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DR. EDWIN SIDNEY HARTLAND, the elder son of the Rev. E. J. Hartland, Congregational minister, was born at Islington in 1848. He joined the legal profession when a youth and practised as a solicitor at Swansea from 1871 to 1890. He was the first Clerk to the Swansea School Board and throughout his life devoted much of his time to further Welsh education, being much interested in educational matters in Wales and also in Public Libraries. In 1890 he was appointed Registrar of the County Court at Gloucester, and District Registrar of the High Court, and afterwards was appointed District Probate Registrar. Here he continued to act as a public-spirited citizen and gave especial attention to education. He was an alderman and mayor of Gloucester, chairman of the City Education Committee, of the Board of Governors of the secondary schools, and of the Public Library and Museum Committee. In the spring of 1924 a grave illness compelled him to resign all his public duties, and thereafter he was debarred from all physical and mental exertion. During the years he was bedridden he was always unrepining and cheerful and retained his sense of humour. The end came peacefully on June 19. He is survived by his widow, one son, and two daughters.
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HADDON, A. Dr. E. S. Hartland. Nature 119, 933 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119933a0
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