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undertook the duties of clerk and draughtsman in a railway 

 constructor's office, where he was engaged from 1837 to 1842. 

 Then for some years he was resident in Manchester as a private 

 teacher of mathematics. He was elected a member of the 

 Society in 1845, and was on the Council in 1847, i" which year 

 he left Manchester, having accepted the offer of the Admiralty 

 of the position of Head Master of the Dockyard Schools, 

 Portsmouth. He was elected an Honorary Member of the 

 Society in 1849. 



He retired from the Dockyard Schools in 1875, when he was 

 the recipient of a Testimonial which was presented to him by 

 Admiral Maclintock, K.C.B , F.R.S., LL.D. He was a Fellow 

 of the Royal Astronomical Society, and an Associate Member of 

 the Society of Naval Architects from its commencement. 



His communications to this Society, chiefly on mathematical 

 subjects, numbered fifteen, and extended over the long period 

 of nearly forty years. The first appeared in 1844, and the last 

 in 1883. 



He died at his residence, Warblington Villa, Havant, March 

 I ith, 1906. T. T. 



Charles James Heyvvood, who was elected an ordinary 

 member on January 8th, 1889, was one of a family connected 

 with this Society for more than a hundred years. A remote 

 ancestor of our late member was the Rev. Nathaniel Heywood, 

 M.A., ejected in 1662, for nonconformity, from the Vicarage of 

 Ormskirk. From the son of the ejected Vicar, also the 

 Rev. Nathaniel Heywood, M.A., Nonconformist Minister at 

 Ormskirk, descended two or three generations of Irish and 

 Liverpool merchants. The family established a bank in Liverpool, 

 and later on in 1788 two members of the family started the 

 banking business in Manchester. 



In the following year began the long connection of the family 

 with the Literary and Philosophical Society by the election to 

 membership on February 6th, 1789, of Mr. Benjamin Heywood, 

 as he is called in the list of member?, though it should doubtless 



