OBITUARY NOTICES. 209 
Obituary Notices. 
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HARDING. 
Wiuuiam Harpine was born 18th August, 1792. He was the 
third son of Robert Harding, Esq., of Upcott, by Dionysia, 
daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey. The army being chosen for 
him as his profession, he while quite young saw much service, 
and was actively engaged in many of the battles ending with 
Waterloo, holding rank as lieutenant and ensign in his regiment. 
After his retirement he joined the North Devon Militia, and 
became Colonel in the corps. He took an active part in county 
business of all kinds, as well as in political matters, and was 
foremost, until incapacitated by age and failing strength, in good 
works of various kinds. He took a warm interest in everything 
connected with the history, antiquity, and natural history of 
Devon, and he was a member of most of the literary and 
scientific societies of the county. To the Transactions of the 
Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society he contributed several 
valuable papers, and in 1845 he published the first volume of a 
History of Tiverton, and the second followed in 1847. He was 
elected a corresponding member of our Society in 1856, and our 
museum is enriched. by his gift of a valuable series of the 
Carboniferous fossils of North Devon. He died on the 13th 
January, 1886, in his ninety-fourth year, and was buried at 
Pilton. 
CHARLES WILLIAM PEACH, A.L.S. 
The death of Charles William Peach, a.t.s., in his 86th year, has 
removed a most zealous and hard-working man of science from the 
list of corresponding members, and one who had endeared himself 
to the older members of the Plymouth Institution by his enthu- 
siastic and lovable nature while resident in the adjacent county. 
Mr, Peach was born in the year 1800 at Wansford, in 
