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In Memoriam John Edward Jackson, F.S.A. 357 
of the county in which his lot was cast. The manner in which 
those materials were collected was characteristic of the man, 
Nothing connected with Wiltshire in the past came amiss to him— 
a bit of family history—a monumental inscription—a discovery of 
Roman remains—an entry in an ancient deed or will—or the mention 
of some interesting event in a local paper—he might have had at 
the moment no intention of writing anything about the particular 
parish or district with which any of these things were connected, 
but still it might come in useful some day, and accordingly a note 
was made of it on half-a-sheet of note paper, the white side of a 
circular, or the back of an envelope, and was carefully deposited in 
the particular portfolio devoted to that particular parish or district, 
so that at any moment he could refer to all the odd scraps of infor- 
mation available for any special locality. (This collection of material, 
together with other papers bearing on Wiltshire, has since his 
death been given to the Society of Antiquaries.) 
It was this systematic collection and arrangement of materials, 
carried on for fifty years, that enabled him to delight the Members 
of our Society year after year, wherever the annual meeting might 
be, with a constant succession of papers, each of which seemed to 
deal with the antiquarian history of the immediate locality as though 
that was the special point on which the Canon’s thoughts and in- 
vestigations had been fixed for the past twelve months. For from 
the year 1853, when he took a leading part in the first foundation 
of the Society and became one of its first Secretaries and the Editor 
of the Magazine, up to within the Jast two years he continued to be 
the most popular of readers at the Annual Meetings, and the 
most valued of contributors to the pages of the Magazine. The 
professed antiquarian as well as the less ardent member of the public 
who had, possibly, after the labours of a long day’s excursion, 
slumbered fitfully through other important business, alike regained 
the fullest consciousness when Canon Jackson rose to read. He had 
a way of catching your attention. There was a humorous twinkle 
in his eye and a turn about the corners of his mouth which made 
people feel that he had ‘something good to tell them by and bye, 
and they had better listen carefully or they might lose it ; so that 
