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 410 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. VILIFY 21, 1921. CLUB MEMBERSHIP LONGEVITY. The Hon. } Edwin Berkeley Portman, who died on April j 27, 1921, had been a member of the United University Club since March 7, 1850, i.e., for full 70 years. Does this not constitute a | record ? ARTHUR DENMAN, M.A., F.S.A. A RELIC OF NAPOLEON. The senior officer of Sir Hudson Lowe's Staff at St. Helena, having special charge of the person of the Emperor Napoleon, was Col. Thomas ! Lyster,who was recalled for having challenged General Bertrand to a duel. He was pre- sented by Napoleon with a silver coffee-urn, engraved with the Imperial Eagle and crowned N. I was informed some years ago by the late Mr. Alfred Cha worth Lyster ! (father of Dr. Cecil R. C. Lyster) that this j urn had been in possession of "Mr. John Hardman, late of the Home Civil Service, : Somerset House,' l whose father had been j given it by Col. Lyster. Could anyone! give information as to the present where- j abouts of this interesting relic ? H. L. L. D. MR. GORDON, PHILANTHROPIST, NEAR | BLACKHEATH. In Elliott's Memoir of the 5th Earl of Aberdeen it is noted that in j 1861 the Earl got into communication j with " Mr. Gordon, a gentleman resident near Blackheath, who devotes much of his | time to visiting the poor and superintending ' the ragged schools in that neighbourhood." Who was this Mr. Gordon ? But for the date I should have said that it was " Chinese " Gordon, but at that time he was in China. J. M. BULLOCH. 37, Bedford Square, W.C.I. DR. ARNDELL, HOBART. Dr. Arndell j went out to Van Diemen's Land (in 1814 ?) '. with James Gordon, who married his ! daughter, and after whom the Gordon river j was named, Gordon having lent the whale- boat in which Capt. James Kelly circum- ! navigated Tasmania. Arndell became ! Naval officer of the Colony. What is known of his English origins ? J. M. BULLOCH. 37, Bedford Square, W.C.I. ENGRAVING or OLD SOLDIER. I have^in my collection an old steel engraving very crude in drawing. It is Sin. square (C. Mosley Sculp.) with initials J. W. in flowing script. Under the engraving is written : " The Old Soldier remarkable for constant attendance at St. Paul's ; done from an original painting." The background is a view% in very poor per- spective, of St. Paul's Churchyard. Can any reader inform me as to the name of the artist, and where is the " original painting" ? And is there any record as to who the " Old Soldier " was ? The uniform is some- what on the lines of the Greenwich pen- sioners. NAHUM BARNET. Melbourne, Australia. POEM WANTED. I should be glad if any reader could give me a copy of a poem entitled ' Teares for the neuer sufficientlie bewailed death of the late right honourable and most worthie of all honourable titles Alexander, Earle of Dumfermeling, Lord Fyuie and Vrquhart, late Lord Chancellar of Scotland,' also the name of the author. The following, I believe, is the second or third verse of the Lament : Come all Wrong' d Orphanes, come bewaile your syre, Who did of late (but yet too soone) expyre, CeBft woefull widowes, come you, weepe you fast, Your anchor, and your hope, your helpe is past. The poem is dedicated to " Dame Beatrice Ruthven, Ladie Coldenknowes," daughter of the first Earl of Gowrie. JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. PROFESSIONAL GENEALOGIST. -- Would you allow me to ask what constitutes a professional genealogist ? Is there any examination or other qualification for the " professional " character, or is it merely a phrase ? I have always been under the impression that the officials of the Heralds' College were the only professional genealo- gists ? I note, however, that some other people style themselves so. AN AMATEUR GENEALOGIST. JOHN AXFOBD was author of a work called LIGHTFOOT. May I ask that some reader ' Hidden Things Brought to Light,' the ; who has access to Hotton's ' Emigrants to fourth edition of which (probably a reprint) j America ' will inform me if the names of was printed by John White, of Newcastle- j Philip or John Lightfoot occur in it as upon-Tyne, between 1711 and 1761, in a emigrants, between 1750 and 1790, and any 12mo of 24 pages. What more is known I references to them it may contain, of him ? J. W. F. J. W. LIGHTFOOT, Major.