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mand of the Niger frigate at St. Vincent, and of the Seahorse at the blockade of the Bay of Naples. He was made rear-admiral in 1812, and vice-admiral in 1821. He died in 1833.

[See "Gentleman's Magazine," 1833, and Ralfe's "Naval Biography."]


Accepted Frewen

ARCHBISHOP,

Though the son of the rector of Northiam, in Sussex, is declared by Wood to have been born in Kent, in 1589, and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became chaplain to Charles II., in 1631, and subsequently Dean of Gloucester. He was made Bishop of Lichfield in 1643, whence he was translated to the Archbishopric of York in 1660, which office he held till his death, four years later, in 1664.

[See Wood's "Athenæ Oxon," by Bliss; and Le Neve's "Lives of the Archbishops."]


John Frith

PREACHER AND MARTYR,

Or Fryth, was the son of an innkeeper at Sevenoaks, though Fuller says he was born at Westerham. He was sent to King's College, Cambridge, but afterwards removed to Oxford, where, on account of his extraordinary learning, he was chosen one of the junior canons of Christ Church, then newly founded by Wolsey, and known as Cardinal College. He subsequently imbibed the principles