NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
NED HODGSON. 
Visitors to the Cliffs at Bempton and Speeton during the 
coming summer will miss the cheery face and kindly greeting 
of Edward Hodgson. ‘ Old Ned,’ as he was invariably called, 
died at the close of last year, after a few day’s illness, aged 73 
Photo by] [E. W. Wade. 
Ned Hodgson and his son John. 
years. He represented the third generation of ‘ climmers’ in 
his family, and his son John still carries on the arduous pro- 
fession. For thirty years he regularly ‘ climmed’ the cliffs 
for eggs, and only ceased on nearing his 60th year. He was 
one of the old school ; kind to a fault, absolutely reliable, and 
‘as straight as a die.’ 
1913 Mar. 1. I 
