The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-12 00:00:00

THE LATE DEAN OF HEREFORD.

The late Dean was born in the North Riding of
Yorkshire in 1797, and educated at the school of
Mr. Rolfe, near Kendal, which in its day enjoyed a
merited reputation. It was here that Mr. Dawes
first met Whewell, who was three years
his senior—a difference of age which per
mated the former companions at school to
stand in the relations of tutor and pupil at Trinity
College, Cambridge. Some of our readers may
remember a lecture delivered by the late Master of
Trinity about eleven years ago at St. Martin's-hall,
in which, referring to the pupils he had had, he
advanced a stop or two and said, " and none that
does me greater credit than my dear friend here,
the Dean of Hereford"—laying his hand on the
Dean's shoulder as he spoke. The valuable services
rendered by the Dean to the cause of education
were then fresh in public memory, and the tribute
thus gracefully paid to him was received with
warm cheers. Mr. Dawes was fourth wrangler
of his year (13. A., 1817 ; M.A., 1820), and
was shortly afterwards elected fellow and mathe-
matical tutor of Downing !College. In 1838 he
accepted the living of King's Somborne, in Hants,
which he found one of the worst, and which his
conscientious diligence made one of the best
parishes in the county. When he went, there was
no school there, no squire to help found one, no
farmer who was not opposed to the work of popular
education ; but Mr. Dawes' zeal and industry sup-
plied every want, and in a few years the King's
Somborne school was pointed to far and wide as a
model, and eulogized by school inspectors. When he
accepted the deanery of Hereford, in 1850, the
bishop and clergy of the diocese united to present
him with a testimonial ; but what pleased him
even more than this mark of kindness was, that
the very farmers, who in the first instance strenu-
ously opposed him, came to thank him for the
good he had done. His exertions in the same
cause were not slackened in his new position, as
the condition of the Bluecoat School in Hereford
and others testifies. ThefDean was not satisfied with
merely educating the poor, he never lost an op-
portunity of helping on a deserving boy or girl,
and there are hundreds living who owe their first
start in life to his discerning benevolence.

tin Covrt.

WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 11.

The Queen and the Royal Family received this
evening the sorrowful, although not unexpected, intelli-
gence of the death of Prince Christiar.'s mother, the
Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein Auguatenburg.
The Queen and the Princess Louise walked and rode on
ponies in the grounds this morning.
Princess Christian, attended by the Duchess of Rex.
burgbe, went out walking.
Princess Beatrice rode in the Home-park, and Prince
Leopold drove, attended by Mr. Legg.
Prince Arthur has left the Castle for Greenwich-park,
attended by Major Elphinstone.
Lady Begot and the Rev. C. Kingsley have also left the
Castle.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Licut.-Coloncl Keppel,
rode out on horseback yesterday.
A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour.
able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-
office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague.
The lords present were the Lord President, the Duke of
Richmond, and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr.
Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the com-
mittee.

Dr. Burrow, President of the General Medical
Council, had an interview with the Right Hon. Spencer H.
Walpole, at the Home-office, yesterday, in reference to the
amendment of the Medical Act, HISS.