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neighbourhood as a leading and successful agriculturalist, a Conservative, 
and guardian. He occupied Wormwood Farm, in Box, and afterwards 
Hazelbury, in the same parish, until he retired from business and went 
to live at Middle Hill. 
Obit. notice, Devizes Gazette, Oct. 29th, 1903. 
Hannah Archer, widow of David Archer, J.P. and D.L., of Kingsdown 
House, Stratton St. Margaret, died Nov. 15th, 1903, aged 91. Buried 
at Down Ampney. Mrs. Archer was well known and greatly respected 
in the Swindon neighbourhood. On her 90th birthday the parishioners 
of Stratton presented her with a testimonial in which they said ‘‘ We 
desire to offer our most sincere and affectionate congratulations and to 
express our gratitude and admiration for all the good work you have 
done in the parish and county.” The J%imes said that to her is largely 
due the official adoption of the system of boarding out pauper children. 
In 1861 she issued a pamphlet advocating this plan, and recommending 
many of the reforms which have since been carried into effect, and in 
1870, in the absence of Miss Preusser, who was working on the same 
lines in the North of England, she headed the first deputation of ladies 
ever received by a Government department in England. Largely asa 
result of her efforts three hundred certified committees of ladies are now 
at work in England superintending the boarding out of children from 
the workhouses. 
Obit. notices, Times and other daily papers; Devizes Gazette, Nov. 
19th; Guardian, Nov. 25th; Wilts County Mirror, Nov. 20th, 1903. 
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Bucks., died Nov. 22nd, 1903, aged 57. Buried at Wing. Son of Rev. 
Charles Grey Cotes (of the Shropshire family of Cotes, of Woodcote), 
-Rector of Stanton St. Quentin. Born there Sept. 6th, 1846. Educated 
ji at Eton and Trin. Coll., Oxon. Lived at Kington Langley for 
--—s many ~=years;, after which he removed to London. He married in 
a. 1876 Lady Edith Pleydell Bouverie, d. of the fourth Harl of Radnor. 
j He was called to the bar, but did not practise, and became a 
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_ Charles Cotes, of 8a, Gloucester Place, London, W., and of Wing, 
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¥ prominent member of the Stock Exchange, being a partner in the firm 
Ye of Steer, Lawford, & Co. A keen sportsman, a member of the Beaufort 
2: Hunt in former years, and of late years hunting in the Vale of 
if Aylesbury. His spare time, however, was chiefly given to charitable 
work. He was a trustee of the Evelina Children’s Hospital, and 
for years the business affairs of the London Hospital had been 
* largely in his hands. He was an earnest supporter of the working boys 
holiday camping out movement, and took part in organising the camps 
on Hayling Island. Nor were his interests confined to charitable objects. 
It was mainly owing to him and to his own gift of £10,000 that the 
necessary £27,500 was forthcoming from a few city houses to meet the 
Treasury grant of like amount for the purchase of the three Great 
Longford Castle pictures for the National Gallery, Holbein’s ‘‘ Am- 
bassadors,” ‘“‘ Admiral Pulido Pareja,” by Velasquez, and the “ Italian 
