Page:Notes and Queries - Series 12 - Volume 5.djvu/95

 S. V. APRIL, 1919.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

89

was in the Patent Office, than to me. Since then, however, I have not only read proof- sheets for many years, but made searches for births, marriages, deaths, and wills at the official repositories at Somerset House in many caies without success, which is rather astonishing, as they all relate to persons who have died since 1850. There are numbers of deaths of which the registration cannot, for various reasons, be traced. One instance I recollect wa3 that of a person named Yonge, particulars of whose death could not be found. There was no doubt about the death having been registered : eventually it was found under Jonge. The case of Anne Humby the actress was one that troubled Fred Boaie greatly. I mentioned it in 4 N. & Q.' in 1893 (8 S. iv. 62), and have since heard that she married again, and was buried under the name of her second husband, whatever that was.

Another curious thing is that at the end <of each volume of the Somerset House registers are entries of thousands of persons, from infants upwards, who are unidentified, except as " dead body found," male or female.

When in ' Modern English Biography ' the reader comes across "Death not registered," that means I had a long search without result. This book is of " persons who have died during the years 1851-1900," and who did anything wise, foolish, or notorious. The first volume was issued in 1892, and I contributed some comments on it at 8 S. i. 487 (1892), and iv. 62 (1893). At 8 S. xii. 301 (Oct. 16, 1897) MB. W. P. COURTNEY contributed a long account of George Clement Boase, whose death had occurred on the 1st of that month.

Frederic Boase was brought up to the law, but he never took to it. He passed his examinations, and was admitted a solicitor on Jan. 31, 1867, and nominally practised at Exmouth. I presume that was the year he came to London, but he took out no other certificate to practise.

One day in 1877 I heard of the retirement of the Librarian of the Law Society : he died in retirement in his ninety-first year. I at once posted off to Boase, and told him it was a position for which he was just suited. He applied, and in due course was appointed. He retired in 1903, when, as usual, he was granted a pension. He had already come into money on his father's death in Septem- ber, 1896, and inherited more in October, .1897, on the death of his brother George.

RALPH THOMAS.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

(See 10 S. xi., xii.; 11 S. i.-xii. passim; 12 S. i: 65, 243, 406 ; ii. 45, 168, 263, 345 ; iii. 125, 380, 468 ; iv. 69, 207, 294, 319.)

LOCAL WORTHIES (continued). BABING FAMILY.

Exeter. On May 1, 1913, a tablet in St. Leonard's Church was unveiled by the Earl of Northbrook, and dedicated by the Bishop of Exeter, in memory of mer r ~* the Baring family, who resided in the p ; n oi' nearly 100 years up to 1816. During that period the second John Baring was member of Parliament for Exeter for 25 years. The tablet is thus inscribed :

" To the memory of John Baring of Larkbear, who died 1748, aged 52 ; Elizabeth Vowler, his wife, who died 1766, aged 64 ; and of their children Thomas Vowler Baring, who died 1758, aged 25, and John Baring of Mount Radford, who died 1816, aged 85 ; and of Ann Parker, his wife, who died 1765, aged 36 ; also of- their children, Ann, who died %L804, Elizabeth, who died 1802, and Francis, who died 1810. all of whom lie buried in the adjacent churchyard. This monu- ment is erected by Francis George, second Earl of Northbrook, the Honble. Francis Henry Baring. Francis Denzil, 5th Baron Ashburton, John, second Baron Bevelstoke, Evelyn, first Earl of Cromer, descendants of John and Elizabeth Baring, 1913."

The tablet was designed by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson.

SIB S. A. SADLER.

Middlesboro'. On June 21, 1913, the Right Hon. Sir John Seely (the Secretary for War) unveiled a statue of Sir Samuel Alexander Sadler, which had been erected by public subscription in Victoria Square. The statue is of bronze, the work of Prof. Edward Lanteri, and represents Sir Samuel in Court dress and wearing his mayoral robes. The pedestal is of Peterhead granite, and stands in the centre of a semicircular wall of the same material, terminating at each end with pillars bearing inscribed tablets. The total height of the statue and pedestal is 20 ft., the statue being 8 ft. 3 in. high. The inscriptions are as follows :

[On pedestal] (Borough arms)

Sir Samuel

Alexander Sadler

Knight, V.D.

1842-1911.