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OBITUARY NOTICE, 



The Late Mr. E. Dexny Uelix. 



Amongst the more distinguished of our Associates who have 

 passed from amongst us during the past year is Richard Denny 

 Urlin, F.S.S. Born at Westminster in 1830, he claimed 

 descent from a Huguenot family which left France before the 

 edict of Xantes was revoked. He was for a short time at the 

 old Charterhouse School, then in the heart of London, and 

 afterwards at University College School, Gower Street. 



Becoming a student of the Middle Temple, ]\Ir. Urlin gained 

 the third place in the Voluntary Examination for Honours, at 

 the early age of nineteen, and in consequence was offered an 

 appointment in the newly-formed Court of the Encumbered 

 Estates of Ireland. In 1858, this court became by Statute, the 

 Landed Estates Court, and Mr. UrHn was appointed one of its 

 chief officers, in which position he remained until 1876, when 

 he retired from the public service. Having been elected in 

 1882 a member of the London School Board for the Chelsea 

 division, he devoted most of his time for the next three years 

 to the arduous duties of this position, as one of an active 

 minority who sought to promote economy and to defend the 

 Voluntary Schools ; and in retiring from the Board in 1885, he 

 had the satisfaction of seeing a majority of members returned 

 who were pledged to those principles. He was the author of 

 several legal works, but the most successful of his books has 

 been a Life of Wesley, written for the S.P.C.K., which has 

 circulated largely in England and the Colonies. 



One of Mr. Urlin's daughters is the wife of Professor Flinders 

 Petrie ; whose companion and help-mate she has been during 

 her husband's explorations in Egypt and Sinai, sharing all his 

 dangers and hardships, as well as his honours. 



E. H. 



