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Mr. Dixon returned to England in the year 1862 

 and died at Eastbourne, Sussex, on October 3d of 

 that year, aged 71 years. 



JOSEPH FOWLER. 



Mr. Joseph Fowler was thrice elected President 

 of the Society and served for three separate terms, 

 viz. : in 1835-6, 1846 and again in 1856. He was 

 H. B. M. Acting Consul at the port of New York 

 in the year 1856, filling that office during the in- 

 terval elapsing between the retirement of Mr. 

 Anthony Barclay and the appointment of Mr. E. 

 M. Archibald, October 1857. He was a true 

 Briton, a faithful servant of the Crown, and enjoyed 

 the full confidence of the Government at home and 

 of the English residents in this city. 



ANTHONY BARCLAY. 



Mr. Anthony Barclay, President of the Society 

 1837 to 1839, was the third son of Mr. Thomas 

 Barclay, the British Consul at New York in the 

 early years of the Republic, when Washington, 

 Adams and Jefferson were Presidents. Although 

 natives of this city, the three Barclay sons claimed 

 to be British subjects through having been born, as 



