BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Austin Dobson was an honorary LL.D. of Edinburgh University, and was also for many years a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1891 he became a member of the Athenæum Club under the Rule which permits the election each year, by the Committee, of a limited number of persons of distinguished eminence in science, literature, the arts, or for public service. In 1912 he was made an honorary member of the Authors' Club of New York, a distinction at that date only enjoyed by three other Englishmen Thomas Hardy, Lord Morley, and the late Lord Bryce. For many years he served on the Committees of the London Library, the Royal Literary Fund, and the Incorporated Society of Authors. In 1868 he married Frances Mary, eldest daughter of Nathaniel Beardmore (a distinguished Civil Engineer and past President of the Meteorological Society), by whom he had a family of five sons and five daughters, all of whom survive him. ALBAN DOBSON. |