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William Frank Morgan, died March 25tli, 1907. Bom 1835, 

 eldest son of William Morgan, maltster and brewer, of Warminster, 

 Educated at Warminster Grammar School. He entered the brewery 

 and became head of the large malting business, which he carried on 

 until he retired about two years ago. He married, March 31st, 1870, 

 Mrs. Wansey, widow of Mr. Wansey, of Church Farm, Sutton Veney, 

 who died Aug. 8th, 1891. He was for nearly thirty years deacon of the 

 Congregational Church at Warminster, of which, as of other institutions 

 connected with the Congregational body, he was a most generous sup- 

 porcer. He was also the main supporter of the British Schools at War- 

 minster until they were taken over by the County Council. He was 

 President of the Wilts and East Somerset Congregational Union in 

 1888. From 1897 he was Chairman of the Warminster Board 

 of Guardians, and in 1886 he was elected Chairman of the Warminster 

 Local Board (afterwards Urban District Council), an office which he 

 discharged with much ability until 1904. He was mainly instrumental 

 in founding the Warminster AtheniEum, to which he acted as secretary 

 for nearly twenty years. He was appointed J. P. for Wilts in 1897. 

 He was a member of the County Council from its commencement to 

 1904. He took a very keen interest in educational matters, and in all 

 matters connected with the Nonconformist body to which he belonged, 

 teaching himself a class of young men up to the time when he was in- 

 capacitated by illness last year. In politics he was a staunch Liberal to 

 whom his party owed much, and in religion and politics alike he took a 

 strong line. That he was, however, something more than a party man 

 was shown by the fact that three hundred of his fellow-townsmen of 

 Warminster, of all parties and creeds, united in 1906 in presenting him 

 with a very handsome testimonial of their appreciation of his great 

 public services to the town and neighbourhood during a long series of 

 ft years. To the Wiltshire Archaeological Society he was a good friend, 



^t and did much towards the success of more than one meeting at War- 



^B minster, where he acted as the Society's Local Secretary. A long and 



^mt full obituary notice, with a portrait, appeared in the Wiltshire Times, 

 ^B March 30th, 1907. 



^BaUOn John Duncan, died suddenly Jan. ■28th, 1907, aged 74. 



^^B Buried at C'alne. Born at Aberdeen, 1833, educated at Marischal Coll., 

 Aberdeen. M.A., 1848. Beginning life as a master in the school at 

 Calne kept by the Rev. E. Jacob, in 1854, he was ordained deacon 1856, 

 and priest 1858 (Sarum). Curate of Sherborne, Dorset, 1856 — 59. 

 Incumbent of Lyneham, 1859 — 65. Vicar of Calne 1865 until his death. 

 Preb. and Canon of Salisbury 1876. Rural Dean of Avebury 1898 — 

 1907. He married, Jan. 25th, 1871, Alice Lilian, d. of George Edward 

 Murray, Rector of Southfleet, Kent, and Mrs. Murray, of Calne, who 



