Cambridge in 1885, and began a new departure in History of the kind that appealed to Mary Bateson's mind and character. She became attached to his family, and he inspired her with the ambition which he felt for himself when he prescribed for his epitaph the words, "He tried to write true history." After Dr. Creighton's departure from Cambridge, the teacher from whom she derived most inspiration and with whom she sometimes collaborated was the distinguished writer, Professor F. W. Maitland--also a most effective teacher and helper of historical students at Newnham and in the University generally. Miss Bateson's researches into _Borough Customs_, as well as her previous volumes on the _Records of the History of Leicester_, earned her an honourable place among standard historians of mediaeval institutions, while her small book on _Mediaeval England_, and her admirable account of the "Colonization of Canada" in the seventh volume of the _Cambridge Modern History_, may always be recommended confidently to the general reader. Mary Bateson was deeply interested in politics and a strong advocate for women's suffrage, on behalf of which, in a deputation to the then Prime Minister (Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman), she made an exceedingly able and trenchant speech. But she cared far more that women should progress in knowledge and capacity than in political power. The great esteem in which she had been held was shown in the large attendance of University men and former students at the funeral service in St, John's Chapel, and in the readiness with which the proposal was received, at a meeting in St. John's in the following May, of a memorial to her in Cambridge, which took the appropriate form of an additional Research Fellowship. This fellowship bears her name, and is generally--_ceteris paribus_--given to a former student engaged in some branch of historical research.