. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. J ^=r_jh^^A^ the: ^ •^At^^-f. Communication to the Editor to be addressed ' Strangeways Printing Office. Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 379. Vol. XVII.] SEPTEMBER 26, 1889. [Published Weekly.] editorial, faints, &t. EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 12— THE EEV. E. BARTRUM, The Rev. Dr. Bartrum, whose portrait we present this week, was born at Sion Hill, near Bath, in 1883, He was educated at King Edward VI. School, Bath, under the Rev. J. Pears, and in 1852 proceeded to Pembroke College, Oxford, where he took honours in 01assic
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. J ^=r_jh^^A^ the: ^ •^At^^-f. Communication to the Editor to be addressed ' Strangeways Printing Office. Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 379. Vol. XVII.] SEPTEMBER 26, 1889. [Published Weekly.] editorial, faints, &t. EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 12— THE EEV. E. BARTRUM, The Rev. Dr. Bartrum, whose portrait we present this week, was born at Sion Hill, near Bath, in 1883, He was educated at King Edward VI. School, Bath, under the Rev. J. Pears, and in 1852 proceeded to Pembroke College, Oxford, where he took honours in 01assics,Law, andHistory. In 1856 he was elected to the second Mastership of his old school under the Rev. C. J. Macleane. In 1858 he took his degree of , and in 1859 became curate (in addition to his Mastership) at the Octagon Chapel, Bath, to Dr. Magee, the present Bishop of Peterborough. In 1861 Dr. Bartrum was offered the head - mastership of Hertford Grammar School by the Right Hon. W. Cowper on behalf of Lady Palmerston, who held the patronage. In 1864 he removed to Berkhamsted on the nomination of Lord Palmerston, then Prime Minister acting for the Crown, and took the head- mastership of the school there. Under his able management it rapidly im- proved, and from fifty the numbers increased till at his resignation Dr. Bar- trum left it a large public school with over 180 boys. During his time the school had been enlarged and the greater part of it rebuilt, and man)' pupils have obtained high distinction. His connexion with the B. B. K. A. began in 1870, although before that time he had become interested in bee-keeping in consequence of the able articles that appeared from time to time in the Journal of Horti- culture written by the late Mr. Woodbury. Visiting the Crystal Palace Show he was so struck with the splendid Stewarton supers shown on that occasion by the present Chairman of the , that he deter- mined to keep bees. Dr. Bartrum joined the Association at th
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