Saturday 08 Mar 1845 (p. 3, col. 7) Deaths. In Annetwell Street, on the 27th ult., Mrs. Margaret FAWCETT, aged 50 years. In the Kings Arms Lane, on the 1st inst., Mr. Lancelot CUMPSTON, chair maker, aged 38 years. In Paternoster Row, on the 4th inst., Emma, infant daughter of Mr. William WELSH. In Water Lane, on the 5th inst., Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Daniel HARDY, hair cutter, &c., Market Place, aged 3 years. At her father's house, Mireside, since our last, after giving birth to a still-born child, Mrs. WATSON, wife of Mr. WATSON, grocer, late of Scotch Street, in this city. At Carleton, on the 26th ult., Mrs. Ann HARRINGTON, aged 73 years. At Thursby, on Monday last, Jane, infant daughter of Mr. J. HUTTON, husbandman. At Moor End, near Thursby, on Monday last, in child bed, Martha, wife of Mr. James RICHARDSON, weaver, aged 29 years, much lamented. At Armathwaite, lately, William SCOTT, aged 14 years. At Wigton, on Saturday, the 1st instant, Mrs. Ann HEWSON, widow, aged 72 years, late of Parton, in the parish of Thursby, much respected. At Dockray, in the parish of Wigton, on the 1st instant, Mr. Edward EDGAR, aged 88 years. At the Vicarage, Bromfield, on the 4th inst., of the hooping cough, John Reay, son of the Rev. Thos. MARTIN, aged eleven months. At Naworth Castle, on the 2nd instant, Mr. John NOBLE, aged 87 years. At Bowbank, near Kirkhouse, on the 1st inst., of five days illness, Mr. John STOBBART, aged 44 years. By this premature bereavement, a disconsolate widow and nine children are left to deplore the loss of an affectionate husband and an endearing parent. On the 1st instant, Martha, wife of Mr. Edward NICHOLSON, grammar school, Penrith, aged 52 years. At Penrith, since our last, Elizabeth, widow of the late Wm. BIRBECK, Esq., brewer, aged 83 years; Margaret, wife of Mr. T. TURNBULL, surveyor, aged 68. At Eamont Bridge, lately, Sarah, daughter of Mr. John ROBSON, blacksmith, aged 26 years. At Brockle Moor, Plumpton, lately, Mary, widow of the late Joseph DAWSON, aged 75 years. At Cockermouth, on the 2nd inst., of consumption, Richard, youngest son of Mr. FELL, Castle Gate, aged 14 years. At Cockermouth, on the 2nd inst., Mr. Joseph HURD, aged 59 years. At Dovenby, near Cockermouth, on the 2nd inst., Mrs. Charlotte YARKER, aged 65 years. At Harrington, on the 26th ult., Mrs. Jane CAIRNS, widow, aged 45 years. At Kelton Head, Lamplugh, on the 23rd ult., Mr. J. DALE, aged 73 years. At the North Toll Bar, Egremont, on the 26th ult., Eleanor, wife of Mr. William UDALL, aged 85 years. At Egremont, on the 3rd inst., Mr. William TIDYMAN, stonemason, aged 27 years. At Keswick, on the 28th ult., Miss Jane LLOYD, in the 18th year of her age. At Briery Cottage, near Keswick, on the 24th ult., Thomas, son of Mr. John GRAVE, aged 12 years. At Low Loscales, on the 24th ult., aged 74, Mary, relict of the Rev. John BOLTON, late Vicar of Millom. At Whitehaven, since our last, Mary, wife of Mr. George JARDEN, aged 42 years; Mary PARKER, aged nine; at the Union Workhouse, on the 3rd inst., Creyton ROBES [Creighton ROBBS according to FreeBMD], aged 78; Thomas TODD, aged seven. At Liverpool, lately, Mr. Joseph F. HODGSON, a native of Kidburngill, near Whitehaven, aged 19 years. At Kendal, since our last, Mr. Thomas GARNETT, formerly sergeant in the Royal Westmoreland Militia, aged 67 years. At Hadley, Middlesex, on Sunday, the 23rd ult., aged 26, Emma, Eliza, wife of Charles T. CARTER, Esq., surgeon, late of Newcastle. DEATH OF LORD WYNFORD..To the list of illustrious and celebrated individuals who, since the commencement of the present year have ceased to be numbered among the living, we have to add the name of William Draper BEST, first Baron Wynford. His lordship expired on Tuesday morning last, at his seat Leesons, Kent, aged 78, having been born in 1767. The deceased peer was a native of Somersetshire, and received the rudiments of education at the grammar school of Crewkerne, in that county. Having determined on adopting the law as his future professional career, he was entered of the Society of the Middle Temple, and was called to the bar in Michaelmas Term, 1789. The circumstances which led to the retirement of Sir William D. BEST from the chief seat in the Common Pleas are not generally known. We believe the following statement contains the true version, and will not now be read without interest. When Sir Charles WETHERELL vacated the attorney-generalship, ministers found themselves in some perplexity, shown by the unusal [sic] time which elapsed before the nomination of a successor to the post. After having once before suffered another to be put over his head as first law-officer, Sir Nicholas TINDAL (then Solicitor-General) could not, without being a party to his own degradation, again submit to such an indignity. To have promoted him to the attorney-generalship would have involved the necessity of an appeal to his constituents; which if disastrous, as it was likely it would be, and following upon Mr. (now Sir Robert) PEEL's rejection at Oxford, it would have been not only disagreeable, but probably fatal, to the government. A vacancy was therefore created for him on the bench. Sir N. TINDAL would have preferred to have been made Chief Baron of the Exchequer; and it was actually proposed to Chief Baron ALEXANDER that he should retire upon a peerage; but the proposition was rejected. The Chief Baron had no claim to a pension, and had no disposition to resign the solid advantages of his post for the empty honours of a peerage. The next application was to Chief Justice BEST, who had already thrown out hints of a desire for a coronet. The prospect of obtaining the object of his hopes had such an effect upon a constitution already impaired by hereditary gout, as to bring him at once within the meaning and intent of the acts of Parliament regulating the retirement and pensions of the judges. His case was decided as being within the statutory provisions, and his lordship retired with a pension of £3,750. But, although compelled to withdraw from the bench, no longer able to perform its duties, and under a statute which requires that the judge to whom the pension is granted shall be afflicted with "a permanent bodily infirmity disabling him from the due execution of his office," Lord Wynford was nominated to the office of deputy speaker of the House of Lordsin direct violation of the terms, as well as the spirit of the wholesome statute. On the formation of the GREY administration in 1830, this disgraceful job was set aside. The disappointment inflicted on Lord Wynford was never forgiven. The latter part of Lord Wynford's parliamentary course was imbued with more than the ordinary quantity of political virus. The part his lordship took in the formation of Orange lodges in England, and his correspondence with Colonel FAIRMAN, one of the secretaries of that mischievous confederacy, was made the subject of parliamentary discussion, and rendered him the subject of unenviable notoriety. The growing infirmities of advancing age at length compelled Lord Wynford gradually to withdraw himself from public life. The deceased peer married, in 1794, the second daughter of Jerome KNAPP, Esq., who has been some years dead, and by whom he had ten children, four of whom only, however, survive him, namely, the Hon. William Samuel who succeeds to the title, born 1798, and married the youngest daughter of William HOYTT, Esq., of Berkshire; the Hon. Captain Thomas BEST, R.N., married to the second daughter of Lord RENYON; the Hon. and Rev. Samuel BEST, rector of Abbott Ann, Hants, and married the youngest daughter of Sir James BURROUGHS, late one of the judges of the Common Pleas; and the Hon. Grace Anne, married to Phillip Luke GODSAL, Esq. DEATH OF BARON GURNEY.We regret to have to announce the death of Sir John GURNEY, late one of the Barons of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, which event took place on Saturday last at his residence in Lincoln's-inn-fields, in the 78th year of his age. In 1793 he was called to the bar, and in 1797 he married the daughter of W. HAWES, Esq., M.D. In 1816 he was appointed a King's Counsel, and he was promoted to the bench, on which occasion he received the honour of knighthood. It will be recollected that the learned judge resigned his judicial office on account of ill health a few weeks since. The name of GURNEY is associated in the mind of almost every reader with acts of enlarged munificence. The habits of Sir John GURNEY were in perfect harmony with the reputation for benevolence which so many members of his family enjoy. It is said that his clerk was in the habit of dispensing several hundreds a-year in small donations upon cases carefully selected and liberally relieved. The deceased judge was a man eminent for his attention to religious duties, and it is believed equally eminent for the practise of many Christian virtue. On religious subjects, however, he was a man who not only thought for himself, but more than once changed his opinions. In early life he was a member of an independent congregation at Clapham, of which the Rev. G. BROWNE was the minister. As he advanced in years he manifested an evident leaning towards Unitarian opinions; but before his elevation to the bench he joined the Church of England. It need scarcely be added that his life and character caused him to be regarded as one of its most worthy members.