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Oxoniensis of 185Q. The Rev. Wm, Denton died 2 January, 1888; the Rev. Sir William H. Cope, Bart., died in 1892; Wm. Bell, Ph.D., died at Bonn in 1868 (4 th S. ii. 529).

The Rev. William Major Kingsmill, who was mentioned as one of the few surviving contributors to the first volume of * N. & Q., 5 died on 13 January. He was a son of the Rev. Henry Kingsmill, B.A., of Southampton and Kilkenny, was of Jesus College, Cam- bridge, and was ordained in 1848 to the curacy of Tothill Fields. For the last thirty- five years he had been Rector of Bredicot with Tibberton, Worcestershire. W. C. B.

The late George William Sky ring, a con- tributor to the first volume of ' N. & Q.,' was the only son of Commander William George Skyring, Royal Navy, who, when in command of H.M. surveying vessel ^Etna (six guns), was on duty in one of the rivers on the west coast of Africa, and was killed by a native in the year 1833 or 1834. Mr. George William Sky- ring was born in the year 1831, was educated at King's College School, London, and was admitted to a partnership in the firm of Stilwell & Sons, then of 22, Arundel Street, Strand, in the year 1858. He died on 15 August, 1866, at Hampstead, greatly beloved by all who knew him. His remains lie in Abney Park Cemetery.

JOHN PAKENHAM STILWELL.

42, Pall Mall.

I notice in the list of contributors to the first volume of ' N. & Q.,' as supplied by MR. T. CANN HUGHES, the name of John Allen Giles. The word "Bampton" added in brackets shows this to be the late Rev. John Allen Giles, D.C.L., Rector of Sutton, Surrey, from 1867 to 1884. He died at Sutton Rectory, 24 September, 1884. He was Oxford Vinerian Scholar in 1831, took his degree of D.C.L. in 1838, and was head master of the City of London School from 1836 to 1840. He held the curacy of Bampton (whence he communicated with 'N. & Q.' from 1849 to 1854). His literary work was most voluminous, the titles of books of which he was either editor or author filling upwards of a column of Crockford. I corresponded with Dr. Giles once in 1882, and still retain the following couplet with which his kind letter in reply opened :

DEAR MR. PA<;K,

You don't at all offend By asking what I now with pleasure send.

The name John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor is that of Prof. Mayor, of Cambridge. He was (and maybe still is) a great advocate oi

vegetarian diet. I have a Times report by me of his speech as president of the Vegetarian Society in 1885. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

MR. T. CANN HUGHES gives us the names of four surviving contributors to the first volume of 'N. & Q.' I am able to add another name to his list, that of my father, who, although deprived of sight, still enjoys good health. W. B. RYE, Jun.

T. G. Lomax (Lichfield). This gentleman was Mayor of Lichfield in 1843, where, at the sign of 'the "Johnson's Head," he conducted his business as a bookseller for sixty-three years. He was an enthusiastic admirer of Dr. Johnson, and possessed many of his relics. Died at Lichfield on 1 January, 1873, aged ninety.

B. Thorpe. Benjamin Thorpe, archaeologist, antiquary, and Anglo-Saxon scholar, ob. 19 July, 1870, aged eighty -eight.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

J. S. (Doncaster) is my venerable friend Dr. Sykes, of that place, now, I believe, in his eighty-fourth year. S. O. ADDY.

I write to inform you that my late husband, John Miland, died on 13 August, 1877. I may add that I value much the whole series of 'N. & Q., } from 3 November, 1849, to the present time, which I possess.

ELIZABETH MILAND.

E. H. A. Rev. Edward Hussey Adamson, M.A., Vicar of St. Alban's, Heworth, co. Dur- ham, from 1842 to 1898. His first contribu- tion appears in No. 43, 24 August, 1850, p. 197; his last in the issue for 14 August, 1897, p. 124. RICHARD WELFORD.

I have not noticed the name Margaret Gatty, 1 st S. i. 429. Along with other names I mentioned the above on 27 November, 1899.

H. J. B.

The contributor named in the editorial comment as " one of our earliest contributors " appears by the index in 4 th S. viii. 32, 8 July, 1871; but the undersigned had ap- peared in 3 rd S, vii., 1867, a difference of four years; so over, not under, thirty years' work.

A. H.

FIELD-MARSHALS IN THE BRITISH ARMY (9 th S. v.44).~ I am grateful both to COL. PRIDEAUX and the Athenceum critic for setting me right. The necessary correction has been made just in time for the third edition. Perhaps I may urge in palliation that I was misled by a passage in the letter from Lord Bathurst to