232 LORD LILFORD 



Stopford, Eector of the Lilford living of Tich- 

 marsh. ' Hardly anyone but has felt it as a per- 

 sonal grief ; even the Kadical papers have kindly 

 notices.' 



Letters poured in expressive of the personal 

 loss sustained by the writers, and case after 

 case came to light where the left hand knew 

 at length what the right had been doing. Mr. 

 Devereux, of St. Mary's, Hoxton, told a story 

 of ever-ready help continued anonymously for 

 years, and a poor student of natural history could 

 point to a meagre bookshelf enriched by the gift 

 of copies of the ' Coloured Plates.' And those 

 were only isolated instances of the many acts of 

 kindness dictated by a warm heart to a crippled 

 hand. 



The services he rendered to the science of 

 ornithology only ended with his life. Professor 

 Newton writes : • His promise to defray the cost 

 of a plate in each number of the Ibis was more 

 than literally fulfilled for the rest of his life.' 

 He was not only the President, but the mainstay 

 of a Natural History Society formed in his own 

 county, and exercised a discreet generosity in 

 supporting almost every scheme that made for 



