Manchester Memoirs, Vol. Ixii, (19 17) xi. 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF THE LATE 

 EDWARD HALKYARD. 



We are indebted to the author's brother, Mr. W. R. 

 Halkyard, for the following particulars. 



"Edward Halkyard was the second son and fourth child 

 of the late Henry Halkyard, F.R.C.S., of Hope House, Oldham, 

 Lancashire, and was born May 7th, 1854. 



"The Halkyard family has been continuously connected with 

 the medical profession in Oldham for a period approaching two 

 hundred years, and, in fact, a member of the family, but on the 

 distaff side, is a prominent practitioner in the town at the 

 present time. He was educated at a private school conducted 

 by the late Reverend H. M. Keywood, at Beechfield, Alderley 

 Edge, but at the age of 16, he was attacked by the serious 

 malady which, more or less, dogged the whole of his subsequent 

 life, and had to leave school. 



"He made an effort to become an engineer, and thus ac- 

 quired some skill as a draughtsman, but, his health continuing 

 unsatisfactory, he went in 1874 on a sailing vessel to Australia; 

 returning home, however, by the same ship almost immediately- 

 This voyage seemed to have been attended with good results 

 for a time, but, soon after his return, the old trouble reasserted 

 itself, and in 1876 he again went to the Antipodes and this time 

 he remained in Melbourne, but chiefly in Hobart Town, Tas- 

 mania, for some five years, returning home in 188 1 at the 

 request of his father, who was in failing health. 



"Whilst in Australia he was for some time in the Govern- 

 ment service. 



"On his return home a second time he tried to resume his 

 work as an engineer with a well-known Manchester firm, but 

 his old enemy once again asserted itself and he was compelled 

 to give up this work. 



"After this he never again attempted to follow any business 

 or profession, but he was a man to whom an idle life was 

 impossible, and largely, no doubt, to occupy his time, he 

 entered upon the study of the subjects upon which you are good 

 enough to say he became an established authority. 



