THE LATE EARL OF DUNRAVEN.

The late Eail of Dunraven was an early and active member of this Institute, and for some years a member of its Council, lie died at Great ^Malvern, in October, 1871. Edwin llicliard Wyndham Windham Quin, third Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl (1822), Viscount Mount Earl (ISIG), Viscount Adare (1822), Baron Adare (1800), Irish honours ; Baron Ivcnry (1866), and a Baronet (1781), Im- perial honours ; Knight of St. Patrick, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Limerick, and aCommissioncr of National Education in Ireland ; was born at Adare Manor, co. Limerick, lIHh May, 1812, the eldest son of Windham Henry, second Earl of Dunraven, by Caroline, daugliter and sole lieiress of Thomas Wyndham, of Dunraven Castle, in Glamorgan, and Clearwell Court, CO. Gloucester. He was educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a pu})il of the late »Sir m. Hamilton. While in Dublin, he resided for two years in the Observatory, and became a practised astrono- mical observer. His taste for that science led to an intimacy wiih Di-. Robinson, of Armagh, Lord liosse, and Mv. Cooper, of Mackreo ; but his astronomical studies somewhat allcctcd his eyesight, and were, in conse(juence, laid aside. In 1831, however, he became a I't-llow of the Astronomical JSociety, and Uijl long before his death he attended, with much interest, the construction of the great telesco})e Ibr the Mel- boiii no Observatory. liOi d 1 )uiiraven was a man of very good abilities and remark- able industry, the fruits of which were apparent in the great variety of his attainments. He was conveisant with hoth literature and science ; exceedingly foml of. several blanches of natural history, and a good l)otani.st and geologist. He was also an accomplished man ; fond of tlit; ai"ts. and espe- cially of Jiiusic ; a good conversei', and very popular in