Adwiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour on the 30th May unveiled three memorials which have been placed in the chapel of Eltham College—one a medallion in marble to the fourth Earl of Clanwilliam, formerly chairman of the council of the college, and the others (consisting of walnut-wood tablets with gun-metal border) to old boys who had lost their lives on service. Sit Michael recalled his first meeting with Lord Clanwilliam in 1857, when they were engaged in boat operations in the China War. By his zeal and energy Lord Gillford—as he then was—soon made s name for himself, and at the taking of Canton he was one of the leaders of the storming party. Shortly after that he was unfortunately wounded, but he was mentioned in dispatches and was specially promoted. Passing. over a great many years, he remembered the Fire Earl in command of the Hercules, at that time thought to be a ship of the first order, and about the smartest in the Service, and he remembered the seamanlike way in which she got off the Agincourt) when the latter ran aground in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar. In the Administration of 1874 he (Sir Mi-choel) was at the Admiralty with Lord Clanwilliam. He was one of those men who were absolutely straight, and while he might have been thought by tome people to bea little old-fashioned, it was " old fashion" of the best sort, and he was one who kept up the best traditions of their noble Service. He never would hear of anything in the nature of a job, and was—what was: not always. the case now—sbsolately loyal to "his superiors.—" Broad Arrow."
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