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on the occasion of the visit of the Queen to inaugurate the 
equestrian monument erected in Charlotte Square to the memory of 
the Prince Consort. Sir James also filled the honourable office of 
Master of the Merchant Company. He was long connected with 
the North British Railway Company, of which he was elected 
Deputy-Chairman in 1881, and subsequently Chairman, an office 
which he held until 1887, when advancing age led him to vacate the 
more onerous position to again become Deputy-Chairman. It was 
during his tenure of the chair that the Tay Bridge was opened, and 
he had a lively interest in the still greater undertaking promoted by 
the Forth Bridge Company, of which he was the first Chairman. 
Sir James Falshaw was elected an Associate of the Institution of 
Civil Engineers in 1854, and became a Fellow of this Society in 
1866. 
He was twice married — first, in 1841, to a daughter of the late 
Mr Thomas Morkell of Astley, who died in 1864; and again in 1871 
to a daughter of Mr Thomas Gibbs, Norwood. Sir James was pre- 
deceased by Lady Falshaw, and left no family. He was not 
only recognised as a man of sterling integrity, but one of high 
Christian character, and though of a brusque demeanour, he had 
many friends. He was a Wesleyan Methodist, and in politics a 
Conservative. In the conduct of public business he was clear- 
sighted and hard-headed, utterly fearless, and full of energy and 
determination, and the results, of his reign — both at the Town 
Council and Railway Board — were generally excellent, though it 
must he confessed, in the words of the Scotsman , that his impatience 
of long speeches and his laconic methods of conducting business, 
occasionally staggered the advocates of liberty of speech. In grati- 
tude for his services to the city, his portrait was painted by sub- 
scription among leading citizens, and now hangs in the Council 
Chambers. 
Dr Edmund Ronalds. By J. Y. Buchanan, Esq, 
Dr Edmund Ronalds was born in Canonhury Square, London, 
in the year 1819. His father was Edmund Ronalds, merchant in 
London, and his mother Eliza Anderson, daughter of James Anderson, 
LL.D., also of London. His father’s elder brother was Sir Francis 
