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 OBITUARY NOTICE. 



JOHN GREEN WALLER, F.S.A. 



Elected a member of the Quekett Club, May 22nd, 1868; served 

 on the Committee, 1873-75, 1881-90, 1892-94 ; Vice-President, 

 1S76, 1898-1905; President, 1896-97. 



By the death of Mr. Waller, who passed away at Blackheath 

 on October 19th, at the ripe age of ninety-two, we lose one of 

 our most versatile and popular members, whose many services 

 are briefly summarised above. Ever one of the most regular 

 attendants, his spare but active figure must have been familiar 

 to all members, although probably very few of them knew that 

 the white-haired old gentleman, who took so keen an interest in 

 whatever was going on, had been born in the days of George the 

 Third, and was already a promising young artist when the late 

 Queen was crowned. 



John Green Waller, who came of an East Anglian stock, was 

 the son of a surgeon, and was born in 1813 in the old-world village 

 of Hoxne, in Suffolk, where he spent his early years. Educated 

 at a private boarding-school in Essex, the master of which was 

 a man of superior attainments for those times, he there came in 

 contact with a drawing-master, who appreciated and developed 

 his artistic tendencies. From here he went to Sass's famous art 

 school in Newman Street, where he was a fellow student of 

 G. F. Watts and J. C. Horsley. Then, passing into the Royal 

 Academy School, he won a "Frost" medal and a "life" student- 

 ship in 1836, and also a prize for a cartoon which is now 

 preserved in Norwich Museum, the subject being taken from 

 Comus. In 1851 he took a gold medal at the International 

 Exhibition, but in the intervening years he had been drifting 

 gradually into archaeology, for which he had a great taste, and 

 in this field also he achieved a reputation, engraving a series of 

 [dates from English monumental brasses, and being elected an 

 Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Combining his 

 artistic training with his archaeological studies, he became well 

 known as a designer of stained windows and monumental brasses, 

 among his better known works being the Chaucer window in 

 Westminster Abbey. 



Mr. Waller's first introduction to microscopy was due to his 

 sister, Mrs. E. Mayhew Edmonds, who survives him. She 

 possessed a small instrument which attracted his attention, and 

 he quickly became fascinated with the study. Joining the Club, 

 he soon took a prominent part in the debates, besides contributing 

 many papers dealing principally with the Sponges, a group in 

 which he was particularly interested, and at which he continued 

 to work up to the end. 



Jo, i , tkett Mieroseopieal Club, Set: -J, Vol. L\., A\>, 07, November 1905. 



