only mention the names of Thomas Watson, James Alderson, George Burrows, Risdon Bennett, William Jenner, Andrew Clark, Russell Reynolds, and Samuel Wilks. But I feel sure it would not be your wish that I should close this reference to the past Presidents of the College without specially expressing our cordial appreciation of, and deep gratitude for, the devoted and most able and efficient manner in which our latest outgoing President, Sir William Selby Church, has fulfilled the duties of his office during the six years he has occupied it, and the thoroughness, dignity, and tact with which he has grappled with the numerous difficult and complex questions with which he has had to deal.
I must not omit, further, to call to your remembrance to-day a venerable figure, whose prolonged and devoted services to this College can never be forgotten, and who, if he lives until the 1st of July next, will have reached the great age of ninety-seven.[1] I allude, of course, to Sir Henry Pitman, our Emeritus Registrar, the oldest Fellow of this College, having been elected in 1845, and one of its most honoured officers. He held the appointment of Registrar from 1858 to 1889, and during that period was rarely absent from a meeting of the College. In all matters of college reform and administration which came under consideration during his long term of
- ↑ Sir Henry Pitman duly passed his ninety-seventh birthday, and it is a pleasure to note is still well and cheerful.
