By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson. 343 



"What though no more that Silvery Voice we hear, 

 Like distant music still its echoes swell, 

 E'en, from the grave, it bids us check the tear, 

 Nor grieve for one, who fought his fight so well: 

 That voice, Dear Herbert, should a lesson tell. 

 Count not the worth of Life by length of days. 



His Thread is fully spun, whom all unite to praise." 



Mr. Sotheron Esteourt resided at the family seat, Estcourt, in the 

 parish of Shipton Moyne, on the very borders of Gloucestershire, but 

 in Wiltshire he was owner of Long- Newnton and Ashley in that 

 neighbourhood : and near Devizes he held by inheritance from his 

 mother's family, the Suttons, a lease of the Episcopal manor of 

 Bishops Cannings, his interest iu which, owing to some diflRculties 

 in the renewal, he sold to the Crown in 1858. In Yorkshire a large 

 estate at Goole, on the Humber^ and at Darrington, near Pontefract, 

 came to him from his wife's family, the Sotherons. 



He died at Estcourt House, on Friday, January 6th, 1876, and 

 was buried at Shipton Moyne, where he had a few years ago restored 

 the Parish Church. A more extended notice of him appeared in the 

 Devizes Gazette on 13 th January following. 



George Poulett Scrope, Esq., was born in London, in 1797, 

 and was the second son of Mr. J. Poulett Thomson, of Austin Friars, 

 Eoehampton, and Waverley Abbey, Co. Surrey, head of the eminent 

 mercantile firm of Thomson, Bonar, & Co. : his elder brother being 

 Charles Poulett Thomson, the Governor-General of Canada, who 

 was created Lord Sydenham during Lord Melbourne's Ministry. 

 He was educated at Harrow and St. John's College, Cambridge. 

 He is well remembered as a leading reformer in his day, and as a 

 very accomplished, polished and courteous gentleman. In 1821 he 

 assumed the ancient Wiltshire name of Scrope, on his marriage with 

 Emma, sole daughter and heiress of William Scrope, Esq., of Castle 

 Combe, the author of the well-known volumes on " Deer Stalking/' 

 and "Salmon Fishing." He entered Parliament as Member for 

 Stroud in May, 1833, and sat for that borough thirty -five years, 

 retiring from public life in 1868. He was the writer of a great 

 number of pamphlets and small works on a variety of subjects, as 

 currency, banking, the poor laws, political and social economy, &c.. 



