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Address to the Members of the Bath Field Club, in reference to the 

 death of C. E. Broome, Esq., F.L.S. By Eev. L. Blomefield, 

 M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c., President. 



{Bead December Sth, 1886.) 



Gentlemen, 



Before proceeding to any other subject, I am 

 anxious to address you this afternoon in reference to the great 

 loss our Club has sustained by the death of Mr. Broome, one of 

 our original Members. I think some record of so earnest and 

 hard working a naturalist should appear in our " Proceedings." 

 AVith a view to this, I have briefly put together the chief 

 particulars of his life, wishing afterwards to speak of him, as a 

 friend personally known to myself over a long term of years, and 

 as a Member of this Club. 



Christopher Edmund Broome was born at Berkhamstead in 

 1812. His father, Christopher Broome, lived at White Hill, 

 Berkhamstead, and was a lawyer by profession, and is said to 

 have been " a strictly just and most excellent kind-hearted man." 

 His mother was a Miss Seller, a niece of Lady Knightly, of 

 Fawesley. 



At the age of nine Broome went to a school at Dr. Jamieson's, 

 at Kensington. This school, a few months after, being moved to 

 Heston, near Hounslow, Broome went with it, and remained 

 there till he was eighteen, in 1830. 



It was iu this year that his father died ; two years after which 

 he and his mother went to live at Chelsea, and it was from thence 

 he went to be the pupil of a clergyman who held the curacj'^ of 

 Swaft'ham Prior, in Cambridgeshire, with whom he remained till 

 he went up to the University. He was entered at Trinity Hall, 

 Cambridge, October 23rd, 1832, the same college to which his 

 tutor belonged, and took his degree in January, 1836. In April 

 of that same year, he married Charlotte Horman, fourth daughter 

 of the Eev. John Bush, incumbent of Chelsea Old Church. 



