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_ * formist, he took a very leading part in the public life of Wilton, where 
his death will be felt as a great loss. He was more especially connected 
with the important Royal Wilton Carpet Factory, where some of the 
finest carpets—Axminster and Wilton—in the world are made. Members 
of the Wilts Archzological Syciety who attended the Wilton Meeting, in 
1891, will remember the very great hospitality with which he received the 
Society as Mayor. He married a daughter of Mr. J. F. Rutter, of Mere, 
who, with a son and daughter, survives him. Obit. notices, Wilts 
County Mirror, Sept. 30th, 1898; Salisbury Journal, Oct. Ist, 1898. 
Henry Lewis, of Oil City, U.S.A., died July 26th, 1898. Born at 
Malmesbury, Jan. 5th, 1837, emigrated with his parents to the States. 
in 1844. He was for a long while connected with the firm of Clark 
Shurmur, & Co., and afterwards with the Standard Oil Company. He 
removed from Qil City to New York in 1884. He married, first, in 
1868, at Cleveland, Sarah Blackwell, who died 1883—of this marriage 
two sons and one daughter survive him. He married, secondly, in 1888, 
Anna V. Dunham, at Summerville, who survives him, with one daughter. 
He was well-known in Oil City for his charitable disposition. Long 
obit. notice in The Oil City Derrick, quoted in Devizes Gazette, Aug. 
18th, 1898. 
Admiral Frederick William Pleydell-Bouverie, 
eldest son of the late Canon Pleydell-Bouverie, third son of the second 
Earl of Radnor. Born 1816. Died July, 1898. Entered the Navy in 
1828; present at the blockade of Alexandria, 1840. Commander 1842, 
_ Captain, 1863, retired five years later. Married, 1845, Madeline, d. of 
Josias Du Pre Alexander. 
Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard, of the Lawn, Swindon, died 
Be Nov. 15th, 1898, aged 79. Buried in the Old Churchyard, Swindon. 
Eldest son of Ambrose Goddard (Capt. in 10th Hussars, M.P. for Cricklade 
and High Sheriff of Wilts, 1819—20) and Jessie Dorothea, d. of Sir 
_ Thomas Buckler Lethbridge. Born Dec. 9th, 1819. Educated at Harrow 
and St. John’s Coll., Cambridge. J.P. and D.L. for Wilts. Major in 
- Wilts Yeomanry. Conservative M.P. for the Borough and Hundreds of 
 Cricklade from 1847 to 1868, when he was defeated. He again repre- 
_ sented Cricklade from 1874 to 1880, when he retired. He represented 
_ Old Swindon on the Wilts County Council from its commencement to the 
_ beginning of this year, when he retired. He married, Aug. 14th, 1847, 
' Charlotte, eldest d. of Edward Ayshford Sanford, of Nynehead Court, 
4 “Somerset, by whom he had five children :—Ambrose Ayshford, born May 
7th, 1848, Lt.-Col. Grenadier Guards, died on his way home from Suakim, 
1885; Fitzroy Pleydell, born Aug. 29, 1852, who succeeds to the estates ; 
Edward Hesketh, born Oct. 19th, 1855; Charles Frederick, born Nov. 
25th, 1865; Jessie Henrietta, born April 23rd, 1850. Mr. Goddard’s 
life covered the period of the phenomenal growth of Swindon from a small 
country town to what it now is. As Lord of the Manor, Chairman of 
the Bench of Justices, M.P., and County Councillor, he had always 
