffered from gout, that he had a high opinion of his own merits, and that he had been patronised by William, the third lord Craven. Craven was one of the followers of Pulteney, and in a servile dedication Cheshire goes out of his way to join in the ​cry against Walpole as a corrupt and wicked minister, who ought to be impeached ‘in order to satisfy the well-grounded resentment of an injured nation.’
[Cheshire's Works; Rudiments of Honour, 1753; a Letter to Dr. Cheshire by an Apotheoary in Birmingham, London, 1739.]
N. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Chessher, Robert

​CHESSHER, ROBERT (1750–1831), surgeon, was born in 1750 at Hinckley, Leicestershire. His father dying during his infancy, his mother married a surgeon named Whalley, residing also at Hinckley; and to him, after education at Bosworth school, young Chessher was apprenticed. He early showed aptitude for improvising supports for fractured limbs, especially for the purpose of obviating contraction of muscles and skin. At the age of eighteen he became a pupil of Dr. Denman, the eminent London accoucheur, attending William Hunter's and Fordyce's lectures. He afterwards became house surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, but before long returned to Hinckley, on his stepfather's death, and remained there, unmarried, during the remainder of his life, resisting solicitations to return to London. He died on 31 Jan. 1831.
Chessher was a very ingenious mechanician, employing a mechanic named Reeves to carry out his ideas. After 1790 he applied a double-inclined plane to support fractured legs with great success. He invented several instruments for supporting weak spines and for relieving the spinal column from the weight of the head, and for applying gentle steady friction to contracted limbs or muscles. It is to be regretted that his manuscript cases were not published, but his retiring manners prevented his merits from being fully known. His personal character appears to have been most estimable.
[Annual Biography and Obituary, 1832, pp. 396-408.]
G. T. B.