ADEY

Reverend John . b. Painswick, Gloucs. 15 May 1793; in busine at Winslow, Bucks; began first voluntary Sunday school in Gloucester; founded a Sunday school at Great Horwood; ordained congregational minister there 1820; moved to Cran brook, Kent then to Ramsgate; minister at Horselydown, Surrey 1836–58; at Bexley Heath, Kent 1858–68 when he retired; author of The eleventh hour 1835; The convert from popery 1851. d. Bexley Heath 16 Dec. 1869. bur. Abney Park cemetery. ADIE, Alexander James . b. Edinburgh 1775; an optician there; much employed by all kinds of inventors to give their schemes a practical form; erected on his house in Merchant court an observatory, long before any public observatory existed in Edin.; invented the sympiesometer 1818 which contributed much to the safety of shipping; F.R.S. Edin. d. Canaan near Edinburgh 4 Dec. 1858.