3n flDemoriam 



LORD EUSTACE HENRY BROWNLOW GASCOYNE 

 CECIL, F.R.G.S. 



By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, B.A. 



The Dorset Field Club has sustained one of its greatest 

 losses in the death of its former President, Lord Eustace Cecil, 

 which took place at Lytchett Heath on July 3rd, 1921. He 

 was a member of the Club in its early days, having been 

 elected in 1884, and from the beginning always took a 

 personal and practical interest in its doings and welfare. 



By his presence at its Meetings and his support in other 

 ways, which were highly appreciated by the late Mr. J. C. 

 Mansel-Pleydell, its first President, as well as by the present 

 writer and the other members, he greatly contributed to make 

 it a scientific and social success. On the sudden and lamented 

 death of Mr. Mansel-Pleydell on May 3rd, 1902, and at the 

 earnest wish of the members, Lord Eustace consented to 

 undertake the Presidency of the Club, and I cannot better 

 describe the manner in which he carried it out than in the 

 words of Captain Elwes when proposing a vote of thanks to 

 him at the end of the two years during which he held that 

 post: "They had found him everything that could be desired 



