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(Hedgecourt pond, or “Lake Winnipeg” as its owner humorously 
called it) and the smaller pond gave excellent fishing, and were 
the resorts of many ducks and other wild-fowl, of which he was 
very fond, and would never permit to he shot. In the ponds were 
the usual fishes of the district, viz., pike, perch, tench and bream, 
and he preferred to retain these rather than introduce more profit- 
able occupants. 
While thus enjoying the fascinating and peaceful surroundings 
•of his country home — loved and esteemed by all connected with 
it — he conscientiously fulfilled all the duties of a Magistrate for 
the counties of Surrey and Sussex, and for several years was 
Chairman of the East Grinstead bench of Magistrates, where he 
took his seat for the last time about three weeks before his death. 
He was also for some years a member of the East Grinstead 
Urban District Council. He was patron of the church, at 
Eelhridge — which was built and endowed by his father, in place 
of a private chapel which formerly stood in the grounds of 
Felbridge Place. He maintained the schools at Felbridge entirely 
at his own expense, and also to a great extent bore the expenses 
of the maintenance of divine service — making up whatever the 
offertories (to which he was the principal contributor) were 
insufficient to supply. Such, however, was hut one phase of his 
useful and beneficent life. 
From his college days he kept in touch with scientific life in 
London, and he always recalled with satisfaction his visits to the 
Royal Society — as the guest of an old friend ; and probably his 
last appearance at a scientific society was at an afternoon meeting 
of the same body with the writer. He was a Fellow of the 
Linnean, Geological, Geographical, and Ray Societies (occasionally 
serving on the council of each), and a member of the Astronomical 
and Meteorological Societies. He was especially interested in the 
Ray Society, and it was probably his connection with this body 
which more particularly drew him to St Andrews, where the early 
Marine Laboratory had attracted his notice. Nor was this interest 
in Nature new in his family. His cousin Mrs Alfred Gatty was 
the charming authoress of the Parables of Nature , and a lady 
whose love of the subject often brought her to the British Museum 
in the days of John and Robert Gray, of William Baird and 
