THE LATE MR. H. J. MOULE, M.A. 



By THE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM. 



I am kindly invited to contribute to the records of the Dorset 

 Field Club some account of my dear eldest brother. It is a 

 task from one side as welcome as possible ; but the privilege 

 and the interest are shadowed by a sense of personal bereave- 

 ment which only grows as the months gather over his quiet 

 resting-place in Fordington Churchyard. 



My brother, Henry Joseph, was named after his father and his 

 maternal grandfather, Joseph JefTeries Evans. He was born 

 September 25th, 1825, in the old Vicarage of Gillingham, near 

 Shaftesbury, where my father, then only twenty-four years old, 

 resided as Curate-in-Charge to the late Archdeacon Fisher. 

 Four years later the Archdeacon presented my father to the then 

 undivided parish of Fordington, where he and my mother 

 brought with them their two young sons, Henry and George, 

 the latter now (since 1880) Bishop in Mid-China. Both my 

 brothers could recall from those early days many interesting 

 points of local history, such as the carting into the town of the 

 young elms to be planted along the London Road to form what 

 was for many years the fine bowery avenue, now so sadly ruined. 

 My brother Henry would say that he could recall days when the 

 traditional, unconsciously picturesque cottage architecture was 



