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Edinburgh Academy, the Grange, Bishop Wearraouth, and Balliol 

 College, Oxford, where he took a second class in 1850, and was 

 called to the Bar in 1854, of the Inner Temple. He declared 

 that " the chief interests of his life were politics and administra- 

 tion," of which abundance fell to his share. He represented the 

 Elgin Burghs in Parliament from 1857 to 1881, and held office as 

 Under-Secretary of State for India, 1868-1874 ; Under-Secretary 

 for the Colonies, 1880-81, which post he quitted to become 

 Governor of Madras, which he held for five years to 1886. 

 Connected as he w^as on both father's and mother's sides with 

 India, this appointment was congenial. He had previously been 

 Lord Eector of Aberdeen University, 1866-69, and after his return 

 to England he was President of the Koyal Geographical Society, 

 1889-93, of the Eoyal Historical Society, 1892-99, a Trustee of 

 the British Museum from 1903, and a Member of the Senate of 

 London University from 1891. Amongst these varied scenes he 

 mingled with the best informed people, which furnished him with 

 material for his fourteen volumes of ' Notes,' embracing a period 

 of fifty years, from the time of his taking his degree to the First 

 Council of King Edward VII. Besides three or four political 

 works, he wrote three memoirs — of Sir Henry Maine (1892), 

 Ernest Eenan (1893), and an appi-eciative notice of the fourth 

 Baron de Tabley, which was prefixed to that nobleman's posthumous 

 * Elora of Cheshire,' in 1899, He described his recreations as 

 ^' fencing, botanising, travelling, conversation." 



In 1859 he married Anna Julia, only daughter of Edward 

 Webster, Ealing, by whom he had four sons and as many daughters. 

 He was elected into our Society 18th April, 1872, and in 3 881 

 also into the Eoyal Society. He died on 12th January, 1906. 



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The Hon. Charles Arthur Ellis was born at Lisbon in 

 December 1839. He w-as the third son of Lord Howard de 

 Walden, the sixth Baron and a distinguished diplomatist who 

 represented Great Britain as Minister in Lisbon and Brussels, 

 at which places Charles passed the first years of his life. He 

 received his education at Harrow, and after having graduated at 

 Balliol College, Oxford, he qualified as a bari'ister of the Inner 

 Temple. Erom an early age he showed great fondness for 

 Natural History ; without entering into a methodical study of 

 the subject, he cultivated it by reading, collecting and keeping 

 every kind of living animals for the purpose of observing their 

 habits. Of sport he saw and enjoyed as much as a man can 

 desire, but this home experience as a sportsman only served him 

 as an apprenticeship for the travels and expeditions which he 

 undertook in the desire to see wild nature iu her grandest and 

 pui'est aspects. In 1861-62 he paid his first visit to Canada 

 and the United States under exceptionally favourable conditions. 

 A friend of his father's, Admiral E. W. Vausittart, who com- 



