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THE SHERBORNE PAGEANT 
By the President —W. LEWIS GRANT. 17th Oct., 1905. 
The Chair was occupied by Mr. H. L. Joseland, M.A., who 
expressed the regret which, he was sure, they all felt at the news 
of the death of Dr. Collier, F.R.C.S., who, it would be re- 
membered, lectured to them three years ago on the *‘ Dolomites.” 
He had died at the early age of fifty years, but he had left behind 
him the memory of an able man and a kind gentleman in the 
‘best sense of the wori—one ever ready to sacrifice himself for 
the benefit of others. 
Mr. Grant pointed out that as Sherborne was the burial place 
of Kthelbald and Ethelbert, the West Saxon Kings—brothers of 
Alfred the Great, and as Alfred, without doubt, attended Sher- 
borne School as a boy, there was a connection between the 
subject chosen and the lecturer’s two former papers— 
** Winchester, the old Capital of England,’ and ‘Alfred the 
Great.”’ 
The purpose of the paper was to speak of the town, its history, 
and its treasures, in the light of the remarkable celebration 
which took place there in June last. That occasion was a 
Special Thanksgiving for the 1200th anniversary of the founding 
by St. Haldhelm of the Town, Bishopric, and School of 
Sherborne. 
The Paper took them back to the year 705—two centuries 
before Alfred—and dealt with the history of what has been 
described as “ one of the most interesting and one of the least 
known of English towns,”’ 
