80 Personal Notices. 
Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Liberal M.P. for the Cricklade 
Division. Notice in The Standard, Feb. 26th, 1898. 
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. A good notice of Sir Michael’s — 
character and career as a statesman, written for the Church Family 
Newspaper by T. H. S. Escott, is reprinted at length in the Devizes 
Gazette, Dec. 30th, 1897. ; 
Albert Weston, collector of inland revenue at Dundalk, Ireland, a native 
of Calne. A notice of his career, in The Dundalk Journal, is reprinted in 
Devizes Gazette, Jan. 13th, 1898. 
Arthur R. Ashton, Great Western Hotel, Swindon, and late of the 
White Hart, Calne. A sketch, with a portrait, in the Caterers’ and Hotel 
Keepers’ Gazette, is reprinted in Devizes Gazette, Jan. 13th, 1898. 
Rev. Ellis Shipley Harris. A sketch of his career as Vicar of 
Rowde for the past twenty-three years appears in Devizes Gazette, Jan. 
13th, 1898. 
Joseph Deane Willis, of Bapton Manor, Fisherton Delamere. An 
“interview”? with this “Famous Wiltshire Breeder and Exhibitor” of — 
Shorthorns, is reprinted in the Wilts County Mirror, Nov. 26th, and — 
Devizes Gazette, Dec. 2nd, 1897, from The Cable. 
James Flower, of Chilmark. An “interview ” with this possessor of a 
pedigree flock of “ Hampshire Downs” is reprinted from The Cable in the 
Devizes Gazette, Dec. 2, 1897. 
James Doel. Born March 13th, 1804, at Maiden Bradley. A long notice 
of Mr. Doel’s career and of the various characters he sustained before he 
retired from the stage to keep an hotel and became a racecourse and regatta 
caterer in the West of England, is given by the Daily Telegraph, March 
14th, 1898, under the heading of “The Oldest Actor.” He acted with” 
Edmund Kean at the Exeter Theatre. 
William Hole, R.S.A. Born at Salisbury, 1846. Short notice, with 
four woodcut portraits, Strand Mag., April, 1898. 
Richard Jefferies is claimed as a “ Famous Sussexian” in a very 
short notice in the Worthing Gazette, April 27th, 1898. 
Rt. Hon. W. H. Long. Article on him, Salisbury Journal, March 
26th, 1898. ' 
William Alexander. Born at Salisbury, 1848, who has a water-colour 
in the Academy this year. Biographica] notice in Biographer, reprinted 
in Wilts County Mirror, April 29th, 1898. 
