$n Memoriam. 
JOHN CORDEAUX, J.P., F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U. 
WortTuHiER hands than mine will record my good friend’s 
sketch in rough outline the events of his life, and to attempt 
to draw a short word picture of the man himself. 
John Cordeaux, the eldest son of the Rev. John oa 
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M.A., Rector of Hooton Roberts, Yorkshire, was bor 
Foston Rectory, Leicestershire, on 27th February 1831. At an - 
early age he was sent from home to Liverpool Collegiate School, 
where he obtained a thoroughly sound.education. His vacations 
were very frequently spent with his maternal grandfather, — 
Christopher Taylor, at Tothill, near Louth. There, or at 
Gayton-le-Marsh, close by, wandering over ‘the clays’ or true 
‘marsh’ of the Lincolnshire coast, the love of natural history 
first began to assert itself, along with a keen desire for sport 
which such a bird-infested coast fostered. Still quite a young 
man, Mr. Cordeaux settled as a farmer at Great Cotes, near 
Grimsby, and resided there up to the time of his death, which 
occurred on the 1st of August, with the exception some years 
ago of a short residence at Eaton Hall, near Retford. He was 
ever a keen sportsman, at one time regularly hunting with the 
Yarborough hounds, and to the day of his death was an exceed- 
ingly fine shot, and yet found time to take an active part in» 
estate management and in local affairs. The youngest daughter 
of Dr. W. Wilson, of Horton Hall, Cheshire, was wooed and 
won in 1860; and a widow, with two sons who hold Her 
Majesty’s commissions, are left behind to mourn his loss. 
The tastes and inclinations of Mr. Cordeaux were singu- 
larly wide; few men have his grasp or range of interests, 
but those who knew him most intimately will never think 
= of him only as ornithologist, zoologist, entomologist, botanist, 
- geologist, anthropologist, antiquary, or lover of dialect and 
folk-lore ; all-round student of nature and mankind, he was still _ 
sdinething more; the man himself overshadowed his interests — 
and his works. If this is rarely true of the majority of us, it was_ 
certainly the case with the first President of the Lincolnshire 
Humber District,’ Anseres in Frohawk’s ‘Illustrations of British 
Birds,’ or his still later pamphlet on ‘The Humber District — 
Ornis,’ give no idea of the kind, wide-hearted, sympathetic 
a brother worker in difficulty. Few people knew that the care- 
Naturalists’ Union. The ‘Migration Reports,’ ‘Birds of the 
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student, ever ready to lend a willing ear or helping hand to ~ 
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