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PERSONAL NOTICES. 



Sir Michael Hicks Beach. Notices in the Daily Chronicle and 



St. James's Gazette, on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, are re- 

 printed in the Wiltshire Times, Oct. 26th, 1901 ; Fall Mall Mag., April, 

 1902. 



Mr. Raven Hill {Punch artist), of Bromham. An article in the 

 Daily Mail, October 17th, reprinted in Devizes Gazette, Oct. 24th, 1901. 

 Another in Strand M'ag., Jan. 1902. Another in Free Lance, Oct. 6th, 

 1900. 



William Henry Awdry, late Eector of Ludgershall, as the 



"Greatest of Hunting Parsons after the death of the Rev. 'Jack' 

 Eussell, of Devonshire," is the subject of an article in the Bath Journul, 

 by George Smith, re-printed in Wilts County Mirror, Jan. 31st, 1902. 



Rt. Rev. Bishop Webb, Dean of Salisbury. Long notices 



of his career in Wilts County Mirror, June 14th ; Devizes Gazette, 

 June 13th and 20th, 1901 ; and Times. 



Major-Gen. Lord Methuen. The London papers of March 11th 

 1902, with the news of the disaster to Lord Methuen and his force at 

 Tweebosch, printed the speeches of Lord Roberts, Lord Spencer, and 

 Lord Salisbury in the House of Lords, expressing the general sense of 

 his gallantry and zeal as a soldier, and of the great sympathy felt by the 

 country for him. The >S'^««(^ar(f summed up his " record." 1:he Devizes 

 Gazette, March 20th, gave an account of the meeting of sympathy held at 

 Corsham, and of the references made in Chippenham and Corsham Parish 

 Churches, and at the meeting of the Chippenham Board of Guardians. 

 M.A. P. of March 22nd, and the Spectator, March 15th, had articles on 

 him. A very appreciative sketch of his character in The Pilot, March 

 15th, partially reprinted in Wilts County Mirror, April 4th, 1902. 

 Lady's Realm, April 1900, p. 659, had an illustrated article " Lord 

 Methuen and Corsham Court." 



Miss ClarlSSe Miles, daughter of the late Col. Miles of Malmes- 

 bury. Articles on this lady, both of them by Josephine Bullen, as a 

 successful water finder, appear in The Lady's Magazine, Nov., 1901, 

 "A Modern Water Witch," pp. 442 — 445, with five illustrations of the 

 lady at work, and of the places where she has found water ; and in the 

 New Penny Magazine, No. 158, Nov. 2nd, 1901, pp. 47 — 50, with four 

 process illustrations of Miss Miles water-finding. 

 Reprinted in Devizes Gazette, Nov. 28th, 1901. 



Gen. Pitt Rivers, D.C.L., F.R.S. A memoir of, by H. St. 



George Grey, appears in the Proceedings of the Somersetshire 

 Archaeological and Natural History Society for 1901, vol. 47, pp. 123 — 



