2^6 president's address. 



than forty volumes 8yo, is written out in a small, beautiful hand, 

 and illustrated with numerous sketches, views, and plans of re- 

 markable places he had visited. The last entry was made on his 

 last birthday, a few days before his lamented decease. 



He was a great traveller, having for many years during the 

 summer visited in succession nearly every country of Europe, as 

 well as Egypt and Palestine, with Mrs. Sopwith who survives 

 him. 



His was a well stored, well regulated, methodical mind, of 

 the highest integrity, benevolent, social, full of kindly humour, 

 and teeming with racy and instructive anecdote. Few persons 

 perhaps have made, and retained through a long life, so many 

 good friends as Mr. Thomas Sopwith. This Club has lost in him 

 one of its most talented members. 



In noticing the loss of Mr. Sopwith, I little deemed that it 

 would fall also to my lot to chronicle in our Transactions the de- 

 mise of another, though differently distinguished member and 

 President of our Society, Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Bart., 

 of Nettlecombc, in Somersetshire, and Wallington, in Northum- 

 berland. 



On the 22nd of March last he seemed, it is said, to be in his 

 usual health; in the evening, however, he became ill, and died 

 the following aftenioon, at the advanced age of 82 years. 



Sir Walter, who was the sixth Baronet, was born at New- 

 castle, March Slst 1797, was educated at Harrow and at Uni- 

 versity College, Oxford, where in 1820 he took the degree of 

 B.A., and two years later that of M.A., and in 1846 succeeded 

 to his father Sir John Trevelyan. 



He was an enlightened, scientific, and liberal landlord, and 

 soon brought his land into a high state of cultivation. He had 

 at heart the welfare of his tenants, and was always ready to con- 

 tribute largely, by his extensive knowledge and experience, to 

 the happiness and welfare of his friends, his neighbours, and the 

 people at large. 



He devoted much time and attention, and with gieat success, 

 to the study of Botany and Geology, was a Follow of the Lon- 

 don Geological Society, and was well vcrsod in Antitjuarian lore. 



