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    Died , on Thursday evening , the 7 th of April , almost nine years of age , MASTER WILLIAM RICriARD VENDING , son of Wtlli jim Vc titling Esq . of Holfoway . The death of tins afqiable youth is an additional instance of the precarious tenure by which we . hold all sublunary enjoyments .

    Befog of a very delicate constitution , hi : * parents entertained little hope of rearing him , till within these last twelve- * months during which his health an 4 strength were so much improved that they "began to dismiss all apprehension ^

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    Itev . William Wood . already alluded , he takes a full and impartial survey of the { Doctor ' s theological , philosophical , a * id literary labours . The stated and regular labours of Mr , Wood , as a preacher and pastor , were highly acceptable to < a numerous and affectionate flock j , to the youngs part of whom he also'devoted , at intervals , much time in more private instructions in the works and word of God . For

    this purpose he divided them into classes , after the example of his venerable predecessor , and delivered to each such instructions as appeared to him best suited to their respective ages , and previous proficiency in religious knowledge . In such a course of private instruction he was engaged at the time , of This < Jeath .

    Mr . Wood was a man of great cheerfulness and affability <> £ manners , of a most open and animated , countenance , which seemed * . particularly lighted up when he was engaged in the public exercise of his professional dtfties , so that tfiose who either statedly or Occasionally 4

    attended on hisministry , could scarcely avoid partaking of the glow which warmed the breast , and gave energy to the addresses of the preacher . But he was not only eminent fca the particular line of his profession ; he also pare a very respectable rank as a general scholar - There ivere few" branches of

    literature to which he hud not paid considerable attention , but he more especially cultivated Natural History , and in Botany wa } s particularly eminent . He was one of the original members of the Linnaean Society , was engaged as the writer of the botanical part of the Cyclopaedia now publishing by Dr . Rees , and it is understood that he conducted

    the Natural History department in the Annual Review . Of a work just published under the , title of J £ oography b y a gentleman of the same name , and often ascribed tq him ^ the author of this memoir jias his own authority for asserting that J-je h a 4 9 -knowledge . Since the removal of the Academical

    Institution for the education of Protestant £ ) issenting Ministers from Manchester to York , Mr . Wood has sus ? fained tne important office of Visitor ; ajid in this fcapactty , as well as in his general exbrtions in its favour , he was eminently serviceable to the interests of that highly respectable seminary . Mr . Wood married , about the year ? 78 o , Louisa , daughter of Gco . Oates ,

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    Master William Richard Ftttning .

    esq . of I ^ eeds , hj whom he has left tw # sons , and a daughter . He had' for severstl , . ye ^ urp been subject to gouty and bilious complaints . A severe attack of both these disorders at once , in September , 1806 . occasioned the sudden return of Mrs . Wood , who was absent on a journey ; the hurry of * which , aif od the fatigue of a too long and close

    attendance , brought on a nervous fever , of which she died , while his life was despaired of . He languished between life and death for several months , and was le , ft in a state of extreme debility . In the summer of 1807 , " by the blessing of God on eminent medical skill , and « i > re « mined ii Kal attendance , he was

    wonderfully recovered ; and was enabled $ 0 refeurne his public labours with his accustomed . vigour . During the whole ! of the last winter his friends had ]«| p deHghted with the spirit wdth whlcTOfe hajd gone through his accustomed services , and the very day before he was taken ilhhe had preached with his usual spirit and vivacity ; but on Monday the iBth of March an obstruction in the bowels

    Came on , which bafHed the efforts of hi < medical attendants , and he exhanged this life for a better on the Friday following , to his own great advantage , no ? doubt , but to the unspeakable loss of all those who had enjoyed the benefit of his instructions , or tlie happiness : cf . his acquaintance . ~ y . F . [ The above obituary wa . s intejided to have been inserted entire in the last numt

    ber , but was divided through a mistake , which no one regrets more than * the edi-r tpr . Some extracts from Mr . Wood's Writings , illustrating his character , are arranged for insertion in the number for June , in which also an omission or two > in the obituary will be repaired . ] EDITOR .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 281, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/53/