LIST OF MEMOIRS. ROBERT AKRIGG. ELIZABETH BENNETT. ALFRED W. BROWN. HENRY J. CATFORD. ELIZABETH S. DIX. SARAH FOX. JANE GRAHAM. HENRIETTA GREEN. WILLIAM KITCHING. ALICE SALTHOUSE. GEO. SATTERTHWAITE. HUDSON SCOTT. ELIZABETH SIMMS. PETER H. SINCLAIR. ANN SOUTHALL. MARY ANN SOUTHALL. ANN STRADLING. CATHARINE TRUSTED. CATHERINE O. WATSON. SAMUEL E. WEDMORE WILLIAM COOR PARKER. ANNA WEEKES. MARGARET PARKER. ROGER PRESTON. HANNAH SADLER. JOSEPH WILLIAMS. SARAH WILSON. These memoirs are published without any official sanction or supervision on the part of the Society of Friends, and on the sole responsibility of the writers, their friends, and the Editor. TABLE, Showing the Deaths at different Ages, in the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, during the years 1868-89, 1889-90, and 1890-91. 144 162 306 *The numbers in this series are included in the next, "under 5 years." Average age in 1888-89 Average age in 1889-90 Average age in 1890-91 59 years, 2 months, and 16 days 60 years, 3 months, and 3 days. 57 years, 2 months, and 20 days. Ammett Holme, Sedbergh. An Elder. Robert Akrigg was born in Grisedale, and, though descended from an old Friends' family, was not himself born a member. He had very few educational advantages, and in his early life his occupation was to tend his father's sheep, and help him generally on the farm, being the eldest son. He began to attend Friends' meetings when young, their meeting-house being the only place of worship in the valley. He soon became convinced that the principles professed by the Society of Friends were in accordance with the doctrines of the New Testament, and he was received into membership in 1840. He gave clear evidence of a real change of heart by his testimony for his B Saviour; and his Christianity was especially manifested to all around him by his quiet, consistent, and reverent life. "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile," was a remark often made respecting him. About 1844 he took a small farm near Sedbergh, and was a most diligent attender of Brigflatts Meeting, both on First-days and on week-days, to the close of his life, and he filled the office of Overseer and Elder for many years. He was never married, but had always a happy home, being blessed with the companionship, first of a sister, and, after her marriage, with that of a niece as housekeeper. About two years before his death an accident rendered necessary the amputation of one of his hands; and the quiet trustfulness with which he faced the operation, and his resignation to the inconvenience afterwards, were very striking. He was habitually a man of few words, but what he said could always be depended on, for he punctually fulfilled all his engagements. On hearing some rather depreciatory remark about a Friend, he quietly said, "The Bible says we are to judge by fruits, and I cannot see that we have leave to go any "'further." His last illness was very short, and he had |