MR. WILFRID HUDLESTON HUDLESTON, M.I., F.R.S. 



Through the death of Mr. Hudleston, which took place, at the 

 age of 80, on January 2gih, 1909, our society and the learned 

 world at large has been bereaved of a leader as widely respected 

 for his many-sided and well-digested knowledge as beloved for 

 his delightful and generous personality. He was the eldest son 

 of Dr. John Simpson, of Knaresborough, and in 1867 assumed 

 the family name of his mother, who was heiress of the Cumber- 

 land Hudlestons. Young Simpson was educated at St. Peter's 

 School, York, and Uppingham, whence he entered at St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, taking his B.A. in 1850 and subsequently 

 proceeding to the M.A. On leaving Cambridge he devoted 

 some time to the study of law, and was called to the bar in 1853, 

 but he never practised professionally. Several years were spent 

 in foreign travel, during which his attention was chiefly attracted 

 towards ornithology, and in 1858 he became one of the three 

 founders of the British Ornithological Society. A wider course 

 of scientific study was then entered upon at Edinburgh, under 

 Playfair and Macadam, and then in London at the Royal College 

 of Chemistry. Eventually, in a large measure through the 

 influence of Prof. John Morris, Mr. Hudleston was led to make 

 the science of geology the principal pursuit of his life. 



From an interesting and comprehensive review of his life, 

 published in the Dorse/ County Chronicle on February 4th last, we 

 learn that he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 

 1867. From 1874 to 1877 he served the office of secretary to 



