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General Hospital. He also, about the same time published a 

 very clever pamphlet on the iodurated waters of our Spas. In 

 after years, vphile residing? at Clifton, he occupied much of his 

 leisure in cultivating an acquaintance with Celtic literature, 

 acquiring especially an intimate knowledge of the poetical 

 remains of the ancient Welsh Bards preserved in the Myvyrian 

 Archaeology. The results of his researches into these remains 

 were given to the world in a handsome 8vo volume, entitled 

 ' Taliesin,' which caused no small sensation amongst the Welsh 

 literati; challenging as it distinctly did, the import of the 

 mythological poems ascribed to * Taliesin,' Merlin, and others 

 of the early bards, and repudiating altogether the commonly 

 received opinions as to their great antiquity. This work was 

 favourably reveiwed in the ' Times ' and in most of the literary 

 Journals of the day. In social and literary circles he was ever 

 a welcome guest. He married a Miss Fowler of a wealthy 

 Bristol family who, with six children, survives him. 



The Eev. Samuel Lysons, Eector of Eodmarton, honorary 

 Canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and lord of the manor of 

 Hempsted, was an eminent scholar, linguist, and antiquarian, 

 whose j)ublished works are many. He was the eldest son of the 

 Eev. Daniel Lysons, F.E.S., the eminent antiquary, author of 

 ' Magna Britannia ' and many other important works. 



Amongst the published works of the late Canon may be 

 enumerated " Claudia and Pudeus, or the early Christians in 

 Gloucester, a tale of the first century," also, " The Eomans in 

 Gloucestershire, and the results of their residence in that 

 county considered in an historical, social, and religious point of 

 view; embracing the interesting question whether or not we 

 owe our early Christianity to our intercourse with them, and 

 whether St. Paul himself preached in Britain, and possibly at 

 Gloucester." These works were rather mercilessly dealt with 

 by some of the Metropolitan critics. Another of his books bore 

 the title of "The Model Merchant of the Middle Ages, 

 exemplified in the story of Whittington and his Cat." 



Under the title of " What has Gloucestershire achieved ?" he 

 gave an enumeration of some of the principal events in which 



