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WILLIAM CASH. 
(1843—1914.) 
WILLIAM CASH was bom in Leeds in April 1843. He migrated 
to Halifax as a boy and entered the service of the Halifax and 
Huddersfield Union Bark, becoming eventually a manager. He took 
much interest in public life, and in 1889 was Chairman of the Halifax 
School Board at the time that his friend, J. W. Davis, was Mayor of the 
town, so that the rising Halifax was pretty fully penetrated with modern 
ideas of the proper position of science in the community. About 1893, 
Mr. Cash severed his connection with the bank and established himself 
in business as an accountant. When he retired from that profession, 
in somewhat straitened circumstances, shortly before his death, a 
Civil List pension was conferred upon and grants were made to him by 
the Murdoch Trustees, which were supplemented by an income from 
the scientific work upon which he was engaged. He died at 26 Mayfield 
Terrace South, Halifax, on December 16th, 1914. 
William Cash rendered inestimable service to the Halifax Scientific 
Society, of which he was one of the founders, and twice its president ; 
and he was also president of the Halifax Geological Field Club. He 
was elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1876, 
and became a member of the Yorkshire Geological Society in the same 
year, and later was elected by the Council as a life member. To the 
Society he gave many hours of work, acting at one time as treasurer, 
and as joint editor with the Rev. W. Lower Carter of the Society's 
publications from 1893, when he succeeded his friend, Mr. Davis, till 
1905. 
The place he filled in the scientific world of Yorkshire can perhaps 
be best conveyed if I sound a rather intimate and personal note. 
Little more than a year after my arrival in the North of England, 
I attended the meeting of the British Association at Manchester in 
August, 1887 — a most notable gathering alike in the record attendance 
of members, in the number and eminence of the foreign guests, and in 
the importance of the papers that were communicated and discussed. 
Yorkshire was represented, among others, by a little circle including 
J. W. Davis, Thomas Hick, C. P. Hobkirk and William Cash ; and 
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