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visitation of his parishioners, he acquired a knowledge of their
wants, and their sincere regard, in a marked degree.
He was elected a Fellow ISth March, 1875, and died at Madeley,
on 4th June, 1904. A movement is on foot to place a memorial
window in the church in which he ministered so long. A portrait
is given in the 'Transactions' of the North Staffs. Field Club,
1904-5. [B, 13. J.]
James Errs, junr., died at his house, Eeulah Hill, Upper Norwood,
in March 1905 ; he had been a Fellow of this Society since 5th
March, 1885. In the 'Transactions' of the Croydon Natural
History and Scientific Society for lJ'02-03, he published a paper
entitled " A Trip to the AVest Indies," describing the various objects
of natural history noticed by him, but especially investigating the
cocoa plants in the various islands, their a arieties, diseases, insectpests
and the like. He was naturally drawn to this as the business
lirm in v^hich he was a partner was largely interested in the
manufacture of cocoa. This address was given to the Croydon
Society shortly before the end of his Presidency of two years, he
having been a member since 1881. On one occasion he had
exhibited cocoa-pods grown aud ripened at his Norwood residence,
for which he was awarded a Silver Banksian Medal by the Eoyal
Horticultural Society. [B. D. J.]
William Feeguson, F.G.S., died at his residence, Kinmundy,
Aberdeenshire, in 1004 ; he had been a Fellow of the Linnean
Society since 6th June, 1854, in which year he joined the Greological
Society, to whose publications he contributed a paper in 1857
on the " Chalk-flints and Greensand found in Aberdeenshire."
WiCKHAM Flower, F.S.A., was the eldest son of John Wickham
Flower, of Park Hill, Croydon, and was born in that town, in 1835,
receiving his education at Tonbridge School. A solicitor in large
practice, he delighted to give his spare time to his garden and to
antiquities. He issued ' Dante, a defence of the aucient text of the
Divina Commedia ' in 1897, and ' Aquitaine ; a Traveller's Tale,'
illustrated by J. Pennell, in the same year.
At the time of his death, 19th September, 1904, he was engaged
on the history of Great Tangley Manor, his country seat, a very
interesting place dating from the time of Henry VII., surrounded
by a moat, and having an extensive garden attached. Indoors it
contained a splendid collection of pictures, tapestries, glass, and
old books. He joined this Society so recently as 20th January,
1898. [B. D. J.]
Alexander Fey was born at Pencraig, Herefordshire, on 10th
September, 1821, and educated at Hazelwood near Birmingham,
with a year at Neuilly, in the arrondissement of St. Denis, near Paris.
In 1835, a boy of little more than fourteen years of age, he was
sent out to Rio de Janeiro, where his father was engaged in
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