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��NOTES BY THE WAY.

��Daughter of

the Rev. W.

Barnes.

��Widow of

Prof. T. S.

Baynes.

��Daughter of

Martin F.

Tapper.

��George Barnett Smith.

��Daughter of the Ettrick Shepherd.

��Widow of Prof. E. A. Freeman.

��1888, January 4th (Marquis of Salisbury). Miss LAURA LIEBE BARNES.

" In consideration of the merits of her late father, the Rev. W. Barnes, as an author and linguist, and on account of her destitute condition. 50Z."

Rev. W. Barnes, 1820-86 ; author of ' Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect.'

1888, January 4th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. ANNABELLA BAYNES.

" In consideration of the eminence of her late husband, Prof. T. S. Baynes, as an author and scholar, and of her destitute condi- tion. 151."

Thomas Spencer Baynes ; born March 24th, 1823 ; editor of the ninth edition of ' The Encvclopsedia Britannica ' ; was assistant editor of The Daily News, 1857-64 ; died May 30th, 1887 (' Cham- bers's Encyclopaedia,' vol. i. p. 809).

1890, January 15th (Marquis of Salisbury.) Miss ELLIN ISABELLE TTTPPER.

" In recognition of the services of her late father, Mr. Martin F. Tupper, to literature, and in consideration of her inadequate means of support. 75Z."

1810-89. ' Proverbial Philosophy ' was first published in 1838 (' D.N.B.,' vol. Ivii. pp. 318-20).

1891, May 2nd (Marquis of Salisbury). MR. GEORGE BARNETT SMITH.

" In consideration of his services to literature, and of his inadequate means of support. 801."

Born May 17th, 1841 ; author of ' Life of Gladstone,' * Life of John Bright,' and other works (' Who 's Who,' 1901).

1892, March 8th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. MARY GRAY GARDEN.

" In consideration of the literary merits of her father, the late James Hogg (known as the Ettrick Shepherd), and of her inadequate means of support. 40Z."

Author of " Memorials of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, with preface by Prof. Veitch " (Alexander Gardner, 1885).

1892, June 20th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. ELEANOR FREEMAN.

"In consideration of the eminence of her late husband, Prof. Edward Augustus Freeman, as an historian. 100J.

Athenceum obituary notice, March 19th, 1892.

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