352 Wilts Obituary. 



Rev. Edwin Curwen Collard. Deacon, 1853. Priest, 1854, 

 Sarum. Curate of Combe Bisset, Wilts, 1853. Chaplain and Lecturer 

 at the Salisbury Diocesan Training College for Mistresses, 1853 — 64. 

 Rector of Alton St. Pancras, Dorset, 1864—86. Vicar of Stratford-sub- 

 Castle, Wilts, 1886 — 99, when he resigned and retired to Brighton. 



Obit, notice, Salisburi/ Dio. Gazette, July ; Salisbury Journal, June 7th, 

 1902. 



John Chandler. Died at Swindon, Aug. 15th, 1902, aged 83 years. 



Buried at the Parish Church. He had been a member of many public 



bodies in Swindon, was churchwarden for many years, was a prominent 



Freemason, and had long carried on business as a draper in Wood Street. 



Obit, notice. North Wilts Herald, Aug. 15th, 1902. 



Thomas Hicks Chandler. Died Aug. i6th, 1902, aged 91. 



Buried at Rowde. Born May 12th, 1811, at the Manor Farm, Heytesbury, 

 then held by his father, of the same name as himself. He held Stockton 

 Farm for sixteen years, 1833 — 49, and here in Dec, 1847, he took out 

 a patent for his invention, the liquid manure drill, which, though he 

 personally derived but small money profit from it, has been of the greatest 

 service to agriculturists in the growing of roots all over the country. 

 He also patented an improved hoe. On leaving Stockton he took the 

 North Farm, at Aldbourne, where his generosity and earnestness in 

 support of Church work, and of every good cause, won him such general 

 esteem that the entire population of Aldbourne joined in the presentation 

 to him of a substantial token of their regard when he left that place for 

 Rowde, where he passed the closing years of his life. He married a 

 daughter of Benjamin Hayward, of West Lavington, by whom he had 

 eight children, Ann, Richard, Mary Elizabeth, Thomas Hicks, William, 

 Thomas Hicks, Anne Jane, and Eleanor Hayward ; of whom William, 

 Anne Jane, and Thomas Hicks alone survive. 



James Soel. Died Aug. 16th, 1902, at East Stonehouse, Devon, aged 

 98. Born March 13th, 1804, at Maiden Bradley. Saw Napoleon I. as 

 a prisoner on board the liellerophon at Plymouth. Began his career as 

 an actor at Plymouth at the age of 16. He was best known as lessee 

 and manager of theatres at Exeter, Teignmouth, Torquay, Barnstaple, 

 Plymouth, and other places in the West of England. In London he 

 was little known, though he had played in the same casts with Edmund 

 Kean, Sheridan Knowles, Macready, and Fanny Kemble. He retired 

 from the stage a quarter of a century ago, and lived at Stonehouse until 

 his death. He was the oldest actor in England, and well known to the 

 leaders of the theatrical profession. During his later life he carried on 

 business as a publican at East Stonehouse, Plymouth. 



Obit, notices. Standard and Daily Telegraph, Aug. 30th, 1902. 



