The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 71] 1909 [J ULY 



OBITUARY GEORGE SIM, A.L.S. 

 WITH PORTRAIT. 



GEORGE SIM'S father James Sim, or Sime as he also wrote 

 his name, was the son of a farmer in the parish of Grange, 

 who died while James was a child, leaving enough to provide 

 for his sustenance until able to earn a livelihood by his own 

 labour. This he soon did, at first as a farm-servant, after- 

 wards as a herring-fisher at Wick, then for some years as 

 tenant of the farm of Netherton, in Boharm, Banffshire. 

 Here he married the daughter of a farmer, and lived on the 

 farm comfortably ; but at the close of his lease another 

 tenant took the farm at a higher rent ; so Sim removed to 

 Craigellachie, and began business as a general merchant, 

 succeeding fairly well. Here he remained for some years ; 

 and here George was born on 26th March 1835. James 

 Sim again leased a farm ; but as considerable outlay had to 

 be made on it, and he had a large family to support, he 

 found himself unable to remain in it, so he became grieve or 

 overseer on a farm in Marnoch for some years, moving after 

 a time to Scobbach in Turriff ; there in two years he lost 

 five of his family by death. Others of the family were 

 invalids ; and he and his wife had a hard struggle, bravely 

 met by them. 



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