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' TRILBY ' : ' LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND ' : EYS WANTED (12 S. v. 151). The fol- owing is my opinion. In ' Trilby ' du laurier introduced Gleyre's Studio in J aris ("Carrel's"). "Little Billee " was Frederick Walker, and " the Laird," T. R. jamont. " Taffy " was a composite of nore than one original, notably of a certain riend of Mr. Armstrong and Sir Edward ^oynter " a splendidly built and hand- lome athlete," writes Canon Ainger. Vhistler was " Joe Sibley ; " and, per- laps as the portrait was rather too like, te " took it in snuff " and wrote fiercely o The Pall Matt Gazette. An apology was nserted in Harper's Magazine (wherein Trilby ' was running) for January, 1895. Che original numbers are before me, and lu Maurier was certainly emphatic enough vith both pen and pencil. His drawings of /Vhistler are not to be mistaken. When the lovel appeared in book form the place of Sibley was filled by one Anthony, " tall and (tout and slightly bald," writes Whistler, >xultingly. He had been consulted in Anthony's making. So his self-respect is e-instated. When ' Trilby ' was burlesqued it the Gaiety, Whistler was represented as ' The Stranger," but was unrecognized and ipeedily disappeared.

GEORGE MARSHALL.

21 Parkfield Road, Liverpool.

The reference to Whistler in Du Mauri er's lovel is dealt with fully in his ' Life,' by 5. R. and J. Pennell, vol. ii. pp. 160 et seq. Che omission of " Joe Sibley " from the book ifter serial publication is also mentioned in George du Maurier,' by T. Martin Wood, vho states that even Whistler himself ' confessed " to a regret for the disappear - ince ; this seems so improbable, in view of Vhistler's resentment of the characterisation, hat it would be interesting to know if there s any authority for the confession.

F. J. P.

R.. S. SURTEES (12 S. v. 122). Robert >mith Surtees was the second son of An- hony Surtees of Milkwell Burn and Ham- terley Hall, co. Durham, and of Ackworth
 * ark, co. York, by Alice Beaumont his wife,

ister of Christopher Beaumont of Wylam, tl.P. for South Northumberland, and his ddest brother Anthony having died aged 30 kt Malta, March 24, 1831, in vita patris, ucceeded his father in the above mentioned (states, March 5, 1838. He was born in i803, was a J.P. and D.L. for Durham Bounty, and served as High Sheriff, 1856,

and was for some time major in the Durham militia. He died at Brighton, March lQ r 1864. He was succeeded by his only son Anthony, who died at Rome, March 17, 1871 r unmarried, aged 24, and his two daughters succeeded to the estates. F. DE H. L.

JENNER FAMILY (12 S. v. 149). The conjecture at the end of this note that a certain Thomas Jenner, son of Josiah r became President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1747, is without foundation. The president's father was John Jenner, of Standish, co. Gloucester. (See W. D. Macray, Magdalen College Register vi. 153.)*

W. A. B. C.

GRIM OR GRIME (12 S. v. 95, 137, 160). Grim was a Scandinavian (Danish) adven- turer (like Asgar, Hacon, Orm, &c.), who gave- his name to Grimsby (and they to Asgarby, Haconby, Ormsby, &c.), "by" signifying (originally) a dwelling or single farm, and (eventually) a village. The suffix is common in Denmark, and is also found in the names of places colonized by Danes. (See G. S.- Streatfield's ' Lincolnshire and the Danes,' 19.) Until the abolition of the dues in the Sound, vessels belonging to Grimsby could claim certain privileges and exemptions at the port of Elsinore which had been con,- f erred by the Danish founder of the town. (See Palgrave, ' English Commonwealth,' i. 50, and ' Normandy and England,' iii. 349.) Besides the Grimsby in Lincoln- shire, one ought not to forget that the chief port of Scilly is also called Grimsby. There is a Grim's dyke near Salisbury (part of the- old boundary between the Saxons and Welsh); Grime's dyke in Scotland (part of the old northern wall of Antoninus twixt Forth and Clyde) ; Grime's ditch in Cheshire- (an old earthwork). See Chalmers's ' Cale- donia,' i. 119. J. W. FAWCETT.

SOMERSET INCUMBENTS (12 S. v. 153). MR. FAWCETT and others may be interested^ to read an extract from the Report of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural- History Society, read at the annual meeting of the society at Taunton on July 29 last :

"From the Rev. F. W. Weaver, F.S.A., has been* received his library copy of ' Somerset Incum- bents,' which he edited in 1889, together with a considerable amount of additional information in the form of letters and loose manuscript sheets. Further entries have been made in the Society's interleaved copy of ' Somerset Incumbents,' and your Council is anxious to hear of somebody willing to undertake the collation of the memoranda preserved with the copy which Mr. Weaver has presented, and the additions and corrections to the