(q.v.; 1682-1739).

John Stanley (1713-1786), Mus. Bac. Oxon., was born in London in 1713.
At seven he began to study music, and made such rapid progress that he
was appointed organist of All-Hallows, Bread Street, at the age of
eleven. He graduated as Mus. Bac. at Oxford when sixteen, and was
organist of the Temple church at the age of twenty-one. He composed a
number of cantatas, and after the death of Handel he superintended the
performance of Handel's oratorios at Covent Garden. He received the
degree of doctor of music, and was master of the king's band.

Leonard Euler (1707-1783), the celebrated mathematician and
astronomer.

John Metcalf (b. 1717), road-builder and contractor.

Sir John Fielding (d. 1780), eminent lawyer and magistrate.

Thomas Blacklock (q.v.; 1721-1791), Scottish scholar and poet.

Francois Huber (1750-1831), Swiss naturalist, noted for his
observations on bees.

Edward Rushton (b. 1756). At six years of age he entered the Liverpool
free grammar school, and at eleven shipped for his first voyage in a
West India merchantman. On a later voyage he was shipwrecked, and owed
his life to the self-sacrifice of a negro. Rushton and the black man
swam for their lives to a floating cask; the negro reached it first,
saw Rushton about to sink, pushed the cask to the failing lad, and
struck out for the shore, but never reached it. This incident made
Rushton an enthusiastic champion through life of the cause of the
negro. During a voyage to Dominica malignant ophthalmia broke out
among the slave cargo, and Rushton caught the disease by attending
them in the hold when all others refused help. This attack deprived
him of sight, and cut short a promising nautical career at the age of
nineteen. He struggled bravely against difficulties, and besides
entering successfully into various literary engagements, maintained
himself and family as a bookseller. A volume of his poems containing a
memoir was published in 1824.

Marie Therese von Paradis (b. 1759), the daughter of an imperial
councillor in Vienna. She was a godchild of the empress Marie Therese,
and as her parents possessed rank and wealth, no expense was spared in
her education. Weissembourg, a blind man, was her tutor, and she
learned to spell with letters cut out of pasteboard, and read words
pricked upon cards with pins. She studied the piano with Richter (of
Holland) a