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of the local Reform Association; and then Mr. Hardy being dead, another member of his firm (Mr. Padmore) took up the cause and was elected in the place of Mr. Laslett. At length Mr. Ricardo also resigned, and Mr. Sherriff, the eminent railway manager and proprietor, was elected. Messrs. Padmore and Sherriff are the present Members.

Worcester can produce a long list of great and distinguished men, either born in or connected with the city; and first let us look among the ecclesiastics: there are Saints Dunstan, Oswald, and Wulstan, the nursing fathers of the infant Church of Worcester, and whose bones attracted many a weary pilgrim and chest full of coin to the monastery; Living, the friend and minister of Canute; Senatus, the literary prior of the twelfth century; Florence and Hemingus, the monkish historians; Anselm, John of Dumbleton, and John of Malvern, all of Worcester monastery, famous for dissertations on logic, philosophy, and miracles; not to claim William of Worcester, the place of whose nativity is disputed; Wickliffe, the father of the Reformation; Cantilupe, the defender of the English liberty against Papal rapacity, and a long line of bishops down to Latimer and Hooper, the martyrs; Lloyd, one of the seven bishops, and Hough, who made James II feel that English liberties would not be tamely surrendered to an idiot; The good bishop, Thomas Stillingfleet, the able defender of revealed religion; Maddox, the founder of Worcester Royal Infirmary; Hurd, the friend of Warburton; and the present Right Rev. Henry Philpott, the greatest scholar of his day, and one of the fittest of men for the episcopal mitre; Dean Hall, The "Christian Seneca;" Prebendaries Bright, the celebrated college master of the seventeenth century; Hickes and Hopkins, men of great learning and collectors of local records; and Bentley, the celebrated scholar; Dr. Thomas, author of the "Survey," and rector of St. Nicholas; Edward Kelly, the great imposter alchemist of the sixteenth century; the great Lord Somers, who was born in a house near the Cathedral; Sir Thomas Street, Town Clerk, afterwards M.P. for Worcester and Lord