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EDWARD BURY, Esq., was born at Salford, near Manchester, on 

 the 22nd of October, 1794. He received his early education at a 

 school in Chester. From early youth he exhibited, in various ways, 

 a taste for machinery and construction, and eventually he became 

 established as a manufacturer of engines and machinery at Liver- 

 pool. For some years following the opening of the Liverpool and 

 Manchester, and the London and Birmingham Railways, Mr. Bury 

 supplied numerous locomotive engines for those lines ; and he appears 

 to have been very successful in practically applying in the construc- 

 tion of these engines various improvements in steam-machinery which 

 had been recently introduced or suggested. The details of his im- 

 provements are described in a paper " On the Locomotive Engine," 

 which he contributed to the ' Transactions of the Institute of Civil 

 Engineers.' He also acquired much consideration on the Continent 

 on account of his steam-machinery, and especially for his improved 

 engines employed in the navigation of the Rhone. For some years after 

 the opening of the London and Birmingham Railway, Mr. Bury had 

 the entire management of the locomotive department ; and it deserves 

 to be noticed, that, whilst his administrative services were duly recog- 

 nized by the Directors, his tact, judgment, and conciliatory dis- 

 position gained for him, in a most unusual degree, the regard and 

 confidence of those employed under him. Mr. Bury afterwards 

 undertook a similar charge on the Great Northern Railway some 

 time after it opened ; and in the mean time he had been engaged in 

 different important engineering works at home and abroad. He sub- 

 sequently withdrew from active life, and died in his retirement, on 

 the 25th of November, 1858. The date of his election into the 

 Royal Society is February 1, 1844. 



HENRY HALLAM, Esq., was born at Windsor (A.D. 1777). His 

 father was Canon of Windsor and Dean of Bristol ; the latter pre- 

 ferment he resigned during his lifetime. Mr. Hallam was educated 

 at Eton, and to Eton he felt, and evinced throughout life, strong and 

 grateful attachment. Both his sons were likewise educated there. 

 Classical learning, then almost the exclusive study in that school, 

 found a congenial mind in Mr. Hallam, and to the last he took 

 great delight in its cultivation. Already at Eton he had become a 

 sound and accurate scholar. Some of his verses, printed in the 



