Calendar: 1848-1849 Page 29

ANNUAL REPORT 1848 25 Passing now from the subject of instruction it is with deep regret that the Council advert to the loss which the College has sustained in the decease of its first Visitor During seventeen years the late Archbishop of Canterbury watched with affec- tionate and parental solicitude over the growth of an Institu- tion which from its first foundation had flourished in an unexampled manner under his protection The uniform kind- ness and mild dignity with which for so many years his Grace presided over the Annual Meetings of the College and gave his countenance to the distribution of Prizes will not soon pass away from the remembrance of the friends and Students of the College The Council have the best grounds for expressing their conviction that the eminent and learned Prelate who has succeeded to the office of Visitor feels deep interest in King's College of which he was from the first supporter and that he will watch over its welfare in the same spirit as that which animated his Grace's lamented predecessor Two other subjects of sincere regret also require notice the death of the Marquis of Bute one of the Life Governors and that of Sir Charles Price Bart one of the members of the Council In conformity with the provisions of the Charter his Grace the Visitor has nominated the Marquis of Cholmondeley to supply the vacancy in the list of the Life Governors occa- sioned by the Marquis of Bute's death The Governors of the College in consequence of the late Visitor not having exercised the powers committed to him within six months of the vacancy occasioned by the decease of the late Duke of Northumberland which was notified to the last General Court have nominated Rear Admiral Lord liadstock to be Governor for life There are therefore two vacancies in the Council which it devolves upon the General Court to supply the one occa- sioned by the death of Sir Charles Price and the other by the nomination of Lord Radstock to the office of Life Governor