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dinner at his residence, Loy House, Cookstown, in 1884, 

 on the occasion of its first visit to the district, he 

 remarked that nothing he had ever done had given him 

 more pleasure than the part he had taken in the early 

 life of the Club. 



The next name on the first Committee is John 

 William Forrester. He was connected with the firm 

 of Richardson Brothers and Company, "linen, flax, 

 grain, and general commission agents," of 30 Donegall 

 Place. At a Club meeting in December, 1865, he con- 

 tributed a paper on "A Stone in the Museum said to be 

 Con O'Neill's Tombstone"; in March, 1866, he read 

 a paper on "The Round Towers of Ireland;" in 

 February, 1867. one on "Tintern Abbev," and in March, 

 1868, one on "Gossip about old Belfast." His name 

 disappeared from the roll about 1871. 



Robert Workman was a son of Robert Workman, 

 of Windsor, a prominent Belfast business man. He 

 was educated at Queen's College, graduating B.A. in 

 1863, with Honours in Natural Science, and taking his 

 M.A. the following year. He became minister of 

 Glastry Presbyterian Church, in the Ards, spending a 

 long life there. He died in 1924. 



Of William Campbell I know nothing. His mem- 

 bership was short, his name disappearing from the roll 

 by 1871. 



William Hugh Patterson's name comes next. He 

 was the eldest son of Robert Patterson, F.R.S., whose 

 very useful natural history manuals I have referred to. 

 He was a keen naturalist and archaeologist. And in 

 other directions he distinguished himself ; his "Glossary 

 of Words and Phrases used in Antrim and Down," 

 published in 1880, is a treasure-house of Ulster 

 dialect. He died in 1918. 



John Sinclair Holden was a son of John Holclen, a 

 Belfast rate collector, who resided at Holywood. J. 

 S. Holden was at this time a medical student at 

 Queen's, where he graduated M.D. about 1865. In 

 1863-4 he conducted classes in Chemistry in one of the 

 class-rooms of the Academical Institution. After 

 obtaining his medical qualification, lie practised for a 

 time at Glenarm, and then removed to Sudbury, in 

 Suffolk, where he spent the remainder of his long life, 

 dying at the age of 86 in 1923, He never lost his 

 early interest in Geology and Archaeology, and was a 



