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president’s address. 
four of its members by death : Mr. T. W. Crosse, surgeon, of 
Norwich; Mr. E. Z. Pitts, surgeon, of Chelmsford, a relative 
of E. C. Pitts, chemist, of Norwich, who in his time paid a good 
deal of attention to our Crag deposits and their organic remains ; * 
Mr. William Castell Southwell, of Swaffham ; and lastly, this 
morning we have received tidings of the death of our former 
president, Mr. T. G. Bayfield. 
Thomas Gabriel Bayfield was born in the parish of St. Saviour’s, 
Norwich, on January 7th, 1817. At an early age he was sent to 
a dame’s school (Mrs. Chesteney’s) in St. Clement’s Alley, and 
afterwards to Air. Brooke’s school at Greyfriars’ Priory, where 
B. B. Woodward, the eldest son of Samuel Woodward, was one of 
his schoolmates. As a lad, Bayfield was somewhat delicate, and 
he suffered a good deal from the free fights that not uncommonly 
took place between the boys of Brooke’s school and others in the 
city. Consequently his father, after six months, removed him to 
Mr. Norman’s school in Golden Dog Lane, as this establishment 
was close to his home at Stump Cross, in Magdalen Street. In 
due course Bayfield gained a sound knowledge of Latin and Greek, 
arithmetic, and the ordinary English subjects. It was the intention 
of his father to educate his son for the medical profession ; but 
circumstances unfortunately prevented this plan from being carried 
out. At the age of fifteen Bayfield left school to temporarily assist 
his father in his business as an ironmonger. Two years later (1834) 
the father died, and in consequence, his son remained in the 
business, which for many years was carried on in the name of 
Ann Bayfield and Son. It was a good old-fashioned business, 
with extensive storehouses and workshops ; and at the rear, a large 
garden with greenhouses. Here it was that Bayfield lived and 
laboured for nearly forty-five years, though it must be said that he 
was known to his many friends more as a man of science than as 
a man of business. His interest was certainly centered in his large 
collections of fossils and antiquities, in his garden, and in the 
choice succulent plants which he tended in his greenhouse. For 
many years he was churchwarden of St. Saviour’s. 
* See Paper in Proo. Scientific Society, London, vol. ii. p. 3, 1840. 
