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clear and beautiful, and he was quite a good draughtsman. 
He was buried at Canford Cemetery after a short service at 
Clifton Parish Church. 
We are obliged to the ‘ Journal of Botany ’ for the use of 
a block made from a photograph taken in 1927, and kindly 
supplied by Mr. Dan Hanbury White who contributed towards 
the COSt- H. S. THOMPSON. 
Spencer Henry Bickham (1841-1933). 
Spencer H. Bickham, J.P., F.L.S., who died (aged 92) 
April 7, 1933, at Underdown, Ledbury, will be much missed 
by the Club and elsewhere. He joined in 1901, and was our 
efficient Treasurer from 1907 until 1920, and he kindly acted 
as Distributor in the year 1906-7. A parcel of his good and 
useful specimens was contributed every year, except in 1920, 
until 1924. His total was 5150 sheets, an average of 224 in 
twenty-three years. And all this was done between the age 
of 60 and 83, notwithstanding his prodigious activities in 
other spheres. 
After a service in Ledbury Church, April 11, the funeral 
was at Bowden Parish Church. 
Prior to taking up his residence at Underdown, Ledbury, 
in 1891, he was a member of a Manchester business firm, and 
lived at Alderly Edge. He was thrice married, his three wives 
having predeceased him. His six daughters and one of two 
sons (all by his first wife) survive him. 
From the account in The Ledbury Reporter and Guardian , 
April 15, from- which we quote, it is obvious that Mr. Bickham 
was not only the most prominent, hard-working and highly 
esteemed resident “ within living memory,” but “ retaining 
his faculties in exceptional degree, he led a life of astonishing 
activity for one of his age. Keen, alert, regular and punctual 
in all his manifold activities, he lived for his work, which he 
was able to continue until a few months ago.” 
In the Rector’s tribute at the Parish Church on the following 
Sunday, we read that “ for fourteen years S. H. Bickham held 
the Bishop’s license as a lay reader, and delighted to read the 
lessons at Matins until he had turned the wonderful age of 
four-score years and ten .... He served on countless 
committees, of which almost without exception he was chosen 
as Chairman.” He took a great interest in Education, and 
