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THOMAS HUDSON NELSON. 



Within sound of the sea, on a November afternoon we laid 

 to rest, at Redcar, all that was mortal of Thomas Hudson 

 Nelson. No man loved this neighbourhood better, no man 

 knew it so well. Of Seafield and the estuary of the Tees 

 he could have said : 



Ille terrarum, miki pnHer omnes 

 Amjulns ridel : 



THOMAS HUDSON NELSON, M.B.O.U., MASTEK Of SCIENCE (honoris causa). 

 Born Feb. 12, 1856. Died Nov. ,'), 1916. 



There is more reason to rejoice over his life than to lament 

 that he was not spared to become old. His life was complete 

 in the best sense. Three score years had passed over him, 

 yet to his contemporaries he appeared young, for age had 

 not chilled his blood nor had illness, in a long-drawn fight, 

 subdued the courage of his heart. Thus Nelson was himself 

 to the end. A few minutes before the attack which ended 



