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JOHN ROBERT MORTIMER. 
(1825-1911). 
As one grows older, there comes with sad recurrence the 
painful duty of recording the life's work of senior comrades who 
have dropped from the ranks. The death of John Robert 
Mortimer has deprived us of a striking personality long familiar 
to aU scientific workers in East Yorkshire. He joined our roU 
in 1878 and remained a member for 30 years, contributing 
fourteen papers to our Proceedings — two on geological subjects, 
and the others, archaeological. The titles of these papers will be 
found in the full list of his writings, appended to the sketch of his 
career published by Mr. T. Sheppard in The Naturalist, No. 652, 
May, 1911. 
Mortimer ^\ as born in 1825 at the Wold village of Fimber, 
and attained his manhood there, receiving his schooling at the 
adjacent village of Fridaythorpe. After establishing himself in 
business as a corn merchant (later as a maltster also), he changed 
his residence to the neighbouring town of Driffield, where the 
rest of his life was spent, and where he died on August 19th, 1911, 
at the ripe age of 86 years. In 1869 he married the fourth 
daughter of the Rev. T. MitcheU, Vicar of Sancton and Holme-on- 
the- Wolds. He survived his mfe by six years, and leaves a 
family of three sons and two daughters. 
Mortimer had a deep affection for his native place and its 
surroundings, and his scientific interests were local, in the best 
sense of the word. Ever\i3hing that pertained to the past history 
of the district around his home was of the keenest interest to him, 
and his great anthropological and geological collections were 
brought together almost entirely from the short radius of Wold 
country that served him throughout life as a happy hunting ground. 
