“ He was for nearly 30 years honorary secretary of the Royal Historical Society, of which he was elected a Fellow and member of Council in 1887, vice-chairman of Council in 1888, and vice-president of the Surrey Record Society, a member of the Historical Association, and president of the West Surrey branch since its formation in 1919, and local secretary of the Society of Antiquaries for Surrey. No learned society could have had a more kindly or more helpful official. ”