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Obituary.

Mr. Warwick Wroth.

We regret to hear of the death, which occurred on Tuesday, of Mr. Warwick William Wroth, F.S.A., the Senior Assistant Keeper of Coins and Medals in the British Museum.

Mr. Wroth was the eldest son of the late Rev. Warwick Reed Wroth, vicar of St. Philip's Clerkenwell. He was a man of varied accomplishments, and was one of the original contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography, with which he was associated nearly up to the conclusion of that great work. His chief contributions to the literature of his particular department of the British Museum included a "Catalogue of the Greek Coins," which appeared in 1903, and one of the "Imperial Byzantine Coins," which appeared three years later. To the general public he is best known by his scholarly work on "London Pleasure Gardens," which Messrs. Macmillan published in 1896, and in which he was helped by his brother, Mr. E. A. Wroth. Mr. Wroth had made this subject a speciality for many years, and had accumulated a considerable amount of curious and out-of-the-way material.

The funeral will be at St. Andrew's, near West Kensington Station, on Saturday at noon.