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business man, with great powers of work, and of strict integrity, he has for 
many years taken the lead in all public business at Melksham, having been 
the efficient Chairman, first of the Local Board, and after the passing of the 
Local Government Act, of the Urban District Council, up to the time of his 
death. He was a J.P. for Wilts. In religion he was a Wesleyan, and was 
one of the chief supporters of that body in the Melksham neighbourhood. 
His funeral at Melksham was attended by a large proportion of the inhabitants. 
Obit. notices, Devizes Gazette, Nov. 3rd and 10th, 1898. 
Born Jan. 12th, 1816. His father, William Kemm, came to reside at 
Avebury Manor House, about the year 1818, and in the charming old house, 
which he was always most generously willing to show to strangers, he himself 
lived since 1846, and died. He married, first, Matilda Everdell, d. of 
Cornelius Canning, of Ogbourne, by whom he had four sons and two daughters, ~ 
who, with the exception of one son, survive him. Mrs. Kemm died in 1863, 
aged 36, and he married, secondly, Ellen Elizabeth, d. of John Sainsbury of 
Corsham, who survives him. He succeeded his father as Churchwarden, and 
held the office until his death. An earnest Churchman, he served as a lay 
representative in the Diocesan Synod from its commencement. A man of 
much knowledge and refinement. Interested in archeology and in many 
other things outside the limits of his farming business, Known widely in 
the county, and respected by all who knew him. 
Obit. notice, Devizes Gazette, May 25th ; Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, 
June, 1899. 
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Thomas Kemm, died May 23rd, 1899, aged 83. Buried at Avebury. : 
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Rev. William Reece, died April 7th, 1899, aged 74. Exhibitioner 
of Queen’s Coll., Cambridge. B.A., 1849. » Deacon, 1852; priest, 1853, by 
Bp. of Lincoln. Curate of Owmby, Lines., 1852—54; Chicklade, Wilts, 
1854—63. Rector of Pertwood, Wilts, 1863 until within a few months of 
his death. 
Obit. notice, Salishury Diocesan Gazette, May, 1899. 
Sir Edmund Antrobus, 3rd Baronet, of Amesbury, died 
April 1st, 1899, aged 80. Buried at Amesbury. Born Sept 5th, 1818. 
Eldest son of Sir Edmund Antrobus, 2nd Baronet, and Anne, d. of the Hon. 
Hugh Lindsay. Educated at Eton and St. John’s Coll., Camb. B.A., 1849; 
M.A., 1852. Married, 1847, Marianne Georgina, d. of Sir George Dashwood, 
Bart. J.P. and D.L. for Wilts. J.P. for Surrey. High Sheriff of Wilts, 
1880. Succeeded to the baronetcy in 1870. M.P. for East Surrey, 1841 to 
1847. M.P. (Liberal Conservative) for Wilton, 1855 until 1877. He is 
* succeeded by his eldest son, Col. Edmund Antrobus, lately commanding a 
Battalion of the Grenadier Guards. 
Obit. notices, Standard, April 5th; Wilts County Mirror, April 7th, 1899. é 
Rev. A. C. Smith. The This, April, 1899, p. 332, contains a short 
obituary notice, in addition to those mentioned in the memoir in this number 
of the Wilts Arch. Mag. 3 
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