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By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A. 



(Read May 6th, 1913.) 



Obituary. 



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N speaking, as I usually do, at the beginning of 

 ni}^ Annual Address of those whom we 

 have lost by death during the past year, 

 the name that will come first to myself 

 and to all the older Members of the Club 

 is that of IVIrs. Mansel-Pleydell, the widow 

 of our first President and founder, whose 

 memory we shall always hold in the greatest 

 reverence. Mrs. Mansel-Pleydell very often accompanied 

 her husband to the Meetings and took the greatest 

 interest in everything connected with the Club ; but 

 of late years her health has been such as to prevent any 

 active exertion, though I know that her interest has never 

 ceased. And I am happy to say that we still have a 



