loving cup, of the period of Charles II., inscribed "Presented to Captain W. E. Price, M.P., by friends who have enjoyed hunting with the Tibberton Harriers." He was also a leading supporter of the Ledbury Hunt, under the Mastership of Mr. Andrew Knowles, of New Court, Newent.

On his marriage on the 29th of July, 1878, with Margaret, second daughter of Mr. R. N. Philips, late M.P. for Bury, of The Park, Manchester, and Welcombe, Warwickshire, the wedding presents included two possessing special local interest. One was a magnificent ormolu drawing-room clock, the gift of his friends and supporters in Tewkesbury. The other, an oil-painting of the Gloucester Docks, presented by the employés at Messrs. Price's works, "with the commercial progress of which locale," said an accompanying address, "your family have been so long and so honourably associated.' Mr. and Mrs. Price settled down at Hillfield, Wotton, which henceforth was a happy home to themselves, and a local centre of social and political action. What Major Price's works and aspirations were may in part be gathered from a brief record of some of the offices he filled, and the pursuits he followed. "For several years he was a Governor of the Gloucester Endowed Schools, and during the last three years, acting in the capacity of Chairman of that body, he had taken a warm interest in promoting the establishment of an Upper School for Girls in this City. He was also one of the Gloucester Charity Trustees. The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, and the Gloucester School of Science, of which he was President, welcomed him for his wide reading and devotion to scientific study, and on several occasions he contributed to the success of their meetings. He was also a Fellow of the Geological Society. He was a director of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company, and of the Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge Railway Company. He was a magistrate of this county for sixteen years, having qualified in 1869."

The eyes

of many were turned to him as a representative

for either the Forest or the Tewkesbury Electoral District. Serious symptoms of failing health, which had appeared in the early part of 1885, forbade any attempt to realise these wishes. The great political struggle, however, excited his keen interest, and, throwing himself earnestly into it, he rendered powerful help to the candidature of Mr. Godfrey Samuelson. The energy of the spirit was too much for the weakness of the flesh, and his efforts told so unfavourably upon his health, that complete rest was prescribed and a sea voyage advised. Accompanied by his wife, and his sister Mrs. Brooke-Hunt, he started in December in the P. and O. ss. Thames for India. It was a singularly rough and exciting voyage, and the invalid became so enfeebled that on arriving at Bombay, where his old friend, Sir William Wedderburn, had come to meet him, it was necessary to arrange for his earliest possible return.

After a stay of four days the party re-embarked, taking the P. & O. boat Bokhara for Marseilles. There they were met by the Major's father, and Mr. Waddy, his medical attendant. In two days the homeward journey was begun, and Tibberton Court was reached on Monday, February 1st. Here in the home of his parents the end came. In their presence, and that of his wife, and other members of his sorrowing family, he died in the early morning of February 10, 1886.

The funeral, which was largely attended, took place on Saturday 13th, when amidst solemn and impressive scenes he was laid to rest in Tibberton Churchyard, close to the beautiful and happy home of his early life.

One child, an infant son of a year old, survived him; a second son was born the following May.

All who knew Major Price, and were competent to judge, formed high opinions of his mental endowments and moral qualities. One of his most intimate friends wrote of him in the Gloucester Journal: With a clear logical instinct, an inquiring mind, and indomitable perseverance, he found

recreation in mental tasks and literary exercises which would have been hard labour to men less happily endowed. He was a man of action as well as a man of thought; and his sympathies were so wide and broad that sterling affection for those near and dear to him never prevented his taking a gracious and kindly interest in the fortunes of all his friends. Like his father he was a sturdy Nonconformist; but in religion as in politics he was tolerant as well as staunch, and was an adept in that difficult art which teaches men how they may agree to differ.'

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It is pleasant to associate his name and memory with that of another remarkable and interesting character, for some years connected with Tibberton. "Both as to sympathies. and points of character," it has been happily remarked, there was much in common between Major Price and his life-long friend Sir David Wedderburn. They shared the same apartments in London, and many of the same views on politics and social subjects. In town and country they were much together, and the spirit of true comradeship that subsisted between them often made them travelling companions. Two more honourable and high-minded gentlemen the county of Gloucester never knew. Both had enlarged their minds by fearless scientific investigation; and both were devoted naturalists and accomplished linguists."

REMARKABLE

CHURCHMEN.

N addition to the many Gloucestershire ecclesiastics already noticed, several others call for some mention. Among these are three or four named by Fuller.

OSBERNUS CLAUDIANUS, or Osbern of Gloucester, was bred a Benedictine monk in the famous Convent of that City. "He was learned," says Leland, 66 above the standard of that age." He was a good linguist, philosopher and divine, and wrote many books, including "A Comment on the Pentateuch, Dialogue-wise." He flourished in the reign of King Stephen, 1140.

ALAN of TEUXBURY, who lived sixty years later, was Prior of St. Saviour's, Canterbury, where he was intimate with Thomas à Becket. In his old age he was sent back with honour into his native county, and made Abbot of Tewkesbury. He was one of "Becket's Evangelists," being one of the four employed to write "the History of his Mock passion and Miracles."

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ALEXANDER OF HALES," says Fuller, 66 was bred up in the famous Monastery of Hales, founded by Richard, King of the Romans. After his living some time at Oxford, he went to Paris, it being fashionable for the Clergy in that (as for the Gentry in our) age, to travail into France: that Clerk being accounted but half-learned, who had not studied some time in a Forraign University. But let Paris know, that generally our Englishmen brought with them more Learning thither, and lent it there, than they borrowed thence."

"As for this, our Alexander, as he had the name of that great Conqueror of the World, so was he a grand Captain and Commander in his kind; for as he did follow Peter Lombard,

so did he lead Thomas Aquinas, and all the rest of the Schoole-men. He was the first who wrote a Comment on the Sentences in a great volume, called The Summe of Divinity,' at the instance of Pope Innocent the Fourth, to whome he dedicated the same. For this, and other of his good services to the Church of Rome, he received the splendid Title of Doctor Irrefragabilis. He died A.D. 1245 and was buried in the Franciscan Church in Paris."

Mr. Counsel says that "the only Prior of Lanthony Abbey mentioned in history is HENRY DEANE, whose register book was extant some years ago." Deane, who was a native of Gloucester or its immediate neighbourhood, perhaps St. Owen's parish which was then annexed to the Priory, became Archbishop of Canterbury.

Of the famous preachers and learned divines which the puritan period produced, Dr. SEBASTIAN BENEFIELD was not one of the least. He was born at Prestbury, Aug. 12, 1559; and was educated at Oxford. He became rector of Maisey Hampton, and in 1613 was chosen Margaret Professor of Divinity at his University. This chair he held till 1629 when he resigned, and withdrawing to his benefice, spent the remainder of his days among his rural parishioners. He published three volumes of Sermons on the Prophet Amos, and two or three other works also. He died Aug. 24, 1630, aged seventy-one, and was buried in the chancel of his parish church.

BISHOP GOODMAN, born at Ruthvyn in 1583, and consecrated Bishop of Gloucester seven years before Benefield died, was a man of another stamp. Refusing, in 1639, to sign the canons of doctrine and discipline drawn up in a synod, and enjoined by Laud, he was suspended. It soon appeared that he was a Romanist. The remainder of his life was spent privately, but he wrote a work entitled "The Two Mysteries of the Christian Religion, viz., the Incarnation and the Trinity explicated." He also wrote an account of his own sufferings, endured at the hands of his persecutors. He died in 1655,