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38 PEOCEEDDfGS Or THE
Edinburgh Academy, the Grange, Bishop Wearraouth, and Balliol
College, Oxford, where he took a second class in 1850, and was
called to the Bar in 1854, of the Inner Temple. He declared
that " the chief interests of his life were politics and administration,"
of which abundance fell to his share. He represented the
Elgin Burghs in Parliament from 1857 to 1881, and held office as
Under-Secretary of State for India, 1868-1874 ; Under-Secretary
for the Colonies, 1880-81, which post he quitted to become
Governor of Madras, which he held for five years to 1886.
Connected as he w^as on both father's
India, this appointment was congenial.
and mother's sides with
He had previously been
Lord Eector of Aberdeen University, 1866-69, and after his return
to England he was President of the Koyal Geographical Society,
1889-93, of the Eoyal Historical Society, 1892-99, a Trustee of
the British Museum from 1903, and a Member of the Senate of
London University from 1891. Amongst these varied scenes he
mingled with the best informed people, which furnished him with
material for his fourteen volumes of ' Notes,' embracing a period
of fifty years, from the time of his taking his degree to the First
Council of King Edward VII. Besides
works, he wrote three memoirs— of Sir
three or four political
Henry Maine (1892),
Ernest Eenan (1893), and an appi-eciative notice of the fourth
Baron de Tabley, which was prefixed to that nobleman's posthumous
* Elora of Cheshire,' in 1899, He described his recreations as
^' fencing, botanising, travelling, conversation."
In 1859 he married Anna Julia, only daughter of Edward
Webster, Ealing, by whom he had four sons and as many daughters.
He was elected into our Society 18th April, 1872, and in 3 881
also into the Eoyal Society. He died on 12th January, 1906.
[B. D. J.J
The Hon. Charles Arthur Ellis was born at Lisbon in
December 1839. He w-as the third son of Lord Howard de
Walden, the sixth Baron and a distinguished diplomatist who
represented Great Britain as Minister in Lisbon and Brussels,
at which places Charles passed the first years of his life. He
received his education at Harrow, and after having graduated at
Balliol College, Oxford, he qualified as a bari'ister of the Inner
Temple. Erom an early age he showed great fondness for
Natural History ; without entering into a methodical study of
the subject, he cultivated it by reading, collecting and keeping
every kind of living animals for the purpose of observing their
habits. Of sport he saw and enjoyed as much as a man can
desire, but this home experience as a sportsman only served him
as an apprenticeship for the travels and expeditions which he
undertook in the desire to see wild nature iu her grandest and
pui'est aspects. In 1861-62 he paid his first visit to Canada
and the United States under exceptionally favourable conditions.
A friend of his father's, Admiral E. W. Vausittart, who com-