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Your colleagues in the year 1869 conferred upon you
the honourable position of Chairman of the Vestry, and for
twelve years its deliberations were presided over by you
with strict impartiality, courtesy, and business-like tact,
which, on your relinguishing office, elicited spontaneous
recognition from the entire body of Members.
The confidence worthily reposed in you was further
exemplified by your election for five successive years to the
responsible office of Parochial Churchwarden. Such a
position, embracing amongst other duties that of Overseer
of the Poor, involved an incessant amount of work, which
you most faithfully performed.
As a Justice of the Peace, you have rendered many signal
services. In a Parish having a population of nearly
250,000, your aid as a Magistrate has been in constant
request, and you have ever as constantly responded. At
the Petty Sessions your sound and conscientious judgment
on all cases that have come before you redound to your
honour, and the members venture to hope you will continue
to give the Parish the benefit of your experience in this
important office, and that you will also still retain your
position of Governor of Dulwich College, to watcli over and
preserve the popular interests centred in that Institution.
Retiring from the Vestry in the evening of your life, the
Members have good reason to know that they do but express
the feeling of the inhabitants of the Parish generally in
assuring you of the high esteem in which you are held.
The Members especially know and appreciate those traits of
character which have aided in keeping the records of
Camberwell free from many blemishes, and they trust that