“ Octavian Blewitt, K.L., F.R.G.S., many years of the Royal Literary Fund, whose death has been briefly recorded in The Times, was born in 1803, in St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate, where his father was settled as a merchant. Mr. Blewitt spent much of his early life in the medical profession, and was from some time engaged as a tutor in classics to the son of Sir James Clark, the eminent physician. He subsequently travelled much in Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and other countries, and on his return to England was, in 1839, elected to the post of secretary of the Royal Literary Fund. ”