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Lord Percy St. Maur, died July 16, 1907. Buried at Maiden 

 Bradley Born 1847. Educated at Harrow, joined Royal Fusiliers, 

 1868, retiring as Major in 1883. Married, 1899, Hon. Violet White, d. 

 of 2nd Ld. Annaly. He leaves three daughters. He was brother and 

 heir-presumptive of the Duke of Somerset. 



Francis William Leyborne-Popham ofLittiecote, died July 



15 1907 a"-ed 45. Eldest surviving son of Francis Leyborne-Pophain, 

 of Littlecotr, who died in 1880. Married, 1890, Maud Isabel, youngest 

 daughter of Henry Howard, of Greystoke Castle, Cumberiand. J.P. for 

 Berks and Wilts. 

 KarCOUrt CoateS, died 16 June, 1907, aged 54. Buried at Laver- 

 stock. Himself a surgeon, he was the son of William Martin Coates, 

 and grandson of W. H. Coates, both of them well-known as surgeons at 

 Salisbury before him. He was a student at University Coll. Hospital, 

 M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P., afterwards joining his father and brother in 

 practice at Salisbury. Retired from general practice in 1905. He 

 was elected surgeon to the Infirmary in 1885, as his father and grand- 

 father had been before him, and it is for his zealous work in connection 

 with this institution that he will be chiefly remembered in Salisbury. 



Obit, notices, Wilts County Mirror, June 21; Salisbury Journal, 

 June 22, 1907. 



Richard H. Ludlow- Bruges, died June so, i907, aged 62. 



Buried at Seend. S. of W. H. Ludlow-Bruges, M.P., D.L. Born at 

 Seend, June 29, 1845. He had been paralysed for 25 years. 

 Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, July 4, 1907. 



Sir William George Pearce, 2nd Baronet, of Chllton Lodge, 

 died Nov. 2, 1907, aged 46. Buried at Chilton Foliat. Son of Sir 

 William Pearce, 1st Baronet (to whom the Fairfield Shipyard, on the 

 Clyde owes its existence), and his wife Dinah Elizabeth, d. of Robert 

 Sowte'r, of Gravesend. Born at Chatham, July, 1861, educated at Rugby, 

 Glasgow University, and Trin. Coll., Cambridge. M.A.,LL.B., 1884. 

 Callell to the Bar of Inner Temple, 1885. Conservative M.P. for Ply- 

 mouth, 1891-1895. Purchased the Chilton Lodge estate in 1890, having 

 succeeded to the baronetcy in 1888. Married, 1905, Caroline Eva, d. of 

 Robert Coote. He leaves no heir. Took a very prominent part in 

 shipping and ship-building circles, having been at one time a director of 

 three steamship companies. These positions, however, he had re-, 

 cently resigned, but remained chairman of the Fairfield Ship-building 

 and Engineering Company. He built the Church House at Hungerford 

 at considerable cost. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, Nov. 7, 1907. 



Rev. Richard Winstanley Allsopp. Died Sept. 14, 1907, 



aged 75. Buried at Bishop's Lavington. Born at Fressingfield, Norf., 

 Emm. Coll., Camb., S.C.L. 1855 ; LLB., 1864. Deacon, 1856; priest. 



