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3n flDemoriam. 
JOSEPH ANTHONY MARTINDALE, 1837—1914. 
(PLATE XVI.). 
The small county of Westmorland, prolific beyond others in 
comparison to its area in men of intellectual attainments, 
the land of Lawson and Gough, of Ruskin and Southey, has 
just lost one of its brilliant trio of cryptogamic botanists by 
the decease, at Staveley, on the 3rd of April, of Mr. J. A. Mar- 
tindale, who. as a lichenologist, was one of the mainstays 
of this journal some twenty years ago, his excellent list of the 
Lichens of Westmorland appearing at intervals. 
Mr. Martindale was a native of the adjoining county of Dur- 
ham, being born at Stanhope, in Weardale, the eldest of the 
seven children of Mr. John Martindale, who was afterwards 
Mathematical Master at Bede College, Durham. His natural 
ability developed itself so early that at the age of seven, in 
competition with youths of eighteen and nineteen, he was, 
on examination, awarded a medal for Chemistry, which his 
father sternly refused to allow him to accept. 
Our subject took up the teaching profession, was trained 
at Battersea Training College, appointed to a school at Stanwix, 
near Carlisle, in 1857, and in 1859 t° Staveley, where he 
remained as Head Master till his retirement in 1902. He 
was a born teacher, and after his retirement continued as a 
lecturer under the County Education Authorities, only re- 
linquishing a course of lectures arranged for 1913-14 owing to 
ill-health. 
He was twice married, first to Mary Ann Seed in 1861, and 
after her death in 1890 he married Emily J. Ruthven, in 1894, 
having sons and daughters of both, the eldest son, G. E. 
Martindale, being himself an accomplished botanist. 
Martindale was, both physically and mentally, a vigorous, 
able and many-sided man. On the physical side he was one 
of the founders of the old Volunteer movement of 1878 in 
Staveley, and rose to the rank of Colour-Sergeant and Quarter- 
Master of the local contingent of the Border Regiment, and he 
was ever an indefatigable walker, making all his journeys 
on foot when acting as Inspector of Religious Instruction for 
the Council Schools of Westmorland. He took an active 
interest in politics and in the local management of the village, 
serving on the Parish Council and other bodies. 
He was a musician, organist of the old Parish Church, and 
then of St. James’s Church, Staveley, and to a certain extent 
did a little bit of musical composition. He was an excellent 
linguist too, as becomes an educational expert, and so useful 
in scientific work. His lichenological studies made him take 
1914 May 1. 
