On the north side of Kingsland is

THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY.

which crowns the steep eminence above the river, from whence a prospect of the town and environs, more pleasing and comprehensive than can be obtained from any other station, bursts upon the view.

This handsome brick building was erected in 1765, at an expense of £12,000, and used for a few years as a Foundling Hospital, until the funds becoming inadequate to the support of the charity, it was shut up in 1774. It was afterwards employed during the American War, as a prison for Dutch prisoners, until 1784, when it was purchased by the several parishes of the town, and appropriated to the use of their infirm and helpless poor, who in their declining years here find a comfortable shelter from the pitiless compassion of the world, and are supplied with the decent and wholesome necessaries of life.

Descending the eminence, we cross the river by the ferry, proceed up the Quarry, down St. John’s Hill, and passing the Talbot Buildings, re-enter the Market Square, from whence we commenced our perambulation.

And now, traveller,
our tale is told,
and in sending you onward on your way,
we would heartily bid you “good speed,”
with a sincere hope that when in after years,
amid the storms and sunshine
which checquer the great journey of life,
thy restless memory in the stillness of reflection
shall recur to the few incidents which,
like oases in the desert,
have ministered to thy happiness,
recollection may long and fondly dwell
on those pleasing hours
you spent amid
the antient walls of
Shrewsbury.

EMINENT NATIVES OF SHREWSBURY;

WITH REFERENCES TO WORKS IN WHICH THEIR BIOGRAPHIES ARE DETAILED.

“There is a history in all men’s lives.”

Shakspeare.

Name. Distinction. Born. Died. References.
Adams, Wm. divine, 1706 1789 Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, ii. 218. Gent. Mag. March, 1789.
Armstead, T. author, 1662 Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. iii. 661.
Arnway, John, divine and author, 1601 1653 Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. iii. 307. Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy.
Benbow, John, admiral, 1650 1702 Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, ii. 390. Biographia Britannica.
Blakeway, J. Brickdale, divine and topographical historian, 1765 1826 Gent. Mag. xcvi. pt. 1. p. 277.
Bowers, John, Bishop of Chichester, 1724
Bowen, James, genealogist, 1774
Bowen, John, genealogist, 1832 Gent. Mag. cii. pt. 2. p. 185.
Burney, Chas. historian of music, 1726 1726 1814 Gent. Mag. 1814. Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 388. Life by his daughter, Madame d’Arblay.
Churchyard, Thomas, poet, 1520 1604 Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon. Life prefixed to Chalmers’ edit. of Churchyard’s Chips.
Costard, Geo. divine, biblical critic, & mathematician, 1709 1782 Biographia Britannica. Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 388.
Cresset, Edw. Bishop of Llandaff 1697 1755
Davies, Sneyd, divine and poet, 1709 1769 Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury. ii. 387. Nichols’s Illustrations, i. 485.
Farmer, Hugh, presbyterian divine and author, 1714 Life by Hugh Dodson, Biogr. Brit. v. 664.
Greisley, Hen. divine and poet, 1678 Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon, iii. 1167.
Gwynn, architect,
Haynes, Jos. artist and engraver, 1830 Gent. Mag. c. pt. 1. p. 379.
Jones, Sir, Thomas, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. 1614 1692
Onslow, Rich. Speaker of the House of Commons, 1528 1571 Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 167.
Orton, Job, Non-conformist divine 1717 1783 Life by S. Palmer, prefixed to his Letters. Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 478.
Owen, Hugh, divine and topographical historian, 1760 1827 Gent. Mag. xcviii. pt. 1. p. 478.
Parkes, James, artist, 1794 1828 Gent. Mag. xcviii. pt. 1. p. 376.
Pemberton, Thomas, lawyer and author, 1763 1833 Gent. Mag. ciii. pt. 1. p. 377.
Phillips, Ambrose, poet, 1674 1749 Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 284.
Plantagenet, Rd. Duke of York, 2nd son of Edwd. IV. 1473 1483
Plantagenet, George, youngest son of Edw. IV.
Price, Samp. D.D. divine, and chaplain to James I. and Charles I. 1585 1630 Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 212.
Price, Daniel, D.D. divine, 1631 Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon.
Scott, John, Non-conformist divine,
Scott, Jona. Dr. oriental professor and author, 1753 1829 Gent. Mag. xcix. pt. 1. p. 470.
Shrewsbury, Ralph, Bishop of Bath and Wells, elect’d 1329 1363
Shrewsbury, Robert, Biographer of St. Wenefrede, flo. 1140
Shrewsbury, Robert, Bishop of Bangor, consecrated 1197 1215 Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 98.
Talbot, Thos. antiquary, 1538
Talbot, Robt. antiquary, 1558
Taylor, John, editor of Demosthenes, 1704 1776 Some Account of the antient and present State of Shrewsbury, p. 371.
Thomas, Jno. Bishop of Salisbury, translated 1761 1766 Some Account of the antient and present State of Shrewsbury, p. 374.
Tomlins, Thomas, musician and composer, 1778 1847
Turner, John, lawyer and author, 1680 Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon. iii. 1269.
Waring, John Scott, friend and defender of Warren Hastings, and author, 1749 1819
Wooley, Edw. Bishop of Clonfert, consecrated 1665 Wood’s Fasti, 54.