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that, under all circumstances, his “lines had fallen in pleasant 
places.” At Rockland and Bramerton especially, the close vicinity 
of the two chief broads on the Yare commenced that intimate 
acquaintance with the feathered denizens of our broads and 
marshes which forms by far the most important feature in the 
ornithological portion of his work. His experience, however, as a 
naturalist and sportsman was by no means confined to his own 
county, as from notes in his interleaved copy of Bewick’s ‘ British 
Birds,’ as well as in the ‘ Fauna,’ we have evidence, between the 
years 1823 and 1837, of holidays spent in shooting and fishing, in 
Wales and the Highlands of Scotland, with occasional excursions 
on the continent, chiefly for fly fishing, in Normandy, Switzerland, 
and Northern Italy. Simultaneously with his obtaining the 
curacy at Bramerton, in 1835, Mr. Lubbock married a daughter of 
the late William Unthank, Esq., of Heigham, and continued to 
reside there, in a pretty cottage overlooking the river, then the 
property of Captain Alexander, until, in 1837, he was presented to 
the rectory of Eccles, near Attleborough, by his brother-in-law, 
Sir Thomas B. Beevor, Bart., whose friendship he had made when 
fellow students under the same private tutor. Indeed it was by 
no means in the mat ter of residence only that he was fortunate in 
his earlier days, but also in that friendly intercourse with congenial 
spirits, which opened up for him a wide field of observation in 
other parts of the county, and accounts for his familiarity with 
almost every Broad on the Bure and its tributaries, the “ mud-flats” 
of Breydon, and the Decoys, then plentiful enough on the coast 
and inland waters in the neighbourhood of Yarmouth. Thus, 
even when located at a distance from his former haunts, either by 
invitation or by hiring the right of fishing and shooting for a 
season over some broad and its surroundings, his leisure was de- 
voted to his favourite pursuits, and his acquaintance kept up with 
that wild district. With the fenmen of those days — a race, at 
least as Lubbock knew them, fast becoming extinct, under the 
same influences as have changed the physical condition of the soil 
and rendered the fowler’s art of little effect — lie was always 
popular, being kind and generous in disposition, and there were 
few birds of any rarity that fell to their guns but came in some 
way under his personal inspection. Nor was he less considerate to 
his constant attendants and favourites of the canine race, for 
