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THE REV. JOHN HAWELL, M.A., F.G.S., &c. 



By baker HUDSON. 



(Read before the Society, February 8th, 1905). 



John Hawell, first a servant of God, was equally servant of his fellow 

 countrymen and science and history will remain his debtors. A true 

 gentleman, courteous and thoughtful for others, he not only won the 

 hearts of those with whom he was in daily contact but, his sympathies 

 being large, he earned the cordial respect of all who made his 

 acquaintance. 



For over twenty years he was the central figure in Ingleby-Greenhow, 

 a little village hiding itself away in a corner of the hills in North 

 Cleveland. It was not, perhaps, a place where there seemed at first 

 glance great possibilities for the naturalist, but Mr. Hawell settled 

 down to work, and very soon convinced his friends that there was oppor- 

 tunity and the man. I have said his sympathies were large, and 

 whilst he made geology his special study, the history and archaeology 

 of the district claimed no small share of his attention. In 1889 he 

 edited and published "The Registers of Ingleby-juxta-Greenhow," 

 and witliin recent years has assisted the Yorkshire Parish Register 

 Society by editing the Registers of Stokesley. In iSqi he was elected 

 president of the Cleveland Naturalists' Field Club, and not a little of 

 the present prosperity of that association is due to his efforts, a fact 

 which was recognised by his re-election over 1893-4, 1895-6. He 

 undertook to edit the "Proceedings" of the club and contributed 

 thereto several valuable papers dealing with the geology, physiography 

 and moUusca of North Yorkshire, but his activities were not merely 

 local, for as a member of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union and presi- 

 dent of the geological section, divisional secretary for N.E. Yorks. he 

 did useful work, besides contributing papers to the "Proceedings of 

 the Yorkshire Geological Society," his last contribution to the literature 

 of palaeontology being a paper on "The Bajocian Plant Beds of 

 Yorkshire." 



Though a native of Cumberland, Cleveland was very dear to him, 

 and one of his last acts was to bequeath to the Dorman Memorial 

 Museum at Middlesbrough the whole of his large and catholic collec- 

 tion of rocks, minerals and fossils, together with a fine selection of 

 American Unios and a smaller, but fairly complete, collection of local 

 land and freshwater mollusca. He further bequeathed his scientific 

 books to the same institution, thus leaving behind him a memorial 

 which, intended to still serve those of kindred spirit with his own, will 

 ever mark him for honour. 



Mr. Hawell died at the early age of forty-nine leaving a widow to 

 mourn his loss. 



