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beloved; but it was as an ornithologist of no mean rank that he 
was best known. For years he had been recognized as the authority 
on birds in the south of the county. He wasa collector, and pos- 
sessed a large and valuable collection, both of birds and of eggs, but 
he was something better than a collector. He knew the birds in life, and 
their manners and customs, as probably no one now left in Wiltshire 
does—and his lectures at the Salisbury Museum, printed from time to 
time in the Salisbury Journal, were those of a master in his craft, who 
at the same time had the power of imparting his knowledge to others in 
the pleasantest way. He was also an entomologist, and in this branch, 
too, his collections were considerable. His death indeed leaves the 
county the poorer by the loss of a really accomplished naturalist. 
Obit. notices, Guardian, Nov. 21st; Salishury Journal, Oct. 20th ; 
Devizes Gazette, Oct. 25th: Field, October 27th; Salisbury Diocesan 
Gazette, Nov., 1900. 
He was the author of :— 
‘Among the Birds on the Farne Islands, May 26th, 1896.” S8vo 
pamphlet. Salisbury and London. 
A sermon on the death of John Gay Attwater, preached at Britford, 
Aug. 11th, 1895. Pamphlet, cr. 8vo., Salisbury. 
Jubilee Hymn, 1897. 
On the occurrence cf some of the Rarer Species of Birds in the 
Neighbourhood of Salisbury. Wiltshire Archeological Magazine, 
Xvii., 95—128; xviii., 188—213, 289—318; xx., 154—184; xxi., © 
211—255 ; xxii., 83—106, 191—211. 
Some Notes on the Breeding of Acherontia Atropos. Wilts Arch. 
Magq., xxii., 124—132. 
Some Notes on Acherontia Atropos, the Death’s Head Hawkmoth. 
Wiltshire Notes and Queries, vol. ii., June, 1897, 279—286; 
Sept., 1897, 8323—329; Dec., 1897, 374—385. 
He was also the author of a number of letters and lectures on the 
subject of birds printed from time to time in the Salisbury Journal and 
The Field. 
Rev. Thomas Augustus Strong, died at Bournemouth, Sept. 
23rd, 1900, aged 81. Buried at St. Paul’s, Chippenham. Ex. Coll., 
Oxon. B.A., 1841; M.A., 1846. Deacon, 1846; Priest, 1847, by Bishop 
of Bath and Wells. Curate of Walcot, Bath, 1846—48 and 1852—55. 
Curate of Melbourne Cathedral, 1849. Rector of St. Paul’s, Chippenham, 
1855—1900, when he resigned. He edited The Bruton Register, 1826—90, 
revised edition, 1894. In opinion he was an Evangelical. As Rector of 
St. Paul’s for forty-four years he was well known, and much respected 
and beloved in the Chippenham neighbourhood. 
Obit. notice, Devizes Gazette, Sept. 27th, 1900. 
