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No. 106] | Established 1813.

THE

Annual Monitor

For 1918,

BEING AN OBITUARY

OF

MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

IN

(Sreat § litem anb Ireianb,

FROM OCTOBER 1, 1916, TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1917.

JOHN BELLOWS,
Eastgate, Gloucester.

1917.

JOHN BELLOWS

PRINTER

GLOUCESTER

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PREFACE

My first duty in writing this brief preface
to the much belated Annual Monitor for 1918,
'•; must be to apologise for the unavoidable delay
in its appearance. This has arisen mainly from
two causes — first, the very great difficulty attend-
ant on all printing under present conditions, and
secondly, the all but insuperable obstacles which
;. have stood in the way of my editorial work, the
latter being by far the chief difficulty. During
the last two years I have accepted responsibilities
which have occupied practically the whole of
every day, and my editorial labours have had
to be performed late in the evenings in the in-
tervals I could snatch from other pressing secre-
tarial and other work.

Last autumn I had foreseen many of the
obstacles which might lie in my path, and I
had come to the conclusion that it would not be
possible to produce the little book this year.
Many friends, however, learning my intentions,
strongly urged me not to drop the publication,
even for one year, and so break the continuity
which had hitherto remained unbroken for up-
wards of a century. The result was that, at the

IV. PREFACE

close of 1917, I finally resolved to do my best,
though I well knew that the little annual must
necessarily be extremely late in making its
appearance. I will say nothing further on this
head, except to thank the many Friends who
have sent me orders for copies during the long
period of waiting, for their kind forbearance
and patience, and to assure them that the pro-
longed delay has been to me a matter of much
concern.

I have this year made more extensive use
of the material which has already appeared
in the pages of The Friend, than is usually the
case, partly because of the great excellence of
many biographies published in that paper, and
partly from sheer want of time to obtain further
information from the friends of the deceased.
Perhaps I ought to apologise to my readers for
this, but I often think that it is to some extent
excusable from the fact that these accounts are
of great interest and value, and well deserve the
greater permanence which a place in the Annual
Monitor secures for them, rather than that given
in the somewhat ephemeral pages of a weekly
journal.

My thanks are due to the editors of The
Friend, The Ploughshare, Nature, and some other
periodicals for kind permission to reproduce
material from their pages. Also to the Monthly

Meeting Clerks and Registering Officers in the
whole of London and Dublin Yearly Meetings
and some in the Colonies, without whose help
I could not have compiled the Obituary. ' I
am greatly indebted also to the many Friends
who have so kindly and willingly prepared
memoirs or sent me information from which
these could be written. One or two of these
memoirs properly belong, in point of time, to
next year's issue, but considering the lateness
of appearance of the Annual Monitor for 1918,
I thought it best to include them in the current
year.

Little comment is needed on the subject of
the memoirs presented in this volume. We
have a record of several who have led active
business lives, and in most cases have passed
away in the fulness of time, after a long and
honourable career, loved and esteemed by all
who have known them, and venerated by their
fellow-citizens for their upright and consistent
lives. Two scientists have left us during the
year, one, after a long life of great usefulness ;
the other cut off almost at the threshold of what
promised to be a distinguished career. Two
lives of missionaries are here recorded, one taken
away in the midst of active service in China ;
the other after a few years of retirement from
the Indian mission field. The longest memoir

presented is that of our dear and honoured
friend Isaac Sharp, about whom, had space per-
mitted, much more might have been said. His
position gave him a unique knowledge of Friends
in all parts of the world, and his help in com-
piling the Annual Monitor has often been of
great value.

Last year the average age at death was much
reduced by the fact that so many young men
were called away at a comparatively early age,
owing to the war. The number of these recorded
last year was about thirty. I regret to say that
this year the number has risen to fifty -three, far
the majority of whom are reported as " killed
in action." Although this awful war still con-
tinues, there are, as I write, some indications
of the " beginning of the end," though some who
are supposed to be well informed warn us that
the war may yet linger on for another year or
two. Evidently no one is competent to pro-
phesy. It is quite possible however, that before
these words shall reach my readers, the terrible
conflict may be near its end. I am glad to think
that the attention of Friends is being increasingly
turned in sympathy with those of our members
who have thought it right to break with the
Quaker tradition, and to engage in active service
in the field. Whatever our own personal views
may be as to the right or wrong of their action,

we are bound to admit that many of them have
taken such a course from as strong a conviction
of duty as those who are suffering imprisonment
for refusing military service.

One of our Monthly Meetings, in common
with others, recently issued a letter of sympathy
and loving greeting to those of their members
so engaged ; and amongst the replies which
were received, one has come into my hands,
from which I feel inclined to quote a few sentences,
only remarking that although this expresses
the individual views of but one young Friend,
I know that his opinions are shared by many
others.

" I desire to thank you for your letter in
. which you refer to the sympathetic mention,
made in the last Monthly Meeting, of those of
us who have been led far from our homes by
the path of duty. I greatly appreciate it, for I
have often felt that the Society has been
singularly lacking, as a whole, in sympathy
for those of its members whose consciences
have led them to combatant service. I
have often regretted that, whilst such extrava-
gant pity has been show7ered by Friends on
those who, for conscience sake, have suffered
by their resistance to the Military Service
Act, so little has been given to those who, for

viii. PBEFACE

conscience sake also, have sacrified so much
more, and endured untold hardships and
dangers. My thoughts turn to the battle -
front in France, and I see there tens of thou-
sands of my comrades who, to uphold those
Christian principles for which their conscience
bade them fight, are enduring willingly and
cheerfully conditions and hardships, dangers
and horrors worse than the wildest nightmare,
such as cannot be imagined by those at home.
It is only six weeks since I returned from
France, but even since I left them, thousands
of these gallant men have made the supreme
sacrifice. They have laid down their lives
for conscience sake, and for us."

Jospjph J. Gill.
Newcastle - on - Tyne ,

October, 1918.

PORTRAITS

Facing

Page

Edward Ransome Allen ... 2

Joseph Firth Clark - - - - 32

Mary Jane Davidson - - - - 41

William Dodshon 50

Janet Nisbet Erskine 53

Margaret Ford - - - - - 61

John Orr Green - - - - - 67

Margaret M. Lury 83

William R. Nash - - - - - 86

Daniel Oliver 94

Alice W. Pierce 101

Eliza Jane Richardson - - - 110

Joshua Wheeler Robson - - - 117

Isaac Sharp 132

John William Steel - - - 146

Agnes Ann Thompson - - - - 153

John H. Williams - - - - 164

LIST OF MEMOIRS

Edward Ransome
Allen

John Gomersall

Armfield
Dr. Sarah M. Baker
Albert B. Bayes
Wilks Brown
Tom Bryan
Thomas H. Chalkley
William R. Chantler
Joseph Firth Clark
Mary Jane Davidson
William Dodshon
Janet Nisbet Erskine
Margaret Ford
John Orr Green
Thomas J. Haslam
Margaret M. Lury
William R. Nash

Rachel Oddie
Daniel Oliver
Alice W. Pierce
Douglas Price
Eliza Jane
Richardson

Stansfield

Richardson
Joshua Wheeler

Robson
Richard Shackleton
Charles Sharp
Isaac Sharp
John William Steel
Agnes Ann Thompson I
Benjamin F.

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John H. Williams
Morris Wood
William Wright

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THE

ANNUAL MONITOR

1918

OBITUARY

The following list includes all the names of deceased Friends
given in the official Monthly Meeting Returns supplied to the
Editor. A few other names are given of those who, it is
thought, were also either actual members, or very closely
associated with the Society.

Age. Time of Decease.

Benjamin Ho warth Abbatt 62 20 6 1917

Bolton.
Caroline Abbatt .. ..78 17 6 1917

Epping.
Caroline Abbott .. ..79 11 4 1917

Stoke Newington. Eldest daughter of the late

Benjamin Abbott.
Alfred William Addey 63 31 3 1917

Dublin.
Thomas Addison .. ..49 11 6 1917

Mitcham, Surrey.
Christopher James

Alexander . . . . 30 4 10 1917

International Agricultural Institute, Rome.

Son of Joseph Gundry and Josephine Alexander,

Tunbridge Wells, Died of wounds in Flanders.
Jane Alexander . . . . 65 9 8 1917

Cork.

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Edward Ransome Allen 75 G 12 1910

Stoke Newington. An Elder.

Edward Ransome Allen bore two names
honoured in the annals of the Society, but
known far beyond its limits, and he bore them
worthily. His great-grandfather, Job Allen,
baptised 1734, silk-weaver of Steward Street,
Spitalflelds, joined the Society, and married
Margaret Stafford, whose grandfather, Walter
Stafford, joined at a much earlier date. On
his mother's side he was descended from Richard
and Phoebe Ransom, of North Walsham, Norfolk,
of whom, Richard was " convinced of truth "
about 1676, and for some fifteen years suffered
imprisonment for conscience' sake. From this
worthy couple are descended the Ransoms of
Hitchin, the elder branch, and the Ransomes of
Ipswich.

Edward R. Allen was born in 1841, at 7
Cowper Street, Finsbury, a house adjoining his
father's business premises, being the second son
of Stafford and Hannah Hunter Allen, better
known amongst Friends as Hannah Stafford
Allen. To the early training of such parentage
as theirs he owed much that contributed to his
useful career as citizen and Friend. The family
moved from Cowper Street to Charles Square in
1845, and to Stoke Newington four or five years

Edward Ransome

Allen

EDWARD RANSOME ALLEN 3

later, being amongst the pioneers in that great
wave of migration from the business portions
of the city of London which continued with ever
increasing volume during the later decades of
the nineteenth century. From infancy, therefore,
E. R. Allen has been associated with London
and Middlesex Quarterly Meeting, and, with
the exception of a few years spent in schooldays
at Folkestone and Bootham, and as an apprentice
at Ipswich, has resided within the " compass '
of Devonshire House Monthly Meeting. On
his 23rd anniversary he was married to Ellen,
second daughter of John Dawson and Ann
Watlock, of Wandsworth, who survives him ;
they celebrated their Golden Wedding in 1914.
All his life after his Ipswich apprenticeship,
.e. fifty -five and a half years, he was associated
with the business of Stafford Allen & Sons, of
Cowper Street, drug grinders, now Stafford Alien
& Sons, Ltd., manufacturing chemists, of which
Company he was Chairman at the time of his
! decease, actively participating in its interests,
ilt may be said of him that he was " not slothful
in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
[Nevertheless he was no recluse, not allowing
jeither his business cares or his inner life to deter
him from rational enjoyment of other pursuits
and recreations. He was keen in his enjoyment
of nature, and found to a large extent in his

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own country the fascination which "many seek
beyond seas. Both rod and gun had their
attraction, and he was a cyclist from the early
days of the " boneshaker " until recent years,
when a modern " free-wheel " proved useful
in the visitation of Meetings.

His work for the Society extended over a
long period, during which he gave valuable help
to his Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, acting
as Clerk of the latter for several years. In the
engagements of Committees of these Meetings,
for which he very frequently acted as clerk,
as also in the administration of their Trusts
and Trust Property, he took a very active share,
one might say up to the last, being in consultation
about some of them within two or three days
of his decease. To all these, and to the considera-
tion of the affairs of the Church, he brought a
valuable business experience combined with a
wise and cautious conservatism in days in which
events move with a rapidity unknown to our
forefathers.

As an Overseer of many years' standing,
he entered sympathetically into matters re-
quiring judgment and delicate handling ; quali-
fications invaluable in the discharge of the duties
of Elder or Overseer. As an Elder of much
experience his judgment was weighty, and he
was fully conscious of the responsibility of the

JOHN GOMERSALL ARMFIELD 5

office. Thus has one more of the roll of good
and honest men passed to his rest, leaving behind
him the memory of a well -spent life.

The Friend.

Annie Campbell Anderson 74 31 1 1917

Ardrossan. Widow of John Anderson.

Hannah Appleton . . 68 6 5 1917

Boumville, Birmingham. Widow of Henry
Appleton.

John Gomersall Armfield 86 24 4 1917
Tottenham. A Minister. *

John Gomersall Armfield was born at
Reigate on the 13th of 8th month 1830. He
entered the Friends' School at Croydon in
1839, where he remained for five years. On
leaving school he joined his brother George
in business as a coach-builder and undertaker.

As a lad of 18, when cholera was raging
in London, he went into the City alone to per-
form the duties of undertaker for Friends who
had died, his elder brother being too nervous
to accompany him. In 1853 he married Elizabeth,
daughter of William and Elizabeth Claridge,
of Bromley, Kent. They had been school-
fellows at Croydon, and Elizabeth Armfield
used to enjoy telling how she was first drawn
to her future husband, when seeing him standing
outside the Superintendent's office door for

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punishment; "another proof," she would say
" that pity is akin to love." For about a year
after marriage J. G. A. was in business at
Braintree, Essex, removing thence to Tottenham,
which was to be his home for the remainder
of his life. Husband and wife were keen Tem-
perance workers, both having signed the pledge
in school days. All through their married
life of nearly 51 years they worked hard for
the cause they loved, celebrating their Jubilee
and Diamond Jubilee of Total Abstinence in
1889 and 1899. Early in life J. G. A. had
entered the service of the Temperance and
General Provident Institution, with which
he remained connected for 45 years, and one
of the Jubilee presents he received was a silver
tea service from the Insurance Company he
had served so long and so faithfully.

J. G. A. was a diligent and useful attender
of Meetings and Committees, and was for many
years a recorded minister. Perhaps his most
distinguished service for the Society of Friends
was his connexion with the Croydon and Saffron
Walden Old Scholars' Association, of which
he was the founder, now nearly half a century
ago. He continued to the end a most loyal
and energetic member of this association, never
missing a single annual gathering, and being
a member of the Committee the whole time.

JOHN GOMERSALL ARMFIELD T

In the early days of the association he personally
did nearly all the work, being practically Pre-
sident, Secretary and Treasurer, and the asso-
ciation, we believe the first of its kind in any
of our Friends' Schools, will ever owe him a
debt of gratitude.

To those who knew John Armfield no
account of his life and work would be complete
without mentioning his concern for, and sympathy
with, those who, through their Quaker training,
were convinced that their duty lay in resisting
the call to military service, as contrary to the
dictates of their conscience, and were prepared
to suffer rather than deny their principles.

Kathleen Mary Ashby 6 5 8 1917

Southampton. Daughter of Herbert and Minnie
Ashby.

Samuel Ashby . . . . 64 8 3 1917

Bournemouth. Formerly of Southampton.
Died at Sandford, near Bristol.

Frances Mary Ashford 89 4 2 1917

Edgbaston, Birmingham. Widow of George
Ashford.

Emma Atkinson .. ..93 11 5 1917

Over, Cheshire.

George Baines .. ..80 13 5 191 7

Nottingham.

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Christabel Kathleen

Baker 44 18 7 1917

St. Leonards -on -Sea.

Dorothy Mary Baker . . 38 3 2 1917

Maldon, Essex.

Sarah Martha Baker,

D.Sc., F.L.S 29 30 5 1917

Harlesden, London. Daughter of George
Samuel and Martha Braithwaite Baker.

Botanists especially learned with deep regret
of the death of Dr. Sarah M. Baker at the early
age of twenty-nine. As a child she had an
intense love for flowers and other works of nature,
a sentiment which always remained with her
and coloured her whole life. Energetic, imagina-
tive and thoughtful, her early ideals prompted
the study of medicine, with a view to becoming
a missionary in the South Sea Islands. Deferring
to her parents' judgment, that particular scheme
was abandoned, and instead she followed a course
of study at University College, London, and in
1909 look an honours degree in chemistry.
Until her matriculation her studies were chiefly
at home, for a part of the time in close association
with her two brothers, who were engaged on
similar courses. After graduating, her attention
was increasingly turned to problems of plant
life, and in 1914 she was awarded the degree of

DB. SARAH M. BAKER 9

D.Sc. for her original work in Botany, being
elected a Fellow of the Linnsean Society the same
year.

For several years, and up to the time of her
death, she was Quain Student and Lecturer in
Botany at University College, and was shortly
to have been appointed to a new lectureship
specially created for her. The investigations
which she completed in a relatively short period
of activity tend to emphasise the loss which
science has sustained. Her paper entitled
" Quantitative Experiments on the Effect of
Formaldehyde on Living Plants " (1913) shows
her mastery of biochemical technique, and may
serve as a model of what such an investigation
should be. It was in connexion with this work
that Dr. Baker devised the very ingenious
automatic waterer, whereby the culture -plants
could be raised from seed and grown on for
long periods without interference of any kind
with the progress of the experiment. This
contribution was followed by researches on
osmotic phenomena, with especial reference
to the mechanism of entry and transport of
water in plants, opening up the question along
new lines which may possibly lead to a complete
solution of the problem of the rise of sap in trees.
In addition to these, there was a series of four
papers on the ecology and biology of brown

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seaweeds, based on field investigations carried
out at her father's country cottage at Mersea
Island, and elsewhere. The drawings which
illustrate some of these are fine examples of
line work, deserving of the highest praise. It-
was characteristic of Dr. Baker to throw herself
ardently into whatsoever she undertook. Thus
for the purpose of a public lecture which she
delivered on Vegetable Dyes, she worked through
the whole chemical basis of the subject, and was
not content until she had discovered a number
of new dyes, by the employment of mordants
not previously used. At the time of her death
she was investigating critically the bread -making
value of a number of substitutes for wh eaten flour.
Her scientific work was marked by variety of
subject and method, persistence in thought
and endeavour, and care in experimental detail,
characteristics which won for her the respect
and admiration of all her colleagues ; and many
were the students whom she inspired along her
own paths.

Apart from her University life, she rendered
good service in lecturing to Adult Schools, study
circles, &c, her lectures being always marked
by clarity and simplicity. The children of her
Sunday School recall her teaching that the
universe is always singing, while only man is
silent ; and that man must learn to listen, so

ALBERT B. BAYES 11

that his heart may join the universal chorus.
A Friend from her birth, she valued our meetings
for worship and for discipline, taking a keen
interest in Society business. Although not
often speaking in the ministry, her occasional
utterances showed how, through a stage of
inquiring doubt, she had reached a constructive
faith which was the essence of her being.

From Nature and The Friend.

Robert Grenfell Barclay 66 15 10 1916
Shotley Bridge, Co. Durham, Son of the late
John Barclay, of Falmouth.

Arthur Oakden Barritt 69 21 8 1917
Woodbridge.

Elizabeth Mary Barritt 67 6 7 1917

Maldon, Essex. Wife of Charles Ernest
Barritt.

Lydia Barritt .. ..84 14 2 1917

Farringdon, Hants. Widow of Earn Barritt.

Richard Bastin . . . . 67 28 7 1917

Bournemouth.

Albert Ben Bayes . . 81 17 12 1916

Leeds.

Albert B. Bayes was born at Lumbutts,
near Todmorden, in 1835. His schooling appears
to have been of a very limited character,

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beginning under a lady who held classes in the
club room of an inn, and continuing under his
father, William Bayes, who taught a number
of " half-timers." He seems, however, to have
made the best use of his opportunities, for a few
years later he was able to take a teaching engage-
ment at a school in Bradford, and on the death
of his father he returned to Lumbutts to take
charge of the school which he had conducted.
Here he carried on night classes and was the
leading spirit in a Mutual Improvement Society
in Todmorden. The school inspector, in giving
high praise to his work at Lumbutts, told him
that he was " merely vegetating " in such a place.
He now turned his attention to commercial
pursuits, and after engagements in Liverpool,
Bradford, and Mytholmroyd, he became a
partner in a printing and stationery business
in Todmorden. The firm were also the pro-
prietors of a local paper, The Todmorden
and ' District News. He continued this work
until 1872, when he removed to Brighouse,
Yorks., where he engaged in the same line
of business, and two years later founded the
Brighouse and Rastrich Gazette, in which, for
the following 25 years, he rendered valuable
public service. In 1899, his health failing,
and competition having increased, he had to
call his creditors together, but it is of interest

ALBERT B. B A YES 13

to record that in after years he devoted him-
self to meeting his financial obligations, and
he ultimately paid off his creditors, with one
exception, so far as they were willing to accept.

Whilst living at Mytholmroyd, early in
life, he joined in membership with the Society
of Friends, and he took an active part in the
work of the Society, filling the offices of clerk,
treasurer, overseer and elder. He engaged accept-
ably in vocal service in meetings for worship,
but could never be induced to have his " gift
in the ministry " formally acknowledged by his
Monthly Meeting.

On his retirement from business, in 1899,
he was invited by a nephew to accompany him
on an extended visit to America. In the course
of three and a half years their travels included
visits to Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa,
in Canada, nearly a score of great cities, including
the largest, in the United States, a winter in
California, another in Florida, another in Mexico.
In all the places he visited, if there was a Meet-
ing of the Society of Friends, he always had a
cordial welcome, and he took the opportunity of
attending at least six of the American Yearly
Meetings.

On his return to England he resided for a
time at Fenny Stratford, Bucks., and Weston-
super-Mare, but twelve months before his

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death he returned to his beloved Yorkshire,
and he died very suddenly at the home of his
eldest son in Leeds.

During his last 18 years of comparative
leisure he made extensive records of local his-
tory, personal experiences, and the folk-lore
of the borderland of Yorkshire and Lancashire,
where his home had been most of his life. He
also developed a gift, in which he succeeded his
father, in the writing of poetry, much of which
appeared not only in the local journals, but also
in papers in Canada and the U.S.A., composed
during his travels.

Marian Bayes . . . . 81 23 5 1917

Darlington.

Anna Baynes . . . . 80 8 12 1916

North Shields. Widow of William James

Sarah Susannah Beale . . 84 26 2 1917

Cork.
Seymour Hampden Beale 59 9 1 1917

Banbury. For 23 years Art Master at

Sibford School.

Joseph Watson Beamish 76 17 4 1917
Sudbury, Suffolk.

John Lister Beck . . 68 19 2 1917

Billing shurst, Sussex,

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Anna Jane Bell .. ..75 5 9 1917

Water ford. Wife of Henry Bell.

Charles Bentley . . . . 61 7 1 1917

York.
Mary Bentley . . . . 69 5 1 1917

Oldham. Wife of Samuel Bentley.

Ada Bewley . . . . 62 18 12 1916

Bray, Go. Wicklow.

Thomas Wyburn Biddlecombe 1917

Son of T. Josiah and Amelia A. Biddlecombe.

Captain in the Australian Navy. Killed

in action.
Jane Bigland .. ..69 27 4 1917

Darlington. Daughter of Hodgson and Jane

Bigland.
Edith Rose Bishop . . 36 31 10 1916

Wanstead, Essex. Wife of Octavius Richard

Bishop. Died at St. Columba's Hospital,

Hampstead.

Edwin Bissell .. ..70 21 3 1917

Brighton. Late of Charlbury.

Joseph Brown Bolland 51 14 12 1916

Norwood, Surrey. Formerly of Lisburn

School.
Mary Bowman .. ... 65 1 1 1917

South Shields. Wife of Temple Dawson

Bowman.

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William Bowman . . . . 92 29 12 1916

Alport, near Bakewell, Derbyshire. Died at
Northwich, Cheshire. An Elder.

William Bowyeb . . . . 59 31 12 1916

Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol. A Minister.

Mary Ann Bradford ..64 18 5 1917
Bedininster, Bristol. Wife of Walter James
Bradford.

Margaret Bradley ..89 1711 1916

Ambleside. Widow of John Bradley.

Jane Hannah Bragg . . 79 4 1 1917/

Bristol. Widow of Robert Bragg.

John Newell Braithwaite 77 25 12 1916
Middlesbrough.

Anna Maria Bransby ..84 11 6 1917
Basingstoke.

Robert Broadhead ..72 6 7 1917

Leeds.

Sarah Broadhead ..67 1 6 191 f$

Leeds. Daughter of the late Joseph and
Sarah Broadhead.

Jane Brockbank .. ..84 2 3 1917;

West Didsbury, Manchester. Widow of William j
Brockbank.

Joshua Coe Broughton ..78 12 9 19171
Norwich.

wilks brown 17

Edward Dell Brown ..21 16 8 1917
Margate. Son of Ellen Josephine and the
late William Henry Brown. Killed in action
in France.

Eliza Brown . . . . 72 13 1 1917

Darlington. Widow of William Brown.

Flora Maria Brown . . 77 6 2 1917

Brighton.

Mariana Brown . . . . 82 18 6 1917

Wisbech. Widow of John Brown, late of
Earith, Hunts.

Russell Brown . . . . 62 1 10 1916

Manchester.

Wilks Brown .. ..86 29 11 1916

Banbury.

' Wilks Brown was the son of the Rev.
Edward Brown, a Congregational Minister who
was for many years engaged in Protestant
evangelical work in Ireland. Born at Nenagh,
Co. Tipperary, in 1830, his early years were
spent in Ireland, where he lived a happy, free
|life, with energies and interests varied according
to locality in which his parents resided. Whether
playing with his brothers about the wonderful
telescope in Lord Ross's park at Parsonstown,
or among the ships on the river at Limerick, or
listening to Dan O'Connell, or accompanying

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his father on the daily round of visits to the
families of the poor peasants, he was brought
under an influence that affected his life and
thoughts, and which no doubt had its share in
forming that strength of character, fearlessness,
and humbleness of mind, which were his special
traits in later life. At this time also Father
Matthew, at the suggestion of a Cork Friend,
was travelling up and down Ireland on his
crusade against drink. Far reaching was the
effect of the eloquence and zeal of this early
temperance reformer, and Wilks Brown was one
of the boys who took the pledge at this time
and received the blessing of Father Matthew.

His young active intellect and sympathetic
disposition could not but be affected by all these
widely differing influences, and to these were
added the faith and devotion of his parents, the
combat against the ignorance and superstition
of the peasantry, the frequent removal from
town to town as the Protestant garrisons shifted !
their quarters, the care and upbringing of ai
numerous family, these were among the diffi-
culties which confronted his father and mother.

When Wilks Brown was about 12 years of
age, the family returned to England, and he was
sent to Silcoates School near Wakefield, which
at that time was conducted exclusively for the
education of the sons of Congregational ministers.

WILKS BROWN 19

It was always the dearest wish of his father
that his youngest son should become a " Mini-
ster." But as the boy approached the time when
a decision must be made, he felt that he could not
undertake such work as a means of livelihood.
At the age of 15 he therefore left school, and was
apprenticed to the woollen drapery business,
with W. & S. Medley of Liverpool. They were
of an old Baptist family, and made it a custom
that their apprentices should attend chapel
with them. Here he sat under the ministry of
the late Dr. Birrell, father of the Right Hon.
Augustine Birrell, M.P., which brought a wider
interest into his religious life, and helped to
deepen his convictions on the side of right.

There were few opportunities in those days
for educational teaching when a boy left school,
unless he made it for himself. Wilks Brown
spent much of his spare time in reading and
private study, both during his apprenticeship and
after. He also took an active interest in Sunday
and Night Schools. He always had a peculiar
sympathy for children and young people, which
was much appreciated and fully returned by them.
His breezy manner and robust energy had a
marked influence on a young mind, and his love
of out- door sport made him very human in his
sympathies. Many a time in after years he
learnt how one and another of these boys could

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trace the turning point in their lives to their
attendance at his classes.

It was at the end of his apprenticeship
that Wilks Brown was again encouraged by his
friends to become a minister, one of them offering
to pay his college expenses if he would enter
into that work. This he felt he must decline,
chiefly because he could not receive payment
for religious work.

He had not up to this time, come into close
contact with the Society of Friends. But
soon after he accepted a situation with the late
Edward West, of Warrington, with whom he
lived for some years. The upright character,
and simple straightforward faith of his employer
made a deep impression. It was not until
some years after his marriage with Elizabeth
West that he actually became a member of the
Society of Friends. His marriage took place
in 1861, when living at Kendal, and it was here he
joined the Society.

Although from his highly sensitive nature
he was not exactly fitted for the work, yet for
about twenty years he was employed as a commer-
cial traveller. While thus engaged he felt it
his duty to oppose strenuously the practice of
the commercial table of an hotel, by which each
guest was obliged to pay for his share of wine
whether he partook of it or not. Wilks Brown

WILKS BROWN 21

considered this to be a serious evil, and a tempta-
tion to many young men just starting in life.
His opposition to a custom of long standing,
naturally brought him frequently into conflict
both with his fellows travellers and the hotel
proprietors, the latter on some occasions
refusing him lodging in their hotel. He had
the satisfaction, however, before the close of his
commercial career, to see the evil he had fought
so consistently very considerably lessened.

In the course of years the strain of constant
travelling was so great that he decided to take
a business at Stourbridge, which he conducted
for some time. This being too far from his home,
he transferred his energies and wide experience
to help in developing his wife's business at
Banbury, to which the family had moved in 1872.
Here he spent his remaining years, taking an
active interest in the commencement of an
Adult School, where he came into touch with
many working men.

He not infrequently took part in Meetings
for Worship, and his communications were
particularly helpful to the young. He had a
great gift of expression, and was the happy pos-
sessor of a simple faith in the Fatherhood of
God, as of One who bears with the weaknesses
and frailties of his children, and who always
gives the needful strength and power to the child

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whose desire and effort leads him to seek the
right.

The following appreciation of his life and
character appeared in The Friend soon after
his decease.

" Wilks Brown whose bodily frame was
laid to rest last week in the Midland town (Ban-
bury) which knew him so well during the latter
half of his long life, was one of nature's strong
men. Of Highland Scottish descent, he was
brought up with a wide out-of-door liberty in
Tipperary, where his father was a minister of
the Congregational Church, and he retained his
love of walking and of all forms of healthy
physical exercise until he was growing old. |
His robust frame was indeed the fitting host of
a robust and breezy mind. A staunch and
life-long abstainer, he was during his twenty
years' journeyings as a commercial traveller
in frequent conflict with the prevailing practice
of social drinking, and although he had many
opponents he made no enemies. His views of
the sphere of the religious -minded man were
equally downright, and although active in all i
schemes of social betterment, he felt he could I
not, without compromise, himself take the
office of magistrate or town councillor.

" Quite noteworthy was Wilks Brown's
love of young men, a sentiment that was returned
in no small degree. Doubtless his keen sense
of humour, his quickness in debate and repartee
contributed to the attraction, but there was
something deeper and more essential than this
bond. It was the sympathy and understanding'

TOM BRYAN 23

of a pure and strong nature that faced and
overcame difficulties without shirking, that
attracted the young man's spirit and retained
his affectfon, once gained, for life. On him who
had helped to brighten so many lives in his time
some shadows had fallen in later years, but the
Wilks Brown of his boyhood memory remains
an inspiration to many a man now in his prime.
And all these will thank God and take fresh
courage for a long life well and truly lived."

Tom Bryan . . . . . . 52 19 8 19l7

Selly Oak, Birmingham. Warden of Fircroft.

Tom Bryan, who made his life work the
welfare of the labouring classes, was himself
a product of those classes. It was by working
as an engineer's labourer in the vacations that
he maintained himself at Glasgow University,
thus supplementing a small bursary, until he
attained his M.A. degree. An old fellow-
student, writing in One and All, tells of the
strenuous life they lived in that northern city.

" Up every morning at 7. Plate of porridge
at half-past. Lecture at 8, ditto at 9. To
diggings for breakfast at 10. Lectures again
at 12 and 1. Bread and cheese at 2. Then
a walk or a swim till 4. At 4.30 an indescrib-
able meal (tea cum dinner). Next reading aloud
in turn till 6. (' Princess of Thule,' ' Enoch Arden,'
4 Courtship of Miles Standish,' etc.) And from 6
to 12 every night, a steady, solid grind. Low
living and high thinking in those days ! But

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the men we heard ! Jebb, the great Greek
scholar, with his marvellous translations ; Jack,
the clearest of mathematicians ; Kelvin the
master scientist ; and, best of all, Edward Caird,
kindly soul and great philosopher. Naturally
Caird influenced us most. Tom never seemed to
forget a word Caird said."

He afterwards studied for three years at
the Yorkshire United College, Bradford, with
the view of entering the ministry, but he felt
the need of freedom from parochial ties in his work
for social reform, and he declined several in-
vitations to enter the Church. For about ten
years he was Sub -Warden of the Browning
Settlement, Walworth, and he took an active
part in municipal affairs in Southwark Borough,
his chief work being in connexion with the Public
Health Department, and the present comparative
immunity of the borough from serious outbreaks
of scarlet fever and diphtheria may be attributed
in large measure to his practical work during the
period of his chairmanship of the Public Health
Committee. He served also as Mayor, and when
he was approached with a view to his nomination
to the mayoralty his " lack of pence " was
thought to be a difficulty, and he was asked
how he would meet the expenses considered
to be inseparable from the position. " By
not incurring them ! " was his characteristic
reply. His home during this period was one of

TOM BRYAN 25

a row of tiny houses in a back street, and to-day
it is regarded with veneration by many who were
influenced by his exalted character.

The work of the later years of his. life lay
chiefly at Woodbrooke and Fircroft. He was
one of the lecturers at the former almost from the
beginning, but after the opening of Fircroft
in 1909, he devoted himself heart and soul to
| its development.

H. G. Wood, Warden of Woodbrooke,
writing in The Friend, says :

" Tom Bryan has been taken from us at
the age of 52. The brave, patient conflict with
disease which he waged for the last two years
is over, and his friends will rejoice that he has
been discharged from this warfare. But all
who knew him will realise how much we shall
miss his bodily presence and his active parti-
cipation in the work he loved. He was a man
who had an undisguised zest for knowledge,
who had sought education and toiled for it,
not because he wished to secure any social
position and advantage, but because he found
in it the bread of the soul. He valued ideas,
not so much for logical clearness as for the
strength they gave in daily living. The test
he applied to knowledge was not usefulness
in examinations, but value for life. Fircroft
offered him the opportunity of working out his
ideals, and to Fircroft he gave himself without
stint. In plan and idea, Fircroft owes much
to the Danish People's High Schools, and Tom

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Bryan was drawn into close sympathy and
association with some of the leaders in that great
movement. Fircroft itself soon attracted Danish
students. Many Danes felt that Fircroft con-
tributed something fresh to the ideals of the
People's High Schools. Like the Danish schools,
it rests on the idea that a common residence
is an essential part of higher education. Tom
Bryan felt the importance of a building, of a
tradition and of a common life for his students.
All these are needed to develop true manhood
and loyal comradeship. But in Fircroft, fellow-
ship between teachers and taught was carried
a stage further. The formal lecture gave place
to question and answer, to the element of dis-
cussion characteristic of the best Adult School.
Tom Bryan laboured much for Bourn ville
Village Meeting and helped to build it up as a
Christian fellowship. In the course of his illness
he was more than ever convinced of our depend-
ence on the love of God. It was not enough
for him to make men aware of the life of ages.
He would have them find in that life the ' love
of God unspent and free.' He was a minister
of Jesus Christ."

Frederick Howard Bubb 29 22 3 1917
Malvern, Son of Frederick Robert and Zorah
F. N. Bubb.

Frederick Bull .. ..59 5 11 1916

Dudley.

Robert Tasker Burnell 78 17 8 1917
New Southgate.

annual monitob 27

Frank Burrow . . ., 2| 21 6 1917

Leeds. Son of Clifford and Margaret Ethel
Burrow.

Elizabeth Burt . . . . 69 10 4 1917

Newport, Isle of Wight. Wife of George W.
Burt.

Annie Pickard Burtt . . 67 23 3 1917
New Mill, near Huddersfield. Wife of Edward
Henry Burtt. An Elder.

Elizabeth Ann Butler ..81 13 2 1917
Weston super Mare. Formerly of Bristol.

Eric Busvine Butler . . 20 30 9 1917
Edgbaston, Birmingham. Son of Howard and
Mabel Manser Butler. Killed in France.

William Henry Byard . . 62 26 2 1917
Forest Gate, E.

Joel Cadbury . . . . 78 20 12 1916

Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.

Edith Capper . . . . 72 25 5 1917

Chiswick. Daughter of the late Mark Capper.

Thomas Capper . . . . 63 15 8 1917

Bournemouth. Formerly resident in Jamaica.
Retired Commissioner of Education.

Georgina Jane Young

Carey 60 24 11 1916

West Hartlepool. Died at Aberchirdor. N.B.

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Mary Carr 83 14 2 1917

Tettenhall, Wolverhampton. Widow of George

Thompson Carr.

George Baker Carter ..74 4 2 1917

Somerton, Somerset. Formerly of Darlington.

George Castleton . . 60 4 4 1917

Norwich.

Walter Caswell .. ..71 17 4 1917

Birmingham.

Thomas Henry Chalkley 59 18 12 1916
Lawrence, Kansas, U. S.A.,

Thomas H. Chalkley was the eldest child
of Henry George and Hannah Chalkley, and
was born in 1858. He was a pupil at Croydon
School and subsequently stu ied in Germany.
He was associated with the firm of H. G. Chalk-
ley & Sons, of the Devonshire House Hotel,
and with the American Land Mortgage business,
136 Bishopsgate, London. He was an energetic
business man, and in Lawrence, Kansas, where
he had lived for upwards of twenty years, he
earned a reputation for business integrity second
to none. During the trouble caused by the failure
of the Jarvis Conklin business and other American
Mortgage Companies, T. H. Chalkley's services
to the Friends' Committee, who endeavoured
to straighten out the tangled skeins, were in-
valuable.

THOMAS H. CHALKLEY 29

In 1882 he married Ann Whieldon, formerly
Librarian at the London Friends' Institute.
She had poor health, but accompanied her hus-
band to Lawrence, where she died in 1897, aged
39 years, leaving two children, a son and daughter,
both surviving His second wife, now a widow,
was Genevieve Howland, daughter of the first
Unitarian Minister of Lawrence, a lady of high
intellectual attainments, well known in the
State of Kansas in connection with Women's
Suffrage and numerous organisations for social
betterment, some of which are the results of
her own initiation.

T.H.C. was not merely a business man ;
he belonged to a Club consisting of professors
of Kansas University and business men in the
city. The programme at meetings was a dinner
followed by an address from a member, with
general discussion.

Thomas Chalkley was a Friend by conviction
as well as membership, and was for some time
an appointed member of the Meeting for Suffer-
ings. After going to America he remained
a member of Tottenham Monthly Meeting,
not seeing his way to unite with Friends of
Kansas Yearly Meeting under the Pastoral
system. He, with his family, attended the
services at the Unitarian Church.

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He undertook an extended business journey
through Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana within
a month of his decease, though feeling not
quite equal to the fatigue involved. On
reaching home it was found necessary for him
to undergo an operation, from which he did
not recover. Energetic to the last, he has passed
away, when many years of further activity
might have been expected. His loss is keenly
felt, not only by relatives on both sides of the
ocean, but by a wide circle of appreciative
friends.

William Rogers Chantler 72 4 1 1918

Newport Pagnell.

William R. Chantler was the son of William
and Christianna Chantler of Newport Pagnell,
North Buckingham, where he was born in 1846.
By his decease the town of Newport has lost
one of its most useful and prominent inhabitants,
and the Society of Friends a truly valued member.
On leaving school he assisted his father in his
business as chemist and druggist, and eventually
carried on the business for many years.

In 1887 he was married at the Friends'
Meeting House, Reigate, to Anna Maria Dann,
who survives him.

During his life, W. R. Chantler occupied
many public positions in connection with the

WILLIAM R. CHANTLER 31

town where his life was spent, including, for
a long period, chairman of the Urban District
Council, which position entitled him to a seat
on the magisterial bench, and some years after-
wards he was made a county magistrate. Inci-
dentally it fell to his lot whilst chairman of
the Council to proclaim the accession to the
throne of two kings, — the late King Edward,
and King George.

He served a period as President of the North
Buckingham Liberal Association, and for some
time acted as honorary assistant secretary,
where his experience of men and affairs was
most useful. In the Spring of 1916 however,
he resigned his definite connection with the
Association, finding the attitude of the official
Liberal party with regard to the Military Service
Act contrary to his political and religious convic-
tions.

In 1896 he was recorded a minister of the
Society of Friends ; he was an able speaker
and his gift and service, especially in connection
with his own Monthly Meeting, will long be
remembered with thankfulness.

He was naturally an active man, bright
in conversation, with a humorous side to his
character. He always enjoyed talking of his
school days with anyone who had been a scholar
at Ackworth.

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In more recent years he suffered from heart
weakness, which much limited him in many
ways. His health the last few months had
caused his friends anxiety, and on January 4, 1918,
he passed quietly away in his arm-chair.

Truly a good, reliable Friend has gone
from our midst.

William Chapman . . 77 21 6 1917

Brantley, near Leeds.

Fanny Child .. ..82 13 11 1916

Yoakley's Buildings, Stoke Newington. Widow
Of William Child.

Frederick Claridge ..77 8 1 1917

Brighton. Died at Shoreham.

Joseph Firth Clark . . 80 6 1 1918

Doncaster. A Minister.

Joseph Firth Clark was born at Doncaster in
1838. His parents traced their descent from a
long line of Quaker ancestors. His brother, Henry
Ecroyd Clark, carried the message of the Gospel
to the people of Madagascar, and J. F. C. devoted
his powers to the spread of the Redeemer's
Kingdom at home. He dates his life -long interest
in the Temperance question to a meeting which
he attended when seven years old in company
with his mother, at whose solicitation he signed

Joseph Firth Clark

JOSEPH FIRTH CLARK 33

the pledge. In some recollections of his early
life he writes : —

" I have that pledge book still. It contains
the names of William Dent, my father and others
of the early adherents to the cause. I have kept
the pledge ever since, and it has been one of the
great blessings of my life, all the more sacred as
written for me by the hand of one who was taken
from us two years afterwards. The date of the
pledge is 1845."

J. F. C. in the same autobiographical notes
speaks of the fun the sisters and brother, nine in
all, had in the fine old garden adjoining the house
in Frenchgate, with its mulberry tree and other
attractions.

When 11 years old J. F. C. became an Ack-
worth Scholar. His father drove him over in a
gig. He tells us he spent four happy years there,
and that he cannot sufficiently be thankful for
the education given and the moral and religious
training he received. He had a great reverence
for Thomas Pumphrey, the superintendent.
J. F. C. repaid with compound interest any bene-
fits he received from Ackworth School. For 40
years he was a member of the Committee, and
rarely a month passed without a visit to the
School, when his sympathy, loving interest and
business powers were freely placed at the disposal
of the institution. In 1907 he was President of

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the Old Scholars' Association. In his address he

says : —

" My connection with Ackworth is hereditary
as well as personal. My grandfather, John Clark,
who died in the year of Waterloo (1815), my
great-uncle, Joseph, and my father (who was a
member of the Commiitee for a period of forty
years), all took a deep interest in the welfare and j
prosperity of the school. I am the last surviving *
of six brothers, who were all educated here, and
I have been a member of the Committee myself
for over thirty years."

J. F. C. finished his schooling at Bootham
under John Ford, whose earnest and powerful
addresses on Sunday evenings made a great im-
pression on the boys. J. F. C. says : —

" I have always been glad that at Ackworth
and at Bootham we were made to learn off by
heart long passages from Cowper and from Milton,
which I have not forgotten, and which I am surei
had a very good influence on our minds and]
thoughts.'"

He was always fond of books, biographie;
having a special attraction for him.

J. F. C. throughout his life was an enthusiasts
worker in the Adult School. His first introduc
tion to the work was at Nantwich, where for five
years he was bound an apprentice to Samuet
Harlock. The apostles of the new movement
who fired his ardour were William White, Joseph

'

JOSEPH FIRTH CLARK 35

torrs Fry and John S. Rowntree. At Doncaster

e made a practice of being early at School in

rder to greet with a warm handshake his fellow -

holars. His genial loving spirit developed a fine

irifc in the school and meeting, and this power

comradeship was very noticeable in the co-

erative gatherings at Eastertime, where he and

shua Rowntree were living illustrations of a

ying of the latter " Social service follows

tomatically on spiritual aw^oning. as warmth

Hows from fire." JL <*C/ 7 JL € 6

After spending some time in Kendal, J. F. C.

1868, on the death of his father, joined the

of Joseph Clark and Sons, whose tannery

,tes back to the year 1756. In 1878 J. F. C.

arried Sarah Anne, a daughter of the late

rnes H. Barber, of Sheffield. The marriage

oved an ideal one. The three surviving

ildren were completely at one with their

rents on the outbreak of the War, and the

ungest son, Oswald, gladly upheld his strong

Ive of peace, even though it entailed a long

prisonment.

This same unflinching devotion to duty

d conscience was a characteristic of J. F. C.

pchdeacon Sandford, in an address he delivered

the funeral, spoke of the beautiful atmosphere

this Christian home. But he pointed out

at here strength and inspiration was gathered

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for unceasing work for his fellows. The list
of activities which the Archdeacon enumerated
was a striking one. The long services rendered
by him to his native town included the Infirmary,
Bible Society, British School, Rescue and
Temperance Work, Adult School, Board of
Guardians, Grammar School, Corporation, Ma-
gisterial Bench. J. F. C. never aimed at popu-
larity, but diligently performed what he felt
to be his duty. A noticeable illustration of j
this occurred in 1908, when he was occupying
the post of Mayor for the second time. Hej
received an invitation through the Rt. Hon.
L. V. Harcourt to meet the King on the race
course immediately after the St. Leger had
been run. He felt compelled to decline the
honour, and wrote in a strain which would be
appreciated by our late broad-minded King,
though the Conservative paper, in an otherwise
sympathetic review of J. F. C.'s career, says :

' ' This was an incident for which many of the jr
burgesses never forgave him, but which showed,/,
nevertheless, the length to which he was prepared
to go for principles he held dear, and for the sake[
of his convictions. The incident caused a great |
sensation at the time, and many people were little
short of horrified that Doncaster's mayor should
have declined to meet His Majesty."

J. F. C.'s letter was as follows :

JOSEPH FIRTH CLARK 37

" It would indeed have been a great honour,
which I should have looked back upon all my
life with the greatest gratification, as I have a
profound respect and regard for our most gracious
King, whom I desire to honour in every way as
one of his most loyal subjects. Though I have
lived in Doncaster all my life, I have never once
attended the races, and did not therefore feel that
I could consistently break through the rule even
for so great an honour."

J. F. C. was a recorded minister for many
years. His simple evangelical message was
commended by his life, and so found ready
acceptance. On his memorial cards were the
words " I determined not to know anything
among you but Jesus Christ and Him crucified."
On the last Sunday morning before his death
he quoted John xiv. 1 and 2, " Let not your
heart be troubled." He recalled the fact that
his father's last message to the meeting, 50
years before, had been from this text, and " then"
says one who was present :

" Raising himself up with power and force,
he passed on the message to those present, * To
all this message comes with help and power in
these dark times ; let us believe in the power of
the Lord Jesus Christ to save and to help and to
comfort.' "

Four days before his death J. F. C. with
two other Friends was engaged in drawing

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up a report of the state of the Doncaster meeting.
The following sentence appeared in this report : —

• " We have rejoiced of late in the loving-
helpfulness and kindly forbearance shown one to
another. ' '

This was largely the result of his own personal
influence. One of his fellow -members writes
of him :

" How he watched over the meeting, took
a personal interest in each one, young or old.
None were neglected. How he visited the sick,
how concerned he was with the ministry of every
kind, and most of all how he longed for and
rejoiced in any evidence of the fruits of the Spirit
being shown in our daily work-a-day lives."

J. F. C. was present at the Ackworth
Committee on January 1st. Two days after-
wards he had a paralytic seizure, and passed
quietly away on Sunday morning, January 6th.

Herbert William Clarke 32 25 3 1917
North Toronto, Ontario.

Sydney Clarke . . . . 19 29 8 1916

Levenshulme, Manchester. Son of Herbert
and Annie Clarke. Killed in France.

John Thomas Clavering 72 14 8 1917
Sunderland.

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Dorothy May Clements . . 14mos. 9 10 1916
Nottingham. Daughter of John and Martha
Clements.

Margaret Cleminson .. 87 17 1 1917
Great Ayton. Widow of William Cleminson.

Ethel Clothier .. ..34 310 1916

Street, Somerset. Wife of James Henry
Clothier.

Mary Ann Cole . . . . 67 2 10 1916

Boston Spa. Wife of John Cole.

Mary Elizabeth Collinson 66 8 7 1917

Beeston, Notts. Wife of Matthew Henry
Collinson.

Elizabeth Phipps Coning 73 16 12 1916
Harrogate. Widow of Joseph Coning, late
of Malton.

Ernest Coning . . . . 27 14 6 1917

Stockton-on-Tees. Son of John and Sarah
Ann Coning.

Bernard Conway . . . . 12 28 2 1917

Stockport. Son of Peter and Mary Ann
Conway.

Edward Henry Cooke . . 62 19 4 1917
Ilford, Essex.

Annie Cooper . . . . 53 21 2 1917

Hendon.

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Stanley John Cooper ..39 13 8 1917
Honor Oak Park, London. Killed in action
in France.

Robert George Copling 58 2 4 1917

Plymouth. Formerly of Lowestoft.

John St. Clair Cotterell 26 13 5 1917
Bath. Son of T. Sturge Cotterell. Died at
Westminster Hospital, London, from wounds
received in France.

Mary Reid Cowan . . 72 18 5 1917

Kilmarnock. Widow of William Cowan.

Frank Frederick Cox ..56 25 11 1916
Plymouth. A Minister.

John Cox 63 27 1 1917

Coventry. Late of Toronto, Canada, and
formerly of Birmingham.

Martha Cranstone ..78 29 1 1917

Lurgan, Co. Armagh. Widow of William
Henry Cranstone, late of Hemel Hempstead.

Arthur M. Criswick ..31 11 8 1917
Died of wounds received in France.

Mabel Crosfield . . . . 50 29 9 1917

Reigate. Wife of Herbert Crosfield.

Pollie Crosland .. ..52 18 2 1916

Nunhead, S.E. 15. Wife of Joshua Robert
Crosland.

Mary Jane Davidson

mary jane davidson 41

Joseph John Cross . . 80 7 6 1917

Colchester.
Edith Winifred Crowley 50 4 6 1917

Croydon. Daughter of the late Alfred and

Mary Catherine Crowley.

James Dale . . . . 78 28 2 1917

Bessbrook, Go. Armagh. An Elder.

Anthony Daniel .. ..71 30 10 1916

York.
Arthur John Dann ..36 7 11 1917

Banbury. Son of Arthur and the late Mary

Horniman Dann.

Mary Jane Davidson . . 71 8 1 1918

Cheng tu, West China. Wife of Robert J.
Davidson. F.F.M.A. Missionary.

To many who knew her, our friend Mary
Jane Davidson stood for what a capable woman,
wholly consecrated to mission work, could do
in the foreign fields ; to some who loved and
worked with her in earlier life she was the ardent
and successful organizer in London missions,
and above all the devoted daughter in her
home. Her father, Daniel Catlin, died in 1857,
when Mary Jane was but 10 years old, and
after the marriage of her sister Augusta to
William Tallack, she lived alone with her mother,
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herself nursed her through her long and painful
last illness. With characteristic independence,
Mary Jane Catlin refused the financial help
some of her friends would so gladly have given,
preferring as always, the more perfect rather
than the easy way. " Do say what a splendid
daughter she was," pleads an old friend : " She
was a wonderful woman who made the most
of her talents, and took every opportunity
of using her abilities for the work of the Lord."
Therefore, of course, the opportunities soon
multiplied — " to him that hath shall be given."
Out of Mary Jane Catlin' s class work at the
Bedford Institute grew needs which her energy
as well as her love longed to fill. And whilst
possibilities and impediments occupied her
mind, the Master was preparing for her just
that experience most needed to turn possibilities
into facts, and to abolish difficulties. In the
year 1875 she was one of those who entered
into the rest of complete consecration of heart
and life to God. Leaving to Him the whole
care of guidance she found her part in the work
to be simply instant obedience to His call as
she heard it, His alone being responsibility
as to results. Her life was changed from that
hour. " Has the resting ever failed you since
then ? " she asked a friend who had shared
that early experience, the last time she was

MARY JANE DAVIDSON 43

in England ; and on hearing the expected
answer " Oh no " she added : " never once in
more than 36 years ; isn't it lovely." Not
that life had no storms, ups and downs, turmoils,
for her. With such forceful energy she experi-
enced more of these than do the generality
of even mission-workers, but that deep down,
underlying all these, even as still calm underlies
the ocean storm, was the rest of faith, the peace
which nothing can take away. That was her
secret of success.

She did much writing at various times
for the Friends' Registrar, the Home Mission,
the Friends' Syria Mission, the Howard Associa-
tion, the Peace Association. She held her
classes, clubs, etc., visited her poor and sick,
laboured early and late, and accomplished
generally the work of at least two ordinary
people, and what she did, prospered.

In the year 1879 Mary Jane Catlin was
engaged with other workers from the Bedford
Institute in starting a Convalescent Home
at Epping, and became its first indefatigable
Secretary. She found time to visit this Home
continually, looking personally into all matters
connected with both housekeeping and patients,
most of whom she knew personally. Later,
when the Committee decided to open a seaside
Home at Folkestone, she took also, to a large

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extent, the visiting and oversight of that house
in addition to all her other work. It became
evident to her friends that a change must be
coming for Mary Jane ; that whilst equal
mentally to this huge expenditure of energy,
her body could not long stand the strain ; that
without a change she would in fact " work
herself to death." The change was being
prepared for her.

In 1886 Mary Jane Catlin married Robert
John Davidson whose training for work in
the F.F.M.A. in China had brought him from
Ireland to London, and who had worked for some
time in the Bedford Institute Association,
especially at the old chapel in Hart's Lane, then
used by Friends and under M. J. Catlin' s charge.
China, as a field for work, had been much on
her heart ; the step she took in marrying,
therefore, not only brought her an exceptionally
happy wedded life, but carried her right on
to the work to which the Lord was calling her,
and for which all her past experiences had so
fully equipped her. She not only understood
Home Mission requirements by long practical
education, but had studied the foreign field
problems as far as one living in England may,
for the perfecting of her work as Secretary
to a large active branch of the M. H. U. which
she had organized in Stoke Newington. Before

MARY JANE DAVIDSON 45

leaving England she added nursing and midwifery
to her other preparations.

The Davidsons left for China in 1886.
They were obliged to spend the first two or three
years in other missions, chiefly at Hanchung,
where their son Robert Huntley was born ;
anti -foreign feeling prevented for a time the
opening of a new district. Mary Jane Davidson's
skill in nursing made a way to much usefulness
amongst her fellow missionaries during this
interval, and many were the friends she thus
made. At length in 1889 our friends opened
the Friends' Mission at Chungking.

There they were stationed for 15 years.
Whilst in this city the mother heart in M. J.
Davidson went out in much sympathy to all
missionary mothers, herself amongst them,
whose children must be sent home for education,
and a healthier moral environment, so young
as inevitably to lose touch with their parents.
She set herself vigorously to secure funds for a
boarding school, which was in due course erected
on the slope of a wooded hill outside the city.
In Chungking also she became first editor of
the West China Missionary News, herself dupli-
cating the early issues of that paper, before
there was a possibility of printing them, In
1904 R. J. & M. J. Davidson were sent to open
the Friends' Mission in Chingtu, where the

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remainder of M. J. D.'s life was spent. Here
she found an opening for work amongst native
ladies of the upper class, and later took most
active and intense interest in the educational
schemes which were uniting missionaries of
every persuasion. In an obituary article
the West China Missionary News for February,
1918, the Editor writes :

"When the first whisperings of union in
educational work began to be heard in the land,
Mrs. Davidson, with her usual keen insight into
the possibilities of the movement, enlisted in the
ranks of the workers, and loyally gave her time
and strength to it. Those early meetings were
most strenuous times, when we were feeling after
the best form of organization, and endeavouring
to glean the fruit of much thinking and discussion.
It was at that time that our friend showed her
remarkable powers of grasping the details of a
situation, while holding clearly in mind the
essential principles. Her work as secretary to
the secretary of the meetings was unending. The
minutes of each day's sessions were ready for the
next day's meeting, duplicated so that each

member could have a copy No task was

too small to miss her attention ; no difficulty too
great to be overcome .... her entrance into the
life of larger service and unhampered opportunity
was abundant."

In Chengtu Mary Jane Davidson's particular
joy was the Union Normal School for Women.
A fellow -missionary, Margaret Silcock, wrote

MARY JANE DAVIDSON 47

in connection with her love for this Institu-
tion :

" Though perhaps not its actual founder she
certainty was its mother. Members of its com-
mittee have changed, conditions have changed,
but Mrs. Davidson remained to the end mothering
it with a clinging wistfulness as she realized her
failing strength."

Alongside this life of ceaseless public activity
was ever the sacred personal life of home in
which she who had been such a " splendid
daughter " was equally the most devoted of
wives* the tenderest of mothers. Her house-
keeping was as thoroughly and capably managed
as her outside work. The one with her, did
not take the place of the other, but formed
its complement. She thought and wrought
incessantly for her husband and son. When
the latter was about 14 years of age the dreaded
separation became necessary ; his parents left
him in England for his education. For some time
his mother wrote him a little greeting each day,
posting the letters every few days. In this
and many other ways she kept the link between
I them so firm that when, after several years,
I they again met, there was none of the strange -
|ness to be overcome which is so peculiarly
ipainful between parent and child. And when
after another separation her son took his bride

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to Chengtu, to live close by his parents, hen
joy was indeed full. Immediately after their
re -union she wrote :

" You may rely on it we are blissfully happy,"

and again a little later :

" In our own little home with its double
nests, peace, happiness, joy, reign — and in spite
of all the sorrow and trouble in the world we
cannot but be full of thankfulness for the good-
ness and mercy which crown our days. I do
indeed feel that my cup runneth over."

For some years Mary Jane Davidson suffered I
from a sort of chronic neuritis on one side of i
her face and head, yet she kept all her work
going, was able to enjoy her " children," and \
in course of time her little grandson Geoffrey
Huntley, born in Chengtu in 1916. Some indi-
cations there were in her letters, however, of f
a sense that strength had lessened ; especially
since the outbreak of the war, which perplexed I
and saddened her soul. At length, in the
early days of January, 1918, came the " one
clear call ' ' for the faithful worker, and after i
five days illness she passed to higher service.
Margaret Silcock wrote :

" She was never late with her work, she
was always ready. The readiness for every
occasion was a most striking trait in her character,

MARY JANE DAVIDSON 49

and when her call home came she was ready.
Her work in every branch was in perfect shape
for laying down. Her preparations for the
end whenever it might come were so planned
that ' the valley of the shadow of death ' was
transformed into ' the way of peace' for the
dear ones left behind."

So long as thought was clear she thought
and arranged for the good of others ; then
after a short time of wandering, but with no
sadness of farewell, passed out to the freedom
and fulness of heavenly life.

Charlotte Davies ..76 11 5 1917

Coulsdon, Surrey.
Henry Davies . . . . 73 1 12 1916

Derby.
Ena Daw .. . . ..21 14 12 1916

Exeter. Wife of Athelstan Daw. Died

at St. Germans, Cornwall.
Edward Dawson . . . . 58 1 6 1917

Kirby Moorside, Yorks. Died at Scarborough.
John Thomas Dawson . . 80 22 9 1917

York.
Mary Ann Dawson ..76 11 12 1916

Hull. Widow of Joseph Dawson.
Mark Anthony Dearlove 82 29 10 1916

Leeds.
Richard Latimer Dell . . 64 19 10 1916

Ash ford, Kent.

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Philip Fletcher Dixon . . 25 8 6 1917

Ilkley. Only son of John William and Marion
Dixon. Killed in action.

William Dodshon ..72 16 2 1917

Harrogate and Stockton-on-Tees. An Elder.

William Dodshon, who passed away with
startling suddenness at Harrogate, was a familiar
figure at Durham Quarterly Meeting, London
Yearly Meeting, the Meeting for Sufferings and
its various committees. He was just starting
as usual in the train for business at Stockton-on-
Tees, when he collapsed and died. Though
he had resided in Harrogate for the past ten years,
his business" and public interests centred in
Stockton, of which he was a native. Born in"
1845, and educated at Ackworth School, he en-
tered the wholesale grocery business in 1861, and
on the death of his father, John Dodshon,
and the retirement of his elder brother, Lewis
Dodshon, he became the principal partner of the
firm of John Dodshon & Co., which he saw
expand from a small business into one of the
largest of its kind in the North of England.

In Stockton, where he was held in the high-
est respect, he was intimately associated with
many religious movements. The local Temper-
ance Society (of which he was president for

William Dodshon

WILLIAM DODSHON 51

many years), the Y.M.C.A., the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Stockton
and Thornaby Hospital, and the Free Church
Council, were among the institutions which
had his hearty support.

He was a keen politician, and at the time of
his death was President of the Stockton &
Thornaby Liberal Association, a position to which
he had been elected on the death of William
Whit well, in 1909. On at least one occasion
he was invited to stand as Parliamentary candi-
date for his native borough, but business and
health considerations prevented his acceptance
of the invitation.

Early in life he lost his right arm, and it is
thoroughly characteristic of him that he deter-
mined to do everything he could do before in spite
of his loss, and in this resolve he was wonderfully
successful. He will be greatly missed in many
spheres of usefulness. The Friend.

George Herbert Doeg ..51 3 11 1916

Holyhead. Drowned at sea. Captain of
SS. Connemara.

George William Doeg ..79 10 3 1917
Finchley. Late of Reading and Manchester.

Grace Lucy Annie

Donaldson .. .. 3mos.l2 1 1917

Edinburgh. Daughter of Robert W. Donaldson.

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Eliza Maria Doncaster 85

11 4 1916

Sheffield.

Mary Jane Doncaster . . 72

6 11 1916

Sheffield. Died in Edinburgh.

Widow of

Daniel Doncaster.

Alfred Robson Douglass 24

18 9 1917

Close House, Bishop Auckland

I. Son of

Eleanor and the late John T

. Douglass.

Killed in action on shipboard.

John Thomas Douglass . . 54

3 8 1917

Close House, Bishop Auckland.

Geoffrey Bevan de

Rayne Drane . . 2

6 2 1917

Palmer's Green. Son of Charles Francis

and Adela H. Bowly Drane.

Henry Eaton . . . . —

16 5 1917

Sheffield.

Edward Edwards . . . . 65

21 1 1917

Coventry.

Emma Edwards . . . . 75

2 1 1917

Witney.

Sarah Ellershaw . . 70

1 2 1917

Manchester. Widow of William Guy

Ellershaw.

Charlotte Ellis . . . . 80

20 9 1917

Belgrave, Leicester. An Elder.

Isabella Ellis . . . . 85

6 10 1916

Belgrave, Leicester.

Janet Nisbet Ekskine

janet njsbet erskine 53

Elizabeth Ell well ..87 17 4 1917

Bournville, Birmingham.
Esther England . . . . 61 12 7 1917

Leeds. Wife of John England, late of Castlef ord.
Arthur Henry Enock ,.78 29 1 1917

Newton Abbott, S, Devon. Late of Birmingham.

Died in London,
Robert Enock . , .. 33 10 11 1916

Chingford, Essex.

Janet Nisbet Erskine ..71 1012 1916
San Francisco, Cat. U.S.A. Late of Heanor,
Derbyshire, and Sydney, N.S.W. Wife of
Donald S. Erskine.

Had it been possible to consult her wishes
in the matter, there is little doubt that Janet
Nisbet Erskine would have spurned the idea
of presenting any memorial of her career. A
plain and simple life such as she had lived could
not require any such recognition. But in the
common walks, however lowly, there is sometimes
shown a purpose and a power which may well
merit a study and a record, not for exaltation
but for commendation. " She hath done what
she could " is the Master's approval of life's
purposes fulfilled.

Janet Nisbet Erskine was born in the city
of Dunfermline in 1845, of humble parent-
age, her father being a hand-loom damask weaver.

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He was, however, " a douce, God-fearing man,"
of sterling qualities, his oft repeated demand
to all his children being, " Be truthful, honest
and faithful in everything you say, or think,
or do." No small requirement always to be
followed either in youth or manhood, but in his
daughter Janet's case he seldom found occasion
for reproof. When she had reached the age of
ten a serious crisis arose in the family history.
The war with Russia in 1854-6 caused a great
stagnation in the linen manufacture, consequent
on the serious diminution of flax supplies, and
much loss and poverty strode through Dunfermline
city as well as elsewhere. But the little girl
Jenny quickly rose to the occasion, and resolved
to do something, however little, to aid in the
emergency. She accepted the position of house-
keeper to a well-to-do uncle, who had lost his
wife, and needed the help of someone to care
for his house and children, and by this means,
young as she was, she was enabled to eke out
some tangible help in the family provender.
Remaining in this position for several years,
she thus laid the foundation of ability in house-
hold management for years to come. Her next
step was a removal to Edinburgh, to a position
in domestic affairs in the house of a Friend,
Elizabeth Pease Nichol, of Huntly Lodge,
Morningside, where she first became acquainted

JANET NISBET ERSKINE 55

with the Society of Friends. She always referred
to this household as one of comfort, peace and
happiness, and to Elizabeth P. Nichol as a lady
of saintly loveliness of character.

In 1865 Janet Msbet was married to Donald
S. Erskine, an old friend of her childhood, a
union which extended over a period of more
than 51 years, and was fraught with many vicis-
situdes of change, but never marred by inharmoni-
ous regrets. Removing to England in 1870,
the little family settled at Heanor in Derbyshire,
and soon afterwards both husband and wife
joined in membership with the Society of Friends,
a unity in Christian principles and worship
which had been of gradual growth, and which
culminated in a complete accordance with
Friends in their essential views.

The following lines, written at that time to
a friend of the family, in explanation of their
action, may not be out of place here : —

Two foolish sheep went forth astray

From Presbyterian fold ;
And up and down the wide world they,
With tortuous steps and devious way,

Did wander in the cold.

4 Mong stranger flocks they sought that dream

Of heavenly peace and rest.
They pitched their camp by Baptist streams
And lit their lamps at Wesley gleams,
In independent quest.

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By kindly hap they lighted near

A quiet, shady nook,
And crouching low, in trembling fear,

Near it they shelter took.

With curry-comb Friend Barclay stood
To smooth the rough fleeced hogs,
And earnest George in sober mood
Did cut the thongs which girded good
Their Presbyterian clogs.

And kindly Penn stood meekly . there
To court with many a smile,

Whose earnest pleas, in accents rare,
Their spirits did beguile.

The sweetest memories are treasured of those
times spent in Derbyshire. The ordinary meetings
for worship, both on First-days and week-days,
were always an oasis in the desert way, while
the Monthly and Quarterly gatherings were
like mounting on to Pisgah heights. What glad
times were those spent in climbing the Derby-
shire hills, or treading the way through their
lovely vales. The visits, too widely apart,
of Ministering Friends, coming with their words
of cheer and comfort, or of spiritual solicitation,
were always epochs in family history, and are
held in grateful memory. Two of these were
specially stencilled on Janet Erskine's tablet
of recollections. They were those of Eli and
Sybil Jones, and of Joel and Hannah Bean, of
America, of the latter especially, since a renewal

JANET NISBET ERSKINE 57

of their loving fellowship was a precious ex-
perience in years long after.

But Derbyshire had to be left behind, with
heart burnings and sincere regrets. Her husband's
health had become much impaired, and seemed
to demand a more congenial climate for its
restoration. So in 1890 it was deemed advisable
to leave England for the more salubrious
cftme of Australia, and they settled that year in
Sydney, New South Wales, an apartment -house
being purchased near the Friends' Meeting
House. Janet Erskine's labours here included
the care of an old lady Friend, Hannah Fowler.
Their proximity to the Meeting House was a
great privilege, as it rendered their home a house
of call to many resident Friends and visitors,
whose words of counsel and cheer were greatly
esteemed. A few names might be mentioned,
including Joseph James Neave, Alfred Wright
from England, Samuel Morris and Jonathan
Rhoades from America, and many others. Here
her husband assisted in the Adult School,
and her own hands were ever ready to help in
every good work for the cause of truth and
righteousness.

They now hoped to find a resting-place
in Australia, but this hope was not realized.
Some of the family had settled in California,
and others of the younger members desired to

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join them, but it was with great reluctance
that the parents yielded to their wishes. The
mother heart however clung to a united house-
hold, and at last she assented to the change.
Many were the longing looks and kindly thoughts
cast back as they left the hospitable shores of
sunny New South Wales and Sydney's lovely
scenes and true hearted friends.

After crossing the great Pacific, and after visi-
ting Auckland, and looking up friends there, the
family arrived in California in 1898, and settling
down at San Francisco, began a home-life anew.
Here, as in former years, Janet Erskine soon
drew together the embracing cords of a genuine
home -circle. One serious drawback, however, was
the Meeting for Worship. There were but few
Friends in the city, and they met in a small
room in the Y.M.C.A. building, one old Friend,
Barclay Smith, taking the leading part One
solace still remained, however, in the prospective
meeting, at intervals, with the Friends of College
Park, and the joy of grasping hands with her
dear old friends Joel and Hannah Bean, and
their devoted family.

April 18, 1906, was a black-letter day for San
Francisco and its people, when many thousands
of homes, of both rich and poor, were suddenly
swept away in utter ruin. Janet Erskine's
home was of this number. Household goods,

JANET NISBET EBSKINE 59

gathered together through more than 40 years,
were ruthlessly dashed to pieces by the earth-
quake's shock, and left to the devouring flames.
Language utterly fails to express the record of
that dire catastrophe during those three days of
holocaust. However, despondency never entered
the mind of Janet Erskine, and after a brief
rest among her children and friends, her active
soul began at once to re-establish the scattered
structure of the family home life. Phoenix -
like, the city had arisen from its smouldering
ashes, and the effect on all hands was contagious.
In less than a year a new cottage home was
built on the hilly outskirts of the city, mainly
by Janet Erskine 's energetic efforts, where she
might rest in peace after her toilsome labour.
But the aftermath early became apparent, for
soul and body had been sorely taxed during that
sad time. Yet, while a loss of physical power
became painfully evident, her spiritual faculties
remained unimpaired to the last. Household
and other activities were now necessarily much
curtailed, but one of the saddest losses was her
inability to get to meetings for worship, and
especially the half-yearly gatherings at College
Park, which had always been looked forward to
with great expectancy.

The last four years of life were mainly
spent in the handicraft of needle-work or

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knitting -pins, in making presents for her numerous
friends, and by occasional visits to near-by neigh-
bours, particularly to homes where some little
word of friendly sympathy or kindly counsel
might be of service.

No long term of sickness was her portion
at the last, only a gradual weakening of the
mortal frame, but with mental and spiritual
vision undimmed. On the evening of seventh
day, 12th month 9th, she finished a long piece of
embroidery, on which she had worked for several
weeks for one of her daughters-in-law, and
laying it aside, she made the remark, " I wonder if
that will be the last." The words seemed pro-
phetic, for after passing a somewhat restless
night, as the morning dawned over the summits
of the distant Mt. Diablo, her head was laid
gently on her husband's breast, and breathing
one gentle sigh, she passed on to the glorious
Sabbath of the Better Land.

Such " short and simple annals of the poor "
may seem but of small account ; but a life,
however lowly, if lived out in faithfulness,
may still merit the Master's benediction, " Well
done, good and faithful servant ; enter thou
into the joy of thy Lord."

Harold Escolme ..19 1 8 1917

Yealand Conyers. Son of John and Elizabeth
Escolme. Killed in action in France.

Margaret Ford and Daughter

margaret ford 61

Dereck St. Clair Everett 21 31 10 191(3

East Harling, Norfolk. Son of Edmund E.

and Priscilla E. Everett. Killed in France.
Joseph Fairfax , . . . 77 5 9 1917

Birmingham. Formerly of Evesham.
Mary Ann Farrand . . 77 4 2 1917

Kumen, Auckland, N.Z. Widow of George

Farrand.
Ann Burton Ferrao . . 64 29 3 1917

Torrisholme, Morecambe.
Eliza Mewhort Ferrie

Saskatchewan, Canada.

Wife of David John Ferrie.
Selina Ffennell . .

Foxrock, Co. Dublin.

Ffennell.
Mary Ann Field . . . . 87 23 9 1916

Bradford. Widow of George Field.
Robert Fishwick . . . . 63 27 10 1916

York. Died at Sheriff Hutton.
James Manby Flower . . 76 23 12 1916

Eltham, 8.E. 9.

Margaret Ford . . . . 35 22 1 1917

Bentham. Wife of Rawlinson Charles Ford.
Died at Bournemouth. An Elder.

Margaret Ford was the second daughter
of William and Anna Maria Harvey, of Leeds.
Her life as a child was a very happy one. A

. 26

19

2 1917

Late

of

Renfrew.

Ferrie.

. 84

18

6 1917

Widow

of

Robert

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member of a closely united family, she was
surrounded with loving influences, and inspired
with the example of high endeavour in the lives
of her parents and grandparents. Except
for a time in childhood she was physically strong
and vigorous, and able fully to enter into work
and play, at home and at school.

At the Mount School, York, during her happy
three years there, she formed friendships which
were a precious possession all through life, and
her influence in the school, though quiet,
was strong and good. Later, she threw herself
eagerly into study abroad and at home, went
through a course of nursing in an East End
Settlement Hospital, returned home to study
practical housewifery and to work hard in a
Girls' Club and in a Sunday Class, and in connec-
tion with the Children's Country Holiday Fund.

Thus, at the time of her marriage with R.
Charles Ford, in May, 1909, a varied and active
life seemed to be before her, and she entered
her new home at Bentham full of plans for
the future. She looked forward to a home life
after the pattern of her old one, where for twenty -
seven years she had, unconsciously perhaps,
breathed in the love and spirit of sacrifice, the
simple faith and ideals of duty which were to
stand her in such good stead in the last years
of her life.

MARGARET FORD 63

Her longing to be useful was to be fulfilled,
but not in the way which she had planned.
After nearly two years of married life, and a
few months after the birth of her little daughter,
she was laid aside by illness which proved
to be lung disease. At once she had to set
aside all the activities she had so much enjoyed ;
the many home duties which she loved, and
could do so well, were to be hers no longer ; even
the care of her little daughter had to be under-
taken by others ; and the priceless mother
privileges which are taken as a matter of course
by so many were denied to her. At first it seemed
almost more than she could bear, and she had
to fight hard against depression, especially when
it seemed right for her to spend seven or eight
months in Switzerland, separated from her
husband and her home. But quickly she learnt
the great lesson,

" To will what God wills is the only way
to bring us into peace ; "

and though the rest of her life was made up of
long partings and short reunions, of improvement
in health and relapses into weakness, those who
knew her marvelled at the courage which helped
her to struggle back to life ; and it was notice-
able that she never lost her power of hearing
and responding to the slightest call for service.
One friend says how clearly her life taught

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others never to give in ; " and we mean to begin
again, to turn our backs on our relapses, our
selfishness and laziness, and try to love God
more, helped by the hope and courage learnt
from her, and inspired by the remembrance
of her purity of heart. ' ' Towards the end
of her illness, in talking with her mother, she
said : "It was very bitter at first, but all the
bitterness has gone," and again, a few months
before she was set free :

" You must not let anyone pity me ; I
think I can truly say I have never been so happy
in my life as now."

During her last summer she greatly enjoyed
being able to join in the meetings of the Bentham
branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
These were often held at her house, and whenever
possible, she was present, taking part very help-
fully, rejoicing in the opportunity of hearing-
something of the wider life from which she was
so much cut off.

Although as a child she was naturally im-
patient and quick-tempered, she schooled herself
to patience in such a way that all who came in
contact with her felt the contagiousness of her
hope. And so, when, after a few days of increased
weakness, she slipped quietly away, the deepest
feeling in the hearts of those who loved her was
that of thanksgiving, first for her life and her

MARGARET FORD 65

example, and then for her release from limita-
tions, and her entrance into the free, full Life
of the Ages, where she knew she should find
" fullest love and fullest service."

The Friend.

Agnes Forsyth . . . . 78 4 4 1917

Galston, Ayrshire.

Gertrude Amy Fox . . 21 5 6 1917

Upton St. Leonards, Gloucester. Daughter
of Walter Henry and Emma Antoinie Fox.

John Hinoston Fox ..86 12 11 1916
Auckland, N.Z. Formerly of Bristol.

Martha Fulton . . . . 81 17 2 1917

Belfast. Wife of William Fulton,

Tabitha Garmonsway . . 29 1 3 1917

Walihamstow, Essex. Daughter of Alfred
and the late Jane Garmonsway.

Martha Garner . . . . 83 4 1 1917

Chiswick. Widow of John Garner.

William Hubert Stuart

Garnett 34 21 9 1916

Hampstead. Died at Upavon, Wilts.

Charles Gayford. m.d., . . — 2 5 1917

Brixton. For some years F.F.M.A. Mis-

sionary at Hoshangabad, C.P., India.

Ethelwyn Gayner ..39 16 5 1917

Sunderland. Wife of Robert Heydon Gayner.

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Esther Ann George ..65 26 12 1916
Rochester. Wife of Thomas George. For

many years caretaker of Friends' Meeting
House, Rochester.

Whilhelmina Glasgow . . 73

7 10 1916

Warminster, Wilts. Widow of Benjamin

Glasgow.

George Frederick

Goldsbury . . . . 73

13 9 1916

Onehunga, N.Z. Formerly

of Ipswich.

Rachel Good . . . . 79

26 10 1916

Hull.

Joseph Gough . . . . 83

16 9 1917

Dublin.

Joseph Standen Gower . . 87

27 11 1917

Clapton, London. E.

Henry Grace . . . . 79

19 12 1916

Bristol. A Minister.

Joseph Lloyd Graham . . 67

24 2 1917

King's Heath, Birmingham.

Emily Jane Gravely . . 63

18 5 1917

Wellingborough. Daughter of Frederic Gravely.

Esther Gray . . . . 76

24 12 1916

Brighton. Died at Hayward's ]

ileath.

Widow of George Gray.

Ann Green . . . . 74

9 1 1917

Grindleton, near Clitheroe. Widow of Henry

Green.

john orr green 67

Donald Revis Green . . 21 26 9 1916
Southampton. Son of Walter C. Green. Killed
in action in France.

Harold Green . . . . 24 28 2 1917

Kinnego, Lurgan. Son of William S. and

Susan E. Green. Killed in France.

John Orr Green . . . . 91 14 12 1916

Orrfield, Hillsborough, Co. Down. An Elder.

John Orr Green was born at Orrfield, near
Hillsborough, Co. Down, in 1826. He was for
four years at the Friends' School, Lisburn, and
on leaving school entered at once upon his life
occupation, that of farming, succeeding, on the
death of his father, to the sole ownership of the
property. He was twice married, first, in 1860,
to Mary Jane Kirk, by whom he had four daugh-
ters ; and secondly to Sarah Ann Baird, who bore
him two sons. Four of these children survived
him. He was a very successful farmer, an
ardent Temperance worker, especially in a
private, personal manner, and, when the Land
Agitation arose, a staunch and fearless advocate
of the rights and aspirations of the tenant-
farmer. It is however as a philanthropist and
an evangelist that John Orr Green made so deep
an impression on his contemporaries. It was
whilst at Lisburn School that he appears to have
experienced his first religious impressions. There,

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he tells us, he often had a keen sense of the
tenderness and depth of the love of God to him-
self personally, melting him to tears, and con-
straining him to go aside from others and wait
in solitude upon the Lord. Under this divine
influence he began the daily study of the Scrip-
tures, pursuing the practice with such diligence
that, before leaving school, he had read the Bible
through three times ! The devotional habits
thus early formed never, we believe, quite left
him, although, as the affairs and temptations of
the world pressed more insistently upon him,
the brightness and vividness of the early vision
were somewhat dimmed, devotion slackened, and
religious duties were somewhat neglected.

But, at about 40 years of age, a great and
vital change came over him. He was " conver-
ted." A new revelation of the Divine was
vouchsafed ; he saw that he himself was a lost
and helpless sinner, and that Jesus was a complete
and all-satisfying Saviour. John Orr Green was
not " disobedient to the heavenly vision " ;
he surrendered himself to the Divine guidance,
and became thenceforth a fearless and tireless
ambassador for Christ, preaching," in season and
out of season," in fairs and in the market place,
at cottage -meetings and in private, the truths
now so dear to his heart. " Jesus " was his
favourite title for the newly -found and precious

John Orr Green

JOHN ORE GREEN 69

Saviour, and to see him literally buttonhole
a man, and plead with him, with tears in his
eyes and loving tenderness in his voice, to accept
this Jesus as his Saviour, was a never-to-be-
forgotten sight. Even more remarkable and
impressive a spectacle was it to see him stand
up in a railway carriage of several open compart-
ments, take off his hat, perhaps donning in its
place the black velvet skull-cap, open his Bible,
and, in the midst of a profound and respectful
silence, read to and exhort the assembled company.
Prayer, we believe, usually followed. On such
occasions no opposition, so far as is known,
was ever offered. His transparent sincerity,
his manifest and utter self -forget fulness, his
deep humility, his evident love for all about
him, disarmed opposition and silenced criticism.
It was with him an invariable custom to carry
in his pockets a packet of sweets, partly perhaps
for his own delectation, but mainly for the pur-
pose of securing the good will of children. How
often, during a railway journey, did he not pro-
duce his packet, make his distribution, and
having thus got at the hearts of the parents,
set before them in moving tones the claims of
his dear Jesus. A number of soldiers, with
whom on one occasion he travelled to Dundalk,
were so greatly impressed by his talk and his
real interest in their best welfare that, as they

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left the carriage, they one and all came up and
cordially shook hands with him. It was in this
private and personal capacity, and as a family
visitor, that he mainly excelled, for, although
regular and acceptable in his ministerial addresses
in meetings for worship, he had not what are
commonly regarded as the gifts of a public
speaker, and was consequently never " recorded "
as a minister of the Society. He was for many
years in the station of Elder, and as such,
regular in his attendance at the meetings for
Ministry and Oversight, whose members he
seldom failed to exhort to humility and meekness,
to " keep low at the feet of Jesus." and what
he preached he practised, for he made it, for
many years, an invariable rule to retire, at
about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and to
spend an hour in the home in meditation and
waiting upon the Lord.

In the latter part of his life, the claims
of Friends residing beyond the bounds of his
own Quarterly Meeting were brought before
him, and, in response to the call, he travelled
extensively in Ireland and Scotland, his gifts
of grace and meekness making way for him
here as elsewhere. In 1898, in the 72nd year
of his age, with the approval of Friends, and in
company with James R. Jones, of Indiana,
U.S.A., he travelled in Denmark and Norway,

JOHN ORE GREEN 71

Johann Marcussen acting as interpreter. In
1900 a second visit was paid to the same parts,
he being accompanied on this occasion by
Johann Marcussen alone. A yet more extended
visit was paid in 1899 to Friends in Canada and
in some parts of the United States. He journey-
ed entirely at his own expense, and, not being a
Recorded Minister, often without a minute.

He kept a careful journal descriptive of
his experiences during these " travels in the
ministry," and extracts from this were printed
and issued shortly after his decease. We have
only space to make a few brief quotations,
but there is so much of interest in these diaries
that selection is difficult. Our dear friend had
a strong faith in the utility of prayer for bodily
as well as for spiritual healing. On his first
voyage to Denmark he writes :

"Left London for Harwich: sailed from that
port : arrived on 7th day at Esbjerg at 4 a.m.
Felt to cry to the Lord that our visit may not be
in vain, and also that He would keep me from
being sick, which the Lord graciously answered.
Our dear friend, James R. Jones, was ill and
unable to take breakfast. I felt, as the Lord had
answered the prayer on my own behalf, that I
was to ask the Lord in faith to heal this dear
brother, which was the case in a short time. He
came saying ' Brother ! thy prayer is answered ;
I am well.' How good the Lord is ! our hearts
praised Him together."

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On another occasion, in Norway, he writes :

" A sister of the Friend's wife was such a
sweet young woman, but was lame of one side.
She had such a sweet innocent countenance
that I felt the Lord would have compassion on
her and heal her, as He did while on earth.
Felt the Spirit moving on my heart to say these
things before her, provided she had faith in God. ' '

At every place he visited both in Scandina-
via and in America he lost no opportunity of
dealing faithfully, in private conversation,
with any for whom he felt to have a word in
season. When in Canada he writes :

" Next morning started early to pay four
or five visits before leaving at 3.0 for Toronto.
The visits were remarkable ones, feeling specially
led to give a direct message to several. One was
to one of the old Friends (orthodox). Jesus told
Peter to launch out into the deep and let down
the net. I felt led to tell her if she would let go
her prejudices and launch out on God's love, He
would make her a fisher of men. She thanked
me and asked God to bless 'me and keep me."

On more than one occasion on his travels
he felt it laid upon him to fast as well as to pray,
and so abstained, sometimes for a whole day,
from taking any food.

We cannot better conclude this memoir
than . by a quotation from the Testimony of
Lisburn Monthly Meeting.

JOHN ORR GREEN 73

" That with declining years there came no
dimness over his spiritual vision was evident to
all who knew him, and he continued publicly
to testify to the goodness of his Saviour, even
when his bodily strength was rapidly waning.
As he lived, so he passed away in quietness
and confidence into the presence of Him in
whose service his life was spent, where his eyes
have seen the King in His beauty, and have
beheld the land that is very far off."

Sarah Ann Greenhalgh 76 1 3 1917

Bolton. Widow of Job Haslam Greenhalgh.
John Greer Greeves . . 80 24 1 1917

Grange, near Moy, Co. Tyrone. An Elder.

Lizzie Lilian Gregg . . 33 6 6 1917

Evesham. Wife of Eli Gregg.
Philip Armitage Gripper 17 17 3 1917

Tunbridge Wells. Died at Gresham School,

Holt, Norfolk. Son of William Henry and

Agnes Gripper.
Ada Caroline Halford ..46 22 4 1917

Stroud Green. Wife of Martin Halford.
Arthur Hall . . . . 26 15 9 1917

Wigton, Cumberland. Son of John and

Sarah Hall. Killed in action in France.

Thomas Hall . . . . 79 17 8 1916

Darlington.
Anna Halliday . . . . 82 9 12 1916

Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Widow of Jacob

Halliday.

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Samuel Halliday ..46 21 9 1917

Dublin.

Margaret Hodges Hannah 74 28 7 1917
Kilmaurs, Ayr. Widow of Thomas
Hannah.

Geoffrey Hardy . . . . 27 27 5 1917

Banbury. Son of Ellen and the late Jo-

siah Patrick Hardy. Died in London from
wounds received in France.

Margaret Elizabeth

Harlock 57 13 4 1917

West Didsbury, Manchester. Wife of George
Henry Harlock.

Frances Rebecca

Harrington . . . . 66 24 1 1917

Ilford, Essex. Formerly of Wolverhampton.
Widow of Frank Robert Harrington.

Frank Harrison . . . . 19 27 7 1916

Eccles, Manchester. Son of Edwin and

Margaret Harrison. Killed in France.

Percy Day Harrisson ..31 12 3 1917
Bournemouth. Only son of Henry and

Louisa A. Harrisson. Died in London Hos-
pital from wounds received in France.

Mary Ann Hartley . . 68 5 1 1917

Oldham. Widow of Edward Hartley.

William Hartley ..79 12 11 1916

New House, near Kendal.

THOMAS JOSEPH HASLAM 75

Ellen Ann Hartshobne . . 59 21 4 1917
Yeovil, Somerset. Wife of George Morgan

Hartshorne.

Thomas J. Haslam . . 91 30 1 1917

Rathgar, Dublin. Formerly a Master at

Ackworth School.

Thomas Joseph Haslam, of Rathmines,
Dublin, was born at Mountmellick, Queen's Co.
in 1825. He was educated at the Friends'
School, Mountmellick, then open to boys as well
as girls, and he remained there for five years.
On leaving school, in 1840, he wished to enter
the teaching profession, and became an apprentice
at the Friends' School, Lisburn. On the com-
pletion of his apprenticeship in 1846, he received
a teaching appointment at Ackworth School.
The four " schools " into which the boys had
hitherto been divided were just at this time
changed into nine classes, and T. J. Haslam,
had charge of the sixth class, Josiah Evans
teaching the first class at the other end of the
same schoolroom.

On the retirement of William Thistlethwaite,
in 1847, at the first vacation ever given at the
school the office of " Master-on-Duty " became
vacant. Henry Wilson, afterwards of Kendal,
had been appointed to the post, but was not
able to take up his new duties till early in 1848.

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In the meantime Thomas J. Haslam was asked to
take the office temporarily for the last three
months of 1847. During the previous adminis-
tration the school had lapsed into a state of
great disorder, but as Henry Thompson remarks
in his " History of Ackworth School," in the brief
period of three months, " T. J. Haslam, by his
resolute will and keen sense of order and obedience,
converted a tangle of confusion into a perfect
machine." Soon afterwards he left Ackworth
and the teaching profession, and returning to
Ireland, entered on commercial pursuits, In
1854 he married Anna Maria Fisher of Youghal,
who had for a short time been a teacher at Ack-
worth.

The first few years of their married life were
passed in Clonmel, but in 1857 they moved to
Dublin, which remained their home for the rest
of T. J. H's long life. After a time, his health
failing, he had to abandon his commercial
engagements. He was, however, devoted to
literature, and several works, chiefly on this
subject, were the product of his pen. The best
known of these is entitled, " Good English for
Beginners," published in 1892. He was much
interested in the Friends' Institute in Dublin,
where he often lectured, even up to his 90th year.

T. J. and A. M. Haslam lived to celebrate
their golden wedding in 1904. They had both

THOMAS JOSEPH HASLAM 77

ceased to be members of the Society of Friends
many years before, but they continued their
association with the Society, though they never
rejoined it in membership.

Lily Marjorie Hayden .. 3 1512 1915
Handsworth, Birmingham. Daughter of Wil-
liam Henry Lyles and Jane Hayden.

Henry Parker Hayhoe . . 85 25 10 1916
Great Shelford. Cambridge.

Benjamin, Ha yllar ..80 30 3 1917

Philadelphia, U.S.A. Late of Newport

Pagnell.

William Hayward . . 87 24 3 1917

Torquay.

Robert Harold Heath . . 39 22 10 1916
Portland Place, London, W. Killed in

France.

John William Noel

Helliwell .. .. 26 2 1917

Wood Green, London. Only son of John
and Ellen Edith Helliwell. Died of wounds
in France.

Mary Helliwell .. ..80 15 2 1917

Leeds. Widow of William Helliwell.

Sir Jesse Herbert ..65 26 12 1916

Harrow.
Richard Hill . . . . 67 19 8 1916

Northfield, Birmingham.

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Henry Hills .. ..71 29 11 1916

Stafford.

William Frederick

Waller Hills . . . . 23 6 3 1917

Gampden Hill, London, W. Only surviving
son of Edmond H. and Juliet Hills. Killed
in France.

Eric Hobson . . . . lmo. 24 1 1917

Ratvtenstall. Son of F. J. and S. E. Hobson.

Joshua Hobson .. ..57 812 1916

Richhill, Co. Armagh.

Alice Horsnaill . . 52 1 10 1916

Aberdeen. Died at Croydon.

Mary Horsnaill . . . . 90 9 10 1916

Hornsey Rise Gardens, London.

Marriette Hughes ..64 1511 1916

Malahide, Co. Dublin. Widow of William
J. Hughes.

Sarah Humphrey .. ..76 11 11 1916

Forest Gate, E. Wife of Thomas Humphrey.

Thomas Humphrey ..79 29 11 1916

Ilford, Essex.

Joseph Hunt . . . . 78 9 6 1917

Halford Bridge, Shipston-on-Stour.

Eliza Hutchinson . . 92 16 1 1917

Grange-over -Sands. Late of Malton.

annual monitor 79

Elizabeth Hutchinson ..19 210 191(5

Hull. Daughter of J. B. and A. B.

Hutchinson.
Mary Impey . . . . — 6 8 1917

Chelmsford. Died at Bridgwater.

Widow of William Impey.

John Impson . . . . — 3 10 1916

Durban, Natal, S. Africa.

Abraham Isherwood ..66 912 1916

Manchester.

Annie Isherwood ..49 17 3 1917

Whitley Bay, Northumberland. Wife of Harry

Isherwood.

James Isherwood . . . . 23 1 8 1917

Whitley Bay, Northumberland. Son of Harry

and Annie Isherwood. Killed in France.

Kathleen Joyce Jackson 15 311 1916

Stafford. Daughter of Thomas and Nellie

Joyce Jackson.
T. Gordon Jackson

Stockton Heath, Cheshire.

Dora Jackson.
Albert Leverson James

Kingston-on-Thames.

Centre, Wakefield.
Ewart White Jarvis . . 29 9 5 1917

Balsall Heath, Birmingham. Son of John

and Rosetta Jarvis. Killed in France.

12

14 4

1917

Son

of Foster and

30

17 5

1917

Died

at the

Work

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Louis Bedford Jesper . . 56 31 1 1917
Carlisle. Son of Samuel and Susanna

Jesper, of Penrith.

Agnes Johnson . . 72 16 12 1916

Sunderland. Widow of James Oliver Johnson.

Frank Charles Johnson 42 21 5 1917
Auckland, N.Z. Son of Francis and Elizabeth
Johnson, of Ruislip. Late of Chelmsford.

Jane Johnson . . . . 64 16 2 1917

Grey stones, Co. Wicklow, Died at Cardiff.

Widow of Mordecai Johnson.

John F. Willings Johnson 28 2 2 1917

Toronto, Canada. Killed in action.

Margaret Johnstone . . 72 26 1 1917
Preston. Widow of William Johnstone.

Sarah Jones .. . . 41 15 9 1916

Bournville, Birmingham. Wife of Albert R.
Jones. An Elder.

Jane Topling . . . . 87 24 1 1917

Darlington. Widow of Joseph Topling.

Mary Hester Kay .. 65 7 10 1916

Leeds. Widow of Joseph Kay.

Mary Keighley . . . . 75 21 7 1917

Morecambe.

Amelia Kellett . . . . 65 23 5 1917

Nottingham. Widow of John Kellett.

annual monitor 81

Louisa Kelley .. ..40 21 9 1917

Colchester.
Eliza Jane Kldd .. 66 18 11 1916

Belfast. Wife of James Kidd.

Eugenie King . . . . 60 8 6 1917

Sparkhill, Birmingham.

Eliza Hannah Kinson ..54 16 12 1916

Wakefield, Wife of James H. Kinson.

John Thomas Knapton . . 29 25 9 1916
Southport. Killed in action in France.

Diana Knowles . . . . 75 25 4 1917

Bentham. Wife of William Knowles.

Esther Ann Labrey ..80 23 2 1917

Allonby, near Mary port.
Stephanie Elizabeth

Lange . 79 22 6 1917

Bowdon, Cheshire. Widow of Hermann

L. Lange, late of Manchester.

Lewis Lawrence

Lansdowne .. ..77 5 11 1916

Redland, Bristol.
Eliza Latchmore ..79 1 8 1916

Halifax. Widow of Joseph Latchmore.

Helen Latimer . . . . 73 25 10 1916

Gloucester.
Robert Lee . . . . 58 7 7 1917

New Mills, near Stockport.

82 annual monitor

William Thomas Lewis ..72 10 3 1917

Sunderland.
Alice Ramsay Liddell ..61 3 1 1917

Woburn Sands, Beds. Wife of William Lid-
dell. A Minister.
May Florence Victoria

Lingford 41 13 6 1917

Darlington. Widow of Edward Lingford.
Samuel Lithgrow ..72 18 2 1917

Linthorpe, Middlesbrough.
Margaret Livingston . . 68 1 1 1917

Lurgan, Co. Armagh. Wife of Hamilton

Livingston.
Thomas Lloyd . . . . 78 29 9 1916

Marshside, near Stockport.
William Henry Lloyd .. — 13 3 1916

Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton. An Elder.

William Merrick Ellis

Lloyd — 19 5 1917

Barnt Green, Birmingham. Son of William

Ellis and Minnie A. Allen Lloyd. Killed

in France.
Frederic William

Lockwood . . . . 77 30 6 1917

York. Formerly of Belfast.
John Warner Lucas . . 74 21 2 1917

Ngawi, Java. Son of the late Edmund

Lucas, of Westminster.

margaret m. lury £3

Margaret Maria Lury ..66 31 12 1916
Clevedon.

Margaret M. Lury, Margency, Clevedon.
If all to whom this name and address is familiar
could meet together, what a large and varied
company we should be ! How sweet and sacred
our talk ! Children would remember the games
they had — young people the unfailing sympathy
they counted on ; and we who are older, would
call to mind how we learned something new of
the charm of hospitality. Margaret M. Lury
was always delicate, and kept much to the house
and garden of late years, but no one ever heard
her complain, or saw her depressed. It was
good to have a friend — and such a friend — who
was sure to be at home when we called, and her
greeting was a refreshment, or a comfort, or a
bracing word, just as the occasion demanded.
To find her in the garden, with her gardening
tools, was a rare treat, for she was never too
busy to sit down under the trees for a talk,
and the something sweet-scented, which she
offered as we left, was not the only treasure we
carried away.

If she was within doors, and our talk turned
to grave concerns, her hand would reach out
for the Bible, always to be found on the big
round table in the sitting room, and she would

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quickly find the fitting passage which took on
a new meaning as she read. Surely sweet and
helpful influences will cling about that room as
long as stones and mortar hold together.

But Margaret M. Lury's great concern was
that the Society of Friends should not fall below
the standard set by those who have passed
away. She longed to see us all " Publishers of
Truth," and Preachers of Peace, pressing on
to higher ideals of life, until the Kingdom come
and the will of God be done on Earth as it is in
Heaven. Shall not we who love her strive that
her hopes may be fulfilled ? In so striving
we shall raise the only sort of memorial worthy
of her name.

Llewellyn Malcomson ..24 510 1916

Portlaw, Go. Water ford. Son of the late Wil-
liam and Adelina Malcomson. Killed in
action in France.

Eliza Marriage . . . . 95 31 12 1916

Kingston, Surrey. Widow of William

Marriage.

Ellen Marriage .. ..79 9 2 1917

BirJcdale, Southport.

Thomas Marriage . . 51 7 4 1917

Bury St. Edmunds.

Margaret M. Lury

annual monitor 85

Ernest Martin . . . . 41 18 2 1917

Stoke Newington. Son of Joseph White

and Lydia B. Martin. Died in Hospital
in France.

William Pride aux Martin 76 1 3 1917

Wellington, Somerset. An Elder.

Thomas Mason .. ..81 13 4 1917

Yew Tree Farm, Holme, near Carnforth. A
Minister.

John William Matthews 66 4 5 1917

Oldham.

Gertrude G. McCullough 15 28 4 1917
Bessbrook, Daughter of James and Annie
McCullough.

James McDowell . . . . — 24 4 1917

Cape Colony, S. Africa. Killed in action

in France.

Bertha Annie McRow . . 49 8 8 1917

Hunstanton.

William Metford . . 82 5 5 1917

Geneva.

Edith Middleton 56 22 3 1917

Craig-y-don, Colwyn Bay. Daughter of

Samuel Middleton. An Elder.

George H. Mills .. .. — 13 12 1916

Sheffield.

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Emily Mitchell . .

..74 14 10 1916

Tullamore.

Mary Jane Moore

. . 69 2 12 1916

Sparkbrook, Birmingham

Widow of Walter

Moore.

Edith Morley

..68 21 7 1917

Woodbridge.

Joseph Morrison . .

..71 14 11 1916

Ballintore, Ferns, Co. Wexford. An Elder.

William Bellerby Morrod 20 12 3 1917

Acomb, York. Son of

George and Frances

H. Morrod. Died

in Netley Hospital,

Southampton.

John Morton

. . 83 24 3 1917

Cleckheaton, Yorks.

John Nainby

. . 64 17 5 1917

Frenchay, Bristol.

John Mason Nash . .

..61 10 7 1917

Ashton-on-Mersey. Manchester.

William Richardson Nash 82 15 3 1917
Carke-in-Cartmel. Lanes. A Minister.

The decease of William Richardson Nash,
of The Mount, Carke-in-Cartmel, at the age of 82
years, has withdrawn a unique personality from
the outward ken of those who knew and loved
him. Unique, yet in one respect he represented

Willi am R. Nash

WILLIAM RICHARDSON NASH 87

a type of Quakerism. Like many another living
in a quiet country district, or even in more com-
plete isolation from central Quaker activities,
if he did not shake the country for twenty miles
round, he at least made his influence widely felt
in an unobtrusive life of active service. He
and others, by their lives, have stamped a hall-
mark on rural Quakerism which, through death
and migration to towns, we are in danger of losing.
They have been men of action, of integrity,
keen in the promotion of righteousness, men of
speech too, as occasion has required, yet not
given to waste their energies in too frequent
use of words or pen.

William R. Nash was born in 1834, at Cannon
Street, St. George's in the East, Middlesex. His
parents were William and Rebecca Nash, members
of Ratclirf Monthly Meeting before its union
with Barking. In those days crowded meetings
were held at RatclifT, and late comers had to
find seats in the galleries. William Nash, senior,
retired from his business as painter and removed
to Allithwaite, Lancashire.

William R. Nash farmed Pit Farm, Grange -
over -Sands, leaving it a few years ago, but still
retaining some business interests in his new home.
Meantime he had become invaluable for his
service to Friends and to the neighbourhood.
For forty -six years at least he has been Clerk of

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Swarthmore Monthly Meeting, and Registering
Officer for fifty -five years, making out personally
all the Monthly Meeting trust property and other
returns and attending to its business with great
diligence. He was also a Recorded Minister.
His last address on " The Light of the World "
was given on the Sunday preceding his brief
illness of five days. He was very fond of statis-
tics, meteorological, economic and financial.
Every month he issued his weather and farming
notes, giving general details of weather and the
results of barometric and other observations,
with scrupulous exactitude and comparison of
averages. The general local farming operations
were noted, the blossoming of wild and garden
flowers ; hints were given to farmers as to manures
and treatment of land, with statistics of farming
stock in the district and of the cockle and other
industries. Finance interested him greatly,
and he always quoted the price of Consols and the
Bank rate of discount, with comparisons, and,
as a bimetalist, the gold price of silver per oz.
In his first letter addressed to the writer he spoke
of bimetalism, adding, " most bimetalists are
protectionists ; I am not, A.B. is," mentioning
a well-known Quaker banker and farmer. A
Liberal in politics, he did not hesitate to show
up any serious mistake that he deemed the
Government of the day to be making.

WILLIAM RICHARDSON NASH 89

Every year appeared the village almanac,
well illustrated, full of valuable information and
pithy stories, with references to local events of
the past year and to deceased local celebrities,
giving warm tributes to the worth of many to
whom he was politically opposed. His almanac
usually ended with the annual report of the Peace
Committee of Westmorland Quarterly Meeting.

As Chairman of the Local District Council
from its establishment, he was a Justice of the
Peace, and latterly he was appointed a J. P. for
the county. For upwards of fifty years he
served as a Guardian. Recently he received a
presentation of his portrait, which was to hang
in the Board room. In presenting it, Lord
Richard Cavendish spoke of the " very close per-
sonal relationship " of William R. Nash with
members of his own family, adding " my grand-
father, my father and my brother [successively
Chairmen of the Board] always looked to Mr.
Nash as their right-hand man." He then re-
ferred to the " unfailing help and kindness" he
had " always extended " to himself. Speaking
of the " chief characteristic " of William R.
Nash, he said " without the slightest hesitation,"
it was " his genuine and warm-hearted love for
his fellow human-beings. His life has been really
one long effort, and in many varied phases, a most
successful effort, to serve and ameliorate the lot

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of humanity. Undeterred by temporary fail-
ures or disappointments, he has constantly
struggled to do what he believed to be right."

Fifty years ago William R. Nash founded
the Furness and South Cumberland Building
Society, and has been its Secretary during the
whole period of its existence. It now numbers
3,000 members, and has assets exceeding £250,000.

His writings were picturesque, poetical in
thought, and not without a spice of humour.
Very charming were some of his descriptions.
His account of breaking his leg one Sunday
afternoon, through slipping on a slope whilst
feeding his fowls, was quite humourous. A
stalwart local football player was requisitioned
with others to carry him into the house on an iron-
ing board. Taken into a sunny room, he asked his
bearers to carry him no further, as he wished
to spend his time of recovery in a bright place.
From day to day men of all sorts and conditions
came to inquire after the invalid, who much ap-
preciated the loving attention bestowed upon
him. After this accident, he was obliged to use
two sticks when walking, and he walked hatless
because, as he said, if the wind blew his hat off
he could not run after it and fetch it.

He wrote a delightful account of his old friend
Edward Trusted Bennett, with whom he had
spent some of his early years on the farm of a

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Friend in Sussex. His account of the funeral
of his old nurse, which occurred during his at-
tendance at a Yearly Meeting, is an interesting
story of faithful loyalty through long years.
From her abode in the East End of London, he
and the late Thomas Sterry Norton followed the
remains to the grave as " chief " and only
mourners.

Apart from Yearly Meeting, business brought
William R. Nash to London not infrequently,
notwithstanding the difficulty of locomotion of
later years. He once came up to vote at a
Middlesex election of which a lady Friend, as
it happened, had sent him notice, thinking, as
she addressed it, that it was a waste of printing
and postage. But William R. Nash thought the
candidate a good man, worth the sacrifice of two
days' travel and costs. On the occasions of his
visits, he looked in upon his friends in the intervals
between business engagements, and sometimes
attended the mid-week meeting for worship at
Devonshire House.

William Richardson Nash was married at
Height in 1860, to Mary Jane Windsor, some
two years his senior. She died at Pit Farm in
1885, the funeral taking place at Height. His
son William, a young man of sterling character,
left Grange- over- Sands in 1898 with a friend for
Vancouver, en route for the Yukon River. He

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was taken ill, and died in Alaska before completing
his journey.

The funeral of William R. Nash took place
at the Friends' burial ground, Height, Newton -in -
Cartmel, on the 19th inst. The previous day
the Flookborough bells were muffled and after
evening service the choir sang hymns outside
his house. On the plain memorial card occur
the appropriate words, " Now the labourer's
task is o'er." This hymn was sung at the grave-
side, where, and at the meeting which followed,
a large and representative company assembled.
Appreciative testimony was given respecting the
high character of the deceased and his devotion
to public duty. At the close of the meeting,
all united in " The Lord's Prayer " at the in-
vitation of the Vicar of Cartmel.

The Friend.

William James Neill . . 39 27 10 1916
Belfast. Son of James and Margaret Neill.

Sarah Harriet Newland 76 26 1 1917
Reading. Widow of F. T. Newland.
Formerly of Friends' Meeting House, Croydon.

Albert Davies Nickalls 50 21 1 1916
Wye, Kent. Killed in action in Mesopotamia.
Was in the advance to relieve Kut-el-Amara.
Was long reported " missing ;" is now repor-
ted " believed killed."

RACHEL ODDIE 93

Eliza Nickalls . . . . 86 1(5 1 1917

Langside, Glasgow. Widow of Thomas

Nickalls, late of Ashford, Kent.
John Nott . . ... . . 83 27 2 1917

Hereford. .
Edward O'Brien . . . . 36 14 8 1917

Huddersfield.
Margaret Elizabeth

O'Brien 23 6 11 1917

Wallasey, Cheshire. Daughter of Thomas

Henry O'Brien.

Rachel Oddie . . . . 78 22 3 1917

Southport. For many years " governess "

at Ackworth School. An Elder.

Rachel Oddie lived as a child at Ackworth
School, her mother, Jane Oddie, holding the post
of " Governess," or as it would now be styled
" Head Mistress " at the School, a position
which her daughter afterwards filled to great
satisfaction for many years. Rachel Oddie
earned the esteem of all by great dignity and
efficiency in the fulfilment of her duties. After
her retirement, in 1896, she went to live with her
brother at Weston-super-Mare, but her later
years were spent at Southport.

[It is hoped to present a more adequate
memoir of Rachel Oddie in the Annual Monitor
next year.]

94 annual monitor

Daniel Oliver, f.r.s., .. 86 2112 1916
Kew,

Daniel Oliver was of Quaker ancestry for
several generations. He was the eldest son
of Daniel and Ann Oliver and was born at
Newcastle-on-Tyne, February 6th, 1830. His
grandfather, also of the same name, a farmer,
was a minister in the Society. But the farm
had been given up in favour of a business in
Newcastle. When quite a small boy, Daniel
was sent off to school at Wigton. His master,
Robert Doeg, gives but a poor report of him.
There was no good to be got out of that lad,
he was always in mischief and always experi-
menting. He would try to make balloons or
other such wild and useless things. He was
interested in flowers and insects, had made plant
collections and had thoroughly enjoyed the
opportunities of country life.

On leaving school at 14 his exuberance of
spirit quite left him. He was exceedingly shy
and quiet at home as he took his part in the
home business which was utterly distasteful
to him. A Latin book would be found hidden
away for study when he should have been
occupied in more mundane matters.

In the Meeting however, he found several
good friends and congenial spirits, among whom

Daniel Oliver, f.r.s.

DANIEL OLIVER 95

may be mentioned James Richardson, Henry
Bowman Brady, Henry Tuke Mennell and Dr.
Stewartson Brady from Sunderland. Among
these and others was started the Arkesian
Society, giving fortnightly lectures on scientific
subjects at the Meeting House. Daniel Oliver
was a prominent member of this society. His
circle of friends also increased, and came to
include John Hancock the ornithologist, and
Sir Walter Trevelyan, who was instrumental
in introducing him to Kew, the scene of his
life's work.

As time went on he became more and more
a keen botanical student, botany gradually
ousting mineralogy and he brought to the task
remarkable powers of observation coupled with
thorough and patient criticism. When he
was 21 he became a member of the Edinburgh
Botanical Society, and 2 years later was made
Fellow of the Linnaean. One of his earlier
and most interesting botanizing expeditions
was to Connemara, where he discovered Naice
flexitis, a plant hitherto unknown in the British
Isles.

He had one very severe illness as a young
man ; it was at the time when the cholera was
in Newcastle — the doctor visited him 8 times
in one day. Also when quite a little boy he
was badly bitten by a dog with whom he was

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playing somewhat unguardedly. These incidents
may have served to accentuate a decidedly
nervous temperament.

In '58, hearing of a possible opening in
Kew, he wrote to Sir William Hooker, then
Director, offering his services. An invitation
to Kew followed, and he accepted the post of
Librarian of the Kew Herbarium.

In 1861 he became Professor of Botany
at University College, London, which professor-
ship he held for 27 years. It was in the Spring
of '61 that he married Hannah, daughter of
James and Jane Wall of Sheffield.

In his early manhood he became for a time
somewhat of a strict Friend, but he entirely
threw over such rigidity, though to the spirit of
truth and freedom he remained firm. After his
marriage, which was the happiest conceivable, art
became ever an increasing interest with him —
the botanical interest of a holiday faded into the
background as he became an ardent sketcher, and
this passion remained to the end of his life.
He had quite a remarkable gift for recognising
a pictorial subject.

He was always proud of being a Northum-
brian. He had the deepest sympathy and
love for the county, revelled in north-country
lore and was most at home on its lonely
moors.

DANIEL OLIVER 97

In '63 he was made a Fellow of the Royal
Society, and in 1864 he was appointed keeper
of the Kew Herbarium, which post he held
till his retirement in 1890. These years were
crowded with activity. He is especially remarka-
ble for his work in the department of systematic
botany. His Lessons in Elementary Botany
has been the text -book for countless students.
He lectured on botany for many years to the
young gardeners. He was an arduous worker,
with an ever alert mind. He was a man of
utter sincerity, of simplicity of life and character,
of quiet humour and of unbounded love of
nature.

The common things of nature were the
greatest delight to him — the Herb Robert,
Knapweed and Stitch-wort of the country lanes.

He was a great lover of home and an ideal
companion to his small children, whom he would
entertain with stories of dragons and fairies.
In later life his devotion to his little cat was
quite a feature.

The friends he had were very real ones.
He was never at home in much society, and
resisted successfully all attempts to bring him
into anything of the nature of lime -light.

Scientific recognition however, was accorded
him by the Royal Society's bestowal of its
Royal Medal in 1884, by the honorary degree

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of LL.D. of the Aberdeen University in '91,
and by the Linnsean Society's Gold Medal in
'93.

His parents' removing to Jersey in 1870
led him, while paying his yearly visit, to extend
his holiday into France, choosing a tour among
those towns specially noted for some fine old
church or cathedral. Of , these holidays, and
of many also in the north of England, faithful
record is left in many hundreds of delicate
sketches, all arranged in orderly sequence in
what had been originally intended for a botanical
cabinet. He had great orderliness of mind
and habit, and could never be unpunctual.
He had an over-ruling sense of duty which
was governed by a reserved but deeply religious
spirit. On one occasion a friend spoke in his
presence of some person being " common/'
at which he rather gently and half humorously
referred to the Society's query concerning tale-
bearing and detraction. The speaker was a
stranger to Quakerism, but the remark made
a lasting impression.

He was fond of music, and at one time
went as often as occasion permitted to hear
Joachim, or to attend a Henshel concert.

When in 1890 Daniel Oliver retired from
official life, he gave his new-found leisure with
ardour to the study of oil -painting.

DANIEL OLIVER 99

These 26 years of retirement from official
cares were perhaps the happiest of his life. He
took to gardening and gave much time to reading.
He was at one time a great reader of Ruskin
and of Carlyle and he had considerable corres-
pondence with and various visits from the
former.

Of his favourite books may be mentioned
the novels of Sir Walter Scott, Boswell's Life
of Johnson, R. L. Stevenson's novels and the
lives and writings of the pre-Raphaelite painters.
He was also apt to have on hand one of the lives
of the early Friends. These books he read
and re-read. Joseph John Gurney's life was
among the half-finished books at the time of
his death.

Indeed the last quotation in his diary is
from that book —

"I have nothing to look to, nothing to depend
upon, except the one great source of hope and
consolation, the infinite and unmerited mercy of
God in Christ Jesus."

He attended Isleworth Meeting till very
late on in his life, and when it became imprac-
ticable to go so far, he and his old colleague
and neighbour John Gilbert Baker arranged to
hold meeting together at home.

In later life he had various close friends
from the artist world — Arthur Hughes, T. M.

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Rooke and Newton Benett, also in middle life
A. W. Hunt, many of whose water-colours,
as well as several by G. P. Boyce, he secured,
i He died, after a very short illness, Decem-

ber 21st, 1916.

..35 19
Killed in France.

Grace Osborn . . . . 23

Sheffield. Died at Lincoln.
Eliza Osborn.

Albert Owen
Wellingborough,

Robert Partington

Bolton, Lanbs.
Dinah Margaret Payne

Manchester.
Emma Payne

Wellington, Somerset.
Margaret R. Pease

Letchworth, Herts.
Oswald Allen Pease

14 7 1917
Daughter of

2 1917

81

83

50

46

6 4 1917

30 6 1917

16 3 1916

30 1 1917

31 3 1917

Kelowna, B.C. Youngest son of the late

Thomas Pease, of Bristol. Killed in France.

Susan Ann Pease . . 88 21 9 1917

Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. Widow of Tho-
mas Pease.

Reginald Keith Peckover 20 7 6 1917

Worthing. Son of Charles E. and Anna

M, Peckover. Killed in action at Aden,

Alice W. Pierce

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John New Pegler . . 80 30 1 1917

Auckland, N.Z. Formerly of Leeds.

Henry Allason Peile . . 20 1 7 1916

Carlisle. Only son of Gertrude and the

late Walter Peile. Killed in action.

Mary Ann Peirson . . 76 31 12 1916

Huntingdon.
Benjamina Rickman Penney 91 30 3 1917

Poole, Dorset.
Robert William Penrose 57 30 9 1916

Hurstmonceux, Sussex. Died in London
Emmeline Fox Perrott 73 8 2 1917

Brook Green, London.
Susannah Pettitt . . 88 30 6 1917

Dover. Widow of John Wyatt Pettitt.
Thomas Phillips . . . . 78 15 12 1916

Darlington.
Joseph William Pickard 53 2111 1916

Lancaster. An Elder.
Martha Eliza Pickering 67 25 8 1916

Norwich. Widow of William Henry Pickering.

Alice Wycherley Pierce 76 12 9 1917
Melbourne. Widow of John Pierce.

[The following account of Alice Pierce is
from the Testimony of Melbourne Monthly Meet-
ing, kindly sent by the Clerk for insertion.]

It seldom falls to Melbourne Monthly Meeting
to record the death of a Minister, and one so well

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known and loved ; for very few Quaker homes in
Australia have not at one time or another,
received a visit from our late Friend Alice Pierce.

Born in the little Oxfordshire village of
Adderbury, in England; in 1840, Alice Wycherley
was the eldest daughter of a large family, many
of whom were extremely delicate.

The early years of her life brought care and
sorrow ; one after another of her dearly loved ones
passed away after long lingering illnesses. When
at Croydon School she was hurriedly sent for to
nurse her dying mother, and her bright happy
school life ended. She bravely met her God-
appointed task, and lovingly cared for the dear
one, putting away all thought of the educational
advantages she had lost, although Croydon school
days remained one of her happiest memories.

She was then only sixteen years of age, frail
and delicate looking, a forlorn, pathetic little
girl-woman, bravely tackling housekeeping and
the care of the younger children. Her father
died a few years later, and Friends gathered round
the desolate children and helped and looked after
them in many kind ways.

So Alice Wycherley bravely struggled on,
never once neglecting her Meeting when it was
possible to get there, often walking miles to attend
Quarterly Meeting. A little story is told of how,
one day, on her way to Meeting, she observed a

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very distinguished looking elderly Friend, wearing
the broad -brimmed hat, knee breeches, etc.,
of that period, walking in an opposite direction to
the Meeting House. Supposing him to be a
stranger, she felt it to be her clear duty to put him
with his face to the Meeting House, and although
very shy and timid, she stopped him saying in
her quiet way : —

" Are thee going to Friends' Meeting ? "

" No, I am not," was his curt reply. Not quite
satisfied, Alice Wycherley repeated her question :
" Are thee going to Friends' Quarterly Meeting "?
Again the curt answer, this time more emphatic :
■ No, I am not"

She then discovered she had been addressing
a Bishop of the Church of England, not (as she
imagined) an elderly Friend.

One can imagine her very disturbed feelings
as she hurried on to the quiet Meeting House.

At school she had acquired the habit of
memorising passages of Scripture, a much valued
store in later years, and as memory failed she
would always encourage others to learn portions
of the Bible when young. In the little Meeting
to which she belonged, and indeed, in most of the
English Meetings of her day, there was little
definite religious teaching for the younger mem-
bers.

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The Meetings were quiet and conservative,
no First-day school, no Home or Foreign Mission
work, and indeed, nothing to attract or help a
young ardent seeker after truth.

In her early girlhood she experienced a
change of heart ; God spoke to her, and she heard,
and gladly gave her young life into His keeping,
and for over sixty years she lived in the sunshine
of God's presence.

Those who knew her most intimately in
later life, felt the charm of the beauty of charac-
ter that God gives to all who love and honour Him.

She was always ready to tell of her Saviour's
love, and longed to help others to desire to love
Him too.

Her marriage in 1877 with John Pierce, a
native of the Isle of Wight and a Minister of the
Society of Friends, brought her into a congenial
circle of like-minded Friends. The family of
which she became a loved member gave them-
selves entirely to the service of the Society,
considering the Lord's work of greater importance
than worldly affairs.

Then came her voyage to Australia. John
Pierce had been advised to try a warmer climate,
as his health was failing, so, with brave hearts,
they faced a new life in a new land.

They arrived in Tasmania in 1880, making
their home in Hobart for a number of years.

ALICE PIERCE 105

Hobart Monthly Meeting recorded our dear
Friend a Minister.

Her ministry was a quiet, gentle one. She
sought out the lonely ones — knowing from her own
experience what it meant to be lonely — and the
isolated Friends, out of reach of any Meeting,
fighting hard with nature in the building up of
new homes.

She gave them sympathy and love, and kept
up, until God called her, a constant friendly
interest in all their concerns.

Then came her dear husband's death, in 1890,
and relatives urged a return to England with
the two daughters. Her heart was in England
with her kindred, but she loved Australia too, and
felt that there was work for her in this great
land, so she remained, and God blessed her work.

Although frail in health, she carried on an
extensive correspondence. This was to her an
intense pleasure, and became, as time went on, a
real service for the Master. As a Hobart Friend
expressed it :

" She had a very useful place in our Society,
and one that will not be easy to fill, in her loving
and helpful care for and sympathy with those
who were in difficult circumstances."

She felt specially drawn to help the humble
ones, " the little ones," who are so precious in
the Father's sight.

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She was an Evangelical Friend, but tried
always to see the truth from another's point of
view. The little Meetings too, were her care,
and although her means were limited, she gave
much time to the work that lay nearest her heart.

When she was no longer able to continue
the business her husband had started, she gave
herself completely to the service of the Society.
Two winters were spent in Adelaide with the one
remaining member of her family — several years
in Ballarat. Then she visited Queensland Friends
with a minute from her Monthly Meeting, and
again visited Brisbane, with a continued desire to
help the small Meetings into a fuller, stronger life.

For twelve years she made her home in
Sydney, and did what she could to gather and
shepherd a membership scattered over a great
city. Her home was a centre of simple hospitality.

Six years ago, she came to Melbourne,
tired and worn, the power to visit and receive
Friends almost gone, but bright and cheerful as
of old, living her favourite text from day to day :
" I will mention the loving kindness of the Lord."
Isaiah lxiii. 7.

She was one of the few remaining Friends
of yesterday, a link with the quieter, more simple-
living past.

The evening of her life was peaceful and
happy, " an unruffled backwater." Ministered to

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by a loving, devoted daughter, she passed into
higher service on September 12th 1917. A step
for her " into the open air, out of a tent already
luminous. ' '

Florence Lilias Pike . . 57 3 6 1917

Besborough, Cork. Youngest daughter of

Edmund Pike.
Edward Pim .. ..83 2 3 1917

Chesham, Bucks.
James Pim

Dalkey, Co. Dublin.

Charles Pocock . .
Wincanton, Somerset.

Mary J. Pollard . .
N. Norwich, Canada.

Luke Ellis Preston
East Ardsley, Yorks.

Douglas Price . . . . 42 12 12 1916

South Brisbane, Queensland. Son of Samuel
and Caroline Price, of Birmingham.

Douglas Price was a son of Samuel and
Caroline Price, of Birmingham. Born and
brought up a Friend, he received a large part
of his education under Church of England influ-
ences, and partly perhaps as a consequence, he
left Friends early in life and joined the Anglican

.. 81
An Elder.

25

6 1917

.. 80

19

2 1917

..76 7
Wife of Georg*

7 1917
3 Pollard.

. . 77

10

12 1916

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Church." He studied at Durham University,
where he took his M.A. degree with distinction,
afterwards taking " orders " in the church of
his adoption. He then became a curate at Lei-
cester, where he soon gave promise of becoming
a preacher of marked power and distinction.
In 1903, he left England to take up the post of
Professor of Theology at Brisbane, Queensland.
On his arrival, however, the Bishop discovered
that his views were too broad for him to be
entrusted with the care of young theological
students. His gifts as a preacher being un-
doubted, he was placed in charge of All Saints,
the oldest Anglican church in the city, and for
the next eight years he attracted large congre-
gations, with a high percentage of men. At
the same time Douglas Price threw himself
vigorously into efforts for the moral and in-
tellectual well-being of the city, a purpose which
he regarded as essential to the wholesome develop-
ment of Christianity, the Quaker atmosphere
in which he had been reared contributing, as he
held, not a little in leading him to such an attitude.
His successful career at All Saints was, however,
cut short in 19.11 by the Bishop's withdrawal of
the license to preach, in view of the expression
of continually broadening views. As a conse-
quence Douglas Price returned to England ; but
in response to the urgent pleas of many of his

DOUGLAS PRICE 109

late congregation, he agreed to return and to
open up an independent work in Brisbane.

Accordingly his friends gathered around
him, while he preached in the new Modernist
church and laboured for the improvement of
the city, where Friends always received from
him a hearty welcome. Besides his religious
and civic activities, he had marked literary
and musical gifts, and was the author of several
works of fiction.

The end came suddenly. He had conducted
the two services on the Sunday, and a day or
two afterwards was found dead in his house
in South Brisbane, where he lived entirely
alone, having apparently passed away in sleep.
So quietly closed the self-sacrificing life of
one, of whom the Brisbane press speaks as intel-
lectually and spiritually a more potential influence
for the uplifting of life, in a community sadly
materialistic in its outlook, than any other
man who had lived in Queensland.

The Friend.

Margaret Priestman

..62 22

7 1917

North Ferriby, Hull.

Widow of

Samuel

Priestman.

Arnold Pumphrey ..26 21 9 1917

Sunderland. Son of Thomas Edwin and Mary
Anna Pumphrey. Killed in action in France.

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Henry Quaife . . . . 24 14 0 1917

Robert Quaife . . . . 32 15 6 1917

Folkestone. Sons of Thomas and Jane Quaife.
Both killed while stretcher-bearing in France.

Francis Reckitt . . . . 89 25 1 1917

Beaconsfield, Bucks. Formerly of Hull.

Elizabeth Redfern ..73 24 2 1917

Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Ann Elizabeth Richards 57 25 9 1917

Newport, Shropshire. Wife of Ephraim

Richards.

Eliza Jane Richardson ..88 1812 1916
Springfield, Lisburn. Widow of Joseph

Richardson. A Minister.

In the passing away of our beloved friend
Eliza Jane Richardson we desire to express our
feeling of gratitude to our Heavenly Father for
the precious gift to us of her life and example,
and she was a source of comfort and encourage-
ment to many both old and young.

She was born in 1828, at Cahir, Co. Tip-
perary, and was one of a large family of Fennells
who were descendants of Captain Fennell, a
follower of Cromwell in his Irish Campaign, who
was awarded a grant of lands near Cahir, where
his family dwelt for many generations, and
became members of the Society of Friends.

Eliza Jane Richardson

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In 1853 she married Joseph Richardson of
Lisburn, and after residing for a few years in
Liverpool, they settled at Springfield, near Lis-
burn, which proved her happy home for sixty
years.

Some of our elder Friends have not forgotten
the impression she then made of simple, gracious
womanhood. She had never been thoughtless or
frivolous, and when still in girlhood she had seen
a glimpse of the Heavenly Vision and had chosen
the better part.

Her life was one of ever expanding usefulness ;
there was much of a strong fortress in her charac-
ter, combined with great business capacity ; but
all was dominated by the religious element, to
which other interests were subordinated. While
of necessity the cares of a large family and her
wifely duties as the companion of a husband
greatly occupied in business affairs, caused her to
be at times much in the world, yet she was
palpably and earnestly not of the world, and its
maxims did not guide her.

She was appointed an Elder in early life, and
in this capacity her services were cheerfully and
wisely rendered.

Some years later she was recorded a Minister.
The centre of her belief was the Divine Person of
our Lord, His example and His atonement — the
Great High Priest who has passed into the Heavens,

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and was in all points tempted like as we are. She
was blessed with a glad and thankful spirit, and
the part she took in our meetings for worship was
very inspiring. She had a word of cheer for the
children as well as for those who were already in
the battle of life, and on the weary and heavy-
laden her message fell as balm, pointing to Christ
as the Captain of our Salvation and the great
Deliverer in trouble. Her sermons still linger in
memory. One stands out vividly, which was
spoken more than twenty years ago, when she
attended a mid-week meeting in Belfast, and for
the first time sat in the new meeting room upstairs.
Her text was " Great is the Lord and greatly to
be praised, His greatness is unsearchable ; One
generation shall praise Thy works to another and
shall declare Thy mighty acts." She dwelt on
the great responsibility of each generation towards
those who followed, and earnestly desired we might
so live and act that we should pass on undimmed
the torch of faith, to those who should succeed us.
The solemn pause after the address was felt to be a
veritable consecration of the new building as well
as of our lives to the Lord.

She held in succession the position of Clerk
of the gatherings of Women Friends in their
Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Meetings, and over
the last named she presided for sixteen years, and
in all meetings her business ability, and great tact,

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combined with deep spiritualty, caused her leader-
ship to be exceedingly valued.

She took a warm interest in the Schools of
the Society at Lisburn and Brookfield, the chil-
dren of her people being specially dear to her,
and she laboured unceasingly for their welfare.
Many years ago she was made a* life member of
the Committees of both Schools.

In the minute of Brookfield School Commit-
tee recording her decease, allusion is made to her
long and valued services, her gracious presence,
her many kindnesses, her valuable counsel and
her inspiring life.

A minute of Lisburn Preparative Meeting
concludes with the words :

" We thank God for her loving and faithful
service, and we desire that we may catch fresh
inspiration from her life, and follow her as she
followed her Lord."

In one sense her life was a continuous ministry,
for notwithstanding the large share of prosperity
and happiness that fell to her lot, she yet

" A heart at leisure from itself
To soothe and sympathise."

For the last ten years of her life, increasing
age caused her to give up attendance at meetings
and committees, but she retained to the last her

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keen interest in the life and work of the Society,
and in the Schools which she had served so long.

During these years of enforced retirement
she became increasingly the centre from which
love radiated, not only to those who had the
privilege of visiting her, but to many whom she
could reach only by letter. The lonely and
depressed always found in her an unfailing friend.

On the occasion of one of the last visits paid
to her by a near relative, she spoke of her closing
years with great thankfulness and then said :

" But I know dear it cannot last long and
then — Oh, the light, and those who have gone
before ! "

" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that
they may rest from their labours ; and their
works do follow them." Rev. xiv. 13.

Maria Richardson . . 68 14 12 1916

Hunstanton. Wife of William Richardson.

Nancy Richardson ..75 25 5 1917
Bolton, Lanes.

Stansfield Richardson ..76 8 3 1917

Sunderland. Died whilst holding the office
of Mayor of Sunderland.

By the death of Stansfield Richardson,
''Sunderland was suddenly deprived of her chief

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citizen, who was then occupying the mayoral
chair for the fifth successive year. Stansfield
Richardson, born in 1840, was a son of Caleb
and Mary (Driver) Richardson, his father being
a miller of Sunderland, the family, from Whitby
and Cleveland, having started a tanning business
in that borough in the latter part of the eight-
eenth century. From that industry the flour
milling was a development, and it was S. R's
grandfather who, in 1814, established the business
which became the Bishopwearmouth Steam
Mills, and which in turn was carried on and
developed by the founder's son, Caleb, and
eventually by Stansfield Richardson and his
brothers Edwin and Frederick. S. R. retired
from the business in 1907, after having being-
associated wTith the management for fifty years.
In 1897 S. R. entered the Town Council, his
election being unopposed, an experience repeated
so long as he remained a Councillor. He was
a few years later elected an Alderman, a position
he retained to the end of his life. It had been
his intention to retire at the age of 70, an in-
tention relinquished in response to a widely
signed requisition. He was prominently identi-
fied with the Royal Infirmary, being chairman
of the committee for upwards of twenty -five
years. Shortly before his death he had taken
a leading part in the raising of funds, totalling

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upwards of £28,000, for the new War Hospital.
He was for many years on the River Wear Com-
mission, was a county and borough magistrate,
the chairman of the local gas company and a
director of the water company. As a practical
farmer he farmed his own estate at Longnewton.
His widow is a daughter of James Pirn, of Dublin.

The Sunderland Echo says of him :

" In his more youthful days he had served
twice as mayor, 1891-3, and in the peaceful
days before the war attained without any effort
of his own to the same dignity. It thus came
to pass that when the war began he sat in the
chief seat of authority. Though a member
of the Society of Friends, and therefore by train-
ing and conviction, as well as by nature, a lover
of peace, he regarded it as his duty to continue
as a war mayor ; and with great earnestness,
though at the sacrifice perhaps of physical
strength, he so acted to the day of his death.
Friends he had everywhere ; enemies none."

The Friend.

Elizabeth Ricketts . . 94 7 1 1917

Redland, Bristol.

Annie Maria Rider ..71 12 9 1917

Wednesbury. Widow of Robert Rider.

Jessie Gertrude Ritchie 82 26 8 1917
Norwood, Surrey. Late of Brighton. Died
at Godstone, Surrey. Widow of George Ritchie.

Joshua Wheeler Robson

joshua wheeler robson 117

Mary Ann Roberts ..77 11 2 1917

Newcastle-on-Tyne. Widow of Thomas

Roberts.
Arthur Anthony Robinson 80 25 1 1917

Tabooka, Beaudesert, Queensland. Formerly

of Liverpool.

Celia Robinson . . . . 77 17 3 1917

Hertford. Died at Steep, near Petersfield,
Hants. Widow of Isaac Robinson. An Elder.

Charles Stephen Robinson 30 27 2 1917
Upton Park, London. E.

Joshua Wheeler Robson 85 26 1 1917
Huddersfield.

Joshua Wheeler Robson was the eldest of
the three children of Isaac and Sarah (Wheeler)
Robson, and the descendant of many generations
of Friends. His father was a recorded minister,
who visited America and other countries, inclu-
ding Russia, where he had a special concern to
the Mennonites, whom he helped to remove to
America in their search for religious freedom.
His grandmother, Elizabeth (Stephenson) Robson
also travelled extensively in religious service in
the early years of the 19th century, when foreign
journeys were adventurous, at times even to the
point of danger. On his mother's side, his great-
grandfather was William Tuke, the founder of

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York Retreat, and his uncle by marriage, Benjamin
Seebohm, was one of the strongest influences of
his early manhood.

It was natural therefore that Joshua Robson
should be a devoted member of the Society of
Friends. Tradition, early training, home influence
and a Friends' School education, all acted upon
a disposition naturally quiet and reserved, to
produce a Friend of the faithful and reliable type,
who though he may have little gift of speech, fills
a very valuable place in a Meeting. Nothing
but illness or absence from home was allowed to
prevent his attendance at Meeting, and in later
years the right holding of the Evening Reading
Meeting grew to be his especial care He filled
the position of Elder for nearly forty years.

As he looked back over his long life he often
rejoiced in the change that he had seen in the
Society of Friends. Yearly Meeting in his young
manhood was largely concerned with what
would term the "mint, anise and cumin," and
hours were spent in discussing the exact meaning
of the words used in answering the queries. The
broadening outlook and freshening atmosphere
brought about by the Adult School and kindred
missionary undertakings were thankfully wel-
comed by him. When, in 1856, Joseph Sturge,
Joseph Storrs Fry and other leaders of the F.F.
D.S.A. visited Huddersfield, Joshua Robson was

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one of those who met them, and, as a result of
their visit, helped to begin a School in which he
taught for more than sixty years, and which was
always very dear to him.

It was a matter of regret to him in after life
that his own school days ended early, when he was
barely seventeen, just, he would say, as he was
beginning to learn with understanding. He was
at York when the School moved from Laurence
Street to Bootham, and he has been described by
his close rival, Fielden Thorp, as " the best speller
the School has ever known." The love of Natural
History, encouraged by John Ford, remained
with him as one of the pleasures of his life, and
gardening and meteorology were his favourite
hobbies.

He was a wide reader, with an enthusiasm for
dictionaries and theological works, and especially
in later life, a keen love of fiction. It is possible
that this was a natural reaction from his early
training, when " Sandford and Merton " and
4 'Harry and Lucy" were the only light literature
known. The little books of soul-searching theo-
logy and Biblical teaching showered upon him
in his nursery by loving relatives were replaced
in his own children's nursery by literature of a
happier kind, and in winter evenings he read
Scott's novels^and other standard works aloud to
them. Their first friendships with George Fox's

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Journal and " The Pilgrim's Progress " were also
made in this way.

Although Isaac Robson had felt it right to
publish a little tract against Music, his son was not
able to starve the artistic side of his nature, and
he became one of the keenest supporters of the
Subscription Concerts which provided his town
with good music for very many years. In this,
as in attendance at lectures and political meetings,
he and his wife believed in sharing with their
children as far as was possible, and their home
life in consequence held a community of interest
which grew with advancing years.

He married, in 1868, Elizabeth Rowntree of
Scarborough, and they had seven children, of
whom six are living. She passed on before him in
September, 1914. It has been truly said that it is
impossible to think of one without the other.
Of the beauty and hospitality of their home life,
the Testimony issued by Yorkshire Quarterly
Meeting has spoken so fully that there is no need
to reiterate it here.

In his business, that of a cotton yarn dyer,
the relationship between Joshua Robson and his
employees was a very friendly one. Many of them
had grown grey in his service, and the warmly
expressed resolution of sympathy sent to his
family by their Trade Union was only one of many
signs of the affection felt for him.

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When in a time of difficulty he was obliged
to call his creditors together, he worked as hard
as it was possible for man to work, until, in two
years' time, everyone was paid in full. One of
these has written : —

" It was my privilege to know him very
intimately under trying circumstances, and then
I learnt what a really good and true man could
and should be. It was a lesson to me which I
have treasured in many difficulties."

Although he was hampered by a naturally
shy and retiring disposition, with little power of
expression in words, his strong belief in the duty
of citizens to take their right share in the govern-
ment of their towns led him to work on many pub-
lic bodies. He was for a time a member of the
Town Council and a Magistrate, but his principal
interest was in education. He served upon the
School Board for seventeen years, for eleven of
them as Chairman, helping to make his town, as
it was then, a pioneer in educational work, and
filling the position with a fairness and unlimited
patience which are still remembered by those who
were members^of the Board at the time. He was
a co-opted member of the Education Committee
at the time of his death. In politics he was a
staunch Liberal, and he keenly felt the severance,
when, in 1916, he resigned his membership of the
local Association, as a protest against the intro-
duction of Conscription.

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" With long life will I satisfy him, and show
him my salvation." The words of one of his
beloved Psalms, the literature of all others which
he preferred to read aloud, were associated by
Joshua Robson with his father's death at the age
of 84. By many they were felt to be equally appro-
priate to himself, when he too reached the age
which both his parents and his grandfather had
lived to see. He was privileged to retain the
faculties of sight, hearing and memory in large
measure. The most responsible book-keeping for
his business was done by him until within a few
weeks of his death ; and, by his own wish, he
undertook the close and intricate work of indexing
a book for his daughter in the last year of his life,
copying it with such exquisite clearness that it
did not need to be typed for the publisher. A
friendship and sympathy with many young lives,
and a love of little children always strong in him
mellowed in his old age, when the mere fact of
his presence in Huddersfield was said to " make
all the difference " to a girl, only slightly known to
him, whose lot was cast in uncongenial work there
for a time.

As he neared his 85th birthday, his desire
became very strong to gather all his children and
grandchildren round him for Christmas, and in
spite of railway difficulties, this was accomplished.
The youngest, a six-months-old grandson, seen

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then for the first time, was a great delight to his
grandfather. Those who watched their happiness
together could not help wondering whether the
extremes of youth and age were not very close to
one another, when perhaps our " clay -shuttered
doors " are not quite sealed. After the attain-
ment of his heart's desire, it seemed as if the hold
on life gradually relaxed ; a brief illness, and he
"fell on sleep" on January 26th, 1917. To those
who loved him the words of Tagore came with
peculiar meaning :

" Let it not be a death, but completeness."

Ann Rodgers . . . . 65 5 2 1917

Bessbrook, Co. Armagh. Widow of John

Rodgers.

Elizabeth Rogan . . 64 7 8 1917

Wakefield. Wife of H. Rogan.

Richard Laycock Routh 70 1712 1916
Sib ford Ferris, Banbury.

Amelia Rowntree . . 65 14 5 1917

Malton. Widow of William Rowntree.

John Sayer .. ..71 27 4 1917

Norwich.
Margaret Schardt ..81 29 10 1916

Bournemouth. Wife of Carl Christof Schardt.

Elizabeth Seddon ..83 11 12 1916

Leicester. Widow of Thomas Seddon.

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Margaret Sedgwick ..77 10 6 1917

Ot. Ay ton, Yorks. Widow of William Sedgwick.
An Elder.

Mary Senior . . . . — 24 7 1917

Yelverton, S. Devon. Widow of Edward

Senior, late of Leeds.

Jane Sewell . . . . 87 20 4 1917

London. N.

Richard Shackleton ..75 212 1916

Sandy mount, Co. Dublin.

Richard Shackleton. son of George Shackle-
ton and his wife Hannah Fisher, of Limerick,
was born at Griesemount, Ballitore, on the
21st July, 1841. The youngest son of a large
family, he was great -great -grandson of Abraham
Shackleton, the founder of Ballitore school,
and was a direct descendant, through his paternal
grandmother, of Margaret Fell.

Brought up from childhood in his beautiful
home of Griesemount, amongst all the scenes
where his ancestors played an important part,
he loved Ballitore, and the sweet country side
around it. The old coach road which linked
Dublin with the South passed over the hill
close by Griesemount. After an education at
Mountmellick (then open to boys and girls)
Newtown, and Bootham, Richard Shackleton

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went into the milling business with his father
and brothers at Ballitore. While still a young-
man he married Charlotte E., daughter of
James and Sarah Millner of Mountmellick —
removed to Cannonbrook, Lucan, and became
partner with his brothers Abraham and Joseph
Fisher in the Anna Liffey Mills. In this neigh- -
bourhood he spent more than thirty years of
his life, where his genial manners and original
and interesting personality, endeared him to
a large circle of friends.

During this time it was his practice to
drive regularly into Dublin Meeting on Sunday,
for he dearly loved the Society of Friends, and
appreciated deeply all that broad, living, tolerant
Quakerism stands for. For many years he held
the position of Overseer, and was ever ready to
give a welcome to strangers — Friends or others —
who came to Eustace Street.

Straightforward and unconventional, of
strict honour in business matters, with him
there were no shades of right or wrong. He
was a moral enthusiast and could not bear
oppression or injustice of any kind ; and he
never hesitated when his convictions led him
to advocate unpopular causes, and was a con-
vinced Home Ruler when to be so required
some moral courage. Greatly interested in
politics, he often emoted Wm. Penn's words,

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"it is the duty of a Christian to see that his
country is well governed." The causes of
Peace, Anti -Opium, Anti -vivisection, and Total
Abstinence found in him an active supporter.
The latter especially was very close to his
heart, and he wore the blue ribbon to the end
of his life. He did valuable work on Committees,
and, as a County Magistrate, his influence was
always in the direction of reduction of licenses,
and he never lost an opportunity of pleading
the cause of Temperance.

Sometimes in unexpected ways this " bread
cast upon the waters " returned to him again.
More than once, when he had helped to defeat
publicans in their efforts to renew licenses, they
came to thank him afterwards for having
preserved them from a great temptation.

On one occasion Richard Shackleton was
travelling by train through County Meath,
when some young men, students of a famous
Irish theological college, entered his compart-
ment. Laughing and joking, as boys will, one
more thoughtless than the rest produced a
bottle of whiskey, and passed it round. Each
in turn refused, save one. While he hesitated
Richard Shackleton turned to the young man
who had offered the drink, and spoke to him
with great earnestness, of the great responsibility
he (and all of them) would incur when they

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had parishes of their own, and exhorted them
to uphold the cause of Temperance by example
and precept, if they would follow in the foot-
steps of their beloved and revered Father Matthew.
Silence fell on the little band as he spoke, and
when he had finished, slowly the student who
held the bottle opened the window and sent
it crashing on the railway line, exclaiming :

" I will never do such a thing again."

His first wife having died in early middle
life, Richard Shackleton married in 1890, Mary
Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth
Walpole, of Ashbrook, Queen's County.

All through his life Richard Shackleton
had a love for little children ; he also had a
wonderful knowledge of and love for birds and
flowers : he used to say, that a nursery garden
was his " public house " so great was its attrac-
tion. Though not at all musical, he could
tell from its first note without seeing it, the
name of the bird that sang. He would always
look for it amongst the branches, and when he
found it, greet it with,

" Ah, there you are, my dear little friend.
I see you."

For some years before his death, Richard
Shackleton's health became precarious, and

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he gradually withdrew from business cares,
and the various activities of life : but he still
much enjoyed, when health permitted, joining
with his Friends in public worship, and in the
social circle : and almost to the end he attended
the sittings of the Mountmellick School Commit-
tee, of which he had been a member for over
thirty years.

The last two years were clouded by the
death of his youngest son, and the breaking
out of the war, with all its unspeakable horrors,
as well as the Sinn Fein rebellion in Easter, 1916.
He was a convinced and uncompromising pacifist,
and felt the latter to be a blow struck at Irish
Nationalism ; a blow, alas, struck by men who
were devoted to the cause of freedom, and
loved Ireland too.

As the year was hurrying to its close in
exceptionally severe weather, Richard Shackleton
contracted a chill when out walking. Pneumonia
supervened, and he passed quietly and peacefully
away on 2nd December, in his 76th year, leaving
behind him this world of war and sadness, and
entering, we reverently believe, into the fuller
and more beautiful life beyond.

" The best is yet to be,
The last of life for which the first was
made."

charles sharp 129

Charles Sharp .. ..80 11 2 1917

Southport. Late of Liverpool. A Minister.

In his youth Charles Sharp received a scienti-
fic education : he was always a great reader
and a lover of books ; and in 1868 he was appoint-
ed librarian to the Pharmaceutical Society in
London. He is remembered as an ideal librarian,
always ready to assist readers in the choice of
books, and to advise as to courses of reading
for special lines of study. Later on he settled in
Liverpool and became Secretary of the Liverpool
Institute, which embraced a Boys' School,
Girls' School, and a School of Art, only resigning
the position when his health, which was always
delicate, rendered the constant work impossible.
He had always been a religious teacher, and, in
answer to request had preached from the pulpits
of many of the Free Churches of Liverpool and the
neighbourhood. In 1892 he wrote to a friend
who was engaged in publishing some articles
on the views of George Fox and the early Friends.

"If I believed in the transmigration of
souls, I should be more than half inclined to be-
lieve I had a pre -existence sometime in the
seventeenth century, and that George Fox's
face and voice were not strange to me, so much
a part of my mental and spiritual possessions
are these views you are putting forward, as 'those
of the primitive Quakers."

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Iii 1893 he became a member of the Society
of Friends, and shortly afterwards was acknow-
ledged as a Minister. He believed that

" Quakerism is peculiarly adapted to meet
the wants of this age — to fulfil its aspirations,
to aid in rectifying its wrongs, and to help it in
attaining to righteousness."

Before his health failed he visited, by in-
vitation, several meetings in Lancashire, York-
shire, and the South of England, giving addresses
or lectures on various subjects, his genial com-
panionship and keen sense of humour making
him a welcome guest, and he frequently ex-
pressed the pleasure and refreshment these
visits had been to himself.

A member of the F.A.U., in France, writes
of him —

" I shall always very gratefully remember
both Charles Sharp's preaching and friendship.
The ministry of no other man, Friend or non-
Friend, whom I heard in my teens, ever appealed
to me like his, nor among all I have heard since .
have I ever found one who was able to give me
what I needed, as he did. He seemed to have
a unique spiritual influence."

Another Friend, who frequently heard him,
writes : —

" One of the most outstanding qualities of
his ministry seemed to me its originality. His
versatile mind could mould to high spiritual

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uses such diverse material as an article from
the Nineteenth Century, the translation of a
Spanish poem, an incident in a street or tram,
the Epistle to Philemon, or a picture from Punch.
In his prayers we had the consciousness of perf e ct
communion with the Father — we were carried
right to the foot of the Heavenly throne by
one whose faith was strong, and whose trust was
unassailable, and above all by one to whom
prayer was as natural as breathing.' '

The last years of Charles Sharp's life were
spent in Southport, where his wife died in 1907.
For some time he had been increasingly an in-
valid, and after a day or two of unconsciousness,
he passed gently away on the evening of February
11th, 1917, at the age of 80.

A few sentences from a* beautiful address
at the funeral by a Wesleyan minister may
be a fitting conclusion to this brief sketch.

" During the latter years of his life he was
always frail, and frequently in pain, and one
has rarely met so heroic a spirit. It is not
enough to say that he was unconquered, he was
triumphant ! and now he has gone, the sun of
his life has set, but an unearthly radiance lingers,
and we are satisfied. We could not wish him
back. He brought the unseen things very near,
and above all made them beautiful. There
must be no gloom in our hearts to-day. Could
he speak to us he would say, ' Be of good cheer.'
For now he has passed to the other side of ' the
dropped curtain of life,' and has seen the King
in His beauty." J", - . ,

J The Friend.

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Isaac Sharp . . . . 70 9 10 1917

Leytonstone, Essex. Recording Clerk of the
Society of Friends, London Y.M.

Isaac Sharp was born at Croydon School
on June 16th, 1847, the third and youngest son
of John and Hannah Sharp (nee Irwin) who were
at that time the Superintendents of the School.
His mother came from a long line of Quaker
ancestry, his father had only two generations
of Friends behind him, but was a staunch Friend
himself and a man of sterling character, much
valued in the ministry. This dear parent was
removed by death when Isaac was only five years
old, and his mother with her eight young children
moved from the School to a small house near by.
In some autobiographical notes he tells us that,
while quite young, his mother often took him to
Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, and that from
this time he was interested in the business of
the Society, and hoped that some day he might
take an active share in it himself. When
nine years old, he attended Yearly Meeting
with her. At the age of ten, he entered Croydon
School, and passed rapidly up it, being quick
and ambitious in work, and taking place in
class with those much older than himself,
although, according to his own account, he
was a troublesome boy and in all manner

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of scrapes out of school hours. He was especially
forward in arithmetic and mathematical subjects,
which he could always enjoy as a recreation ;
he took up French as an out-of -school study, and
was interested in botany as a hobby. He acknow-
ledged that he owed much to the enlightened
teaching, at Croydon, of Joseph Radley, William
Robinson and Josiah Evans. At the age of four-
teen he entered Bootham, where he was under
Silvanus Thompson and John Firth Fryer as
teachers, Fielden Thorp as the resident head-
master and John Ford, who, retaining some
duties as Superintendent, exerted a wide influence
in the school. Here he became interested in
science and was active in games, being the means
of introducing football into the school. After
two years he went on to the Flounders Institute,
and here " learnt to love and reverence Isaac
Brown," from whom he had lessons in Greek
alone in his study and imbibed a love of the
classics which never left him. To the last a
Greek Testament was his frequent companion.
The freer life at the Flounders was much
enjoyed, companionship with young men of
kindred interests, all preparing to be teachers,
the long walks home from the country Monthly
Meetings, the proximity of Ackworth School,
all made a full and varied life. At this time,
too, he began the series of walking tours in

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which he and his brothers became familiar with
the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District, and
other parts of England. In the winter of 1864
he had the sorrow of losing his dear mother,
who, after a short illness, passed away on Christ-
mas Eve, her fiftieth birthday. He left the
Flounders sooner than he would otherwise
have done, and took the post of assistant master
in the School of Till Adam Smith at Weston-
super-Mare, where he remained five years, and,
in the intervals of teaching, studied for and
passed his B.A. examination. During this time
besides the recreations of cricket, swimming and
long walks, he enjoyed frequent visits and week-
ends at Sidcot, where his sister and her husband,
Josiah and Mary Hannah Evans, were Super-
intendents. It was here that he became ac-
quainted with his future wife, who was teaching
in the School.

During the summer of 1868 he had a
delightful walking tour in Scotland, with an
intimate school friend, Frederick Holdsworth,
which left vivid memories of Iona, the Trossachs,
Edinburgh, and other parts of Scotland, and
of the comradeship of travel. The early death
of this dear friend a few years later he mentions
as " a deep grief." In after years foreign travel
was a source of great and never-failing interest.
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he was twice on the American continent, and
once in later life, by the kindness of some Friends,
he was able to leave his absorbing work at
Devonshire House and enjoy for six weeks the
hitherto untouched delights of Egypt and the
Mediterranean. Always in good spirits, in-
valuable as a guide when on familiar ground,
his buoyant gaiety made him the best of travelling
companions.

To return to the record of his life. In 1869,
Isaac Sharp, then 22, left Weston, and went as
private tutor in the family of Arthur and Charlotte
Wallis at Basingstoke, having their four eldest
boys under his care. The life there was extremely
pleasant to him, and he enjoyed with his pupils
the riding, fishing, skating, cricket or boating,
which the seasons brought round. The following
year, however, on the sudden death of Till Adam
Smith, Isaac Sharp, with his elder brother, Irwin,
took over the School, and Woodside, Weston-
super-Mare became for the next few years the
family home of the brothers and sisters.

In 1876, Isaac Sharp crossed the Atlantic
and was married to Isabella Gregory, who had
been resident for three years at her father's house
in Canada, caring for eight young step -brothers
and sisters, who had been left without a mother.
The wedding took place at the Friends' Meeting
House, Milldale, Ontario. The honey-moon

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which was an unusual one, embraced a visit to
Niagara, and steamer trips down the St. Lawrence
and Hudson Rivers, and acquaintance with New
York and Philadelphia.

After another year at Weston, Isaac and
Isabella Sharp established a home at Darmstadt,
where boys, after leaving English Schools, could
continue their studies and acquire a good know-
ledge of the German language. It was here that
their eldest child, Arthur John, now at the time
of writing this, in Dorchester Gaol for conscience
sake, was born, and duly registered as a British
subject. From Darmstadt as a centre, holiday
rambles in the Odenwald and visits to Heidelberg,
Frankfort and the Black Forest were much en-
joyed.

In 1879, on the retirement of Joseph Drewett
from the School at Hitchin, Isaac Sharp left
Darmstadt and joined Cranstone Woodhead
in the conduct of the school, which, after three
years, was left entirely in his own hands. He
soon made a happy home among Hitchin Friends,
and here his only daughter and younger son
were born. Here, too, at the age of 33, he began
to speak occasionally in Meetings for Worship,
but only under a strong sense of duty and with
much diffidence. He filled successively the
offices of Clerk to the Preparative Meeting,
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to the Meeting on Ministry and Oversight. As
time allowed, he took part in town affairs, con-
tributed to the local paper, was a member, and,
later on, Vice-President of the Liberal Association,
and President of the local Temperance Society.
He was a member also of the Committee of the
Mechanics' Institute, and in this capacity
discussed what books should be added to the
Library. His interest in books and reading
was always strong, and soon after he began his
work at Devonshire House, he made a careful
investigation of the Library there, which led to
a separate department of work being established
under the management of a well -qualified librarian
and staff, thus increasing enormously the working
value of the literary treasures there stored
up.

In 1889 the lit' e at Hitchin, with all its pleasant
associations, came to an end, when a scheme
for resuscitating the Town Grammar School
was set on foot, and Isaac Sharp gave up his
school premises to the Managing Committee and
ceased to be a schoolmaster. He, continued,
nevertheless, all his life to be, a teacher in his
daily conversation ; he delighted in making a
point clear and in sharing with others his wide
knowledge gathered from books and in his travels.
He was also always learning, adding interest to
interest.

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He had long desired more definite work for
the Society of Friends, and when the office of
Recording Clerk fell vacant, he became a candi-
date for the post, and was accepted. He entered
on his new duties in the summer of 1890, at the
age of 43, with thankfulness and an inspiring zeal,
that never abated during his tenure of office.
Not only did he give of his best during office
hours, but many evenings at home were largely
devoted to Society work, such as he could better
accomplish in these quieter surroundings. But
he liked company even when working, and never
seemed to mind interruptions. He enjoyed
sharing his many interests with visitors, neigh-
bours, train-companions, chance acquaintances,
his staff and the many callers at the office. His
sympathy and power to help in practical ways
made him a welcome presence on occasions of
joy or sorrow. Young people up to the last
wanted him at their weddings, and it was often
a rea/ concern with him to be present helpfully
at funerals, especially in his own meeting. Busy
as he was, he was never too busy to help.

He lectured occasionally on Quaker history,
Devonshire House and its Library, travels
and kindred subjects, and frequently wrote for
The Friend and other periodicals, and hoped to
do more in this line if years of leisure were
given him.

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He did good work for education. It was
a concern with him to see that the right children
were sent to Friends' Schools and that available
funds were made use of for the purpose.

He kept a certain boyishness to the end,
could never pass a game of cricket without
stopping to watch, amusing himself inventing
magic squares and setting his friends mathe-
matical puzzles. He was pointed out by a boy
to his father a few years ago, as " the best skater
in Ley tonstone. " He kept certain friends of
his boyhood to the last, was a friend and comrade
to his children and entered into their various
professional studies, equally willing to teach
or learn.

From 1890 onward his home was in Ley ton-
stone. He was too much occupied to take a
great deal of part in town affairs, but he became
Treasurer of the local Total Abstinence Society,
and was the first Secretary of a Peace and Ar-
bitration Society, which he and his wife had
largely been the means of establishing. The
work for the Society of Friends was all absorbing,
and until the last three years when symptoms
of the trouble which ended his life appeared,
his health was excellent. Even then, he was
rarely away from the office, and always kept a
bright exterior. It was, however, with great
joy and relief that he handed over, in July, 1917,

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his work and responsibilities to another, and
looked forward to enjoying rest and leisure in
his home. But this was not to be, and in October
of the same year, after a serious operation, he
passed away at the age of 70.

He leaves fragrant memories behind, that
will ever be a joy to look back upon and an
inspiration for those who remain. We can truly
give thanks for the life thus lived, that has
passed from us to the higher service beyond.

The foregoing was kindly prepared for the
Annual Monitor by one or two members of the
family. If we were to make extended quotations
from the many appreciations of Isaac Sharp,
in his capacity as Recording Clerk, our available
space would be much exceeded It will only
be possible to quote from a few of these.

L. F. Morland, writing in The Ploughshare,
says : —

" The post of Recording Clerk, or Secretary
to the Society of Friends, is one of great respon-
sibility ; it has grown in importance during the
last quarter of a century, as one after another
new activities have arisen within the Society,
or been attached to it. The work of the central
office is varied and intricate, the mere keeping
of the many accounts and acting as treasurer
for the various funds demands much time and
patient care. Isaac Sharp was never the mere
administrator ; he never allowed his responsi-
bility for the machinery to thrust out of sight

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the principles and causes which supplied the
motive power. He was never so immersed
in detail that he could not pay attention to the
spirit behind it. His attitude towards his work
was expressed time and again in some such
sentence as this : 'lam not a member of this
Committee, but I am glad to attend at any time
and give such information and help as I am able.'
" His warm interest and sympathy was
extended to any Friend who approached him.
He was never too preoccupied to listen and to
serve. It was not merely that he was unselfish,
though he was always that, but he really took
a pleasure in entering into the concerns of others
and in learning their affairs. Each one of us,
when we went to him, felt that this particular
matter was of special interest to him, and might
rightly claim his time and thought. His ac-
quaintance extended to Friends on the other
side of the Atlantic. When, five years ago,
he attended the Five Years' Meeting and visited
many meetings on the American Continent,
he was welcomed wherever he went as an old
friend, as the one living link between this side
and that. No one in the Society could have
more personal friends, could arouse more widely
the feeling of affection and trust."

And L. F. M. concludes a most interesting
article : —

" Isaac Sharp's goodness was positive ; he
had a sympathy wide enough to include all.
He has shown us what a beautiful thing true
goodness is, and has helped us to realise the power
and charm of the Master who went about doing-
good."

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The Meeting for Sufferings spoke of him,
on the occasion of his retirement, as

" Beloved by Friends the world over with
whom he has come into touch personally and
by correspondence."

Dr> Battin, of Swarthmore College, Penn-
sylvania wrote of him :

" The work of this position is in no sense a
light or easy task ; it is rather one of the most
difficult I know. One called to be Recording
Clerk needs an intimate and precise knowledge
of the principles, testimonies and history of the
Society of Friends, not only in Great Britain
but elsewhere — needs a sound judgment and a
great share of tact and discretion. Isaac Sharp
possessed all these necessary qualifications,
and always carried out the duties with unfailing
energy and patience, whilst his inborn spirit
of helpfulness made it a pleasure for me to go
to him for assistance and advice. I admired

/^.particularly the deep sense of humour which

'"V he '■•• possessed to a rare extent."

The Friend adds to this testimony :

"So he appeared to his friends, and now
that he has gone there remains a sense of the
graciousness, sweetness, and the light which
radiated from a truly lovable character."

A few extracts from the excellent Testimony
of Ratcliff and Barking Monthly Meeting must
close this memoir.

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" As we think of him there are some special
characteristics that stand out clearly in our
memory — his devotion to duty, his unfailing
courtesy and cheerfulness, his sense of humour,
his kindness and unselfishness, and the readiness
with which he would respond to any appeal for
help. His wide all-round views and his good
judgment enabled him to see the right course
to take in very varying circumstances, while his
tact and sympathy made him able not only to
say the right thing but to say it in the right way.
* With him,' writes an American Friend, ' You
felt yourself in the presence of one who knew
how to deal with men, and who kept in touch
with God.' "

On his retirement Isaac Sharp said of his
work :

" I have had twenty -seven years delightful
work as Secretary of the Society. The work
has been intensely interesting, and it has always
been a pleasure. Had I been free to take up any
occupation without regard to my livelihood,
I would have chosen just the work I have been
doing at Devonshire House."

[Writing just before the operation, I. S.
said :] " Not unmindful of the risk for a man
of seventy, I look forward with perfect confidence
to the issue, knowing that in any eventuality
all will be well. I have arranged all my affairs,
and have no care or worry."

" A few days later the end came. His
last words expressed kind thoughts for those
about him, and on the 9th of October, 1917, he
passed peacefully away.

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" The words from the Indian poet seem to
come as a fitting close to this brief record : —
' I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my
brothers. We were neighbours for long, but
I received more than I could give. Now the day
has dawned. A summons has come, and I am
ready for my journey.' "

Jambs Sheffield ..75 27 11 1916

Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Louisa Shelley .. ..40 21 9 1917

Colchester.
Buxton Shillitoe . . 91 23 1 1917

Bournemouth. Late of London.

Arthur Edward Sholl . . 24 30 9 1917
Leyton, N.E. Son of Martha S. and the late
James Sholl. Killed in action.

Samuel Ashby Sholl ..81 22 1 1917

Godstone, Surrey.
Richard Herbert Sikes 44 24 4 1917

Cork. Son of Richard C. and Susan I.

Sikes. Died of wounds in France.

Mary Ann Silcook . . 81 7 9 1917

Lisburn. Wife of James Silcock. An Elder.

Austin Gundry Simmonds 20 2 6 1917

Congresbury, Somerset. Son of T. G.

and A. E. Simmonds. Drowned in Lough Rea.

Caroline Simms . . . . 74 20 5 1917

Southport. Wife of Josiah Simms.

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Harold Simpson .. ..26 11 4 1917

Cambridge. Son of John Henry and Dorothy
Simpson. Killed in action.

Henrietta Elizabeth

Sinton 48 29 1 1917

Ballymena. Daughter of Samuel and

Elizabeth Sinton.

Rosanna Smart . . . . 66 20 5 1917

Bishopston, Bristol. Wife of Edwin Smart.

James Smeal, M.D. ■ . . 79 9 5 1917

Victoria, Australia. Formerly of Glasgow.

John Cruickshank Smeal 68 710 1916

Long Beach, California, U.S.A. Son of the
late Robert and Mary Smeal, of Glasgow.

Joseph Smith . . . . 66 21 9 1916

Sheffield.
W. Kenneth Smith . . 22 2 5 1917

Hoddesdon, Herts. Only son of Maurice

Smith. Died in Hospital at St. Omer,

France.
Samuel Baker Smythe . . 52 17 6 1917

New Barnet.

Annie Sowden .. ..75 13 11 1916

Boumville, Birmingham. Widow of Joseph
Sowden.

Annie Elizabeth Spark . . 35 29 1 1917
Coventry. Died at Sparkbrook, Birmingham.

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John Foster Spence ..72 1 2 1917

Tynemouih.

Joseph Shewell Spence 65 9 8 1917

Hexham. Formerly of North Shields.

Eleanor Stacey .. ..60 17 9 1916

Putney.

Daniel Staines .. ..70 1 2 1917

Bath. Formerly of Derby.

Mary Stanley .. ..78 12 1 1917

Bridgwater. Widow of Nehemiah H. Stanley.

George Walter Hudson

Stead .. .. ..19 17 9 1916

Shortlands, Kent. Son of Laura and the
late James Lister Stead. Killed in France.

Daisy Steed .. ..9 4 3 1917

Stafford. Daughter of Otho H. G. and Rosa
L. Steed.

John William Steel . . 73 17 10 1917
Darlington.

John William Steel was born at Hutton
Rudby, Yorks., where his father, who was a
Scotchman, was in business as a builder. In
early life he went to live at West Hartlepool,
where he» entered a printing business, which
he afterwards carried on for himself, and of
which his brother is now the proprietor.

John William Steel

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About this time he began writing for the
South Durham and Cleveland Mercury and other
papers, and subsequently joined the staff of the
Northern Echo, at Darlington. This paper was
then edited by the late W. T. Stead, with
whom he formed a lasting friendship. In a
cottage garden outside Darlington, J. W. S. used
to point out a swing in which he and Stead
often disported themselves in leisure moments.
Later, he went to Newcastle, where he became
a member of the staff of the Newcastle Chronicle,
with which journal he was connected for
upwards of thirty years, holding, the greater
part of that time, the position of commercial
editor. The late Joseph Cowen was the proprie-
tor, and between him and many members of
the staff there was strong esteem and indeed
affection : this was notably the case with
J. W. S.

As a young man he displayed marked ability
in his vocation. He had been reared in a district
famed for its iron and steel, and this industry,
together with others of paramount importance
on the North East Coast, he studied in a special
degree, in so far as the fluctuations of output
and prosperity were concerned. Besides the
iron and steel industries he made a special
study of the coal trade and the various railway
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the kindred subjects of shipping and ship-
building. In everything he wrote on these
matters there was evidence of a sure grasp of
facts, a shrewd diagnosis of tendencies and a
lucidity of expression that always made his
articles instructive. He had rich sources of
valuable data at easy command, and thus his
writings were invariably illumined by compara-
tive statistics and by informative matter drawn
from long personal experience.

It is not given to every commercial journalist
to be able to write interestingly, in a popular
sense, on a trade subject, but with this attribute
J. W. S. was liberally endowed. He was a
particularly able writer on railway stocks and
dividends, and the value of his work in this
connection was recognised by those best able
to judge as being of a high order.

He was a familiar figure on the Newcastle
Commercial Exchange for a great many years,
and was held in general esteem by the members.
Apart from his journalistic work on purely
commercial topics, he was gifted with considerable
versatility, and contributions on general subjects
from his pen often appeared in some of the
best weekly periodicals and monthly magazines.
He had an extensive acquaintance with Quaker
literature and history, and his contributions
on these subjects are of much value. Some

JOHN WILLIAM STEEL 149

years ago he collaborated with the late Thomas
Pumphrey in producing a history of " The Society
of Friends in Newcastle and Gateshead." He
wrote many articles on topics connected with
the Society, and his latest book was entitled
I Early Friends in the North."

He may be truly said to have " died in
harness," for shortly before he passed away,
and when much too feeble to hold a pen, he
dictated to his daughter an article for a paper
on the iron and steel industry, the very last
of a long series which were greatly valued by
business men on our North East Coast.

J. W. S. was married in Ackworth Meeting
House, to an Irish Friend, Mary Chapman,
from County Armagh, who had been for some
years Nurse at Ackworth School. He took
no part in politics, though he held strong views
on many subjects, and his Peace principles
did not always make his journalistic work
easy at the time of the Boer War. In private
life he was distinguished for uniform courtesy
and kindness, his friendships were true, and
his regard lasting.

The following appreciation by a Friend
who knew him intimately, may fittingly close
this brief memoir.

" In the passing away of John William
Steel, of Darlington, the Society of Friends in

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the North of England has lost one of its most
consistent members. His reading was wide
and various, and his first drawing to the Friends
was through the writings and early records
of that Society. In his early youth he had
been brought up as a strict Presbyterian.

" His profession of journalism brought him
into wide fields of knowledge, and he had a very
extensive acquaintance with the beliefs, practices
and customs of many sects and creeds, and
was quite an authority in all matters connected
with the Society of Friends, past and present,
and was often appealed to for information from
all parts of the country, which he willingly
acceded to, often at great cost of labour to
himself. Of him it might be said, ' mark
the perfect man and behold the upright, for
the end of that man is peace,' not that he
thought the word perfect should be applied
to him, but as an upright man he was perfect.
Those who had to do with him in business
bore testimony to his high standard of doing
what was right, irrespective of all consequences.
He was not a man that could be bought in any
sense of the word ; with him the question was,
what is right in the sight of God ? A deep
thinking man, he held strong views, and if at
times* in business meetings of the Society he
was in a minority, he was never heard to say
one word outside the meeting. One endearing
feature was his friendship for little children,
and they too were fond of him. He did not
forget children or young people who might
be away from home or absent on business,
or other reasons, and if he himself was ill, some-
times there came quaint letters of friendship

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from some of his childish friends, and sometimes
a short note from some young man away from
home, which he treasured, and busy man though
he was, replied to. At his interment, one
who remembered his kindly interest with grati-
tude and affection, said that once J. W. Steel
had said to him ' they serve God most who
serve humanity best,' and for five and twenty
years this had remained with him as a helpful
thought. J. W. Steel was not one who could
lay bare the sacred things of the soul, but he
lived his religion by his acts, and with a faith
firmly fixed on our Lord Jesus Christ as his
Saviour, he passed into His presence, to do higher
work for his Lord. J. W. S. seemed to have
realised the truth of the words —

' We live in deeds, not years,
In thoughts not breaths,
In feelings, not in figures on a dial ;
We should count time by heart throbs.
He most lives, who thinks most,
Feels the noblest, acts the best.' "

Elizabeth Stephens ..78 11 1 1916

Ashfield, Budock, Falmouth. Widow of John
Stephens. A Minister.
(Memoir last year).

Joseph Ashby Sterry . . 82 1 6 1917

London.

John Stewart . . . . 23 12 4 1917

Kinmuck, Inverurie. Son of James and
Mary Stewart. Killed in France.

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Mary Jane Strange . . 83 29 12 1916
Highgate. Widow of John Clark Strange.

Frank William Strevens 52 21 8 1917
Dover. Late of Poole, Dorset.

John Strong . . . . 84 12 4 1917

Hesket Newmarket, Cumberland.
Anna Christina

Sutherland .. ..50 12 11 1917

West Ealing, London. Died at York. Wife of

Donald George Sutherland.

Edgar Talliss . . . . 34 12 9 1916

Victor Kirk Talliss . . 30 20 2 1917
Saskatchewan, Canada. Sons of Harriet
and the late William Talliss. Killed in i
France.

Catherine Tanner ..61 7 6 1917

Bristol.

Laura Frances Tansley 3 16 9 1917
East Ham. Died at Children's Hospital,
Great Ormond Street, London. Daughter
of Charles Francis and Laura Edith Tansley.

Eliza Taylor . . . . 75 9 10 1916

Bournemouth. Widow of Frederic Taylor,
formerly of Brighton and Sunderland.

Gertrude Cash Taylor . . 57 31 12 1916
Gt. Ayton, Yorks. Wife of Joseph Henry
Taylor. An Elder.

Agnes Ann Thompson

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John Basil Taylor . . 32 13 4 1917

Bournemouth. Youngest son of the late

Frederic and Eliza Taylor, of Sunderland.

Killed in action in France.
Sarah Taylor . . 66 18 1917

Chester. Late of Whitley Bay. . . Wife of

Thomas Myers Taylor . . .
Wilfred Alan Taylor .. 6 mos. 4 11 1916

Newcastle-on-Tyne. Infant son of Laurence

and Selina Taylor.
Louisa Teather . .

Eckington, Sheffield.

Teather.
Joseph Temple

Sydney, N.S.W. F(

Alfred Samuel Tetley . . 48 4 9 1916

Scarborough. Died at Taunton.

Selina Thomas . . ..85 20 2 1917

Bristol. Wife of Thomas Thomas.

Agnes Ann Thompson ..81 21 11 1917
Gainsborough, Lines

It seems only fitting that the present issue
of the Annual Monitor should contain some
record of the life of one who was so regular a
reader of its pages.

Having been a diligent attender of Monthly
and Quarterly Meetings, she was greatly missed

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when increasing age and ill health compelled
her to discontinue the practice. A Friend
writes :

" I always loved Agnes Ann Thompson
before I knew her personally. At the Quarterly
Meeting she was so good to my mother, looking
after her and helping her almost as a daughter,
which was greatly appreciated.

She not only won old hearts, but young
boys spoke of her with warmest affection, and
when I came to know her, I was much struck
with the charm of her loving outlook and her
sense of humour, so attractive to all around her.
I shall never forget her unstinted hospitality
and care for the guests.' '

A. A.T.'s genial hospitality and the readiness
with which she entered into the interests of
others, even if perfect strangers, were marked
features of her life.

Latterly she was keenly interested in the
Belgian Refugees and remarked more than once
■ ' Having them in our midst helps us to forget
ourselves." A Friend, in expressing sympathy
with the family after her Home -call wrote :

"Yet it can hardly be termed loss, f or j
Life is Eternal, and Love Immortal, and death
is only the horizon, and the horizon is only
the limit of our earthly vision. Ever kindly
and sympathetic to me and mine, I cannot
express sufficient gratitude for the help and
inspiration derived from our beloved friend."

AGNES ANN THOMPSON 155

Though never one to say much about
religion, her genial influence was most noticeable ;
young people especially have remarked on
feeling uplifted by being in her presence.

To quote from the local newspaper :

" The poor of Gainsborough have lost
one of the best friends they ever possessed by
the death of Miss Agnes Anne Thompson. Her
chief aim in life was to render all the aid she
could to the sick and needy. Although generous
to a fault, she was no indiscriminate bestower
of charity. She had been an energetic member
of the ' District Nursing Association ' and was
Secretary of the Local Branch of the British
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst
the Jews, having been connected with both
Associations from the time of their commencement
in the town."

We can hardly close more appropriately
than by quoting the words on the Memorial
Notice :

" There remaineth therefore a rest to the
people of God."

Eliza Thompson . . . . 80 27 10 1916

Sparkbrook, Birmingham. Widow of Thomas
Thompson.

Mary Gower Thompson . . 66 27 5 1917
Winscombe, Somerset. Wife of Henry Woolcott
Thompson.

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Robert Thompson.. ..65 26 4 1917

Wincanton, Somerset.
Sarah Ann Thompson ..82 10 11 1916

Exmouih. Daughter of the late Walter

Trevelyan Thompson, of Guisbrough, Yorks.
William Ralph Thompson 4 16 3 1917

Spafield, Wexford. Son of W. Herbert and

Eleanor R. Thompson.
Margaret Thomson ..71 25 10 1916

York. Widow of Alfred Thomson.
Harold Thorp . . . . 36 22 9 1917

Kingstown, Co. Dublin. Son of Sara and

the late John William Thorp, of Bessbrook.

Died of wounds in France, R.A.M.C.
John Fincher Thursfield 79 12 12 1916

Kettering. A Minister.
Fanny Mary Till yard ..57 5 3 1917

Letchworth, Herts.
Jane Tolerton . . . . 83 4 7 1917

Trastevere, Rome. Formerly of Dublin.
John Allen Tregelles . . 67 8 8 1917

Hoddesdon, Herts.

Benjamin Franklin

Trueblood .. ..69 26 10 1916

Newton Highlands, Mass, U.S.A. A Minister.

The following memoir, from the pen of
Prof. Rufus M. Jones, which we are permitted

DR. BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD 157

to quote, was contributed to The Friend shortly
after Dr. Trueblood's decease.

Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood has left us at
a time when " the bud of brotherhood " seems
terribly nipped with frost, and when " the pro-
phesying light " was burning at its dimmest.
But he always lived and worked with a large
faith in the infinite power and love of God, and
even in these days of winter's frost and darkness
he did not lose hope in the happier future for the
race. He had for a full generation been one
of the most impressive figures of our Society,
both in America and Europe, well known in
Quaker circles for his large contribution to its
educational work, its public causes and its
deeper life, and very widely known outside our
fold for his large and constructive advocacy
of peace and arbitration and higher ideals in
international relationships.

He was born at Salem, Indiana, of excellent
Quaker stock, in 1847, and was educated in the
institutions of the Society, graduating from
Earlham College in 1869. For twenty-one years
he was among the forefront leaders of the edu-
cational work of Friends in the Middle West.
He was successively principal of Raisin Valley
Seminary in Michigan ; professor of English
Literature and governor at Earlham College ;
professor of Greek and Latin in Penn College, and

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one of its founders ; president of Wilmington
College, and finally president of Penn College,
which latter position he vacated to devote his
entire time to the promotion of International
Arbitration.

After attending the Second International
Peace Congress, held in London in 1890, he went
to the Continent and thoroughly learned the
French language, without the acquisition of which
he could not have carried on his international
work effectively. When he was chosen to be
Secretary of the American Peace Society in 1892,
he was admirably equipped for the position.
This Society had been founded in 1828 by the
distinguished philanthropist, William Ladd.
It had already had an honourable career, though
it had not yet made its influence powerfully
felt on the national life. Dr. Trueblood threw
himself with great energy into the task of carrying
the ideals of this Society into a vastly larger group.
He was determined that its candle should not be
hid, but should light the whole country. During
the twenty -three eventful years of his service
to the work of the American Peace Society the
membership increased from a meagre three or
four hundred to eight thousand, and the cir-
culation of the Advocate of Peace, which he edited,
expanded from 1,500 to 11,000. But these
figures do not begin to show the real increase of

DR. BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD 159

candle-power which came to the Peace Society
during these years. In 1911 it moved its head-
quarters from Boston to Washington, where it
was able to exert a far greater influence upon the
practical politics of the country. During these
same years Dr. Trueblood had a large sphere of
influence in the International Peace Congresses,
the Lake Mohonk Conferences on Arbitration,
the first International Conference at the Hague,
and in a multitude of less noted movements
and organisations for the promotion of the main
cause to which his life was devoted. He was all
the time using his pen effectively, contributing to
magazines and periodicals, producing pamphlets,
and writing a valuable book on " The Federation
of the World." A great many opportunities
came to him to give his message to large audiences
in this and other countries, and he was strikingly
effective as a speaker.

He was a man of splendid physical build
and proportions, his mind was well developed,
he was a clear and forceful thinker, and withal
he was a deeply religious man, with a first-
hand experience of the vital realities of the
religious life. He was recorded a Minister
in early life, and throughout his extensive
public career he continued to be a strong and
telling exponent of the Gospel, with a warm and
intimate appreciation of its transforming power.

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He has done his work well and valiantly. He
has served his generation faithfully, and he has
gone trustfully and without fear to enter the
larger life, where the bud triumphantly blossoms
into full flower.

George Thomas Tuckey 63 20 6 1917
King's Norton, Birmingham.

Esther Maria Tuke . . 90 26 1 1917
Hanivell. Widow of Dr Daniel Hack Tuke.

James Turner . . . . 73 15 3 1917

Ashton-on- Mersey, Manchester. Formerly

Superintendent of Penketh School.

Herbert Samuel Turtle 49 11 4 1917
Knock, Belfast. Son of William John and
Frances Turtle.

Sophia Jane Unwin . . 70 1 9 1917

Folkestone.

Henry Albert Upri
Gilford, Co. Down.
Emily Uprichard.

William Uprichard
Lurgan, Co. Armagh.

William Venables . . 84 3 1 1917

Barking, Essex.
Henry Wadman . . . . 65 28 3 1917

Wincanton, Somerset.

HARD 36

1 7 1916

Son of

Henry A. and

Killed in

France.

.. 70

9 2 1917

annual monitor 161

Harriet Tunnicliffe

Waite 87 15 1 1917

Leeds. Widow of Elisha Waite.

Theophilus Mentor

Waldmeier . . . . ■ — 10 6 1917

Brummana, Syria. Eldest son of the late
Theophilus Waldmeier. Secretary of the
British Consulate at Damascus.

Esther Walker . . . . 61 28 12 1916

Cockermouth. An Elder.
Sarah Walker .. ..78 7 3 1917

Millbrook, Jersey. Widow of J. J. Walker.

Marion Lucy Waller .. — 19 7 1916
Beechworth, Victoria, Australia. Wife of
Frederick Jesse Waller.

Frederick Jesse Waller 69 7 6 1917

Beechworth, Victoria, Australia.

William Edward Waller 70 22 10 1916
York. (Memoir last year).

Basil Wallis .. ..35 29 1 1917

Helston, Cornwall. Son of Henry Marriage and
the late Sarah Elizabeth Wallis, of Reading.

Annie Elizabeth

Walmsley .. ..62 17 3 1917

Stafford. Wife of Elijah Walmsley.

Edward Walpole . . 79 13 1 1917

Blackrock, Co. Dublin.

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John William Walton ..79 G 5 1917

Bishop Auckland.
Jane Ward .. ..75 21 10 1916

Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Robert Ward . . . . 61 30 1 1917

Bradford.

Maria Wardell . . . . 67 2 4 1917

Belfast. Daughter of George and Ann Wardell.

Martha Waring . . . . 96 20 3 1917

Dublin. Widow of Thomas Waring, late
of Ferns, Co. Wexford.

Adeline (Ada) Warner . . 66 24 2 1917
St, Leonard's.

Bertram Warner . . 28 12 4 1917

Waddan, Croydon. Youngest son of John
and the late Alice Warner. Killed in action
in France.,

Evelyn Ethel Warner . . 38 13 12 1917
Gharlbury, Oxon. Wife of Alfred W. Warner.

James Waterman .. ..76 11 7 1917

Brighton. An Elder.

Henry Vasie Watson . . 5 22 4 1917
Darlington. Son of Ernest and Ethel
Spence Watson.

John Webster . . . . 74 16 1916

Meersbrook, Sheffield.

annual monitor 163

Albert Wedmore .. ..73 10 6 1917

Portishead, near Bristol.

Margaret Wells . . . . 80 31 12 1917

Kettering. Widow of Alfred Wells.

Samuel Wetherill ..78 10 5 1916

Sheffield.

Alfred Wheeler . . . . 71 — 2 1917

Worcester. Nephew of the late Edmund
Wheeler, of London, the popular science
lecturer.

Alfred Edward White ..61 8 3 1917

Bournemouth. Late of Hull.

" George Edwin White ..73 2 1 1917

Waterford. Died at Bournemouth.

Frederick Ernest Whitlock 7wks. 27 9 1917
Winnipeg, Canada. Son of Ernest E. and
Olive Whitlock.

Mary Anne Whitton ..68 11 8 1917
Gloucester. Widow of Robert Whitton.

Elizabeth Wilkinson ..59 10 1 1917
Tranmere, Birkenhead. Widow of Robert
Wilkinson.

Isaac Mennell Williams 86 5 1 1917

Torquay. Son of the late Dr Caleb Williams,
of York.

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John Handyside Williams 76 2 9 1917

Leominster. A Minister. Formerly F.F.M.A.
Missionary at Sohagpur, India.

John H. Williams was born in Edinburgh
in 1841, and received part of his schooling in
the " Modern Athens," at the hands of the
famous pedagogue Professor John Stuart Blackie.
Taking up the trade of printing, he was for some
years in India as an army printer. Returning
to England in the early seventies, he was occupied
in the Isle of Wight, and while there married
Erne Brodie, of Perth, in March 1873, a union
of heart and soul which became fruitful of
much blessing to others. In the following'
year J. H. & E. Williams removed to Leominster,
where he took up work at the Orphans' Printing
Press. Here they quickly became active in
Band of Hope and Mission work, and before
long joined in membership with the Society
of Friends. As a girl, and later, Effie Williams
had been brought into contact with that body,
and while in India J. H. W. had become con-
vinced of the Peace principles of Friends.
Living among the dusky peoples of our Eastern
Empire, his missionary spirit had also been
aroused, and among the Quaker circle of Leo-
minster, with its evangelistic and missionary
enthusiasts of that period, the flame was fanned,

John H. Williams

JOHN H. WILLIAMS 165

and it was not long before J. H. & E. Williams
offered themselves to the Friends' Foreign
Mission Association (started some eleven years
previously with the late Henry Stanley Newman
as Hon. Sec.), for service in India.

In 1878 John H. and Effie Williams, with
their two little boys, accompanied the late
Samuel Baker to India, and settled at Hosh-
angabad, in the Central Provinces. At that
time the only other Friend missionary in India
was Rachel Metcalfe, then a confirmed invalid,
the jubilee of whose sailing as the first Friend
foreign missionary was recently celebrated.
The little band of missionaries, in an area occupied

jby two million people, found opportunities for

^ service on every hand, preaching in the markets,
conducting Sunday Schools, Bible Classes, etc.,
itinerating in the villages, colportage, etc. In
the course of a year plans were made for the
building of a Friends' Meeting House, the
carrying out of which was left under the

I care of J. H. W.

The year 1880 was one of much trial, when

i their two youngest children died, and J. H.

I Williams suffered a long and tedious illness.

| Towards the end of the year the visit to the
mission of Henry S. Newman was a source of
cheer, and his visit to another centre, Sohagpur,
with J. H. W., led to the opening of a new

2

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station. In 1881, accordingly, operations com-
menced at Sohagpur, which henceforth became
the home of the Williams family in India.
Describing the place and district at the annual
meeting of the F.F.M.A., in 1888, on his first
furlough after nearly ten years' service, J. H. W.
said :

" Sohagpur is a little town of about 9000
inhabitants, half Hindu and half Mohammedan.
It is right in the middle of the Central Provinces,
on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, in
the great wheat-growing district of India.

" The people round about in all the villages
are agriculturists ; they are poor people, but
intelligent and kind-hearted. A good many
in the town are shopkeepers and tradespeople."

Describing the work in Sohagpur some
years after its establishment,the India Committee
of the F.F.M.A. said :

John H. Williams fills a post of much
usefulness and his services are appreciated both
by Europeans and by natives. It is his daily
practice to visit the boy's school in the town,
and hardly a day passes without patients coming
to the bungalow for medicine. His work among
the European residents is very important,
and it is not easy to over-estimate the need
for such work, when we remember that Europeans
are looked upon as Christians by the natives,
and that the lives of evil-doers amongst Europeans
are a great stumbling-block in the way of the
heathen, The sympathy and kindness of Erne

JOHN H. WILLIAMS 107

Williams is greatly valued by those with whom
she is brought into contact, and her influence
is felt by many."

The work among Europeans included the
local railway servants and many of the soldiers
passing through Sohagpur, which, being upon
the main line of railway, was a constant encamp-
ment during the cold weather, the place being
used alike for the soldiers on their way to England
as for those going up country. They would
have a halt of twenty-four hours, and then
J. H. W. would visit the camp, distribute
tracts, etc., and get into conversation with
the men.

Perhaps the most noteworthy of the Indians
who became a Christian through the work at
Sohagpur in John H. Williams' time, was a
Brahman of good family who had spent years
in travelling all over the country as a fakir.

Speaking at the annual meeting in 1894, the
late Arthur Pease, M.P., who had recently returned
from his visit to India on the Opium Commission,
described his meeting with this convert, Ram
Char an. He said :

" At Sohagpur I met a religious mendicant
who has joined Friends, and who seemed to
have been, like Martin Luther, desperately
earnest in search of truth. He had travelled
from the mouth to the source of the Narbada
River and back again twice over. He had

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visited all the sacred shrines of the country,
and passed from teacher to teacher, endeavouring
to learn from books those truths from which he
might find rest for his soul ; but he had failed.
One day at Sohagpur, he found a copy of the
Gospel of Matthew, and he was led by a little
child to John Williams, who, with a native
teacher, took him in hand, and expounded to
him the way of life. He accepted the truth
and became a living disciple of the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is deeply versed in the Sanscrit
and the books of the Hindus, and is now working
in connection with Friends. This man met
another mendicant, to whom he spoke about
Christianity. He told him that he was going
to read the sacred books, and that if he failed
to find peace through them, he would look into
Christianity. Our friend said : ' Save yourself
the trouble ; I have gone through all that.
I have not found peace in them, but I have in
Christianity.' "

In 1894 the missionaries at Sohagpur were
joined by Ada Stephens, but in the following
year, after serious illness, John and Efne Williams
were obliged to return home ; and eventually
it became clear that a return to India was
inadvisable. Settling in Leominster, so long-
as health permitted, they were actively associated
with the work of Friends in the town and neigh-
bourhood. Being both of a musical temperament,
they found many outlets for their talents both
at home and abroad. Cheery, genial and
sociable, they readily united in social life. J. H.

JOHN H. WILLIAMS 169

Williams was an acknowledged minister, and
his voice was frequently heard in our meetings ;
and when, from time to time, he touched on
the subject of Foreign Missions, it was evident
how deeply he felt the responsibility of the
Church towards the Non- Christian world.

In 1905 Erne Williams passed away at the
age of 58 ; life in India had severely taxed
her health. During the succeeding twelve
and a half years J. H. Williams gradually became
more and more an invalid ; but his active
interest in affairs was maintained to the last.
He was devotedly cared for by his daughter
Erne. No doubt anxiety respecting his two
sons in France told on his strength, and the end
came after but a short illness, at the age of 76. -y^

Margaret Williams . . 43 7 2 1917

Vancouver, B.C. Daughter of Sarah and

the late Richard Williams, of Randall's Mills,

Co. Wexford.
Mary Ann Williams . . 86 12 10 1916

Dorking. Widow of Joseph Williams.
Emily Ann Willmore . . 69 15 12 1916

Falmouth. Wife of Arthur Willmore.
Walter Wade Willmott 78 16 5 1917

Darlington.
Mary A. Wilmot . . . . 66 23 2 1917

Alveston, Gloucester. Wife of Samuel Mullett

Wilmot.

170 annual monitor

Elizabeth Ann Wilson ..80 1312 1916
Sunderland. Widow of John Wilson.

John Wilson . . . . 69 15 2 1917

Walthamstow.

Margaret Wilson . . ..86 13 6 1917

Banbury, Widow of Thomas Wilson.

Maria Wilson . . . . 85 18 4 1917

Bristol. Wife of James Wilson.

Sarah Wilson . . . . 51 7 10 1916

Sheffield. Wife of Edward Wilson.

John Winder . . . . 56 4 7 1917

Doncaster.

Hubert Frederick

Winfield . . ..26 27 12 1916

Gloucester. Son of Frederick G. Winfield.

Died at a casualty clearing station in France.

Sarah Winstanley . . 50 3 3 1917

Anfield, Liverpool. Wife of William James
Winstanley.

Sarah Winter .. ..77 11 3 1917

Chelmsford. Wife of Albert Winter.

Thomas Roy Winter ..25 1 11 1917

Landport, Portsmouth. Died at York.
Orderly in F.A.U. Hospital.

Ellen Louise Wood . . 44 30 10 1916
Dunstable. Died at Aylesbury.

morris wood 171

Morris Wood .. ..74 5 11 1917

Dunstable, Beds. Died in London.

Morris Wood was the youngest child of
George and Margaret Wood, of Chelmsford,
and was born there in 1845. He was educated
at Ackworth, and on leaving school was appren-
ticed to James Bissell, of Stockport. He after-
wards gained further experience at Bridport,
and then for three years held the position of
manager for Thomas Edmondson, of Dublin.
On leaving Dublin in 1868 he entered into
partnership with his old schoolfellow William
Impey, in an ironmongery business at Bourne-
mouth. Theirs was at that time the only business
of the kind in the then young town. He well
remembered when cattle fed in the fields which
now form the beautiful central gardens of Bourne-
mouth, and he liked to tell of the days when
the now prosperous town was still very small
and comparatively unimportant.

In 1888 he was married to Florence Mary
Matthews, of Didsbury, but the union was
only of short duration, as his wife died at the
birth of their first child. Eighteen months
later he married Alice Matthews, the marriage
being celebrated at Christiania, in Norway.
Morris Wood will be remembered by many
visitors to Bournemouth, for the great interest

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he took in the Friends' Meeting there. He had
been largely instrumental in raising the funds
for building the first Meeting House. Previously
to this he used to drive six miles to Poole to
attend at the old Meeting House there, often
taking visitors and others over in his conveyance.

M. W. was of a genial disposition, and on
his giving up his business in Bournemouth
and removing to Dunstable, Beds., in 1910,
he was much missed by Friends and other
visitors to the town.

Early in October, 1917, he went to London
to undergo an operation for cataract, after
which heart trouble and other complications
arose, and he passed away, November 5th,
aged 74 years.

Cranstone Woodhead .. 69 29 10 1916
Point Loma, South California, U.S.A.
Son of the late Godfrey and Maria L. Wood-
head, of Manchester.

Samuel Benson Woodhead 75 16 2 1917
Manchester. Eldest surviving son of the
late Godfrey Woodhead.

Susannah Greeves

Woodhead .. ..65 20 10 1916

Manchester. Wife of Samuel Benson Wood-
head.

william wright 173

John Drearer Woods ..50 16 3 1917
Tooele, Utah, U.S.A.

John Wragg . . . . 79 23 4 1917

Bradwell, Derbyshire.
Mary Wrathall . . . . 71 12 7 1917

Cowling, near Keighley, Yorks. Widow of

John Wrathall.
Francis Noel Wright . . 26 18 9 1917

Carlisle. Youngest son of William Ingle

and Eliza Margaret Wright. Killed in action

in France,
Maria Wright . . . . 91 10 8 1917

Esher, Surrey. Died at York. Widow of

Alfred Wright.
Robert William Wright 27 30 11 1916

Sudbury, Suffolk. Son of Edward S. and

Sophia Wright. Killed in action in France.

William Wright .. ..77 23 5 1917

Friedenau, Berlin. Eldest son of the late
Samuel and Alice E. Wright.

William Wright was the eldest son of Samuel
and Alice R. Wright, of Darlington. He was
an Ackworth Scholar and Teacher, and a student
at the Flounders Institute. He afterwards held
teaching appointments in Friends' families and
schools, one of these being at Waterford. He
then went on the Continent to perfect himself

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in foreign languages, and for some years he was
a student in Paris, Rome and Halle. He eventu-
ally settled in Berlin as a teacher of languages, and
his residence in Germany extended over nearly
half a century. He married a German lady ;
as a relative expressed it at the time, " an
afternoon's skating, a lady's fall on the ice, and
a sprained ankle led to the ' catastrophe.' "

His visits to this country, where he had a
large circle of relatives, were not frequent, but
much appreciated when they occurred. He was
an admirable letter -writer, and his letters were
richly illustrated with clever pen-and-ink sketches.
A kindly, genial soul, he leaves happy memories
with those whose privilege it was to know him.
As an old resident in Berlin, and a septuagenarian,
he escaped the internment which so many of
his resident compatriots have suffered at

Ruhleben. .

The Friend.

Sarah Ann Wycherley . . 87 26 1 1917
Lewes. Widow of Henry Wycherley.

Arnold Wynne . . . . 37 9 4 1917

Cape Town, South Africa. Son of Lucy and
the late Edwin H. Wynne. Killed in action
in France.

George James Yates . . 45 2 6 1917

Moseley, Birmingham,

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