OUtuary—The Rev. T. Wiltshire, D.Sc, F.G.S. 47 



King's College, London, but at 19 he entered Trinity College, 

 ■Cambridge, where he did well in Classics and Mathematics. Here, 

 attending Professor Sedgwick's lectures, he developed a taste for 

 geology, which continued to be the dominating pursuit of his 

 after life. In 1849 he was duly elected on the Livery of the 

 ' Cloth workers,' to which City Company he had been apprenticed 

 seven years previously. He took his B.A. degree with honours on 

 the 26th January, 1850, and in the following June was ordained 

 a Deacon and became Curate of Biddings, Derbyshire. On the 

 22nd October, 1850, the young Deacon married Miss H. Hudson. 

 His eldest son — Thomas Pemberton Wiltshire — was born on 

 November 15th, 1851. 



He took his M.A. degree in July, 1853, and on the 18th December 

 of that year he was ordained a Priest. In 1855 the Eev. Thomas 

 Wiltshire was appointed Sunday Evening Lecturer at the united 

 parishes of St. Matthew's, Friday Street and St. Peter's, West Cheap. 

 For many years he spent his Summer holidays at Folkestone, where 

 he assiduously collected the fossils of the Gault and Grey Chalk, 

 assisted in his labours by Griffith, the well-known collector. In 

 other years he stayed at Niton and Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, 

 collecting from the Hard Chalk, Chloritic Marl, and Upper Greensand 

 with Mr. Mark Norman; or working at the Eed Chalk of 

 Hunstanton with Westmoreland, the old lighthouse-keeper, or at 

 the Chalk of Filey, in Yorkshire. From these historical localities, 

 either with his own hands or aided by the local collectors, and 

 likewise from that well-known old explorer of the Upper Chalk 

 of Bromley, Kent, Jeremiah Simmonds, Mr. Wiltshire gradually 

 accumulated a very fine collection of Cretaceous fossils, which about 

 five or six years ago he presented to the Woodwardian Museum, 

 ■Cambridge, where they are now preserved, together with the 

 portrait of the donor. 



In 1856 Mr. Wiltshire took his first scientific degree, by being 

 elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and in that 

 year he, with other members, presented an address from the University 

 of Cambridge to Her Majesty Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace. 

 In 1857 he opened the first Sunday-school in the City of London 

 at St. Nicholas Cole Abbey. On February 8th, 1859, Mr. Wiltshire 

 was elected President of the newly-formed Geologists' Association, 

 in succession to Toulmin Smith, Esq., its first President and one of 

 the founders of the Association, which now numbers nearly 600 

 members, and was one of the first scientific societies to admit lady 

 members and to accord to them equal privileges with the male sex. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Ptoyal Astronomical Society in 

 1860, and of the Linnean Society in 1861. On the 4th April, 1859, 

 Mr. Wiltshire read an excellent paper "On the Red Chalk of 

 England" (see Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. i, 1859-1865, p. 3, and 

 Geologist, vol. ii, July, 1859, pp. 214 and 261-278). Mr. Wiltshire 

 remained President of the Association from 1859 to 1862, and was 

 re-elected and served from 1871 to 1873, when he was succeeded by 

 Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S. In January, 1862, Mr. Wiltshire read 



