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Rathmell G. Wilson. Died Jan. 4th, 1900, aged 53. From 1881 to 
1898 he was the Organising Secretary for the Salisbury Diocesan Branch 
of the Church of England Temperance Society, and in this capacity was 
well known in the Salisbury Diocese. He gave his life to the promotion 
of the cause of temperance and objects like the “ Spare Time Movement” 
connected with it. .Zealous and unselfish, his health gave way under the 
* strain of his work.’ Buried, London Road Cemetery, Salisbury. 
Obit. notice, Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, Feb., 1900. 
Julia, Widow of John Torrance, of Norton House, near 
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Warminster. Died Sept. 14th, 1899. Buried at Norton. A devoted 
Churchwoman, her large and generous gifts were by no means confined 
to the Diocese of Salisbury—but in her own neighbourhood she restored 
the tower of Norton Church—started the re-building of Warminster 
Church with a gift of £1000—and largely aided in the permanent 
establishment of St. Boniface Missionary College at the same place—in 
addition to very large support, both personal and monetary, given to 
other philanthropic and religious organisations, especially those devoted 
to the benefit of women and children. 
Obit. notice, Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, Oct., 1899. 
‘The Rt. Hon. William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl 
of Radnor. Died June 3rd, 1900, aged 58. Buried at Britford. 
Eldest son of Jacob, fourth Earl, and his wife, Lady Mary Grimston, third 
daughter of first Earl of Verulam. Born June 19th, 1841. Educated at 
Harrow and Trin. Coll., Camb. Married, 1866, Helen Matilda, d. of 
Rev. Henry Chaplin, Vicar of Ryhall, Rutland. As Viscount Folkestone 
he wa® returned as Conservative M.P. for South Wilts in 1874, and 
continued to represent the division until the passing of the Redistribution 
of Seats Act. M.P. for the Enfield Division of Middlesex from 1885 
until he succeeded to the peerage in 1889. From 1885—1892 he was 
Treasurer of Her Majesty’s Household. From 1869—1883 he kept at his 
own expense a pack of hounds, and succeeded Lord Pembroke as master 
of the pack formed by him in 1890. As a Freemason he was Provincial 
Grand Master of Wilts. He was President of the Salisbury Infirmary, 
_ J.P. for Wilts and Berks, and succeeded Lord Ludlow as Chairman of 
Salisbury Quarter Sessions. He leaves two sons, Jacob, Viscount 
- Folkestone, born 1868,, who succeeds to the title, and is now serving as 
major in command of the Wilts Volunteer Service Company in South 
Africa; and the Hon. Stuart Pleydell Bouverie, born 1877. Also one 
daughter, Lady Wilma Pleydell Bouverie, married, 1899, to the present 
Earl of Lathom. 
Obit. notices, Devizes Gazette, June %th; Salisbury Times, June 8th; 
Wilts County Mirror, June 8th; Salisbury Journal, June 9th, 1900. 
