The late Mr James Troup.
Funeral at Elswick Cemetery.

The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon at Elswick Cemetery Newcastle of the late Mr James Troup who was well known throughout the North of England as a temperance worker, more particularly among the younger generation, having latterly acted as organizing secretary to the Newcastle and Gateshead District Band of Hope Union. The coffin containing the remains arrived at the Central Station from Edinburgh (where Mr Troup died on Wednesday last) by the 1:38 train, and was conveyed to a hearse outside the railway station, where the funeral cortege was formed and proceeded to Elswick Cemetery by way of Westmoreland Terrace, Rye Hill and Elswick Road. There were a number of carriages but the greater portion of the mourners followed on foot and were joined by others who had assembled at the cemetery. There was a large number of persons interested in the Temperance movement present, including many ladies.

The service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. T. H. Mawson, Superintendent of Brunswick Wesleyan Circuit Newscastle in an impressive manner. At the conclusion of the burial service the Rev. Robert Stewart gave an address in the course of which he referred to the chief incidents in the life of the deceased. Mr Troup, he said, was born in Skelton in Cleveland and by hard plodding and untiring industry under most discouraging circumstances he acquired an elementary education sufficient to enable him to take up the study of temperance. He had a wonderful faculty of searching out a thing carefully; a keen mind, and having once mastered his subject he kept his grip of it. His special knowledge of the licensing laws rendered his counsel invaluable. The deceased had a genius for organization and was one of the purest and noblest of spirits, and one of the most unselfish and indefatigable workers in the cause. They would revere his memory for his work's sake but more so for the true nobility of his character. He was conscientious to a degree and possessed of courage which enabled him to stand where duty called alone. Another of his characteristics was his utter self forgetfulness. He never spared himself. His earnestness was so intense, and his sense of responsibility so great in his enthusiasm for the cause, that he was utterly forgetful of what was due to the conserving of his strength, and he undertook and performed work beyond the powers of one man, so that the body and mind, vigorous and active as they were, at last gave way under the strain. He had given his life for the salvation of the children, but his life would still pulsate in the years to come in the lives of the thousands of young people in whose minds he so earnestly lived to inculcate principles of sobriety, thrift and piety. It was fitting that they should lay his mortal remains near those of James Newcastle, a pioneer of temperance work on one side and on the other side one with whom he long laboured (Dr Rutherford) and who perhaps did more for Bands of Hope and the temperance movement generally than any other man in the North of England.

The private mourners were: Mrs Troup and family . . .