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XXIV LIFE OF DR. KELLY.
and Welcli scholars ought to unite in the undertaking, and
render each their own cokimn as perfect as possible."
In the Manx Sun, of July 24, 1858, the following announce-
ment appeared, which deserves to be transferred to this Memoir,
as a tribute to the memory of Dr. Kelly, and at the same time
as commemorating a generous act of his surviving relative : —
*' We have been informed that Mrs. Gordon Kelly, widow of tlio
late Gordon William Kelly, Esq., recorder of Colchester, only
son of the well-known Dr. Kelly, a native of this Island, has
transmitted to the Venerable the Archdeacon of this diocese, the
sum of £1000, for the purpose of founding at our Insular College
an exhibition to the Universities from that institution, open to
all competitors ; and another sum of £100, the interest of which
Mrs. Kelly wishes to be given annually as a Manx Prize. The
Eev. Dr. Kelly was an old alumnus of the Douglas Grammar
School, where he was a very favourite pupil of the Rev. Philip
Moore ; and afterwards took a large share in the general revision
of the translation of the Manx Scriptures."
Copy of inscription on a tablet lately set up in the parish
church of Braddan, Isle of Man : —
Jn d^Irmoru of
THE REV. JOHN KELLY, LL. D.,
OF ALGAEK, IN THIS PARISH,
VICAR OF ARDLEIGH, RECTOR OF COPFORD,
AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY^S JUSTICES OP THE PEACE,
IN THE COUNTY OP ESSEX; W^HO DIED 12tH NOV., 1809,
IN THE 60th year Of His AGE.