CATHERINE DYKE STADE, _Aberavon_, _Glamorgan_. Daughter of J. and R. D. Stade. 6 11mo. 26 1849 SUSANNA STANILAND, _Hull_. 78 8mo. 26 1850 JAMES STEEVENS, _Basingstoke_. 59 2mo. 25 1850 MARY STRETCH, _Nantwich_. Widow of Richard Stretch. 80 3mo. 25 1850 ELIZABETH STRETCH, _Finedon_. Widow of Samuel Stretch, of Hortherton, Cheshire. 75 2mo. 27 1850 SARAH TACKABERRY, _Ballygunner_, _Waterford_. Widow. 88 5mo. 12 1850 GEORGE NORTH TATHAM, _Headingley_, _Leeds_. 78 5mo. 19 1850 JAMES TAYLOR, _Heston_, _near Brentford_. 79 2mo. 7 1850 BENJAMIN THOMPSON, _Spring Hill_, _Lurgan_. 77 3mo. 19 1850 THOMAS THOMSON, _Dublin_. Son of Benjamin and Sarah Thomson. 23 11mo. 21 1849 PHILIP H. L. THORNTON, _Sidcot_. Son of William and Catherine Thornton. 22 6mo. 5 1850 The subject of this memoir was a native of Kingsbridge, Devonshire; and was educated among Friends. He was not by birth a member of our Society, but was received into membership a short time previous to his death. Having been adopted by his uncle, he was taken to Ireland, when about fourteen years of age, as an apprentice to one of the Provincial Schools, of which his uncle was the superintendent. Endowed with natural abilities well adapted for the acquisition of knowledge, and possessing a taste for various branches of literature and science,--gifted, too, with engaging manners and affability of disposition, he became, as he grew up, a general favourite amongst those with whom he associated, and his immediate relatives indulged in fond hopes of his becoming an honourable and useful charter. His best friends, however, were sometimes anxious on his account, lest the caresses of the world should turn aside his feet from the path of safety, and prevent that entire surrender of heart and life to the requirements of the gospel, which alone consists with true Christian discipleship, and affords a well-grounded expectation of real usefulness and permanent well- being. But he was open to receive the admonitions of his friends, and there is reason to believe that the voice of Christian counsel was instrumental to his good. He was never very robust; and his application to study, in addition to his stated duties, was, perhaps, not favourable to bodily vigour. Before the expiration of his apprenticeship, he became so enfeebled, as to cause his relations much anxiety; and as his uncle and aunt had withdrawn from the Institution, the Committee of the School kindly acceded to their proposal to remove him to their own house. Here he soon rallied; and in the summer, of 1848, applied for the situation of teacher of Sidcot School. He entered upon the duties of the station with earnestness and zeal; and the notice and encouragement which he there received, tended both to render his occupation a delight, and to draw forth the more hidden depths of his character. His heart was in his work, and the field of labour particularly congenial to his taste.