DR. SAMUEL OGDEN

In reply to your correspondent TWYFORD (Vol. ii., p. 73.), the original of the common surname *Ogden* is doubtless Oakden. A place so called is situated in Butterworth, Lancashire, and gave name to a family,—possibly extinct in the sixteenth century. A clergymam, whose name partook both of the original and its corruption, was vicar of Bradford, 1556, viz Dus Tho. *Okden*. The arms and crest borne by the Oakdens were both allusive to the name, certainly without any reference to King Charles's hiding-place. Dr. Samuel Ogden, born in 1716 at Winchester, was the son of Thomas Ogden, a man of very…