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second daughter of Charles Sanders, Esq., of Broms- 

 grove, a lady who was eminently fitted to be the 

 wife of a clergyman, ever ready as she was to 

 perform cheerfully and with unfailing good temper 

 even the smallest duties and most trivial matters 

 connected with her position, and to help forward 

 every good work. She was beloved by all who 

 knew her. To be in her presence was to live in 

 sunshine ; and every parishioner felt that they had 

 in her a true, sympathetic, and warm-hearted friend, 

 one who was ever ready to share their sorrows and 

 do what lay in her power to lighten them, and to 

 render the lives of those with whom she came in 

 contact brighter and more joyous. 



Their married life, which extended over a period 

 of more than forty years, was in the highest and 

 best sense of the word happy. To them were born 

 three sons and six daughters. 



Devoted though Mr. Morris was to the study of 

 natural history even from his earliest days, it was 

 not until he was past forty years of age that his 

 name became at all widely known as a writer on 

 those subjects for which he had such a strong inborn 

 taste. Long before that time, however, his pen 

 had been at work in various ways, and as early as 

 the year 1834 his first publication was issued. This 

 was a small matter, and was entitled "A Guide to 

 an Arrangement of British Birds," being, as he ex- 

 pressed it on the title-page, "A Catalogue of all 

 the Species hitherto discovered in Great Britain 

 and Ireland, and intended to be used for labelling 



