34 BIOGRAPHY. 



of Sir John Eimis, Bart., of Ballinaliown Court, Co. West- 

 meath, Ireland, He lias issue, — Two sons, Charles Edmund, 

 now a student at Stonyhurst, and Thomas jNIore. Four 

 daughters, Mary, Agnes, Amabil (who died a few months 

 after her birth), and Josephine. 



Waterton could never bear to speak of his wife, but he 

 needed help in the care of his infant son. For this purpose, 

 he asked her two sisters, the Misses Eliza and Helen Ed- 

 monstone to take up their abode with him. This they did 

 to the hour of his death, and he often wrote with affec- 

 tionate gratitude of their devotion to him. 



He yearned to go back again to the wilds of Guiana, but 

 considered that his child had prior claims upon him, and 

 so, according to his invariable custom, he sacrificed in- 

 clination to dutv. 



