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1858. Created baronet, 1874. Member of the County Council, Deputy 
Lieutenant, J.P., and High Sheriff of Wilts, 1863. Also J.P. for Dorset. 
Married, first, 1847, Katherine Grace, second d. of Hon. Walter O'Grady, 
Q.C., of Castle Garde, Co. Limerick, who died in 1879 ; and secondly, 1882, 
Frances Hinton, d. of Henry Northcote, of Oakfield, Crediton, and widow, 
successively, of Capt. Herbert Crosse and the Hon. Fred. Barnewall Best. 
Succeeded by his son, Walter John, born 1852. As a politician his career 
was marked by more than one change of sides—the result of his sturdy 
independence and complete indifference to other people’s opinions. He sat 
as a Liberal from 1865 to 1874, and again in 1885, opposed the Home Rule 
Bill and was returned unopposed as a Unionist in 1886, but afterwards 
rejoined the Gladstonian Liberals, and was defeated by the Conservative 
candidate in 1892, He was essentially a robust and manly country gentle- 
man, taking great interest in all country and county business—and a 
Churchman of distinctly Protestant type. The Mark Lane Express says 
of him: “He was a politician who cared more for agriculture than all 
the other interests that enamoured constituencies.” The Agricultural 
Economist, quoted in Wilts County Mirror, Feb. 12th, 1897, says: ‘‘ His 
natural mental courage made him a singularly attractive man. He was as 
popular amongst his opponents as with his friends.” Obit. Notices, Devizes 
Gazette, Jan. 21st; Salisbury and Wilton Times, Jan. 22nd ; Salisbury 
Diocesan Gazette, Feb., 1897. 
Rev. Edward Wyndham Tufnell. Died Sept. 3rd, 1896, aged 83. 
Born 1814. Son of Mr. John Charles Tufnell, of Walcot, Somerset. 
Educated at Eton and Wadham College, Oxon. Fellow of Wadham College. 
B.A., 1837; M.A., 1842; D.D., 1859. Deacon (Oxford), 1837; priest 
(Sarum), 1839. Curate of Broadwindsor, Dorset, 1837—40 ; Broad Hinton, 
Wilts, 1840—46; Rector of Beechingstoke, Wilts, 1846—57; Preb. of 
Sarum, 1850—59; Rector of St. Peter’s, Marlborough, 1857-59; first 
Bishop of Brisbane, 1859—75, when he resigned and returned to England ; 
Curate of Charing, 1877—79; Vicar and Rural Dean of Croydon, 1879—82 ; 
Vicar of Felpham and Canon Residentiary of Chichester, 1882 until his death. 
Obit. notices, Morning Post, Sussex Daily News, Salisbury Journal, 
Dec. 5th, Guardian, Dec. 16th; with portraits, in Lllustrated London 
News, Dec. 11th, and Church Bells, Dec. 11th, 1896. 
Rev. Skinner Chart Mason. Died Dec. 19th, aged 74. Scholar of St. 
Cath. Coll., Camb. B.A., 1845; M.A., 1855. Deacon, 1846 ; priest, 1846. 
Curate of Winkfield, Berks, 1846—49; Sherborne, 1849—53; Rector of 
Magdalen Laver, Essex, 1853—55 ; Rector of St. Clement Danes, 1855—60 ; 
Vicar of Urchfont, 1860—96. Rural Dean of Enford Portion of Deanery 
of Potterne, 1891. He resigned the living of Urchfont a few months before 
his death. 
Rey. George Ellis Cleather. Died Jan. 2nd, 1897. Exeter Coll., Oxford. 
B.A., 1846 ; M.A., 1855. Deacon, 1847; priest, 1848 (Sarum). Curate of 
Baydon, Wilts, ;1847—50; Alton Barnes and Alton Priors, 1850—52 ; 
