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whole interests in life were centred on the place, the property, and the 
people. 
Obit. notice, Devizes Gazette, Aug. 16th; Wilts County Mirror, Aug. 
17th, 1900. 
Elliot Arthur Neeld, youngest son of Sir John Neeld, died at 
Kilmiston, Hants, Nov. 15th, 1900. Buried at Leigh Delamere. Born 
Feb. 23rd, 1853. Educated at Harrow. He was for some years ona 
ranch in South America. 
Obit. notice, Devizes Gazette, Nov. 22nd; Wiltshire Times, Nov. 24th, 
1900. 
Alfred Buckley, of New Hall, near Salisbury, died Dec. 15th, aged 71. 
Buried at Nunton. Eldest twin son of Gen. Edward Pery Buckley and 
Lady Catherine (Bouverie), d. of William 3rd Earl of Radnor. Born 
Oct. 15th, 1829. Educated at Eton and Trin. Coll., Cambridge. A 
member of the Eton Eleven in 1848. Married, 1858, Geraldine Mary, 
d. of Captain George St. John Mildmay, R.N., who survives him. J.P. 
and D.L. for Wilts. He took a prominent part in all local and county 
matters in the South of Wilts. For thirteen years he was chairman of 
the board of governors of Salisbury Infirmary. He was a director of the 
Wilts and Dorset Bank and other companies. He represented the Britford 
Division on the County Council from its formation, and did a great amount 
of county work in connection with it. He was a Liberal Unionist in 
politics. He succeeded to New Hall and the Nunton estates on the death 
of his father in 1873. He leaves three daughters and one son, Major 
Edward Duncombe Henry Buckley, R.A., b. 1860. 
The Salisbury Journal, Dec. 22nd, says :—‘ Until his health failed 
Mr. Buckley was in various capacities one of the hardest working of the 
public men of Salisbury and South Wilts ; and the remembrance of his 
long career of useful public services will cause his death to be lamented 
and his memory to be held in esteem by many outside the circle of his 
immediate friends.” 
Other obit. notices, Wiltshire Times, Dec. 22nd; Devizes Gazette, 
Dec. 20th; Salisbury Times, Dec, 21st, 1900; Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, 
Jan., 1901. 
Horatio Nelson Goddard, of the Manor, Clyffe Pypard, died at 
Bath, Dec. 8th, on his 94th birthday. Buried at Clyffe Pypard. Born 
Dec. 8th, 1806. Third son of the Rey. Edward Goddard, of Clyffe Manor, 
and his wife, Annica Susan, d. of Edward Bayntun. Educated at 
Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose Coll., Oxon. B.A., 1828; 
M.A., - Succeeded his father in the family property, owing to the 
death of his elder brothers, in 1839. Married (first), in 1840, Anne 
Elizabeth, d. of Rev. Thomas Le Mesurier, Rector of Haughton le Skerne, 
Co. Durham, by whom he had three children, Susan Werden and Edward 
Werden, who died in infancy, and Katherine Ann, who died, aged 9, 
