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president’s address. 
succeeded by his nephew Robert, for the presentation to the 
living of Fincham was in the hands of the Forbv family ; but 
Robert did not prove to Fincham till 1801. In 1804 his sight 
began to fail, and this disqualifying him for botany, he took up 
the study of architectural antiquities. 
'The portrait of the Rev. Robert Forby, which hangs in the 
picture gallery at Norwich Castle, was presented from Mr. 
Dawson Turner’s library in 1858 ; on the back of it is written 
“ My old Tutor, painted about 1800.” The artist is unknown. 26 
Robert Forby was “ a man of letters, strong mind, and brusque 
manners.” 19 Dawson Turner calls him “ a clergyman of the 
old school, sedulously employed in the education of youth, and 
an active magistrate.” He was a J.P., Deputy- Lieutenant, 
and Commissioner of the Land Tax. He died at Fincham on 
December 20th, 1825, fainting in his bath and being suffocated 
in the water. 20 
While residing at Wereham, Robert Forby had been visited 
by the Rev. William and Mrs. Kirby, who were driving from 
Barham, near Ipswich, via Lynn, Castle Rising, and 
Dersingham, to spend a holiday with his sister and her 
husband, the Rev. Charles Sutton, who lived in a cottage at 
Holme-next-the-Sea. lb Dr. Sutton, born in Norwich 6th March, 
1756, had studied at Norwich Grammar School and St. John’s 
Fellow; D.D. 1806. Previously Curate of Elmsett in Suffolk, 
in 1788 he was instituted Perpetual Curate of St. George 
Tombland ; he became in 1793 incumbent of Alburgh (three 
miles north of Harleston), and in 1794 Rector of Holme and 
Vicar of Thornham. 
Botanically a pupil of John Pitchford, the Roman Catholic 
surgeon resident in St. George’s parish, Sutton “ first observed 
and well ascertained ” Orobanche elatior, and in Vol. IV. 
(1798) of the Linnean Transactions, published a “Monograph 
of the Orobanche,” with special reference to Norfolk specimens. 
In 1824 Dr. Sutton was on the committee appointed by the 
Hospital Board to consider arrangements for Norwich Musical 
Cambridge, where he was tenth Wrangler and a 
* See Illustration. 
