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valuable collection of etchings and engravings, begun when a boy 
at the High School, his school companion in print-hunting being a 
life-long friend, Sir Theodore Martin. He was a man of sound 
judgment, unswerving rectitude, utterly devoid of ostentation, 
kind, open, and easily accessible. He was practically laid aside 
from work for about two years, and he died at North Berwick, on 
the 17th July 1886, in the seventy-second year of his age. 
Bishop Cotterill. By Dr Cazenove. 
Henry Cotterill was born in the year 1812, on the 6th day of 
January, a day ecclesiastically known as the Feast of the Epiphany, 
and in popular parlance as Twelfth Night. He was the son of the 
Rev. Joseph Cotterill, rector of Blakeney, in the county of 
Norfolk. Mr Cotterill had been educated at Cambridge, and had 
taken a high degree, coming out as Seventh Wrangler. The 
grandfather of the future Bishop had also been a Cantabrigian, and 
was known in Sheffield as a man of culture. He was the author of 
a book of family prayers. All three were successively members of 
the same College. All three could say, with the poet Wordsworth, 
“ The Evangelist St John my patron was,” 
and all could, with him, avow a fondness for mathematical as well 
as for classical studies. 
In classics Henry Cotterill found a preceptress in his mother. 
This lady, known before her marriage as Miss Anne Boak, was very 
clever and clear-headed. She was a great friend of the celebrated 
Hannah More, and to some extent assisted that lady in the 
preparation of a tale, which was widely read at the time of its 
publication, Ccelebs in Search of a Wife. Miss Boak contributed 
some chapters which contained descriptions of scenery. She had 
also a considerable acquaintance with mathematics, and was 
generally a learned woman. 
Not only did she superintend the education of her three daughters, 
but she instructed her two sons, Henry and George Cotterill, in 
Latin, until they were fifteen years of age. 
Here, it will be said, is a clear case of heredity. I am far from 
