OBITUARY. 265 
7th July, 1917, in Edinburgh, where his later years had been 
spent, at the age of eighty-one. 
Mr James Lennox, F.S.A., Scot., who passed away on 
4th November, 1917, at the age of sixty-one, had: filled the 
highest municipal offices in Dumfries. The son of a Provost, 
he was himself Chief Magistrate from tgo08 to 1911; and he 
had served on the School Board, the Dumfries Educational 
Trust, the Nith Navigation Trust, the directorate of the Dum- 
fries Savings Bank, and other public bodies. He was also 
Provincial Grand Master of the Freemasons in Dumfriesshire ; 
and in the cycling world his was one of the best known names, 
because of his early feats of long distance riding and his ad- 
ministrative position at a later period in the official circle of 
the Cyclists’ Touring Club. A many-sided man, he took also 
a keen interest in archeology. His contributions to our Trans- 
actions included an account of excavations at the business 
premises of his frm, which disclosed what was believed to be 
the foundation of the high altar of the Church of Greyfriars’ 
Monastery ; a history of Dumfries Savings Bank; a survey of 
the ancient castles and fortlets in Dumfriesshire, prepared as a 
guide to the photographic section, which was formed under 
his direction to form an illustrated index of such antiquities for 
the county. His little book on The Scottish Borders of 
Galloway is a guide valued by the road tourist of cultured 
taste. 
