436 Wilts Ohituary. 



Albert Bulteel Fisher, died July 20th, I9O6, aged 71. Buried at 

 Potterne. Son of Canon Fisher, formerly Eector of Poulshot. Married 

 Miss Jacob, of the Close, Salisbury. Scholar of Winchester College, 

 Scholar and Fellow of Corpus Christi Coll., Oxon. Eesigned his fellow- 

 ship, to take work under a tea-planting company in Assam, where he 

 remained several years and distinguished himself in the hunting of 

 tigers and leopards. On his return he settled at Court Hill House, 

 Potterne, where he lived until his death, a good sportsman, fisherman, 

 and cricketer. As J. P. for Wilts and in various parochial offices he did 

 good work and won the respect and regard of all who knew him. He 

 was for many years one of the joint Curators of the Society's Museum 

 at Devizes, though he never took any very active part in the work. He 

 was a keen ornithologist and knew more about the birds of the district 

 than most people, whilst he gained the confidence of those of his own 

 garden to an astonishing degree. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, July 26th, 1906; Salisbury Diocesan 

 Gazette, August, 1906. 



William Eyre Eyre-Match am, of New House, Eediynch, 



J.P. and D.L. for Wilts, died July 11th, 1906, aged 83. Buried at 

 Kedlynch. Born April 10th, 1823, eldest son of George Matcham, LL.D., 

 J.P., and D.L., of New House, by Harriet, d. and heiress of William 

 Eyre, of New House. He assumed tlie additional name of Eyre by 

 deed poll in 1889. He married, 1861, Mary Elizabeth, d. of Henry 

 Lawes Long, of Hampton Lodge, Surrey, who died 1902. He leaves 

 two sons, of whom the eldest, George Henry Eyre-Matcham, succeeds 

 to the estates, and the second is Capt. William Eyre-Matcham, D.S.O., 

 of the Wiltshire Regiment. Two daughters also survive him. He 

 qualified as a magistrate in 1847, and had been for some years Chairman 

 of the Salisbury and Amesbury bench. In his magisterial duties he was 

 most regular, but otherwise took no prominent part in public afl'airs. 

 Much respected in his own neighbourhood. 



Obit, notices, Devizes Gasette, July 19th; Wilts County Mirror, 3\i\y 

 13th ; Salishury Journal, July 14th, 1906. 



Dr. William Fream, died suddenly at Downton, May 28th, 1906, 

 aged 51. Born at Gloucester in humble circumstances, he won a 

 scholarship at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, and in 1877 was 

 appointed Professor of Natural History at the Royal Agricultural College, 

 Cirencester. In 1879 he became Lecturer on Botany in Guy's Hospital 

 Medical School, and in 1880 he was one of the founders of the College 

 of Agriculture at Downton, where he instituted the first course of 

 practical biology as applied to agriculture and the first course of agri- 

 cultural entomology in England. From 1894 until his death he was 

 agricultural correspondent of The Times, and edited the Journal of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, 1890 — 1900. In 1890 he was chosen by the 

 Board of Agriculture to enquire into and report upon agricultural educa- 

 tion in Scotland. He wrote several books, of which "Elements of 



