MEMOIR OF DANIEL HANBURY. 



forty-nine years old when his earthly labours ceased. 

 He was the eldest son of Daniel Bell and Kachel Han- 

 bury ; his parents being both esteemed members of the 

 Society of Friends. He left school early, and his great 

 attainments in languages and in science were due entirely 

 to his own industry. While at school he gained skill in 

 water-colour drawing, an art which, when on his journeys, 

 and specially at Mentone, he practised with assiduity. 

 He had a delicate and graceful touch, and there was 

 a beauty in these sketches which an artist would 

 admire. 



At tlie Bottom f P^ugh Court, phich till lately was 

 a narrow defile running out of Lombard Street, stands 

 an old historic Pharmacy, whose reputation is insepa- 

 rably connected with the name of William Allen. The 

 philanthropist, though not the originator of the firm, 

 was the first to create its celebrity. With him was 

 associated John Thomas Barry, a man of infinite neat- 

 ness ; exact in chemical experiment ; like Wollaston, fond 

 of operating on minute quantities, and habitually trust- 

 ing rather to self-obtained reactions than to information 

 gained from books. The prestige of the former, and the 

 example of the latter, influenced the life and practice 

 of Daniel Hanbury, who at sixteen years of age began 

 practical pharmacy in the well-known City firm of 

 which his father was long the representative. At a 

 much later period, the son was taken into partner- 

 ship. 



The career we are about to trace upset the theory 

 which maintains that the pursuit of science is incom- 

 patible with the discharge of business duties. Daniel 

 Hanbury was a good assistant, though a scholar ; and 

 while the chosen correspondent of the learned, he served 



