882 Obituary — Arthur Champernowne, F.G.8. 



<xs an outlier. A portion of them had been mapped, as I knew 

 perfectly well ; but, as I think, wrongly. As a matter of fact, they 

 are found to extend half a mile further to the north, than the 

 boundary-line drawn on the map. When Mr. Herries shall have 

 made as complete and close an exainination of the locality as I have 

 made, I shall be glad to welcome further criticisms from him on my 

 paper; meanwhile I do not feel quite justified in filling up the 

 pages of the Geological Magazine in recording " glimpses of the 

 obvious." A. Irving. 



"Wellington College, Berks. 



OBITTJJ^ia'2'. 



ARTHUR CHAMPERNOWNE, M.A., J. P., F.G.S. 



Born March 19th, 1839 ; Died May 22nd,i 1887. 



EVER and anon as we press forward in life's journey we are 

 confronted with the loss of some valued friend and comrade, 

 in whose removal we seem to suffer a far greater hardship than any 

 other we have had to bear. To many of us such a feeling arises 

 when we recall the keen sorrow of a few weeks since at the loss of 

 our fellow-worker in geology, Arthur Champernowne. 



He was the eldest son of Henry Champernowne, Esq., of Dart- 

 ington Hall, Totnes, South Devon, and belonged to one of the oldest 

 families in Devonshire. His father died in 1851, whilst Arthur was 

 only 12 years of age. He was educated at Eton, whence he passed 

 to Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated asM.A. In 1870 he 

 married Helen, daughter of M. L. Melville, Esq., of Hartfield Grove, 

 Sussex. 



Soon after he settled down in Devonshire, he became acquainted 

 with William Pengelly, F.E.S., of Lamorna, and John Edward Lee, 

 F.G.S., of Yilla Syracusa, Torquay, the latter of whom was the 

 intimate friend of Prof. John Phillips, of Oxford, whose lectures 

 Arthur Champernowne had attended. The interest these geologists 

 aroused in his mind caused him to look around his own county and 

 try to understand, and finally to map, probably one of the most 

 complex pieces of country in the whole of England. 



Mr. Champernowne never enjoyed robust health, but his earnest- 

 ness and enthusiasm in whatever he undertook carried him through 

 successfully. He was an excellent artist, and when travelling for 

 his health in Italy, he made many sketches ; but after he took up 

 geology he only used his pencil to prepare sections and draw fossils, 

 which he executed with great skill and fidelity. 



He geologised in Spain, and in order the better to comprehend his 

 native county, he made repeated expeditions to the Devonian rocks of 

 the Eifel, on one occasion with Mr. John Edward Lee, of Torquay, 



1 The 5tli June was by an error the date quoted in the July Number Gbol. 

 Mag. —Edit. 



