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are Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, M.P., of Roundway ; 
Amy Ruperta, wife of Christopher William Baynes; and Lilian Ann 
Colston. Much respected and beloved in the neighbourhood of Devizes. 
Obit. notice, Devizes Gazette, Nov. 22nd, 1900. 
Alfred John Keary, died at Chippenham, Oct. 11th, 1900. Buried 
at Chippenham. Son of Rev. William Keary, Rector of Nunington, 
Yorks. Born Sept. 23rd, 1832. Educated at Harrow. Admitted solicitor, 
1857. In 1862 he came to Chippenham, became a member of the firm 
of Goldney, Keary & Renny, and afterwards Keary & Stokes. He was 
Clerk to the Magistrates, and held many other posts. He was Mayor of 
Chippenham, 1869, 1882, 1884, and 1890, was more than once church- 
warden, and was much respected inthe town. 
Obit. notice, Devizes Gazette, Oct, 18th, 1900. 
Dr. Joseph Cave Spicer Jennings, of the Abbey House, 
Malmesbury, died April 8th, 1900, aged 81. Son of the Rev. William 
Jennings, of Baydon, graduated at King’s Coll., London, and commenced — 
practice as a doctor at Lacock, removing to Malmesbury in 1850. He 
was the author of ‘‘ History of Ancient Malmesbury,” Malmesbury, 
1891, « post 8vo pamphlet. : 
Capt. H. Wiltshire, of the Reserve of Officers, attached to the 
5th Mounted Infantry. Killed in a skirmish near Lindley, South Africa, 
Oct. 4th, 1900. His father farmed at Nursteed, and afterwards at 
Southwick Farm, Rowde. Before receiving his commission in the 20th 
Hussars, he had served eleven years in the ranks, and with the 4th 
Dragoon Guards was present at Mahsama and Kassassin in the Egyptian 
Campaign of 1882, and in the Soudan operations in 1889. He married — 
Miss Gaby, of Westbrook, and resided at Coombe Bissett, where he acted : 
as churchwarden. He was also Secretary of the Diocesan Guild of 
. Ringers. 
Obit. notices, Devizes Gazette, Oct. 11th and Oct. 18th; Wilts County _ 
Mirror, Oct. 12th; Salisbury Journal, Oct. 20th. Portrait in Black and 
White, Dec. 15th. 1900. 
Captain Gerald Lowther Lysley, of the Rifle Brigade, 
Killed at Bergendal, in action, in South Africa, on August 27th, 1900, — 
aged 28. Joined the Rifles eight years ago; Lieut., 1895; Capt., 1900. 
Son of Mrs. Lysley, of Pewsham. | 
Lieut. Laurence O. F. Mellish, 2nd Wiltshire Regiment, — 
died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein, June 2nd, 1900, aged 24. Youngest 
son of Alfred L. Mellish, of Millbrook, Southampton. 
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