138 In Memoriam : Rev. E. A. Woodruff e-Peacock. 
for he accomplished probably more than any other single 
worker in the accumulation of facts relating to the distribution 
of plants and animals in the county in which he was born, 
and in which he spent the greater part of his life. He was. 
one of the founders of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union in 
1893 ; for ten years he was its Organizing Secretary ; he was 
its President in 1905-6 ; during the entire period of its 
existence he has been its moving spirit, and he was once 
aptly described by the late Canon William Fowler as its 
‘ nursing father.’ He was an all-round naturalist. Full 
of enthusiasm himself, he inspired enthusiasm in others, 
and he was ever ready to help and encourage fellow-workers 
and junior students. From his youth up he was an inde- 
fatigable observer and note-taker — ‘ a humble recorder of 
trifling every-day facts ’ is the description he gave of himself 
in the preface to his ‘ Check-List of Lincolnshire Plants/ 
published in 1909. 
Phanerogamic Botany was his special study, and he devoted 
the leisure of many years to the compilation of a Flora on 
ecological lines. Mr. A. G. Tansley, F.R.S., of Cambridge, 
was so much impressed by a perusal of the MS. of this Flora 
that he offered to bear the expense of its publication. * It 
carries out,’ he wrote, ‘ the centre thought of ecology. You 
go for twenty or thirty years to work the same bit of ground 
annually to discover its changes. As you are willing to sacri- 
fice any time to get at the facts, you have discovered the 
obscure laws lying behind them.’ This offer was a great 
encouragement to Mr. Peacock, who, so long as health per- 
mitted, was engaged in making a final revision of his MS. 
for the press. The Flora has been left to the University of 
Cambridge. 
Mr. Peacock was thorough in everything he undertook. 
In his preaching he always made it his aim to get a series of 
correlated ideas for every address, and he then endeavoured 
to give expression to his thoughts in plain, simple, forcible 
language. 
He was the eldest son of the well-known antiquary, 
Edward Peacock, F.S.A., of Bottesford Manor. He was 
born there on the 23rd July, 1858, and was educated first 
at Edinburgh Academy, then at St. John’s College, Cambridge, 
and at Bishop Hatfield’s Hall, Durham, where he took the 
degree of L.Th. in 1880. After holding curacies at Long 
Benton, Barkingside and Harrington, he became Vicar of 
Cadney in 1891, remaining there until 1920, when he was 
appointed Rector of Grayingham. He contributed many 
articles on natural history topics to scientific journals and 
to the press, as readers of The Naturalist are well aware, 
and he wrote a number of pamphlets on the relations of 
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