FATHER OF SAVAGE CLUB 139 



the club by his Fellow- Savage, E. G. Girardot, 

 and presented to it in 1888 (in which year it 

 was shown "on the line" at the Royal Academy), 

 hung then and still hangs in the most conspicuous 

 place on the walls of the large dining-room. He 

 is represented in the jacket and knickerbockers 

 he used to wear when riding his tricycle, in a 

 natural and easy attitude : he himself much 

 liked the picture and commissioned the artist 

 to paint the replica which hung in his chief room 

 at home. Tegetmeier was made a life member 

 (that is, one exempt from payment of subscrip- 

 tion) of the club on his eighty-fourth birthday, 

 in 1900, under Rule 4, which confers such 

 membership upon ordinary members who have 

 rendered special services to the club. Although 

 anticipating events, I think I cannot better end 

 this chapter of his life than by quoting the 

 following extract from the Annual Report for the 

 year 1912. " The Committee regret to record the 

 deaths of fourteen members, including W. S. 

 Penley, Whitelaw Reid, Dr. R. Ramsey, George 

 Rignold, Captain Robert F. Scott, Edward Terry, 

 W. B. Tegetmeier and Dr. C. J. Wells." In life 

 Tegetmeier was surrounded by good company 

 in the Savage Club, and in death he was not 

 unaccompanied by the same. 



