272 Wilts Obituary. 
Langley Fitzurse.”’ 2nd edition. Warminster: B. W. Coates, Market Place. 
1872. Price Fourpence. Royal 32mo. 
A little paper-covered book, pp. 54. - 
“Strong Drink and Christian Duty.” Pamphlet. Cr. Svyo. Salisbury : 
Brown & Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1875. pp. 36. 
This is a tract written by the author when senior Curate of Wilton in 
favour of the strictest total abstinence, in favour even of banishing alcoholic 
wine from the Holy Communion. 
“The History of Warminster, with a View and Map of the Town and 
Neighbourhood.’” London: Simpkin & Co. ; Warminster: B. W. Coates. 
Cr. 8vo. 1879. 
“The Life of George Herbert, of Bemerton.”’ S.P.C.K. London. 1893. 
Post 8vo. Cloth. pp. 328. 
New edition, 1899. 
For notice of this book see Wilts Arch. Mag., xxvii., 317. 
“The History of Chippenham, compiled from researches by the author and 
from the collections of the late Rev. Canon Jackson, F.S.A.”” R. F. Houlston, 
Chippenham and Bath, 1894. Cr. 8vo. Cloth. Price 5s. net. pp. 248. 
For notice see Wilts Arch. Mag , xxviii., 63. 
“ Verses by the Rev. J.J. Daniell, Rector of Langley Burrell.” Chippenham: 
R. F. Houlston. Post 8vo. Sewed. (1898.) pp. 18. 
Contents :—The Wreck of the Avon Maid—Bath Abbey Bells—Emma’s 
Grave in Langley Fitzurse Churchyard—Alleluia—Lands—Hymn 341 A. & 
M., as approved by the author—Johnnie’s Grave in Lansdown Cemetery, 
Bath—Aspirations—Death of Richard Carew, of St. Anthony, Cornwall. 
“Chippenham and the Neighbourhood during the Great Rebellion.” 
Paper in Wilts Arch. Maqg., vol. xii , 292—317. 
Rev. William Henry Awdry, died February 18th, 1899, aged 63. 
Buried at Ludgershall. Born 1835. He was the eldest son of Mr. West 
Awdry, of Chippenham. He was educated at Ilminster, Winchester College, 
and Exeter College, Oxford. B.A., 1857; M.A., 1862 [Crockford says 1860]. 
Deacon, 1858; priest, 1859, by Bp. of Lichfield. Curate of West Felton, 
Salop, 1858—60; Quedgley, Gloucestershire, 1860; Compton Bassett, Wilts, 
1860—62; Ludgershall, 1862—72, when he became Rector, and held the 
living until his death. J.P. for Wilts, he was Chairman of the Bench for 
the Everleigh and Pewsey Division, and was a prominent member first of 
the Andover and afterwards of the Bewsey Board of Guardians, the parish 
having been transferred from the former to the latter union. He was for 
some time a Diocesan Inspector of Schools. He was a good example of the 
best type of “Sporting Parson,’ now becoming so rare. Nobody was a 
keener sportsman, or knew more about horses and hounds than he did. In 
- his earlier days he had been a conspicuous cricketer and athlete, and throughout 
his life he was very closely in touch with all branches of country and county 
matters. He was thus widely known and much respected, but by none 
