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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[lilford 
Lightfoot (Rev. John), 1735-88. See Pennant (T.) 
Lilford (Lord), 1833-96 
Thomas Lyttleton Powys, fourth Baron Lilford, born 
March 18, 1833, was the son of the third peer by the Hon. 
Mary Elizabeth Fox, daughter of the third Lord Holland. 
Even when at Harrow he had begun to contribute to the 
Zoologist , and he continued to do so while at Christ Church, 
Oxford, as well as during his vacations ; whilst it is hardly 
necessary to add that his subsequent letters and articles in 
that and other periodicals only ceased with his life. He was 
for many years President of the British Ornithologists’ 
Union, and an original member of that society formed in 
1858. His first communication to the Ibis was in 1860, on 
the birds observed in the Ionian Islands and on the coast 
of Albania, etc. To these succeeded— in 1865 and 1866 — - 
some ornithological notes on Spain, which he had visited in 
1856 and again in 1864. He returned to that country in 
1869 and devoted himself to working up the ornithology of 
the southern portion. In later years he contributed to the 
P.Z.S. and also frequently to the Zoologist. 
In 1873 and 1874, Lord Lilford — already somewhat 
crippled by rheumatic gout, to which he had long been 
subject, and to which he subsequently became a martyr — 
visited the Italian shores of the Mediterranean in the yacht 
Zara ; in 1875 portions of Cyprus were visited, and in the 
spring of 1876 he went to Santander and the neighbouring 
parts of north-western Spain, while in the early part of 1882 
the Mediterranean again attracted his attention. But these 
voyages had to be abandoned at last, and henceforward he 
devoted himself to work at home on his Coloured Figures 
of Birds of the British Islands and other works, as well as to 
a large natural history correspondence. For the most part 
his letters to even unknown correspondents were penned 
with his own hand, and all were marked with the same 
kindness and consideration. 
