declining an invitation to dinner. Letter to Pitt on the National Debt, 1795. Letter to Pitt on a National Bank, 1797. Letter to Pitt on the State of the Nation and the Prosecution of the War, 1797. Plan of Income-tax, 1802. He claimed to have invented the property tax of 1797. Observations on the Scarcity of Money and its Effects upon the Public; 3rd edit. 1816; reprinted in The Pamphleteer (vol. vii.). He argued that there was too little money in circulation, and that the bullion committee should have compelled the Bank of England to produce large coinages in gold and silver. Letter to Lord Grenville on the Metallic Standard, 1820; 2nd edit. 1820. He pleaded that bank-paper should be continued as legal tender, and that silver should be made the metallic standard. Family He married, in 1801, Elizabeth, the wealthy daughter of John Cook of Cheltenham. She died on 24 August 1847, having founded at Lincoln College, in her husband's memory, a scholarship of the annual value of fifty guineas, limited in the first instance to candidates born or educated in Berkshire. Sources References Further reading Erich W. Sippel, Another of Poe's “Savans”: Edward Tatham, Poe Studies — Old Series Volume 9, Issue 1, pages 16–21, June 1976. 1749 births 1834 deaths 18th-century English Anglican priests 19th-century English Anglican priests Rectors of Lincoln College, Oxford Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford