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Century? Seldom have greater care and patience been exhibited 
in the preparation of a paper to be delivered here, than on the 
occasion of his essay on ‘ Heraldry,’ so excellently illustrated by 
the members of his family. One prominent feature of this Club 
has been the publication of its ‘ Transactions.’ In the prepara- 
tion of these volumes Mr. Strange took the most active part. He 
re-wrote many reports of papers, and often supplied from memory, 
or from his notes made at the time, the details required to make 
the year’s record complete. His interest in this matter exceeded 
that of any other official, it was something far beyond a mere 
business or professional one. To him almost entirely are due the 
selection and production of those appropriate illustrations with 
which the respective volumes have been enriched. He who 
has gone from us was the very life and soul of the 
Club’s excursions. While never losing sight of the purpose— 
whether artistic, scientific, or antiquarian—of the visit, 
he was as light-hearted and boyish as the youngest of us, 
and his vivacity and cheerfulness put everyone in the highest 
spirits. In his treatment of his companions, and especially of 
the ladies, there was an old-fashioned courtesy and courtly grace 
not often seen in these prosaic days. In debate he was quick at 
repartee, he could score a point by a neatly-turned sentence, he 
had a fund of humour which often set all his hearers laughing. 
while a moment later, by some pathetic touch, he would recall 
them to seriousness. He had a wit which was seldom known to 
wound, and a gay wisdom peculiarly his own. 
‘He gave the people of his best.’ 
Such, then, was the man whose loss we mourn to-night. Early 
in the present year he was able to carry out the wish he had long 
cherished, to make a pilgrimage to Palestine, and there to view 
those 
‘holy fields, 
Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, 
Which eighteen hundred years ago were nailed, 
For our advantage, on the bitter cross.’ 
It was his intention to prepare a paper for this Club, recounting 
the incidents of his visit, and giving us the impressions produced 
on his mind by oriental life and manners ; and this room would 
have been crowded to hear him tell, in his own graphic and 
inimitable way, of those places in the Holy Land which must be 
ever sacred to every Christian. But this was not so to be. In 
the early hours of Wednesday last, just before there could be dis- 
cerned in the eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning, 
there broke over the earthly horizon of Alfred Strange the rich 
dawn of an ampler day. 
‘ His memory long will live alone 
In all our hearts.’”’ 
