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OBITUARY NOTICES. 
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OBITUARY NOTICES. 
MR. THOMAS SOUTHWELL, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
j By Dr. Long. 
It is with genuine regret that we have to chronicle, in this first 
number of our new volume, the death of Mr. Thomas 
Southwell. Vigorous and active up to the last, he was 
seized with a stroke of paralysis on August nth, which 
rendered him partially unconscious, and he passed away 
peacefully at his residence, io The Crescent, Norwich, on 
Sunday, September 5th, 1909, in the 79th year of his age. 
Mr. Southvvell was by birth a Norfolk man, having been 
born at King’s Lynn in 1831 ; and it was always with some 
measure of pride that he recalled the fact that he was a native 
Of this interesting old town. At the age of 15, he started to 
make his own way in the world, and entered the service of 
Messrs. Gurney (afterwards Messrs. Barclay) at the King’s 
Lynn branch of their bank where, at this time, his father held 
the position of chief cashier. After remaining at Lynn for 
six years, he was transferred to the branch at Fakenham, 
where he spent the next fifteen years, i.e., until 1867, when he 
was removed to the head-quarters of the bank at Norwich, 
from which he retired in 1896, after fifty years’ service. He 
thus spent nearly the whole of his life in Norfolk ; and, as 
his duties in connection with the bank frequently necessitated 
his visiting its various branches, he had numerous opportunities 
of which no man could have made better use, for making 
himself acquainted with the Natural History of the district. 
When quite a boy Mr. Southwell began to develop a keen 
interest in birds, and thus early did he sow the seeds which 
