WILLIAM WILLIAMSON NEWBOULD. 178 
felt hat, and shabby, ill-cut clothes, powdered with dirt of museums, 
shiny with friction of desks, piteous often in their lack of a woman’s 
hand to keep them neat or mended, their palpable insufficiency to 
meet the severities of wind and weather to whic 
pove 
indestructible stamp of refinement, of gentle birth and gentle 
culture, which was one of the most delicately-marked characteristics 
of the man, whose absolute humility, whose absence of every vestige 
of pretension, was his most striking virtue. .... . , worke 
im the world where he worked for others always, for himself never, _ 
forget many things and forget them easily; but those of us who 
have grown familiar with the picture thus recalled, who look for it 
m vain in the place where we have so long known it, will scarcely 
do so without a sigh, without a loving reverent remembrance of 
d ” 
Working classes’? had been materially raised during the last 
twenty or thirty years. He was a total abstainer, and almost 
etari 
estive. : n 
ma a matter of surprise to some that Mr. Newbould ne 
rose above the position of curate, but I know that he refused at 
least one living, and this from purely conscientious motives. This 
conscientiousness was one of the marked and strongest features in 
hi oe , som so as to become almost morbid. This 
Prevented him from undertaking anything on his own responsibility ; 
€ was a strong support to others, but he hesitated to act where 
he would have to take the most prominent part, or would have to 
Test on his own jud ake : 
ess which terminated fatally in the early morning of 
Winter he was knocked down by a cab in the streets of London. — 
No bones were broken, and it did not evidently seem to injure him 
much then, but the accident gave a shock to his system. He caught 
cold at the time, and in the severe weather of March this became 
The inflammation was 
symptoms of weak action of the heart appeared, and on Thursday, — 
the 15th of April, he grew rapidly worse, and died the following 
Morning. : i 
His name is commemorated “ agen the —- rs 
Roniaceous genus Newbouldia, whic - Seemann uamed 
him (as “oak of the most painstaking of British botanists ) in the 
first volume of this Journal (1868, p. 225). 
