5^ The Sedgefield Country 



the 90th year of his age, and may be said to have retained 

 his faculties to the last, the letters received from him in 

 1892 being marvels of mental clearness and acute memory. 

 Having come into the world on February 29th, Mr. Harvey 

 only had a birthday every four years, and was fond of joking 

 about this. He always wondered whether he would come of 

 age, and when he celebrated his twenty-first birthday on 

 February 29th, 1886, received numerous congratulatory 

 telegrams which afforded him immense gratification. 



" Peace to his ashes," for of him it may be truly said 

 "a more unselfish man never was born," and 



" He called not each horse, that o'er took him a screw, 

 But loved a run best when his friends saw it too." 



