86 OBITUARY NOTICE OF M. H. BAND 



His interest in the Lifeboat Service was unfailing, and in 

 1852 he was awarded a silver medal for his special services* 

 in the rescue of a shipwrecked crew at Amble, in a coble, 

 after the lifeboat had drifted back to the shore disabled. 



In our own island Mr Dand travelled much, and in 187 . . 

 visited Denmark and North Germany, returning much impressed 

 with what he had seen of the prehistoric remains of Jutland. 

 In 1892, accompanied by the writer of these lines, he visited the 

 Western coast of Norway, when he was as greatly impressed 

 by the evidence of the good conduct and intelligence of the 

 inhabitants as with the grandeur of the scenery. In the 

 following year, again accompanied by the writer, he paid his 

 first and only visit to Ireland, traversing the island from 

 Dublin to Belfast, from Dublin to Galway, and from Galway 

 by Limerick to Cork, returning to Northumberland by way 

 of Bristol and London. 



In the possession of the Avriter is a copy of some verses 

 written by Mr Dand in 1832, entitled "An Excursion to 

 Brinkburn," but it is to be regretted that he never contributed 

 any finished paper to the Club's Transactions, and that he 

 never occupied the office of President. His copy of Brockett's 

 Glossary of North Coxintry Words, with his innumerable 

 emendations, was placed at the disposition of Mr R. O. 

 Heslop, and was extensively used and quoted by him in 

 his admirable work, published in 1893, under the title of 

 Northumberland Words.\ The valuable help which he ren- 

 dered in the preparation of the fifth, or Warkworth, volume 

 of the new History of Northumberland, is acknowledged in 

 the preface of that volume. 



* The medal bears the following inscription: — (round the edge) 

 'Middleton Dand, Esq., voted 14th October 1852'; (on reverse) 'The 

 Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, 

 George the Fourth Patron, 1824'; and on the clasp, 'Second Service, 

 voted 2nd February 1854.' 



t Almost up to the time of his death queries were addressed to Mr 

 Dand in connection with the English Dialect Dictionary of Professor 

 Wright, now in course of publication. In this work Mr Dand's name 

 appears in the List of Contributors, and in the body of the work his 

 notes are indicated by the bracketed initials [M.H.D.] 



