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survives him. He leaves one son, John M. Duncan, and one daughter, 

 Isabel, the wife of Dr. Whitehead, Bishop of Madras. His incumbency 

 of Lyneham was marked by the building of the school and Church at 

 Bradenstoke, then in the parish of Lyneham, and by the re-building of 

 the school and master's house at Lyneham, and the restoration of the 

 Church by Mr. Butterfield. During his forty-one years' incumbency at 

 Calne he spent his shrewd intellect, his unusual business capacity, and 

 his great powers of work, for the good of the town in every kind of way, 

 material, moral, and spiritual, more especially in the furtherance of 

 education in all its branches. Thus he founded in 1873 St. Mary's 

 School, on the Green, as a high class school for girls, and procured 

 considerable endowments for it. He was a man of great ability, of great 

 personal earnestness, and of strong convictions as a High Churchiuan 

 of the older school, and whether his parishioners agreed with him or 

 not, they one and all respected and esteemed him. Probably there has 

 hardly been in this generation in North Wilts a more remarkable 

 demonstration of respect by the entire population of any town, irrespec- 

 tive of class or creed or politics, than that which accompanied his funeral 

 on Feb. 2nd, at Calne. 



Long obituary notices appeared in the Salisbury Diocesan Gazette 

 for March ; the Church Times, Feb. 17th ; the Guardian, and the 

 Devizes Gazette, of January 31st, 1907, the latter paper also printing on 

 February 7th reminiscences of his Lyneham incumbency, a long account 

 of the funeral, and a full report of the sermon preached by Archdeacon 

 Buchanan on the Sunday following. 



George William Hamilton G-ordon, died Dec. 3i8t, i906, at 



Bloemfontein, aged 52. Second son of Hon. Canon Gordon and Lady 

 Ellen Gordon, of the Close, Salisbury. An architect by profession he 

 had held for about three years the office of Director of Public Works in 

 the Orange River Colony. 



Obit, notice, Wilts County Mirror, Jan. 4th, 1907. 



Rev. William Philip Strong Bingham, died Jan. 28th, 



1907, aged 78. Buried at Kenton, Devon. Christ Church, Oxford, B.A. 

 1850; M.A. 1853. Deacon 1851 (Exeter) ; priest 1852 (Gloucester and 

 Bristol). Curate of Dursley, 1851—53 ; St. Mary, Kedcliffe, Bristol, 

 1853—58 ; Thorverton, 1858—59 ; Perpetual Curate of West Pinchbeck, 

 Lines., 1859 — 63 ; Curate of Edmonton, 1863 ; Compton Valence, Dorset ; 

 Chaplain, Devizes Prison ; Vicar of Berwick Bassett with Winterbourne 

 Monkton, Wilts, 1872—86 ; Vicar of Westbury, 1886—90 ; Vicar of 

 Kenton, Devon, 1890 until his death. Many years a member of the 

 Wilts Archaeological Society. 



Author of " Sermons on Easter Subjects, 1860. " Sermon preached 

 in Wincanton Church, Oct. 4th, 1885, on the death of Rev. R. Nicholson." 

 "Sermon in Memoriam, Rev. H. A. L. Grindle, Vicar of St. Peter's, 

 Devizes, 1885," "James Ley, Earl of Marlborough," Wilts Arch. 

 Mag., XXV., 86. 

 Obit, Notice, Devon and Exeter Gazette, Feb. 2nd, 1907. 



