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DEATH OF Me. R S. BISHOP, 

 Secretary of the Institute. 



The Victoria Institute has sustained a severe loss in the 

 unexpected death, on the 17th July last, of its Secretary, 

 Mr. Frederic Sillery Bishop, M.A., J.P. Joining the Institute 

 as a Member as long ago as 1879, he lived at a distance, and for 

 many years was unable to attend the meetings. When at length 

 he came to reside near London, in 1906, he became a constant 

 attendant ; five years ago he joined the Council, and two years 

 later he was unanimously elected Secretary. 



Mr. Bishop's period of office has been marked by the steady 

 progress of the Institute ; the papers read have been full of 

 interest, and the numbers attending the meetings have increased 

 so much of late, that at times no room could be found for late 

 arrivals. Mr. Bishop brought to bear upon his important work 

 great enthusiasm, steady business-like habits, a bright courteous 

 manner, and a charming winning personality. His organising 

 power was great, the accounts were simplified, and kept with 

 scrupulous precision. He compiled a most useful double Index 

 of all the papers read before the Institute from its foundation ; 

 on the one hand, according to subjects, and on the other hand, 

 according to authors. He bravely continued his secretarial work 

 almost up to the very end, though often in great pain. 



Born in 1848, Mr. Bishop was educated at Cheltenham and 

 at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as twenty- 

 first Wrangler. He afterwards obtained a fellowship at St. John's 

 College, Oxford. Entering upon a business career, he accepted 

 an appointment as manager of the Copper Works of Pascoe, 

 G-renfell, and Sons, at Swansea, and he lived in that neighbour- 

 hood for twenty-five years. During that time, as an earnest 



