236 Memoir of George Matcham, Esq. 
1869, Introduction to Murray’s Hand-Book for Wilts, Dorset and Somerset. 
He also partly edited the book. 
—— Evidence before the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the Em- 
ployment of Children in Agriculture and Education in Rural Districts : 
printed in their Report. 
1878. School Boards in Country Parishes. A Letter to the Bishop of Man- 
chester 
1874. Two Letters on University Reform. 
1877, An article “‘ John Wyclif at Oxford,” in Church Quarterly Review, No. 
ix., Oct. finished just before his death. 
He died 5th September, 1876, in his sixty-first year, and was 
buried at Broughton Gifford. 
Grorck Martcuam, Esq., of New House, near Downton, Co. 
Wilts, seventh in descent from Thomas Matcham, who in 1547 
purchased the Manor of Up Wimborne, Co. Dorset, was born 7th 
November, 1789: being the eldest son of George Matcham, Esq., 
of Ashford Lodge, in the parish of Slaugham, Co. Sussex, by his 
wife Catharine, sister of Horatio, Viscount Nelson the hero of 
Trafalear. He was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, 
where he took the degree of L.L.B. in 1814, and that of L.L.D. in 
1820. In 1817 he married Harriet, daughter and heiress of William 
Eyre, Esq., of New House: and in 1820 he was appointed a magis- 
trate and deputy-lieutenant of the county of Wilts. In 1836 he 
succeeded the late Earl of Radnor as Chairman of the Wilts Quarter 
Sessions held at Salisbury, an office which he continued to hold 
down to April, 1867, when, from age and increasing infirmities, he 
resigned it: followed into his retirement by the gratifying assurance 
of his brother magistrates, publicly expressed, that they deeply felt 
the loss of one of its most able, impartial, and upright servants. 
In these pages he is especially entitled to honourable mention, not 
only for having taken a share in the labours of the existing Arche- 
ological Society, but from the circumstance of his having been (it 
is believed) the last survivor of the band of topographers who united 
in producing the magnificent volumes of the “ History of Modern 
Wiltshire,” which were published at the sole expense and bear the 
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