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THOMAS BLASHILL, F.Z.S., F.R.I.B.A. 



i 830- i 905. 



(Plate XXI). 



IT is with every possible regret that we have to place 

 upon record the death on January 19th, 1905, of 

 Mr. Thomas Blashill — for many years a valued and 

 esteemed member of this Club, and a personal friend of 

 many of us. Though his duties and the fact that he resided 

 in London prevented the Club from enjoying his company 

 regularly at its meetings, we still had the privilege of seeing 

 him when on his visits to his native count) 7 , and occasionally 

 we had the pleasure and profit of his presence at our 

 gatherings, when he appeared before us to read papers. 



Much as he was occupied by his various duties in 

 London, he never forgot the district which was so dear to 

 him in his early days. Perhaps the most important product 

 of his pen was the history of his native place, Sutton in 

 Holderness, a book which was described as "one of those 

 charmingly written local histories which form such an 

 important feature in the literature of this country." In this, 

 his many-sided character and the thoroughness with which 

 he did what he undertook, were well shown. Following 

 this work was his "Evidence relating to the Eastern part 

 of the City of Kingston upon Hull " — based upon a paper 

 read to our Club, subsequently printed in our Transactions, 

 and later issued in book form. The last paper he wrote was 

 read at the Withernsea meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union in 1904, — " Changes in Spurn Point and their 

 Bearing on the site of Ravenser. " This was printed in 

 the " Naturalist " for September, 1904. Another publication 

 of his was an illustrated guide to Tintern Abbey, a building 

 in which he took a keen interest. 



Of the Woolhope Club, similar in many respects to our 

 own, Mr. Blashill was twice president, in 1882 and 1901. 

 In his address on the latter occasion, he referred to the fact 

 that he was the last surviving of the members who half-a- 

 century previously had founded the Club. 



