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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Middleton Henry Dand of Hauxley. 

 By John Crawford Hodgson, F.S.A., Alnwick. 



"As ripe fruit is lightly, and withont violence, looseiied from its 



branch, the soul departs ungrieving from the body 



wherein its life's experience hath lain." — Ciceko. 



Mr Middleton Henry Dand, an honoured and respected 

 member of the Club, died at his residence, Hauxley Cottage, 

 Northumberland, on the 16th January 1903, at the great age 

 of 91 years. He was elected a member of the Club on the 

 28th June 1859, but he had, for many years before he 

 became a member, taken a deep and intelligent interest in 

 the Natural History and Antiquities of the county of North- 

 umberland. 



Mr Dand was born at Chevington Woodside, in the parish 

 of Warkworth, on the last day of 1811. He was the son 

 of James Dand, a native of Bedlington, and youngest of 

 three brothers descended from a line of Bedlingtonshire 

 yeomen. His mother was Sarah, daughter of Brignell Grainge 

 of Sunniside, in the parish of Whickham, co. Durham, and, 

 in her issue, co-heiress of her brother Middleton Grainge 

 of the same" place. Through these maternal ancestors, Mr 

 Dand was descended from the Middletons of Seaton, Silks- 

 worth, and Belsay. 



