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REV. W. TTTORP, B.A. — AORICrLTrRAL GEOLOGY, ETC. 
was of the family of Thorp's who worked the Gawber Hall Collieries 
for a long time. The collieries have been worked out, and I do not 
know that any of the family are still at Barnsley. Mr. Thorp was 
marrieil and had daughters, who all married in his lifetime. He 
derived his taste for geology from his associations with the colliery in 
the neighbourhood of Barnsley. He was greatly respected. 
Yo\irs very truly, 
J. B. Charlesworth. 
Dr. T. Pridgin Teale wrote on September 3rd, 1888 
I am sorry that I cannot help you about Mr. Thorp, ^ly father 
knew him well, and considered him to be a very able geologist. He 
was also well-informed in medical matters, which he made a sort 
of hobby. 
Mr. Thomas Scattergood records that between 184G and 1850, 
when he was house-surgeon to the late Mr. Teale at the Leeds 
Inhrmar)-, he used frequentl}^ to hear him speak of Mr. Tlxorp. There 
was evidently considerable intimacy between the two, probably 
extending to both scientific and social matters. 
The Rev. J. R. Baldwin, the present Vicar of Misson, has con- 
tributed this interesting letter : — 
MissoN Vicarage, Bawtry, Yorkshire, 
September Sth, 1888. 
Dear Sir, 
It is now about 28 years since Mr. Thorp died. He was twelve 
and a half years vicar of this place. He was chiefly remarkable for 
his liberality, and knowledge of medicine. He gave away every 
winter a cart-load of coals to all the poor, and if he went into the 
village with 20s., he seldom brought any back, he had given it all 
away. One story is characteristic : One day he met a man who never 
went to church, Mr. Thorp inquired why, he replied, that he had no 
hat good enough, so Mr. Thorp took off his own, gave it to the man 
and went home bareheaded ; so too he was as kind in visiting and 
prescribing for the sick, and giving them all medicine. He was not 
much of a preacher or reader, (S:c. 
He obtained the extension of the church yard, and the enlarge- 
ment, almost a re-building, of the national schools. 
