34 THE BIRDS OF ESSEX. 



tion. His father, Mr. T. M. Spalding, of Broome, near Bungay, 

 contributed the List of Suffolk Birds to Suckling's History of Suffolk 

 (pp. xxiv. — xxxix.) 



WALFORD, Cornelius (1803-1883), of Witham, came 

 of a good Essex family, but sustained losses in early life, and being 

 very fond of the study of Natural History, he took to preserving 

 animals as a means of livelihood. He was evidently a good natu- 

 ralist, but he seems to have published almost nothing, and the per- 

 sonal information relating to him now obtainable is very limited. His 

 father, when a lad, had removed from Essex to East London in 

 connection with the then flourishing, but now extinct, Essex baize 

 trade, and the son, who had no liking for a commercial life, spent 

 much of his time in his early days in the forests of Epping and 

 Hainault. Some twenty years before his death, in 1883, at the age of 

 eighty, he returned to London, where he continued to carry on his 

 trade as a naturalist. The Essex Literary Jotirnal, in 1839 (i^. 27) 

 speaks of Mr. C. Walford, of Witham, " whose collection of birds 

 and insects is well worthy the inspection of those who feel interested 

 in the study of those beautiful departments of nature's handiwork." 



