200 rKESIDE>'T's ADDIIESS. 



did so, and the authorities began to doubt their power to resist 

 the general rebellion which seemed thi-eatening to set in. They 

 yielded to Mr. Abbes's persistency with a good grace : cancelled 

 the long-standing icsthetic regulation : restored him to his col- 

 legiate status : and saw before long the substitution of modem 

 trousers for the more ancient garb universally adopted. Mr. 

 Abbes's undergraduate career tenninated in 1821, when he took 

 his degree of Bachelor of Arts. To go back awliile to his birth 

 and earlier years, he was the eldest son of Mr. Bryan Abbes, of 

 AVul worth Castle, near the Tees, where he was born in 1798. 

 His grandfather was the Rev. Cooper Abbes. He was sent to 

 school, first to Ovingham-on-Tyne, to the Rev. Mr. Birkett, and 

 afterwards to Witton-le-Wear, to the Rev. Mr. Kewby, thence 

 he went to Richmond Grammar School, and thence to Cambridge. 

 Two years after leaving Cambridge he was ordained Deacon, and 

 the following year Priest, both by Bishop Banington. He held 

 successively the Curacies of Dalton-le-Dale and Gateshead, and 

 was Chaplain to the late Earl of Beverley. At a subsequent 

 date he was Curate of Whitbura. But he retired fiom active 

 life as a Clergjnnan nearly forty years ago, and busied himself 

 in his garden at Cleadon Hall, and in his favourite studies and 

 pursuits, during the many subsequent years allotted to him. He 

 had amassed by observation an immense fund of knowledge re- 

 specting the features, characters, and habits of the fauna of our 

 district, and I often pressed him to put some of his interesting 

 remarks on paper, and give the Club the benefit of them, in a 

 form which could be embodied in their Transactions, but ho never 

 did so; and even his admirable Address from this Chair, de- 

 livered some years ago, and widely commented upon by the Press 

 at the time in the most favourable terms, he could never be pre- 

 vailed upon to make ready for permanent publication. In losing 

 him, therefore, we lose his wealth of local scientific knowledge 

 also, and are as a Society of local naturalists and archaeologists 

 doubly impoverished. 



The last sentence has reminded me of a great desideratum, 

 which I think would fall entirely witliin the province of our 

 Club to supply. T mean a Catalogue of the Antiquities of our 



