202 HISTORICAL SKETCH 0F PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     England at St. Eleanors, until 1828, when he became Rector 
     
     to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, at Charlottetown, in which 
     
     position he continued till 1854, when he retired into private 
     
     life. He died on the 14th November. this year, in the 88th 
     
     year of his age, highly esteemed and deeply regretted. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the 10th February, 1885, another of Charlottetown’s 
     
     distinguished citizens passed from our midst,—who in life was 
     
     of a different calling to any whose death record have already 
     
     saddened these pages—but whose kindness of heart and useful- 
     
     ness to society placed him in the high estimation of a very large 
     
     circle of the community. Henry Wosley Bayfield at the early 
     
     age of eleven years was taken from his parental roof, in Hull, 
     
     England, in 1306, and placed on board the ship of war Pomp], 
     
     to learn the duties of a jack-a~tar and study those of a com- 
     
     mander. After a few years, the commission of the Pomp] having 
     
     expired, he was placed on board the Queen, then on board the 
     
     Redford. This latter ship while on her cruise was attacked by 
     
     two powerful Spanish vessels, which unsupported she beat 08'. 
     
     For his brave conduct in this action, and again under Lord 
     
     Cochrane, young Bayfield was promoted and received a medal 
     
     from the crown. Some fifty years previous to his death, Captain 
     
     Bayfield was engaged in the coast survey of the maritime 
     
     provinces in America, in which he rendered a most practical 
     
     benefit to the commerce of the country. Charlottetown became 
     
     the station of his surveying vessel in 1841, where the officers of 
     
     his command also resided. In 1856 he was promoted to the 
     
     rank of Rear-Admiral. At the time of his death he had reached 
     
     the round age of ninety years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Hon. James C. Pope died at his residence in Summer- 
     
     side. on the 19th May, this year, 1885, in the 59th year ofhis age. 
     
     Mr. Pope was born at Bedeque in 1826. At the period of the 
     
     gold fever in 1849, he sailed in the brig Fanny for California; 
     
     on returning to his native land he commenced shipbuilding at 
     
     Bedeque Bay, which business he carried on for many years. 
     
     Being a man of progressive views and of great force of character, 
     
     he sought and obtained a seat in the House of Assembly. This 
     
     lead to a position in the Executive Council, which he maintained 
     
     with varied success. To Mr. Pope belongs the honor of being 
     
     the first to take legislative action in order to secure to the 
     
     Island facilities for intercommunication by means of a railway,