medal cast and chased by Gaab [1765]: (obverse) head of Stukeley wreathed with oak, æt. 54; (reverse) view of Stonehenge, ob. Mar. 4 [read 3] 1765, æt. 84 [read 78].
The following is a selection from Stukeley’s publications:
- ‘An Account of a Roman Temple [Arthur’s Oon] and other Antiquities, near Graham’s Dike in Scotland,’ 1720, 4to.
- ‘Of the Spleen,’ London, 1723, fol.
- ‘Itinerarium Curiosum; or an Account of the Antiquitys and remarkable Curiositys in Nature or Art, observ’d in travels thro’ Great Brittan,’ 1724, fol.; 2nd edit. 1776, fol.
- ‘A Treatise on the Cause and Cure of the Gout, with a New Rationale,’ 1734, 8vo (several editions).
- ‘Palæographia Sacra,’ 1736, 4to; also London, 1763 (a different work).
- ‘Stonehenge, a Temple restor’d to the British Druids,’ London, 1740, fol.
- ‘Abury, a Temple of the British Druids,’ London, 1743, fol.
- ‘Palæographia Britannica, or Discourses on Antiquities in Britain,’ 1743–52, 4to.
- ‘The Philosophy of Earthquakes, Natural and Religious,’ London, 1750, 8vo; 3rd edit. 1756.
- ‘A Dissertation upon Oriuna,’ 1751, 4to.
- ‘An Account of Richard of Cirencester … with his Antient Map of Roman Brittain … the Itinerary thereof,’ &c., London, 1757, 4to.
- ‘The Medallic History of M. A. V. Carausius,’ London, 1757–9, 4to.
- ‘Twenty-three Plates of the Coins of the Ancient British Kings,’ London, T. Snelling; published posthumously, without date.
[Family Memoirs of Stukeley (Surtees Soc.), 1882, ed. Lukis; Munk’s Coll. of Physicians, ii. 71 sq.; Nichols’s Lit. Illustr. and Lit. Anecd. especially v. 499—510; Gent. Mag. 1765, p. 211 (memoir by P. Collinson); Lowndes’s Bibl. Manual; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
STUMP, SAMUEL JOHN (d. 1863), painter, studied in the schools of the Royal Academy, and for many years held a prominent position as a miniature-painter; he had a large theatrical clientèle, and his portraits of stage celebrities, some of them in character, are numerous. He was an annual exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1802 to 1845, sending chiefly miniatures, with a few oil portraits and views; he also exhibited miniatures with the Oil and Watercolour Society during its brief existence from 1813 to 1820. Stump practised landscape-painting largely, and frequently sent views of English, Italian, and Swiss scenery to the British Institution up to 1849. He was a member of the Sketching Society, and his ‘Enchanted Isle’ was lithographed for the set of ‘Evening Sketches’ issued by it. His portraits of Lady Audley, Mrs. Gulston, Richard Miles (the collector), G. F. Cooke, Harriot Mellon, Louisa Brunton, and others were engraved, some of them by himself in stipple. Stump died in 1863. His miniature portrait of himself belongs to the corporation of London (Cat. Victorian Exhib. No. 454).
[Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists; Graves’s Dict. of Artists, 1760—1893; Roget’s Hist. of the ‘Old Watercolour’ Society; Exhibition Catalogues.]
STURCH, WILLIAM (1753?–1838), theological writer, was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, about 1753. His great-grandfather, William Sturch (d. 1728), was a general baptist minister in London. His grandfather, John Sturch, general baptist minister at Crediton, Devonshire, published ‘A Compendium of Truths,’ Exeter, 1731, 8vo, and a sermon on persecution, 1736, 8vo. His father, John Sturch, ordained (21 June 1753) minister of the general baptist congregation, Pyle Street, Newport, wrote ‘A View of the Isle of Wight,’ 1778, 12mo, which passed through numerous editions, and was translated into German by C. A. Wichman, Leipzig, 1781, 8vo. He died in 1794. One of his daughters married John Potticary (1763–1820), the first schoolmaster of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield.
William Sturch was an ironmonger in London, and an original member of the unitarian chapel opened by Theophilus Lindsey [q. v.] at Essex Street, Strand, in 1774. In 1799 he published anonymously a thin octavo, entitled ‘Apeleutherus; or an Effort to attain Intellectual Freedom.’ It consists of three essays; the third, ‘On Christianity as a Supernatural Communication,’ written with great ability and beauty of style, is interesting as exhibiting the sceptical side of a devout mind. A fine sonnet is prefixed to the work. In 1819 it was reprinted (anonymously), with a dedication to Thomas Belsham [q. v.], a fourth essay ‘On a Future State,’ and three additional sonnets. Sturch wrote one or two pamphlets in controversy with conservative Unitarians, and was a frequent contributor to the ‘Monthly Repository.’ He published also a very able pamphlet, with a view to Roman catholic emancipation, ‘The Grievances of Ireland: their Causes and their Remedies,’ 1826, 8vo. He took the chair at a dinner given in London (5 Jan. 1829) to Henry Montgomery, LL.D. [q. v.], when Charles Butler (1750–1832) [q. v.] was one of the speakers. He died at York Terrace, Regent’s Park, on 8 Sept. 1838, aged 85, leaving a widow Elizabeth (d. 23 Feb. 1841, aged 81) and family. He was buried in the graveyard of the New Gravel-Pit chapel, Hackney. His second daughter, Elizabeth Jesser (b. 25 Dec. 1789, d. 30 March 1866),
