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GAilts Obituary. 
Rev. William Onslow Sole, Rector of Crudwell, died Aug. 8th, 
1898. Accidentally drowned whilst fishing at Aylesbeare, Devon. Buried 
at Crudwell. Eldest son of Dr. Sole, F.R.C.S., of St. Neot’s, Huntingdon- 
shire. He practised as a fully-qualified solicitor in Cheltenham. Was 
ordained deacon 1882, and priest 1883, in the Diocese of Lichfield. Curate 
of Armitage, Staffordshire, 1882—87. Chaplain to Mr. Piers-Warburton 
at Arley Hall, Cheshire, 1887—88. Rector of Crudwell 1888, until his 
death. The North Wilts Herald, Aug. 12th, and 19th, 1898, says of him:— 
“A High Churchman of an advanced type, the sincerity, zeal, and energy 
which marked the performance of his duties won him the good opinion even 
of the Evangelical section of his congregation.” Obit. notice, Devizes 
Gazette, Aug. 18th, 1898. 
William Waldron Ravenhill, M.A., died Aug. 18th, 1898, 
aged 62. Buried at St. Mark’s, Surbiton. Fifth son of John Ravenbill, of 
Ashton House, Heytesbury. Born Feb. 27th, 1836. Educated at Marl- 
borough and Univ. Coll., Oxon. B.A. 1858. Called to the Bar at the 
_ Inner Temple 1862. Practised on the Western Circuit and at Wilts Quarter 
Sessions. Recorder of Andover, 1872. Married, 1860, Anna Louise, fourth 
_ daughter of Joseph Everett, of Greenhill House, Sutton Veny. Author of 
the following papers in this Magazine :—“ Records of the Rising in the 
West,” xiii., 119, 252; xiv.,38; xv.,1, 235; xx.,106. “The Wiltshire 
Regiment for Wiltshire,” xvii., 192, 364. ‘‘ Justice in Warminster in the 
Olden Time,” xviii, 136. ‘‘Sir William Waller and Malmesbury,” xxi., 
170. “Murder in the lith Century,’ xxii., 39. “Confirmation of the 
Guild of the Holy Ghost at Basingstoke by Charles I.,” xxiii, 62; “Some 
Western Circuit Assize Records of the 17th Century,” xxv., 69. 
Obit, notice, Swindon Advertiser, Aug. 20th, 1898. 
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Ben amin White Crees, died Sept. 20th, 1898, aged 57. One of 
_ three brothers, who, coming from Somerset, occupied large farms in Wilts. 
_ He was a native of Witham Fnary. He first took Sleight Farm, Stert, 
_ and afterwards removed to the Manor Farm, Etcbilhampton, twenty-five 
_ years ago, remaining there, and farming practically all the land in the 
parish, until his death, whilst his sons managed farms for him at Fyfield 
and Mildenhall. ‘‘ He was one of a group of men largely identified with 
the introduction of big dairy farming into a district which hitherto had 
been devoted almost entirely to the production of corn and sheep . 
_ they gradually substituted grass for arable land, and are largely responsible 
for the growth of that London milk trade which has now attained such 
large dimensions in the district.” Devizes Gazette, Sept. 22nd, 1898. 
