STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET 81 Thomas Carter Gazévin, born in 1795, Sep. 27, at Bridport, Dorset, son of Richard Galpin and Mary, daughter of William Carter, of Beaminster. After his marriage to Ann Frances, daughter of John Hounsel, Bailiff of Bridport, 10th July 1819, he took up his residence at Charmouth, where he had inherited a small pro- perty from the Chilcotts. He had also inherited another estate at Beaminster from his mother. Late in life, having disposed of his landed estate, he moved up to London, where he died 13th May 1 850 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. He had a decided taste for art and science from his boy- hood and showed considerable talent for painting and lead- pencil drawing. He invented a method of producing a rapid effect in sketching by using a broad lead-pencil cut so as to make both broad and fine strokes, for which he gained the Isis Medal of the Royal Society of Art. However, the value of the invention was undermined by the introduction of Photography, and Sketching gradually went out of fashion. He was one of the first to take an interest in the fossils of the blue lias of Lyme Regis and prepared and presented to the British Museum a specimen of an Ichthyosaurus which was exhibited there for many years until recently it was exchanged for a foreign specimen. He introduced lithography into England, many of his sketches being reproduced by that process. He illustrated several books and at one time became notorious through his comic and political cartoons, one of which representing the King George IV being carried off by Old Nick came near getting him into trouble, in fact, he had to go into hiding for a time. His portrait by Pickersgill was exhibited in the Royal Academy. He was a friend of Lord Lovat who, as head of the Clan Fraser, made him an honorary member of the clan and a ` daguerreotype portrait (a process then recently introduced) shows him wearing the tartan on the occasion of his initiation. He was also a friend of Coleridge and of the poet Words- worth, who wrote the following epigram on seeing his broad- pencil sketches when he was staying at Rydall Mount on a visit to the Poet Laureate: " Great Artist thy genius such is I Divines will against it protest c·