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WN the present year our Society has suffered a loss to be really 

 felt, in the deaths of two of its original founders and steady 

 supporters, the Rt. Hon. Thomas H. S. Sotheron Estcourt and George 

 Poulett Scrope, Esq. Our readers will not consider a few pages of 

 our Magazine misapplied, if to each of those names, familiar among 

 us for so many years, it says 



" Non ego te meis 

 Chartis inornatum silebo." 



The Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Estcourt was 

 born 4th April, 1801, and was the eldest son of Thomas Grimston 

 Bucknall Estcourt, Esq. (many years M.P. for the University of 

 Oxford), by Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of James Sutton, Esq., 

 of New Park (now Roundway Park), near Devizes. The Estcourt 

 family is of very great antiquity both in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. 

 The last male heir of the elder branch dying in 1684, some of the 

 existing property passed to a junior branch, the Estcourts of Cam, 

 from which Mr, Sotheron Estcourt descended. He was educated at 

 Harrow and Oriel College, Oxford, where, at Michaelmas, 18'Zi, 

 he took First Class in Classical honours. He graduated M.A., 1826, 

 and was made Honorary D.C.L. in 1857. In 1830 he married Lucy 

 Sarah, only child of Admiral Frank Sotheron, of Kirklington, Co. 

 Notts, who died in 1870. He had assumed her name only in 1839, 

 but reverted to his own patronymic, Estcourt, by Royal license in 

 1855. He was returned to Parliament in the Conservative interest for 

 Marlborough, in 1829 until 1832. From November, 1835, until 1844, 

 he sat for Devizes, and in the latter year succeeded Sir Francis Burdett 

 as one of the Members for North Wilts, his colleague being the 

 late Walter Long, Esq., of Rood Ashton. In March, 1858, he was 

 appointed (by the late Earl of Derby) President of the Poor Law 

 Board, being at the same time sworn of the Privy Council : and in 

 March, 1859, on the resignation of Mr. Walpole, Secretary of State 



