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By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A. 



(Read May, 10th, 1921.) 



IN this, my seventeenth Annual Address to the 

 Dorset Field Club, I am happy to say that the 

 obituary roll of our members which I have to 

 record, is one of the shortest that I have ex- 

 perienced, though I greatly regret their loss. Lord Digby is 

 the oldest member, having been elected in 1889, and has 

 always been a good friend to the Club, as our pleasant and 

 interesting visits to Minterne testify. Of his excellent qualities 

 and his work in other directions I will not attempt to speak, 

 as that has been done elsewhere. The same remarks apply to 

 the Bishop of Durham who has also passed from us and who 

 joined our ranks in 1904. He belonged to a family of whom 

 to one member in particular, the late Mr. Henry Moule, the 

 Club is greatly indebted in many ways, and whose name occurs 

 perpetually in our earlier volumes. I am glad to say that we 

 still have the name on our list of members. Mr. Francis John 

 Pope who joined in 1909, was a Fellow of the Royal Historical 



