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continued even in advanced age, and his personality and his 

 example were held in peculiar veneration by the present brilliant 

 school of French mathematicians. He was a foreign member of 

 the Royal Society, and had been an honorary member of our 

 own Society since 1892. 



H. L. 



Sir William Cunliffe Brooks was born on September 

 30th, 18 1 9. He was educated at Rugby, under Dr. Arnold, and 

 at St. John's College, Cambridge. He read for the Bar, and 

 was called in 1847. Later in life he entered Parliament, repre- 

 senting East Cheshire from 1869 till 1885, and North Cheshire 

 from 1886 till 1890. In 1886 he was created a baronet, and, in 

 addition, was a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for Lancashire, 

 and a magistrate for Cheshire and for the city of Manchester. 

 He became the first president of the Manchester Bankers' 

 Institute on its foundation in 1895. The bank of which he was 

 the head was then the only private bank surviving in Manchester, 

 and, as is known, after three generations in private hands, it has 

 since ceased to be privately owned. Sir William had been a 

 member of the Literary and Philosophical Society since January 

 23rd, 1844; and at the time of his death, on June 9th, 1900, 

 shared with only two other ordinary members the distinction of a 

 membership in the Society of over half a century. 



Richard Copley Christie, M.A.Oxon. (1855), Hon. LL.D. 

 Vict. (1895), was a member of this Society from 1854 until his 

 death, which occurred on January 9th, 1901. He was born at 

 Lenton, near Nottingham, in 1830, was educated at Lincoln 

 College, Oxford, where Mark Pattison was at the time tutor, a small 

 college which has supplied Manchester with a Bishop, a Chan- 

 cellor of the Diocese, a Principal of Owens College, and a 

 Professor of Philosophy, and more than one High Master of the 

 Grammar School. In 1853 Mr. Christie obtained a first class in 

 Law and History, and the next year was appointed Professor of 

 History in Owens College, to the duties of which post he shortly 



