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improve the condition of the people. A large part of the valuable 

 hematite iron ore of the Furness district lay on his estate, and Barrow, 

 which in thirty years has grown from a small village to a town of 

 over 50,000 inhabitants, with its docks and its ironworks, owes its 

 existence and its prosperity in great measnre to his sagacity in enter- 

 prise, and to the liberality and earnestness with which he carried out 

 his plans. In a different way, but in the same spirit, he promoted the 

 bnilding of Eastbourne. 



His own life was of the simplest. Most of it was spent at Holker, 

 near Grange, in Lancashire. There he took part in the ordinary 

 business of the connty and neighbourhood, and for fifty years was 

 chairman of the Board of Guardians for the Poor. He lost his wife 

 in 1840, bnt the education of his children was his personal concern. 

 To train his sons to take their place in the State, and to watch their 

 careers, was his especial delight. It will be understood how acute 

 must have been to him the suffering when his second son, Lord 

 Frederick Cavendish, Chief Secretary for Ireland, was murdered in 

 the Phoenix Park. His third son, Lord Edward Cavendish, also pre- 

 deceased him, but only by some months. He passed away peacefully 

 and painlessly, in his eighty-fourth year, on December 21, 1891. 

 Rank, wealth, intellectual gifts, had no power to affect the simplicity 

 of his character, or lessen the deep sense of duty which controlled all 

 his actions. G D L 



James Risdon Bennett was the son of a learned dissenting minister, 

 the Rev. James Bennett, who preached for many years at Falcon 

 Square, in the City. His mother was a descendant of Risdon 

 Daricott, the Evangelist of Somerset in the middle of the eighteenth 

 century. 



He was educated first at Sheffield and afterwards at the University 

 of Edinburgh, where he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1&33, 

 in his twenty -fourth year. After this he travelled for a time on the 

 Continent, and had some thoughts of settling for practice in Rome. 

 He returned, however, to London, and, after a short connexion with 

 Charing Cross Hospital, was appointed Assistant Physician to St. 

 Thomas's Hospital, which was then still occupying the site of the 

 old monastery and sick refuge of St. Thomas in the street in South- 

 wark which still retains that name. Here, Dr. Bennett afterwards 

 became full Physician and Lecturer on Medicine. He had previouslv 

 joined the hospital at Victoria Park for diseases of the chest, which 

 had been founded in 1848. 



He was much interested in the physical diagnosis of affections of 

 the heart and lungs, and was proticient in stethoscopy when this 

 branch of cliuical medicine was still little known and even slighted 

 as a French innovation. 



