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OBITUARY NOTICES 



EDWARD DADSWELL, F.R.M.S. 



The Club has lost a greatly respected member, and many of us 

 an old and valued friend, in the person of Edward Dadswell, who 

 died on October 6th at the age of seventy-five. Until the last year 

 or two, when increasing age and ill-health began to make attend- 

 ance difficult, there was no more familiar figure at the meetings, 

 and none more popular. 



Mr. Dadswell was born on Xovember 1-Ith, 1828, and during 

 his early life his business, with a firm of a Mincing Lane brokers, 

 occupied nearly all his energy ; but he found time for the pursuit 

 of knowledge at the Southwark Institution. It was not, however, 

 until after the death of his wife, some fifteen years after his 

 marriage, that he began to devote himself to microscopy, under 

 the direction of the late Thomas Rogers, an early member of the 

 Club. In 1871 he became one of the founders of the now defunct 

 South London Microscopical Club, of which from the very start 

 he was one of the most energetic members ; during the last years 

 of its existence he was practically its " mainspring." 



Mr. Dadswell was elected a member of the Quekett Micro- 

 scopical Club on January 22nd, 1875, and became a member of 

 the Committee in July, 1879. With the exception of the year 

 1882, he served continuously on the Committee until his retire- 

 ment in 1903. He was a Vice-President of the Club in 1881, 

 and again in 1897. 



Only those who have worked intimately with him can form any 

 idea of the services wdiich he rendered to the Quekett and to other 

 clubs with which he was connected. His great business capacity 

 and tact rendered him especially useful on committees, and his 

 indefatigable zeal and genial manner brought him to the front in 

 connection with the excursions, the soirees, and the social life of 

 the Club. He will be long remembered in connection with the 

 Club's excursions, in which he always took a particular intei est 



