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latterly was a director of Messrs. Benger and Company Ltd. 

 He was a life member of the Pharmaceutical Society, and served 

 on the Board of Examiners of that Society from 1874 to 1886. 



Mr. Robert Ellis Cunliffe, whose death we have to 

 record with regret, on 25th November last, at Ambleside, of 

 typhoid fever, was the only son of the late Mr. Thomas Potter 

 Cunliffe, solicitor. He was for many years partner in the well- 

 known firm of Cunliffes, Leaf & Co., afterwards Cunliffes & Greg, 

 of 56, Brown Street, Manchester, retiring about four years since, 

 when he purchased the beautiful estate known as the Croft, at 

 the head of Windermere, residing there continuously ever since. 

 In April, 1876, he became a member of the Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, and was for several years an active member 

 of the Microscopical and Natural History Section, acting as 

 Secretary from 1881-84, the first year (1881-2) jointly with the 

 writer of this notice. The scientific work he essayed was mainly 

 microscopical, and he frequently exhibited objects of great 

 interest, though he rarely contributed any papers to the Society. 



Of a cultivated, artistic temperament, he became an ardent 

 admirer of Ruskin, and actively furthered the interests of the 

 Museum at Coniston, possessing also many original drawings 

 and exquisite water-colours painted by him, which he ranked 

 amongst his highest treasures. His premature death at the age 

 of 54 is sincerely lamented by his many friends. J. C. M. 



John Robinson was the son of a banker at Skipton, where 

 he was born in March, 1823. He was educated at tlie Skipton 

 Grammar School, and was afterwards sent to a School in 

 Manchester conducted by Charles Cumber, an intimate friend of 

 Dalton. Later he studied at the Wakefield Proprietary School, 

 and at the age of sixteen entered the firm of Sharp, Roberts and 

 Company, of Manchester, as an apprentice. On the dissolution 

 of this partnership in 1843, he joined the firm of Sharp, Brothers 

 and Company— afterwards Sharp, Stewart and Company, — of 

 v/hich he ultimately became Chairman of the Board of Directors. 



