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Mr. H. E. dresser. 



Henry Ecles DresseVj a scion of an old family of yeomen 

 — freeholders who had resided in the North Riding of York- 

 shire for nearly three centuries, — was born on May 9tli, 

 1838, at the Thirsk Banh, of which his grandfather was 

 the founder. His father, being a younger son, had to strike 

 out a line for himself, and abont 1845 started as a Baltic 

 timber merchant in London. In consequence of this change 

 of residence, Henry Dresser, in 18 17, Avas sent to a private 

 school at Bromley, in Kent, and subsequently in 1852 to a 

 German school near Hamburg. In 1854 he went to Gefle 

 and Upsala to a tutor to learn Swedish, and on the way 

 home stayed at Gothenburg, where he worked at mounting 

 birds in the Museum with Malm. In 1856 he went to St. 

 Petersburg, and thence to Finland, where he entered the 

 office of a large timber merchant to learn the details of the 

 trade; in 1857 he travelled through Finland on business, 

 then through Sweden, and finally reached home by Christmas 

 of that year. In 1858 he travelled all round the Baltic on 

 business, and when at Uleaborg in Finland took the nest of 

 the Waxwing. Later in the same year he was for some time 

 in France and Italy. 



In 1859 he went to New Brunswick as temporai-y assistant- 

 manager on a timber estate, but returned in the latter part 

 of 1860. In 1861 and early in 1862 he travelled in Sweden, 

 Finland, Russia, and Prussia, and in 1862 went out again 

 to New Brunswick as manager of the timber estate for a year 

 till a new manager could be appointed. Early in 1863 he took 

 a cargo out to the Confederate States, to Texas, and remained 

 there for over eighteen months, returning to London on 

 business in the late autumn of 1864, From 1864 to 1870 

 he travelled abroad every year, and visited Spain twice, 

 Russia three times, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Servia, Bulgaria, 

 Roumania, and other parts. In 1870 he started business at 



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