34 THE BIRDS OF ESSEX.
tion. His father, Mr. T. M. Spalding, of Broome, near Bungay,
contributed the List of Suffolk Birds to Suckling's History of Suffolk
(pp. xxiv.—xxxix.)
WALFORD, Cornelius (1803-1883), of Witham, came
of a good Essex family, but sustained losses in early life, and being
very fond of the study of Natural History, he took to preserving
animals as a means of livelihood. He was evidently a good natu-
ralist, but he seems to have published almost nothing, and the per-
sonal information relating to him now obtainable is very limited. His
father, when a lad, had removed from Essex to East London in
connection with the then flourishing, but now extinct, Essex baize
trade, and the son, who had no liking for a commercial life, spent
much of his time in his early days in the forests of Epping and
Hainault. Some twenty years before his death, in 1883, at the age of
eighty, he returned to London, where he continued to carry on his
trade as a naturalist. The Essex Literary Journal, in 1839 (19. 27)
speaks of Mr. C. Walford, of Witham, " whose collection of birds
and insects is well worthy the inspection of those who feel interested
in the study of those beautiful departments of nature's handiwork."