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His last illness, however, was short. On the Monday pre- 

 ceding his decease he was able to come downstairs to his 

 nine o'clock breakfast as usual, and the Thursday following 

 the 9th of October, 1873 he passed gently away, at the 

 mature age of eighty-seven years. 



He was succeeded in the property by his eldest son, the 

 Venerable Thos. Johnson Ormerod, Archdeacon of Suffolk, 

 and Rector of Redenhall-cum-Harleston, Norfolk, who had 

 held the post of Examining Chaplain to two bishops of 

 Norwich, Dr. Stanley and Dr. Hinds, and had been 

 requested to hold it once again by their successor, Dr. 

 Pelham. This however, he declined, not feeling disposed 

 in his own advancing age to continue in the laborious 

 though honourable office. On my father's death, my 

 brother resigned his living, 1 and moved with his two 

 unmarried daughters to Sedbury. From his standing as a 

 clergyman of high position, who had long mixed in literary 

 society, and also as a country gentleman, it had been hoped 

 that he would make Sedbury a literary and county centre, as 

 it had been in my father's time. But his life was unex- 

 pectedly closed at the age of sixty-five by a sudden illness. 

 He died on 2nd December, 1874, and the property passed 

 to his eldest son, the Rev. G. T. B. Ormerod, then, or 

 shortly before, curate of Stroud. 



[A short account of Miss Ormerod's brothers other than 

 the eldest above referred to all men of ability and diligent 

 workers will complete this chapter of family history. 



"Two entered the Church ; the third brother, John, was 

 the holder of the Port Fellowship of Brasenose and bursar 

 of that college ; and the youngest, Arthur, spent his life in 

 parish work as Vicar of Halvergate, in Norfolk. 



"The fifth brother, William, and the sixth, Edward, became 

 students at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to which institution 

 their uncle, Dr. Peter Mere Latham and his father, Dr. John 

 Latham, had been physicians. William's health failing, he 

 left London, and after a few years' practice at Oxford, where 

 he was surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, he retired to 

 Canterbury, and there died at a comparatively early age. 

 Edward distinguished himself as a physician and as a 

 naturalist. He too was debarred by bad health from prac- 

 tising in London, but in Brighton he became physician to 

 the Sussex County Hospital, and was for many years the 

 leading consultant of the town. He wrote several excel- 

 1 He had resigned the Archdeaconry in 1868. 



