26 FAUNA OF SHROPSHIRE. 



Fresh- water Fishes," 1879, illustrated by splendid 

 chromo-lithographic plates of every species. With the 

 exception of the paper on the " Weald-Moors," he did 

 not write anything of special local interest, but he was 

 a good observer and noted any rare or unusual occur- 

 rence such as we find recorded in this volume under 

 the heads of "Dotterel" and "Black-tailed Godwit." 

 The portrait given here is copied from one in the 

 Shrewsbury Museum, and represents him in the prime 

 of life, when he was a man of fine physique. His 

 health failed very much latterly, and he had to relinquish 

 his clerical duties and retire to Tenby, where he died 

 September 3, 1895. During the last few years of his 

 life he was in receipt of a government pension, granted 

 in recognition of the value of his writings. Copies of 

 most of his works are to be found in the Reference 

 Library at Shrewsbury. 



William Pinches, of Ticklerton Court, near Church Stretton, 

 was born 1802, and died, unmarried, in 1849. The 

 family of this name had resided on their properties at 

 Ticklerton and Harton for generations. He was a fine, 

 big man, with a florid complexion, and was a keen lover 

 of sport of all kinds. The old kennels are still standing 

 at Ticklerton in which he kept the greater part of the 

 " United " Pack of Fox Hounds ; in those days, a rough- 

 haired breed of dogs. He was also a good naturalist, 

 and had a fine library of books on sport and natural 

 history, as well as a large collection of Birds, many of 

 them very rare locally, and in great part obtained by his 

 own gun. One of the gems of the collection was the 

 Great Auk, perhaps the finest specimen in existence on 

 account of the perfect state of its plumage. It was sold 



