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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF THE LATE REV; 
GEORGE FERRIS WHIDBORNE, Member of the 
Council, 
Rev. GEORGE FERRIS WHIDBORNE, M.A., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., 
late of Hammerwood Lodge, East Grinstead, son of the Rev. 
George Ferris Whidborne, who was descended from Sir Richard 
Whidborne, one of the men of Devon who provided ships to go 
to fight the Spanish Armada, and a founder of Newfoundland ; 
born at Plymouth, in 1846; educated at Clifton College, and 
late Schoiar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; B.A., 
(Senior Optimes and 3rd Class Classical Tripos), 1868; M.A., 
1872. Ordained Deacon, 1881, and Priest, 1882, by the Bishop 
of London; formerly Curate of St. Pancras, 1881-86; 
St. Paul's, Onslow Square, 1886-88; Vicar of St. George, 
Battersea, 1888-96; succeeded to The Priory, Westbury-on- 
Trym, Gloucester, 1894, and resided there for seven years, 
during which time he took a prominent part in Bristol church 
work; was a Life Governor of the Church Missionary Society ; 
a Hyndman Trustee ; member of the Islington Trust and of the 
Church Trust ; one of the founders and for many years Hon. 
Secretary of the National Protestant Church Union, and took 
great interest in the work of its successor, the National Church 
Union ; was well known as a geologist, and since 1876 had 
been a Fellow of the Geological Society, and for many years a 
member of Council; also member of Council of the Paleonto- 
graphical Scciety, and several times elected Vice-President ; 
member of the Victoria Institute, and member of its Council ; 
contributed papers to the Geological Society’s Journal, aud 
published between the years 1888 and 1898 three volumes on 
the Devonian fauna of the South of England. 
