300 



Py^oceedings of Societies. 



land, a journal of which he printed for private circulation, — printed 

 at Norton Hall, 1830, 12mo. 



He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1831. 



In 1840 he was elected Member for Ludlow, and again in 1841. 



In 1847 he was beaten by the Whig candidate. 



In 1857 he was solicited to stand again, and he sat in Parlia- 

 ment for Ludlow for the rest of his life. 



Mr Botfield was a member of the Eoyal Society of London, 

 the Koyal G-eographical Society, Eoyal Institution, Society of Arts, 

 of the Antiquaries of London, Scotland, and Copenhagen, of the 

 Eoyal Irish Academy, I'lnstitut d'Afrique, and of all the principal 

 Societies in the Kingdom, and of a great number of literary Clubs, — 

 as the Eoxburghe, Bannatyne, Maitland, Spalding, Surtees,Abbots- 

 ford, Camden, Percy, ^Ifric, Hakluyt, Cheetham ; to most of 

 which he gave valuable contributions, his part being generally to 

 defray the expense. 



In addition to these, and some smaller tracts printed for private 

 circulation, Mr Botfield published " Notes on the Cathedral 

 Libraries of England," from a personal examination, 1849 ; " Pre- 

 faces to the First Editions of the G-reek and Eoman Classics, and of 

 the Sacred Scriptures," 1861. Large 4to. 



Another work, for which he w^as making collections when he 

 died, and which would have been of great interest and value, was 

 intended to illustrate the history of the old monastic libraries of 

 England. A collection of the extant catalogues and inventories of 

 these was already in type, to which he meant to add the catalogues 

 of other Middle Age libraries. His collections, made for these 

 objects wdll, it is feared, be lost to the world by his death. He 

 had previously edited (in 1838), for the Surtees Society, catalogues 

 of the Library of Durham Cathedral, at various periods. 



In 1858, Mr Botfield printed, for private circulation, Stemmata 

 Botevilliana^ a large volume illustrating the descent and anti- 

 quities of all the Bottevilles, Thynnes, and Botfields. 



He was a liberal collector of pictures, and was also known as a 

 zealous book-hunter. 



Mr Botfield married Isabella, daughter of Sir Baldwin Leighton, 

 Bart., but left no family ; and has entailed a considerable part of 

 his property on the second son of the Marquis of Bath, in respect 

 of a very old but perhaps real connexion between his family and 

 the Thynnes. 



James Keith, second son of "William Keith of Corstorphine Hill, 

 accountant in Edinburgh, was born 29th November 1783, and was 

 educated at the High School and University of Edinburgh. He 

 was apprentice to Messrs Bell, Wardrope, and Eussell; went to 

 London in 1804, and attended the London Hospital and Guy's. Was 

 surgeon of the Berwickshire Militia for two or three years, which he 

 resigned on entering into partnership with Dr Andrew Wardrope, 

 wdiich connection terminated by Dr Wardrope's death in 1822. 



Mr Keith took the degree of M.D. in the University of Edin- 



