Series 1 > Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
may then compete for scholarships in higher schools under
the management of the Incorporated Society. In the Board
Room of the Society in Dublin is a fine oil painting of
Bishop Pococke. The frontispiece1 of this volume is from a
photograph of it. Another portrait is said to have been painted.
‘ There was an admirable whole length of Dr. Pococke in
Turkish dress, by Liotard in the possession of Dean Milles of
Exeter, his first cousin.’ It is not known where this portrait is
now.
The founding of the weaving-school in Lintown led him to
execute a will on the 10th July 1763, in which he made pro¬
vision for its maintenance.
In 1764 the Bishop is again engaged on a lengthy tour
through part of England, the account of which forms two
volumes of ms.
In 1765 the Bishopric of Meath became vacant, and Dr.
Gore, Bishop of Elphin, was appointed; and Dr. Pococke pre¬
ferred to Elphin. But Dr. Gore, for monetary reasons, declined
to take out his patent, so Dr. Pococke was translated directly
from Ossory to Meath in July.
Bishop Pococke’s life in Meath was measured by months, and
yet his intense activity found scope in improving the grounds
round the episcopal residence, where he planted cedar and
chestnut trees, which still wave their luxuriant foliage at Ard-
braccan, living monuments to this industrious man. Tradition
says these cedars and some papyrus are the product of seeds
brought by him from Syria.
On the 15th September the Bishop was engaged in a parochial
visitation of his diocese, and when at Charleville, near Tulla-
more, suddenly died. Thus, just as he would have wished it,
whilst engaged in his primary duties, the silver cord was loosed,
the golden bowl was broken, and the spirit returned to God
who gave it.
1 The pen-and-ink sketch of the portrait was kindly executed by Mr. W.
Allan Carter, C.E., Edinburgh.