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between Wakefield and Leeds. In 1840, lie was appointed 
Resident Engineer at Aberdeen Harbour. As Surveying Officer 
under the Preliminary Inquiries Act, lie reported, between 1844 
and 1852, on the condition of the Clyde, the Tyne, the Ribble, 
and the Ports of Glasgow, Liverpool, and other places. At Birken- 
head his scheme of a floating dock was adopted, after the failure of 
Rendel and Robert Stephenson’s scheme of subaqueous sluices. In 
1854, he took an office at Westminster, and was much engaged as 
a Consulting Engineer. It is impossible in this brief sketch to 
enumerate the various works, principally of marine engineering, 
which he accomplished in England, Ireland, and in Egypt. He 
was elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 21st 
December 1880. He died on 8th March 1896. 
Thomas Dawson Brodie, the eldest son of John Clerk Brodie 
of Idvies, C.B., LL.D., was born on 26th December 1832. He 
attended Edinburgh Academy and afterwards Harrow School, 
completing his education at the University of Edinburgh. He was 
admitted a member of the Society of Writers to the Signet on 12tli 
November 1857, and afterwards became senior partner of the firm 
of Gibson Craig, Dalziel & Brodies, and Secretary to the Carron 
Iron Company. He acted as Deputy-Keeper of the Privy Seal 
from 1869 to 1874. On the death of his father, about nine years 
ago, he succeeded to the estate of Idvies, and a Baronetcy was con- 
ferred on him in 1892. He was a lover of art, and was possessor 
of a fine collection of ornithological specimens. He died on 6th 
September 1896. 
The Rev. John Gibson Cazenove, D.D., came of a family that 
claimed to be a cadet branch of the De Cazenoves of Guienne. 
He was educated at the Royal Free Grammar School, Marlborough, 
and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where, in 1841, he obtained a 
prize for the best Latin and English essays. In his earlier career 
he endeavoured to train himself for the Bar, but was induced to 
take holy orders. He was Provost of the Theological College, 
Cumbrae, from 1867 to 1875. Dr Cazenove came to Edinburgh 
in 1878 as Sub-Dean and Chancellor of St Mary’s Cathedral. Eor 
the Encijclopcedia Britannica he prepared the article on “ Moham- 
medanism,” and among his other published works is Historic 
Aspects of the a priori Argument concerning the Being and Attri- 
