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MEMOIR. 
more than the ordinary share of hard work and fatigue. He was always 
fond of walking exercise, and to his active and abstemious habits are 
no doubt greatly due the good health and unimpaired faculties which 
he maintained to the last. He married soon after going to Waltham 
Abbey, Elizabeth, only daughter of George Ranken, Esq. who survives 
him, and by her had a family of five sons and two daughters. Though 
especially happy in his family relations he had the great sorrow of 
losing 3 of his children, viz. : the eldest son, Lieut. W. B. Askwith, 
R. E., who was killed at Suakim in 1885; his fourth son, Lieut. 
Charles Hamilton Askwith, R.N., who died of fever on return from 
Malta in 1887, and his eldest daughter, Mrs. Kennedy, who died some 
years since. His children who survive him are G. R. Askwith Esq., 
Barrister-at-Law, Captain J. B. H. Askwith, R.H.A., Captain H. F. 
Askwith, R.A., and one daughter unmarried. The deceased general 
was a cousin of the late General Sir William Bell, K.C.B.,Colonel- 
Commandant, R.H.A. (Adjutant R.A. at Waterloo), who was also a 
native of Ripon, and he inherited the latter’s medals and decorations. 
General Askwith was laid to rest in Kensal Green Cemetery, on 
November 30th, 1897, with every token of respect. Major Abdy, R.A. 
attended and placed two lovely wreaths on the coffin, one from the 
R.A. Mess, Woolwich and another from the R.A. Institution; a large 
wreath being also sent from Aldershot. 
It is no mere eulogistic formula to say that few men have led better, 
more useful, or more honoured lives than the subject of this memoir. 
In point of age he was Father of the Royal Artillery, and we his sons 
cannot do better than try to emulate his example. 
Some of the abore information has been taken from the obituary notice iD the Times, November 
26th, 1897. 
