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THE FOTHERGILL FAMILY AS ORNITHOLOGISTS. 
HUGH S. GLADSTONE, 
My attention has only recently been drawn to a list of Birds, 
given in Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire * for which the 
author ‘ acknowledges his obligations to Mr. Fothergill, 
an ingenious surgeon at Askrig.’ 
I have had considerable difficulty in identifying this 
‘ Mr. Fothergill,’ and I must here express my indebtedness 
to Mr. Bernard Thistlethwaite, the Author of The Thistle- 
thwaite Family,^ -who has given me much help. He has also 
referred me to his account, in the above-mentioned geneaolgy, 
of the descendants of Alexander Fothergill, farmer and 
lawyer, of Carr End, near Bainbridge, Wensleydale, York- 
shire, by his wife Margaret Thistlethwaite. Among their 
descendants is not only the ‘ ingenious surgeon at Askrig,’ 
but also the naturalist, Charles Fothergill. I must thank 
Mr. W. S. Fothergill and Dr. W. E. Fothergill, grandsons of 
John Fothergill, for the material assistance they have given 
me, and also Mr. Watson Fothergill, grand-nephew of Charles 
Fothergill, for his kindly help : Dr. Hingston Fox, the 
author of Doctor John Fothergill and his friends, has, moreover, 
rendered me considerable assistance. As the questions to be 
propounded are somewhat intricate, the following skeleton 
pedigree of the male descendants of Alexander Fothergill will, 
it is hoped, make them readily clear of comprehension : — 
Alexander Fothergill (A) 
| 
John (B) David Emmanuel 
I i I I I II 
Alex.(C) Thos. John(D) Joseph Will. Sam.(E) Geo. 
d. unm. d.unm. no male s.p. s.p. s.p. 
descent 
Alexander John (F) William (G) Thomas 
d. age 12 ] | s.p. 
John James Charles (H) John (I) Alexander 
William other issue 
* Thomas Dunham Whitaker : An History of Richmondshire , in the 
North Riding of the County of York. Vol. I. (1823), pp. 415-416. 
f Bernard Thistlethwaite : The Thistlethwaite Family : A Study in 
Genealogy. (1910.) 
1922 May 1 
