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offer a genial welcome to one of his friends." The " ruling 

 passion " was strong even there, but it was not a passion 

 we look for in " Savages." 



Sir James Cockle was a man of upright character and 

 simple tastes, amiable in his disposition and courteous in his 

 bearing, constant in his friendships and faithful in all the 

 relations of life ; absolutely devoid of ostentation, vanity or 

 pretence, his whole life was a beautiful illustration of the 

 motto on his crest — Esse quam videri. 



Not demonstrative or effusive in the expression of his 

 feelings, few even of his intimate friends knew the depth 

 and tenderness of his nature. When he lost his son, his then 

 only son (another was born to him afterwards), he wrote to 

 his most intimate mathematical friend, the following brief, 

 simple, touching note, under date 26th April, i860: — "My 

 dear Sir, — Thanks I send for letting me see the paper — but 

 my son, my Harold, died yesterday. 



" Ever yours, 



"James Cockle." 



Sir James passed away peacefully at his Bayswater resi- 

 dence on Sunday, the 27th January, 1895 (the day after the 

 lamented Cayley, and on the following Saturday (the day 

 before the lamented Kirkman died), we stood beside the 

 open grave in Paddington Cemetery, and mourned as his 

 body was laid to rest beside that of his son, his Harold, 

 whose untimely death nearly thirty-five years before was 

 one of the great trials of his life. He had nine children, of 

 whom eight survive ; Lady Cockle also survives him. 



The following is a list of Sir James Cockle's papers 

 published in the Proceedings and Memoirs of this Society : 



1858. Researches in the Higher Algebra. 



{Proc, Vol. I., pp. 62-63; Man., Ser. 2, Vol. XV. (i860), pp. 

 131-142). 



1859. Supplementary Researches in the Higher Algebra. 



(Proc, Vol. I., pp, 173-175; Mem., Ser. 3, Vol. I. (1862), pp. 

 108-114). 



