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Further vacancies had been created at the close
of the year by the decease of Mr. Putnam and
Mr. R. D. Lyons, and by the resignation of Mr. E.
M. Baker, to be filled at the ordinary election
in May, 1897.
Decease of Members.—The Vestry regret to
record the deaths during the year of Mr. Alfred
Evans on the 19th May, of Mr. R. D. Lyons on
the 19th November, and of Mr. H. G. Putnam
on 4th December. Votes of condolence were
passed with the families of the deceased
gentlemen.
Yotes of Condolence.—The Vestry also regret to
record the decease on the 27th November of
Mr. E. J. Thompson, one of the first members of
the Vestry, elected in 1856, and for many years the
representative of the parish at the Metropolitan
Board of Works. Mr. Thompson had ceased to
take an active part in the business of the parish,
owing to his removal from the neighbourhood, but
he always manifested the greatest interest in all
that concerned Clerkenwell, and his death removes
a personality to whom the parish was much
indebted.
The death on the 5th June, 1896, of the Rev.
A. Styleman Herring, for many years the vicar of St.
Paul's, Allen Street, has removed another of those
who have laboured hard for the welfare of the
parish, and the Vestry recorded their regret at his
decease.
Another benefactor to Clerkenwell has passed
away during the year in the person of Mr. C. C,
Walker of Lillieshall Old Hall, Shropshire. It was
due to his munificence that Wilmington and