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Sir Lopes MaSSey Lopes, third Baronet, died at his seat, 

 Maristow, near Plymouth, Jan. 20th, 1908, aged 89. Born June 14th. 

 1818 son of Sir Ealph Lopes, second Baronet [his other sons being 

 Ealp'h Ludlow Lopes, long Kecorder of Devizes, and Lord Justice Lopes 

 raised to the peerage as Lord Ludlow, of Heywood]. Educated at 

 Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford. He was M.P for ^yestbuly 

 (which his father had represented before him for neady t^^^^y years) 

 from 1857 to 1868, when he became Member for South Devon until 1885. 

 Li Parliament he took a prominent part in all matters connected wih 

 agriculture and local taxation. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty 

 1874-1880. He was a J.P. for Devon and AVilts, High Sheriff of Devon 

 1857, and Captain in the Devonshire Militia 1853-1861 He married 

 first, Jan., 1872, the Hon. Bertha Yarde Buller, d. of the first Lord 

 Churston ; and, secondly, Louisa, d. of Sir R. W. Newman, of Mamhead, 

 Devon His only son, Henry Yarde Buller Lopes, succeeds to the title, 

 his three daughters died before him. Sir Massey Lopes was the owner 

 of great estates in South Devon, upon the improvement of which he had 

 spent very large sums. He was a strong Conservative in politics. 



Obit, notices, Devizes Gazette, Jan. 23rd, Wiltshire Times, Jan. 25th, 

 1908. 



Rev William Ferguson Steele, died Jan. 18th, 1908. Buried 



at' St Andrews, MontpeUer, Bristol. St. John's Coll., Camb., B.A. 1870 ; 

 Deacon 1872; Priest 1873 (Glouc. and Bristol). Curate of Alvington, 

 Glouc 1872-77; Vicar of Norton, Glouc, 1877—79; Curate of St. 

 Simon' Bristol, 1880-81 ; Vicar of St. Andrews, MontpeUer, Bristol, 

 1881—1898 ; Rector of Nettleton, Wilts, 1898 until his death. 

 Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, Jan. 23rd, 1908. 



Samuel Saunders, died March 2nd, 1908, aged 93. Buried at Market 

 Lavincrton Fourth son of Amram Edwards Saunders, miller and 

 farmer at Market Lavington. Began life at 14 in his father's milling 

 premises at Bristol, whence he moved to Bath in 1838, and to Market 

 Lavin-ton in 1847, where he carried on the milling business, afterwards 

 he became Superintendent of the S.Wales Lunatic Asylum. In 1864 

 he built the Temperance Hall at Market Lavington, and in 1867 he 

 be^an planting the fruit farm there, at Fiddington Sands,where he lived 

 unlil his death. He assisted his brother William in establishing the 

 Western Mornin;/ News, the Easterii Morning News, and the Central 

 Press He married first in 1844, secondly Frances Maria Cotterell in 



