The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-07 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE EX•LORD CHANCELLOR

THE EARL OF COTTENHAM.

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We regret to announce the decease, after so early a retire •
ment from public life, of the late Lord High Chancellor of
Great Britain, the Earl of Cottenham. His Lordship died at
Pietra Santa, in the Duchy of Lucca, on the 29th ult , in the
71st year of his age.
The Right Hon. Charles Christopher Pepys, first Earl of
Cottenham, was second son of Sir William Weller Pepys
(first Baronet), by the eldest daughter of the Right Hon.
1V illiam Dowdeswell. He was brother to the Bishop of
Worcester. Born, 1781; marrie I, in 1821, the daughter of
William Wingfield, Esq., and niece of the second Earl of
Digby ; graduated LL.B. at Trinity College, Cambridge,
1803 ; was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1804 ; ap-
pointed a King's Counsel, 1826 ; Solicitor-General to Queen
Adelaide, 1830 ; Solicitor-General to the King, February,
1834 ; Master of the Rolls, September, 1831; First Corn-
missioner when the great seal was in commission, in 1835 ;
Lord Chancellor front 1836 to September, 1841, and again
appointed to that oflice.. in , August, 1846 ; was appointed
a Commissiditer corisider the state of the bishoprics,
1847. Represerits the 'borough of Mallon in Parlia-
ment from 1832 to 1836 ; had previously sat
for Iligham Ferrars. The family of Pepys settled
at Cottenham, in Cambridgeshire, early in the sixteenth
century ; and one of its representatives, Richard Pepys, was
a chief justice in Ireland in 1664 ; his great-grandson was
father of Sir Lucas Pepys, M.D., physician to George 111.,
and physician-general to the army, who received a baronetcy
in 1784 ; and the brother of Sir Lucas was Sir William
Weller Pepys, a Master in Chancery, who received a bi•
rouetcy iu 1801. Both these titles descended to Lord Cot-
tenham ; having succeeded his brother in the baronetcy
onet
(of 1801) in 1845, and his cousin in the baronetcy (of 1784)
in 1519. In 1834, however, he received the honour of
knighthood, and in 1835 was appointed a Privy Councillor.
He was created a baron in January, 1836, and was elevated
to the dignity of an earldom on his retirement front his high
office last year.
The lion. Charles Edward Pepys, born in 1824 (Clerk of
the Crown in Chancery), succeeds his deceased father as Earl
of Cottenham. Five other sons and six daughters survive
their noble and distinguished parent.
The Earl of Cottenham, it is scarcely necessary to add,
throughout life was ever a consistent Whig, and a sound and
impartial judge.

DEATII OF THE EARL OF BANTRY.
We regret to announce the death of the Earl of Bantry,
which took place at Glengariff Lodge, county Cork, on
Friday night. The Noble Earl was born on the 6th of
August, 1767, and was consequently in his 84th year. The
deceased nobleman was at all times a most firm and consis-
tent Conservative. As a resident landlord he was justly
popular with all parties, without distinction of sect or
creed. The titles and honours which Lord Bantry so
highly adorned were bestowed by his Sovereign for his gal-
lant exertions in repelling the menaced invasion of a foreign
enemy when the French fleet entered Bantry Bay in the
year 1796. He was created Baron Bantry on the 31st of
March, 1797, and was advanced, on the 29th of December,
1809, to the Viscounty of Bantry, and created, 22d of
January, 1816, Viscount Beerhaven and Earl of Bantry.
The late Earl was married, in November, 1799, to Mar-
garet Anne, daughter of William, first Earl of Listowel,
and by her (who died in 1835) he had four sons and a
daughter, the eldest of whom, Viscount Beerhaven, suc-
ceeds to the titles and estates of the deceased Earl.
Viscount Beerhaven was married in October, 1836, to the
Lady Mary O'Bryen, third daughter of William Marquis of
Thomond.

TT.
LoNDON HOSPITAL MEDICAL ScilooL —The an
nual distribution of prizes took place on Tuesday, May 6th
in the presence a a large body of the governors of the hos-
pital, and of the pupils and their friends ; Mr. C. B. Stut-
field, the Chairman of the house committee, presiding. Gold
medals presented by the governors of the hospital to pupils
for zeal and intelligence in n atten di g to the patients
Medical, Robert Brudenell Carter, liverton • surgical,
Alonzo Henry Stocker, Sheerness ; medicine, senior class,
gold medal, Thomas Peete, Margate ; honorary certificate,
A. H. Stocker ; junior class, silver medal, Harry May, Peck
ham ; slirgery, senior class, gold medal, A. H. Stocker; ho-
norary certificate, Henry Hanks, Bath; junior class
sio silver
medal, Henry Kersey Debenham ; anatomy and phylogy,
senior class, gold medal, George Edmund Swale, Ply mouth;
honorary certificate, Thomas Peete; junior class, silver
medal, H. K. Debenham ; chemistry, silver medal, Robert
Walker Jenkins, Charing; honorary certificate, Sydney
Haynes, London; forensic medicine, silver medal, T. Peete;
honorary certificate, G. E. smale ; materia medica, silver
medal, G. E. Smale ; honorary certificate, Thomas Busby
Jeffs, London; midwifery, gold medal, A. H. Stocker ;
honorary certificate, R. .13. Carter. At the conclusion of
the ceremony Mr. Stutfield delivered an able address to the
pupils.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.-At a General Court of the
Governors of this institution, held yesterday, the President,
Mr. Al lerman Thompson, M.P., being in the chair, testimo-
it
nies of the approbation of the Court were voted respectively
to three of the former pupils of the hospital, who are now
among its exhibitioners at the University of Cambridge :
To Mr. J. L. Hammond, in consequence of his having been
honoured with the following public announcement by the
Examiners, in their reeeut decision of the University
larship : —" The electors were unanimously of opinion that
the merits of James Lempriere Hammond, scholar of Trinity
College, were very nearly equal to those of the successful
candidate." To Mr. John Daniel Williams, scholar of Tri-
nity College, on his having obtained a place in the first class
of the Classical Tripes ; and to Mr. Charles
send, of Jesus College, on his having gained the Second Dell's
scholarship.
Lorti Bloomfield, who has filled for some years the
post of Minister at St. Petersburgh, is shortly expected
to return to this country en congt, previous to proceeding to