Sir Samuel Rush, K.H., an eminent antiquary, descended from the ancient family of the Meyricks of Bodorgan in Anglesea, was born on the 26th August 1783. After taking his bachelor's degree at Queen's College, Oxford, at the age of twenty he made what his father considered an imprudent marriage, which led to his being disinherited. Meyrick practised law for many years in connexion with the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty courts. In 1810 he published his first work, the History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan, when he was chosen a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; and in 1814 he produced, in conjunction with Captain C. H. Smith, a work on the Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands. But the great work on which his fame as an antiquary particularly rests is his Arms and Armour, published in 3 vols. 4to, 1824, under the title of A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour as it existed in Europe, but more particularly in England from the Norman Conquest to the reign of King Charles II.; with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages. After having rendered material assistance in 1826 in arranging the arms and armour of the Tower, and of the collection at Windsor, Meyrick had the honour of receiving from William IV. in 1832 the Hanoverian order, and was shortly afterwards made a knight-bachelor. In 1828 he built Goodrich Court on the Wye, arranged specially for the display of his collection of ancient armour, of which Joseph Skelton in 1830 gave an account in his Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Armour. Meyrick's last work of any importance was Lewis Dwnne's Heraldic Visitation of Wales, completed in 1846. Besides assisting in the compilation of Fosbroke's Encyclopedia of Antiquities, and writing the descriptive matter of Shaw's Specimens of Ancient Furniture, Sir Samuel R. Meyrick was a frequent con-