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for many years formed with him the arena of so 

 much contention. Knowing, however, that such 

 omission would have been strongly resented by 

 him, there seemed no other choice than make such 

 allusions to them as will be found in the memoir 

 under that head. It is hoped that in the brief 

 space allotted to these subjects no more has been 

 said than was necessary to make his attitude towards 

 them plain to those who may perhaps to some 

 extent have misjudged him in the past. 



My thanks are cordially given to those friends 

 and relatives who kindly furnished me with infor- 

 mation on many points while the memoir was in 

 course of preparation. 



The engraving of the portrait in the frontispiece 

 has been made from a photograph taken by Messrs. 

 Gowland of York less than a year before my father's 

 death. 



M. C. F. M. 



NUNBURNHOLME, 



June 6th, 1896. 



