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D.D. of Cambridge, 1852; and D.D. of Oxford, 1867. Dr. 

 Scadding was pre-eminently a lover of books, and in his long 

 life accumulated a large and valuable library, in which were many 

 rare and curious books. He was also an enthusiastic numis- 

 matist, and until his latest years he preserved a deep interest in 

 his native county, and was on terms of intimacy with various 

 members of the Simcoe family; and one of the objects for which 

 he most earnestly laboured was the erection in Toronto of a 

 statue of the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada. It 

 must have been a peculiarly heavy affliction to him that in his 

 later years his sight so failed him that his whole intercourse 

 with his beloved books was maintained through a reader. And 

 yet he did not repine. His was a peculiarly gentle and placid 

 nature. Courteous, kind, modest, unassuming, he shewed him- 

 self in his relations with his fellows the genuine, humble, 

 Christian gentleman. Of him it may truly be said that he wore 

 the white flower of a blameless life ; 



Cui Pudor, et Justitije soror, 

 Incorrupta Fides, nudaque Veritas 

 Quando ullum inveniet parem ? 



It will be long before his venerable figure will pass out of 

 the recollection of his friends. It was fitting that the end of 

 such a life should come gently and quietly. There was no 

 disease, no pain ; it was only the exhaustion of Nature's 

 powers; and he slept into eternal life as peacefully as he 

 had lived. 



