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In Memoriam : diaries Randell. 
At the meeting of Council held on the following Wednes- 
day, June 27, the President (Sir Matthew Kidley), before pro- 
ceeding to the ordinary business, made a feeling allusion to the 
magnitude of the loss which the Council had sustained, and ex- 
pressed his extreme regret that previous important engagements 
would prevent his personal attendance at the funeral to pay a 
last mark of respect to their late friend. The following resolu- 
tion was then moved by Colonel Kingscote, the Chairman of 
the Finance Committee, and was carried unanimously, after 
sympathetic remarks by Mr. Dent, the Earl of Coventry, and 
Earl Cathcart : — 
The Council desire to place on record their sense of the great loss which 
they have sustained by the death of their valued friend and colleague, Mr. 
Charles Randell. For twenty-seven years Mr. Randell has rendered invalu- 
able services to the Council aiid its various committees, of many of which 
he was an active member ; and his kindly presence, wise counsel, and in- 
defatigable energy will ever be remembered with grateful affection by his 
colleagues. 
They request the President to communicate this expression of their 
feelings to Mr. Randell's family, and to assure them of the deep sympathy 
felt with them in their bereavement by this Council and by all the members 
of the Society. 
The funeral took place on the following day at Bretforton 
Churchyard, the body being carried to the grave by the loving 
hands of Mr. Randell's workmen, from one of the rooms in the 
picturesque Bretforton Manor, where he had in early life won 
his bride. He was laid to his last rest amidst the tears of his 
friends and neighbours, and by the side of the wife whom he had 
loved so well. Amongst those who travelled down from London 
to attend the funeral were his devoted friends Jacob Wilson 
and C. W. Tindall, and Mr. G. Mander AUender, a Member of 
the Council, the Society being officially represented on the sad 
occasion by the present writer. 
It was a typical ending to a noble life well spent, and the 
closing scene — so calm, so peaceful, so beautiful — will not 
easily be effaced from the memory of those who were privileged 
to be present. 
