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quently as a Doctor of Science. At the time of his death he was 

 rendering valuable service to the University as Chairman of the Board 

 of Studies in Mining and Metallurgy, and as a member of the Board 

 of Studies in Geology. He was a Fellow of both the Geological and 

 Mineralogical Societies, and rendered useful assistance to the infant 

 Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, in which so many of his old 

 fellow students and pupils were active members. In 1892 the value 

 of Le Neve Foster's labours, alike in pure and applied science, was 

 recognised by his election into the Eoyal Society. 



Clement Le Neve Foster married, in 1872, Sophia Chevallier, the 

 second daughter of the late Arthur F. Tompson, of Belton, Suffolk ; 

 he leaves a widow, a son (now a mathematical master at Eton College), 

 and two daughters. 



J. W. J. 



JOSEPH DAVID EVEEETT. 18311904. 



JOSEPH DAVID EVERETT was born at Kushmere, Suffolk, in 1831. 

 His younger brother, E. Lacey Everett, was for some years M.P. for 

 a division of Suffolk, and his sister is a well-known Ipswich philan- 

 thropist. They were, on their father's side, descended from landed 

 gentry of Essex and Suffolk, interested in politics, and were related to 

 Laceys and Unwins ; through their mother, Elizabeth Garwood, they 

 were connected with persons of scientific and literary eminence ; her 

 brother was Rector of Battersea ; Dr. Percy, F.E.S., was her cousin. 



His home was happy, and a healthy boyhood near the sea made him 

 very hardy and indifferent to exposure. At school he was eager and 

 industrious ; he wrote verses, was a zealous member of a debating society, 

 and invented a geometrical puzzle. Charles Spurgeon, afterwards so 

 famous as a preacher, was one of his later school acquaintances. There 

 were eight other children, and there had been losses through agricultural 

 depression, so that he became mathematical master (1850-54) in a 

 school at Totteridge, although he would have greatly preferred to go 

 to a university. I. Todhunter, F.E.S., had once been a master in this 

 school, and about this time Thomas Chinnery (afterwards editor of 

 "The Times") was a master. Sir E. Strachey, F.E.S., and some 

 of his brothers, J. F. Cheetham, M.P., and Prof. Carey Foster, F.E.S., 

 were pupils. Prof. Foster writes : " Games were not then so promi- 

 nent or organised a business in schools as they are now, but Everett 



