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He took up the study and practice of Photograpliy at a rather 

 early date. 



He joined the Quekett Microscopical Club in 1869, and the 

 Royal Microscopical Society in 1850. In the rooms of the latter 

 Society there is preserved a curious and primitive wooden 

 microscope, the gift of Mr. White; the date of it is unknown, 

 but it was the valued property of his brother-in-law, Mr. Edwin 

 J. Quekett, F.L.S., for many years. 



Mr. White married. May 3, 1849, Eliza Catherine Quekett 

 (who was born in 1812, and died Nov. li, 1875), sister of John 

 Quekett, the curator of the Royal College of Surgeous' Museum, 

 and " the father of microscopy." She was a most accomplished 

 woman, a good British botanist, a keen collector of Mosses, 

 Micro-Fungi, Bryozoa, etc., and a lady of considerable artistic 

 ability ; she was the loyal helper of her husband in everything. 

 After living for some six years at 4 Albion Terrace, Limehouse, 

 Mr. and Mrs. White removed in 1855 to Beech Cottage, Wellington 

 Road, Bow ; Dr. JST. B. Ward used to say that it was worth £100 

 a year to see on the lawn the noble copper beech from which the 

 house was named. Some years later they took up their abode 

 at Virginia Water, and in 1859 went to Ealing, where Mr. AFhite 

 was one of the founders and one of the first Presidents of the 

 Ealing Microscopical and Natural History Club, now the Ealing 

 Natural Science and Microscopical Society, and where for 18 or 

 19 years he held the onerous aud useful position of Hon. Sec. 

 of the Ealing Cottage Hospital. He married, secondly. May 28, 

 1879, Alicia, second daughter of Manus Blake Meredith, of 

 Dicksgrove, Co. Kerry, who predeceased him. Mr. White died 

 at Clapton, Nov. 20, 1896, and was buried ac Ealing, He leaves 

 one daughter by his second marriage. 



Mr. White was elected a Eellow of this Society, February 17th, 

 1876. [R. M. M., Jr.] 



William Wickham, D.L., M.P., was the eldest son of Henry 

 Louis Wickham, Esq., of Binsted Wyck, by Lucy, youngest 

 daughter of William Markham, Esq., of Becca Hall, Yorkshire. 

 Born in London in 1831, he was educated on the foundation of 

 Westiumster School, and was an M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford. 

 He married in 1860 Sophia Emma, youngest daughter of Henry 

 Shaw-Lefevre, Esq. He was called to the Bar at the Inner 

 Temple in 1857, the same year in which he took his degree, and 

 in 1888-89 was High Stieriff of the county. In 1892 he entered 

 Parliament in the Conservative interest as the representative 

 for the Petersfield Division of Hampshire, when he succeeded 

 Viscount Wolmer (now Earl of Selborne) ; in 1895 he was 

 returned uuopposed. 



Mr. Wickham took a leading part in all county business, in 

 which he felt the keenest interest, and for which he worked to 

 the last with unflagging and devoted industry. For over 30 

 years he was a regular attendant at the County Justices' meeting 



