Alexander Winter. In Memoriam. 
By the Editor. 
(N OTHER of our most valued contributors, one 
who was also among the ablest, best known and 
most esteemed inhabitants of this colony, passed 
away nearly a year ago. Mr. Alexander Winter, who 
so well filled many of the pages of this magazine, died, 
aged 73, on board the Royal Mail steamer Esk, on the 
13th September, 1884, near St. Thomas, where he had 
gone on account of ill-health; and his death has hardly yet 
been noticed in these pages only owing to the absence 
of the editor while the last pages of the previous number 
of " Timehri " were passing through the press. 
Mr. WINTER was born in London on the 8th of May, 
181 1, was educated at home, and came out here on the 
15th of September, 1834, since which time he had hardly 
been out of the colony. He took up an appointment as 
Colonial Postmaster for Berbice immediately after his 
arrival ; and subsequently became Harbour Master in the 
same county. Being born of a family owning plantation 
property here, he not unnaturally also became involved 
in planting pursuits. He was, for a time, attorney for 
two estates belonging to Sir Henry Barklay, " High- 
bury" and " Reliance,'' and also for plantations " Rose 
Hall," " Adelphi," " Eliza and Mary," " Bath," " Hope 
and Experiment," "Blairmont," and for some other 
