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share in their management. He was a Churchman of the 

 hberal Anghcan type and for very many years was a Sunday 

 Schoolteacher. Of the Gentlemen's Concerts he was Treasurer 

 and a Director, and at one crisis in the history of the Concerts 

 came to their rescue by buying the Gentlemen's Concert Hall and 

 letting it to the Directors at a nominal rent. When the Midland 

 Railway Company bought the site of the Hall for their Midland 

 Hotel, instead of making for himself a handsome profit on the 

 transaction, he was content to stipulate that there should be 

 accommodation for the Gentlemen's Concerts provided in the 

 Hotel. 



Mr. Heywood was a man of charming personality, and was 

 a worthy member of a family remarkable during many genera- 

 ations for its high character, public spirit, and great beneficence. 

 Though he never took any personal part in the work of the 

 Society, still we must all feel regret that by Mr. Heywood's death 

 a family name that has ever been held in high esteem now 

 disappears from our list of members. 



F. N. 



By the death of Dr. George Wilson, which took place on 

 February i6th, 1905, engineering science in this country has 

 lost one of its most promising workers, and the Society one of 

 its most active contributors. Dr. Wilson was born on February 

 17th, 1871, being the only son of Mr. George Wilson, of Man- 

 chester, and grandson of Mr. George Wilson who was chairman 

 of the Anti Corn Law League, and chairman of directors of the 

 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. He was educated 

 privately, and at The Owens College, which he entered in 1887, 

 passing through the engineering course, and graduating with 

 First Class Honours in Engineering in 1891. After spending 

 two years in the offices of the Manchester Ship Canal, he was 

 appointed Junior Demonstrator in Engineering in The Owens 

 College, relinquishing this appointment to become Lecturer in 

 University College, Cardiff, in 1895. In 1896 he was offered 

 the post of Senior Demonstrator at Manchester, together with a 



