HILLS : E. G. VARENNE, OF KELVEDON, BOTANIST. 299 
patients—visits paid (one may assume) more in a friendly way 
than in his professional capacity. 
Varenne died at Kelvedon on 22 April 1887, in the seventy- 
seventh year of his age. He lies buried in the church-yard, 
close to the grave of his first wife, a little north-west from the 
church tower. His funeral brought together nearly all the 
adult inhabitants of the town, the size of the gathering, which 
quite filled the church, testifying to the great respect in which 
he was held by his neighbours. 
My uncle, Mr. Thomas Butler, formerly of Ewell Hall,. 
Kelvedon, but now living at Leicester, who knew Varenne 
extremely well, sends me a reminiscence connected with his. 
death. Feeling his end approaching, he gave instructions that 
he was to be borne to his grave low (meaning not shoulder-high,, 
as the custom is), declaring that, as he had lived all his life 
among the people, and had loved them, and had never set himself 
above them, so at the last he desired to remain on an equality 
with them and not to be elevated above them. Therefore,, 
he was carried by his neighbours to his last resting place in 
the humble manner he desired. 
By his will, made 5 June 1879 and proved at Ipswich on 
4 July 1887, Varenne left everything to his widow, Amynta,. 
whom he appointed sole executrix. His estate, wholly personal,, 
was sworn at a trifle less than six thousand pounds. 
All testimony obtainable at Kelvedon goes to prove 
the affection and respect in which he was held by his. 
neighbours, and this in spite of the brusqueness of his manner, 
his so-called “ infidelity,” and the terror inspired by the ferocity 
of his big black horse. My uncle, who has written me his recol¬ 
lections of Varenne, refers to him as “ that dear old man ” and 
adds :—“ I think that no one in Kelvedon or its neighbourhood 
was ever more universally loved and respected than E. G. 
Varenne. . . . There never lived a man of more kindly 
nature.” The Rev. E. F. Hay, the present Vicar of Kelvedon, 
writing to me recently, spoke of him as “ a remarkable man in 
his generation.” 
Of photographic portraits of Varenne, there exist a surprising 
number, considering the comparatively early period in the 
development of the art of photography at which he lived.. Most 
of them were probably taken in the “ Sixties ” of last century. 
