150 OBITUARY NOTICE.— ROBEET GEORGE BOLAM 



correcting sheets and supplying details on many obscure 

 points, and for the first volume of the series he wrote the 

 chapter on Agriculture. The article on Landowning in 

 Northumherlmid, printed on pp. 129-139, was one of a series 

 which appeared in the local newspapers in commemoration 

 of the Queen's Jubilee in 1887, and it contains so much 

 that is interesting on this extensive subject that it has 

 beea thought worth while to reproduce it here. 



Up till within a few months of his decease Mr Bolam 

 had enjoyed general good health, but an attack of influenza 

 in the spring of last year told heavily upon him, and had 

 affected his vital powers to such an extent that his medit-al 

 advisers urged him to take a prolonged rest from business. 

 But to a man of his active habits, engrossed as he constantly 

 was with work, it is not an easy matter to leave home on 

 short notice, and not thinking himself so weak as he really 

 had been, the much-needed holiday was delayed until, as 

 the sequence proved, it was too late. In company with his 

 friend, Mr Leather Culley of Fowberry Tower, he left home 

 on Monday, 19th June, for Luss, on Loch Lomond, and it 

 was there that, early on the following Saturday morning, he 

 breathed his last. They had been fishing together on the 

 l)ch the previous day, and when Mr Culley parted from 

 him in the afternoon he appeared to be in his accustomed 

 health and good spirits, and to be enjoying his hnli<lay. It 

 had been arranged that they should meet again in the 

 beginning of the week, but a Higher Power had decreed 

 otherwise, and the telegram the following morning, announ- 

 cing that he had quietly passed away in the night, came 

 therefore as a great shock to his many friends and relatives 

 at home. 



Born on 31st May 1827, at Way-to-Wooler, of which his 

 father was at that time tenant, the subject of our notice 

 was the second son of the late John Bolam, who afterwards 

 farmed Easington Grange and Glororum, and died in 1874. 

 His forebears had been settled in Northumberland from 

 very early times, and had for many generations back been 

 engaged in agriculture in the county, farming in some 

 instances the land which their ancestors had once owned. 

 Upon leaving school, in 1844, Mr Bolam served a premium 



