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accepted the office of Treasurer (i.e. principal administrative 

 officer) of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which he found in a 

 troublous financial condition not altogether unlike that from 

 which he had successfully rescued the Royal Horticultural Society. 

 Few people know how much the difficulties which he experienced 

 in dealing with the hospital weighed upon him, but, notwith- 

 standing it all, he initiated avast amount of good work, rebuilding 

 the pathological block and the out-patients' department, securing 

 to the staff a voice in the general management, and making the 

 hospital the direct landlord of its own property by abolishing 

 the middleman, a policy which the Times says "proved financially 

 sound as well as being of the greatest advantage to the tenants." 

 During his tenure of the office of Treasurer he gave £100 annually 

 to establish a Research Studentship, and, with his sisters, founded 

 a Lawrence Medal for a similar purpose in memory of his father. 

 He was an Alderman of the Surrey County Council, and also 

 from the first a Member of King Edward's Hospital Fund, 

 acting as Vice-Chairman of the Distribution Committee. 



Sir Trevor had one of the finest collections of Japanese 

 lacquer in this country, especially lacquer of the eighteenth 

 and first half of the nineteenth century, and printed a finely- 

 illustrated catalogue of this for private circulation in 1895. 

 The most remarkable piece is probably the seventeenth-century 

 robe chest, from the Hamilton Palace sale, similar to, but 

 larger than, the chest purchased at the same sale now in the 

 Victoria and Albert Museum. He was a vice-president of the 

 Japan Society. He also had a fine collection of Chinese and 

 European porcelain, including a valuable and representative 

 collection of early Worcester. 



He was, says the Times, a generous and broad-minded but 

 " unostentatious supporter of charities, a popular and delightful 

 host, and a singularly handsome man, who seemed till he reached 

 four-score years to have learnt the secret of perpetual youth and 

 health. He was on terms of close friendship with leaders in 

 science, literature, and other walks, such as Lister, Kelvin, 

 Paget, Virchow, Pasteur, Browning, Meredith, Herbert 

 Spencer, Russell Lowell, Lecky, and Wolseley." 



Burford being situated in the parish of Mickleham, the funeral 

 took place there on Saturday, December 27, at 2.30 p.m., a 

 Memorial Service being held at the same time at Holy Trinity 

 Church, Kensington. Both services were very largely attended, 

 the Royal Horticultural Society being represented by the follow- 

 ing members of the Council, viz. : — Sir George Holford, 

 K.C.V.O., CLE., Baron Bruno von Schroder, Sir Daniel 



