The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-01 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY
INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Oxford Herald)
The Lord Bishop of Exeter has conferred the Precentor-
ship on the Rev. Wni. John Philpotts, M.A., late of Oriel
College.
The Rev. Arthur Nugent Buckeridge, M.A., late of St.
John's College, has been instituted to the Rectory of Ken-
nerleigh, Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. J.
Kirkness, on the presentation of the twelve Governors of
Crediton Charity.
The Rev. Richard Blackmore, M.A., of Exeter College,
has been instituted to the Rectory of Charles, Devon, vacant
by the death of the Rev. W. H. Vivian, on the presentation
of the Rev. R. Blackmore, of Cornbinartin.
On Thursday se'nnight, the Rev. the Dean and Chapter
of Ilereford unanimously nominated the Rev. F. B. Twisle-
ton, D.C.L., late Fellow of New Coll., and one of the Pre-
bendaries of Hereford, to be a Canon Residentiary of that
Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. A. Matthews,
Fellow of Brasenose College.
Last week, the Rev. Clement Greswell, M.A., Fellow of
Oriel College, was instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Glou-
cester and Bristol, to the Rectory of Tortworth, Gloucester-
shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. George Cooke, D.D.,
of Oriel College ; patrons, the Provost and Fellows of that
Society.
Yesterday se'nnight, Wm. Lonsdale, 8.A., of Oriel Col-
lege ; George Markham Gifford, S.C.L., Fellow of New
College ; Thomas Phinn, 8.A., Scholar of Exeter College ;
Win. Smyth, M.A., of Wadham College; John Whitlock
Nicholl, M.A., of Jesus College; and Win. Cope, M.A., of
Trinity College, were called to the Bar by the Honourable
Society of the Inner Temple.
On Tuesday last, Henry Trail Erskine, 8.A., of Balliol
College, and Edward James Bevir, M.A., of Pembroke Col-
lege, were called to the Degree of Barrister-at-Law by the
Hon. Society of Lincoln s Inn.
PROMOTIONS.

Rev. T. Young, to the Perpetual Curacy of Salcombe,
Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Lane ; patron,
Rev. D. Macdonald, Vicar of West Allington.
Rev. Alexander Annand, late of Jesus College, Cam-
bridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Road, Northamptonshire,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Wm. Butlin ; patrons, the
Duke of Grafton and the Rev. John Risley.
Rev. T. Williams, of Trostrey, to the New Church of
Abergavenny.
Rev. John Fox, M.A. to the Perpetual Curacy of Kirkby
Bellars, Leicestershire ; patron, Sir F. Burdett, Bart.
Lord Rollo has appointed the Rev. Thomas Grylls, Rector
of Cardynharn, Cornwall, to be one of his Lordship's Do-
mestic Chaplains.
Rev. Edward Baines,- M.A. Fellow of Christ's College,
Cambridge, and Rector of Clipston, Northamptonshire, to
be the Master of the Hospital and Free School, endowed by
Sir George Buswell, in that parish.
Lord Beaumont, of Carlton, has appointed the Rev. W.
H. Hugall, of Sproatley, .to be his Lordship's Domestic
Chaplain.
Rev. R. Martin, B.A. to the Perpetual Curacy of Dore,
Derbyshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. F. Parker ;
patron, Earl Fitzwilliam.
Rev. J. C. Harper, to the Vicarage of Stratfield Morti-
mer, Berks, vacant by the death of the Rev. H. Craven
Ord ; patrons, the Provost and Fellows of Eton College.