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Chase (Robert William), viv. 
This writer, a member of the B.O.U., now of St. Brelade’s, 
King’s Norton, Worcestershire, but formerly residing at 
Poole Hall, Whishaw, claims a place here solely on account 
of having written the Bird section of the Brit. Assoc. Handbook 
of Birmingham. He also paid considerable attention for 
many years to the birds of the Fame Islands, and has re- 
corded a number of rarities from the islands in the Zoologist 
and other journals. He was at one time president of the 
Midland Union of Natural History Societies. 
1884. Notes on the Terns breeding at the Fame Islands. {Midi. 
Nat. vii. pp. 67-70.) 
1885. Address on Ornithology to Annual Meeting of Midi. Union of 
Nat. Hist. Societies, at Birmingham, June 16, 1885. {Midi. 
Nat. viii. pp. 177-85.) 
1886. Birds of the Birmingham District. [In Brit. Assoc. Handbook of 
Birmingham, pp. 275-84.] Birmingham : 1886. 1 vol. Post 8vo. 
Childrey (Joshua), 1623-70 
Joshua Childrey, an antiquary and astrologer, was the 
son of Robert Childrey of Rochester, where he was born 
in 1623. He was educated at Rochester Grammar School, 
and .entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1640, and became 
one of the clerks, leaving the University, however, on the 
outbreak of the Civil War, and not returning until the city 
had surrendered to the Parliamentary forces. He took 
his degree of B.A. in 1646, and is said to have been expelled 
in 1648. He kept a school at Faversham until the Restora- 
tion, when he quickly obtained preferment, being finally 
appointed to the Rectory of Upwey, Dorsetshire, in 1664. 
He died there August 26, 1670. 
His Britannia Baconica contains but little ornithology, 
but is of importance as the “ earliest attempt at a systematic 
description of the Natural History of the whole of Great 
Britain. This work seems further to have inspired Robert 
Plot to write the Natural History of Oxfordshire , the fore- 
