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Alfved Charles Smith—dn Aemoriam. 
(m=cHE Wiltshire Archeological Society has lost many of its 
i < oldest Members and most staunch supporters in the last — 
few years—but to none of them, not even to Canon Jackson—did 
it owe the debt that it owed to Alfred Charles Smith.. When the 
Society was inaugurated in 1853 his name it is true only appears 
as one of the Local Secretaries, whilst the Rev. W. C. Lukis and 
the Rev. J. E. Jackson took the office of General Secretaries—but 
in 1857 he became one of the General Secretaries, sharing that 
post successively with Canon Jackson, Mr. W. Cunnington, Mr. 
C. H. Talbot, and Mr. H. E. Medlicott, until his resignation in ~ 
1890. During all these years, it is no disparagement to his col- 
leagues to say, that whether in the editing of the Magazine, in the 
arrangement of the Annual Meetings, or in the general business 
and correspondence of the Society, he did the lion’s share of the 
work. With him the office of Honorary Secretary was no sinecure, 
and when in 1884 the then President, Mr. N. Story Maskelyne, 
handed to him the album containing the address from Members of — 
the Society which accompanied the gift of plate presented to his 
only daughter on her marriage with the Rev. John Penrose, now 
Vicar of West Ashton, it was no mere compliment that he expressed, 
but the simple truth, when he said that he believed “that Mr. 
Smith had done more than anyone else to bring the Society into 
the world, and he did not think that since it had been born there 
was anyone who had so fostered it, fed it, worked for it, clothed it, 
and done everything for it that could be done to bring it to the — 
admirable position of vitality which it now enjoyed.” The measure 
of success to which the Society has ‘attained, and the position which 
it holds amongst the kindred societies of England, is due to the — 
combined work of many—some of whom have long passed away, — 
but first and foremost among them all stands Mr. Smith. For 
