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Sir George Eeid, P.E.S.A., whose brush has represented, with the 
fidelity of an Aberdonian and the insight of a master, his outward 
appearance — the sidelong glance of the shy and modest eyes which 
at times in later years seemed to look within, the gentle smile, and 
the gentlemanly bearing. He also acted as chancellor or legal 
adviser to his friend. Bishop Forbes of Brechin, and to his successor, 
the present Bishop and Primus of the Episcopal Church of Scotland. 
He was not spared the trials which those who live long usually 
meet. He lost his first-born son, Alexander, when young ; his next 
(also Alexander) in the prime of life, a scholar of Hew College, 
Oxford ; and he bore these, as he did less serious misfortunes, with 
a brave spirit. 
He was survived by two brothers, James Hamilton Irvine who 
early in his life went to Australia and settled in North Gippsland, 
and General Charles Irvine of the Indian army, and a sister, whose 
gift of Scottish song often charmed him and his friends. His wife, 
who shared his tastes and aided all his endeavours, also survived 
him. Her father. Colonel Forbes Leslie of Eothienorman, a learned 
archaeologist, to whose manuscript history of the family of Drum 
this notice is indebted for several facts in its earlier annals, afforded 
another example of the pursuit of intellectual and artistic studies 
amongst the gentlemen of Aberdeenshire which, under fortunate con- 
ditions, may stimulate a generation and enlighten a neighbourhood. 
An only remaining son, Francis Irvine, has inherited an historic 
name, which Mr Irvine handed down, not dignified by any title 
or illustrated by any remarkable genius, but distinguished by a 
quality more useful than genius, which cannot he imitated and 
is rarely transmitted, — the faithful discharge of the duties of a 
scholar, a lawyer, and a gentleman in the station and offices which 
fell to his lot. 
