DALLAWAY, REV. JAMES, was bore at Bristol February 20, 1763. He was educated at the grammar-school, Cirencester, and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he became known by his talent for versifica tion. Ho took his M.A. degree in 1784, but failed in being elected Fellow of his college on account, it is said, of some satirical verses he had written. For several years he served as curate, and whilst so acting became editor of 'Bigland's Collections for Gloucestershire.' and took the degree of M.B. at Oxford in 1794. About 1795 the Duke of Norfolk, to whom he had dedicated his Origin of Heraldry,' obtained him the appointment of chaplain and physician to the embassy at Constantinople, and on his return to England Mr. Dallaway published ' Constantinople, Ancient and Modern, with Excursions to the Shores and Islands of the Archipelago, and to the l'road,' 4to, 1797. Some years later he contributed to the Archteologia,' vol. xiv., a paper On the Walls of Constantinople.' In 1797 the Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal appointed Mr. Dallaway his official secretary, and in 1799 his grace gave him the rectory of South Stoke in Sussex, and in 1301 the vicarage of Leatherhead in Surrey. He resigned South Stoke in 1803 for the sinecure rectory of Sliufold. During hie early years Mr. Dallaway devoted a good deal of attention to the subject of heraldry, and his first original publication was Enquiries Into tho Origin and Progress of Heraldry in England,' 4to, 1792. He had
before (1799) edited the Letters of Dr. ltuudle, Bishop of Derry, to Mrs. Sandys.' Later he devoted himself to artietie and topographical antiquities. He published in 1900 Anecdotes of the Arts in England, or Comparative Remarks on Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture;' in 1806 'Observations on English Architecture;' in 1816 Statuary and Sculpture among the Ancients.' lie edited in 1820 an edition of Walpole'a ' Anecdotes of Painting' and the ' Letters and other Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, from her original Manuscripts, with Memoirs of her Life,' 5 vole. 8vo, 1806. lie wrote also a ' Memoir' of Bishop Ridley; but the work by which he is best known, and one which will serve as the basis of the labours of any future his torians of Sussex, is his History of Western Sussex,' of which the third part (' Repo of Bra:saber') was edited by the Rev. E. Cartwright.. Mr. Dallaway was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1759 ; and he contributed several papers to the Society's • Archteo logia :' he was also an occasional contributor to the ' Gentleman's Magazine,' the Retrospective Review,' ite. Both as an autiquary and it writer on art he belonged to the old school, and there is in ad his writings a great want of precision, depth of research, and reach of thought. He died at Leatherhead in 1534.