On Tuesday died, at North Stoneham, near Southampton, the Rev.
Canon Frederick Beadon, in the 102nd year of his age. He was born in London in December, 1777, and would con- sequently have been 102, if he had lived to the end of this year. He graduated at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1800, became Vicar of Tetley, and subsequently Rector of Stoneham, in 1811, and has held the rectory therefore for sixty- eight years. In 1812 he was made a Canon of Wells Cathedral, and, till within the last three or four years, has regularly attended the Cathedral, at the usual intervals, as Canon in residence. He was the last survivor of the old freemen of Southampton, and the founder of the Southampton Savings Bank, of which he was for sixty years a manager, and for some years the chairman. He must have remembered well hearing of the attack on the Bastille,—which occurred when he was twelve years old, —and all the incidents of the great French Revolution.
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