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ROBERT WALLER. 



Born at Luton, in Bedfordshire, England, May 

 1 6th, 1 82 1, arrived in this country in September 

 1840, and was elected a member of the Society in 

 January 1841. After declining the Secretaryship 

 in 1 85 1, he was appointed a member of the Chari- 

 table Committee in 1853, and in that capacity served 

 fourteen years, eleven of which he was Chairman. 

 He was elected a member of the Executive Com- 

 mittee in 1872, serving for eleven years, nine of 

 which he acted as Chairman. He was elected a 

 Vice-President in 1883-4, when he retired from ac- 

 tive service, having held office for twenty-seven 

 years. In 1859 he represented the Society at, and 

 was Chairman of, a meeting held to organize " The 

 Board of Deputies of Benevolent and Emigrant So- 

 cieties," and was subsequently appointed a Deputy, 

 and elected a Vice-President of the Board, a position 

 which he still retains. In 1874, and afterwards, he 

 represented the Society on the Board of United 

 Charities, of which the President of the Society was 

 Chairman. With other members of the Society he 

 became a Vestryman of the Anglo-American Free 

 Church of St. George the Martyr, after a special 

 report made in 1859, and in 1873, was made its Sen- 

 ior Warden, representing the Church on the Board 

 of Managers of St. Luke's Hospital as Vestryman 

 and Warden from 1867 to the present time, and 



