In D)emoriam. 



Ernest David Marquand, 



Born 8th February, 1848;! Died 16th February, 1918. 



In Ernest David Marquand, who died at Totnes, Devon, 

 on February 16th, 1918, Guernsey loses a distinguished son and 

 the World of Natural History a worker of repute. Much of 

 Mr. Marqquand's life having been spent abroad, coupled with 

 the fact that when in residence here he never associated him- 

 self with the public life of the Island, he was perhaps not so 

 well known as are some. But to those of us who had the 

 pleasure of his acquaintance and in the realm of Natural 

 History, he was a shining light and the pleasantest of friends. 



Descended from an old Norman family which settled in 

 the Channel Islands at the close of the Xllth century, Ernest, 

 the eldest child of David and Margaret Marquand, was born 

 on February 8th, 1848, at La Brigade, in the parish of St. 

 Andrew, Guernsey. Of the other children of the family all 

 died in infancy with the exception of the youngest, Edwin 

 Peter, who is still living. 



Early in the fifties the Marquand family left Guernsey 

 for the United States and, settling in New York, the subject 

 of this memoir was educated at one of the large public schools 

 in that city. After her husband's death, which occurred in 

 New York, Mrs. Marquand decided to return to England 

 with her two surviving children, Ernest and Edwin, the for- 

 mer of whom, with the view to his becoming a Solicitor, was 

 then given a legal training and afterwards held for several 

 years an appointment as Confidential Secretary to an impor- 

 tant firm of London Solicitors. 



That office work should prove uncongenial to one so 

 passionately fond of nature and country life as was Mr. 

 Marquand is not at all surprising. He was a born naturalist 

 to whom the countryside appealed constantly the whole year 

 round. Summer and winter he loved to commune with nature 



