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SOME OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY. 
applause or dissent. His mind was eminently impartial and judicial, 
but from constitutional shyness and reserve he never could be 
prevailed on to speak in public. Thouo'h not generally popular, he 
was the object of warm attachment in his circle of intimate friends. 
He died on the 17th January, 1876, in his 76th year. Mr. AVilson 
married in 1830 Elizabeth, second daughter of Elias Inchbald, of Old 
Malton Abbey, and gTeat niece of the celebrated Mrs. Inchbald, by 
whom he had six children. Henry, ^I.A. St. Cath. Coll. Cambridge, 
many years liead master of Malvern Link School. Herbert, M.A. 
Fellow of ^lag. Coll. Cambridge, and of the Bengal Civil Service, died 
of sunstroke in 1866. Arthur died young from an accident. Edward 
is a member of the firm of Newstead and Wilson, solicitors, Leeds, 
and colonel of the Leeds Rifle Volunteers. Kenneth, M.A. St. John's 
Coll. Cambridge, classical master at the College, Wellington, New 
Zealand. Miss Lucy Wilson is well known as a speaker and writer 
on behalf of education, women's suffrage, and kindred topics. 
Henry Holt. 
Henry Holt, the third and youngest son of Elias Holt, of Notton, 
in the Parish of Royston, Yorkshire, was born on May 16th, 1812. 
His father was agent for the late Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., of 
Woolley Park, near Wakefield, and also farmed the Notton Estate on 
his own account. The son was educated by the late Rev. T. 
Westmorland, then Vicar of Sandal Magna, near Wakefield; after- 
wards, owing to his father's failing health, he became his assistant. 
He studied geology and mineralogy, especially that of Yorkshire, 
with the late Mr. William Smith and Professor Phillips, and then 
adopted the profession of a Mining Engineer and Surveyor, as well 
as a Land and Mineral Agent, at Wakefield. He was actively 
engaged on surveying and levelling for projected lines of railways 
in the district, and largely employed professionally in giving evidence 
before committees of both Houses of Parliament, more especially 
regarding the minerals opened out by the railways. 
He married Helen, the second daughter of Henry Hartop, of 
Barnburgh Hall, near Doncaster, in October, 1817, and afterwards 
lived in South Parade, Wakefield. 
